VET-Bib

Database content

• vocational education and training policy and systems
• qualifications, competences and skills
• vocational guidance and career counselling
• skill needs and shortages
• adult education, continuous and lifelong learning
• informal learning and nonformal learning
• training research
• VET teachers and trainers
• assessment and recognition of learning outcomes and diplomas
• European tools such as the European Qualifications Framework, Europass, and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training
• labour mobility and migrant workers

Database development

• Cedefop's library and documentation service: responsible for European and international references, also provides guidelines for collection development, and the indexing tool European Training Thesaurus
• , Cedefop's decentralised network consisting of 27 partners in all EU member states plus Norway and Iceland: each national ReferNet partner provides national references to VET-Bib

  Sub products

• VET-Alert: a monthly review on what has just been published on vocational education and training
• VET bibliographies: These are thematic pre-defined bibliographies on key topics of vocational education and training: skill needs, E-learning, Validation of non-formal and informal learning, green skills, lifelong guidance, lifelong learning, etc.