Research on ECVET

Towards the end of 2005, the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission commissioned two studies on evaluating the level of readiness of VET and qualifications systems in Europe for the implementation of the nascent ECVET.

The ECVET CONNEXION study targeted issues related to the conception and implementation of ECVET from the perspective of VET provisions. Its management was conferred upon the French National Association for Automobile Training (ANFA) and the French Ministry for Education, Higher Education and Research (MENESR). For further information on ECVET CONNEXION see: www.ecvetconnexion.com.
The mandate for the ECVET reflector study was to analyse the relationships between the features of the European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) as proposed by the European Commission in its consultation document and the existing regulations and practices of assessment, validation, certification as well as accumulation and transfer of learning outcomes in the national VET systems in Europe. It has been led by Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (f-bb) and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) in Germany.

A third study dealt with the obstacles to transnational mobility faced by apprentices and other young people in initial vocational VET and possible ways of overcoming them (MoVE-iT). For further information on MoVE-iT see www.europe-move-it.eu.