EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS (EXTERNAL COM) - The Community of Practice on Centres of Vocational Excellence

The project leaders of Erasmus+ funded projects establishing Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) have set up a Community of Practice (CoP) where they exchange experience, best practices and lessons learned from their CoVE projects. The community addresses common issues that are of interest to all CoVEs and promotes thematic debates on key VET issues.

date: 07/07/2022

By doing so, the CoP is also a key interlocutor for the European Commission to continue developing the concept of vocational excellence that meets the needs of VET practitioners. Katapult is a Dutch organisation fostering public-private partnerships in vocational and professional education, and they are also active in coordinating the Dutch CoVEs. Together with Tknika in the Basque country (Spain), they are playing a key role in driving the CoVE Community of Practice.

Katapult recently launched a CoVE mapping facility that provides a user-friendly overview of the CoVE projects supported through Erasmus+ funding. The details of the 12 pilot projects approved in 2019 and 2020 are already available, as are the 13 CoVE projects supported under the new Erasmus+ programme in the period 2021-2027. Erasmus+ will support 100 networks of CoVEs during this period.