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European Year of Skills, 2023
As announced by President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during her State of the Union address which took place 14 September 2022, 2023 will be the European Year of Skills. The year will be dedicated to highlighting the importance of skills for enhancing people's lives and transforming the economy. It will also provide an opportunity to highlight the ways in which the European Commission is supporting skills development both within the European Union and globally as part of the EU's international assistance within which the ETF operates.
ETF Podcast: Online teaching and learning: a journey worth the investment
The global pandemic has shown how the concept of education can change from one day to the next, and has forced educators around the world to find new ways to teach outside the physical classroom.
- What are the lessons learnt from the global emergency?
- What are the real costs of online teaching?
- Has the level of investment for things like new devices, internet access and the time needed to switch to being online been worth it?
- If a new global emergency were to happen tomorrow, would we be better prepared for it?
We discuss all these issues in episode number 20 of our podcast series with Merab Labadze, an expert from Georgia and Fabio Nascimbeni, expert from European Training Foundation.
ETF Innovative Learning and Teaching Award, 2022
In July 2022, the ETF opened a call for good practice in the area of innovative teaching and learning to identify teaching practice that supports new learning as an inspiration for teachers, trainers and policymakers in the EU neighbourhood and beyond.
We received around 800 applications from 50 countries all over the world.
An international jury has selected the 10 most innovative finalists which you can read about shortly on the ETF website.
We invite all our readers to vote for their favourite story before 21 November. The winners will be announced on 28 November at a conference on innovative teaching and learning at the ETF in Turin, Italy.
GLAD Conference: the Civil Society Organisations and Human Capital Development in the Context of Lifelong Learning
On 18 October, an ETF hybrid conference will focus on Civil Society Organisations role (CSOs) in lifelong learning and related policy processes at country and international level. The event is open to the contributions of CSOs from ETF partner countries and EU-wide networks, governmental representatives and EU institutions. More information can be found on the ETF's Open Space.