Project Number: 2022-1EL01-KA220-VET-000088384
Vocational Education and Training (VET) is a natural bridge between education and the world of work. It is the right place to equip future and current workforce with the necessary competences and skills, including the digital ones, for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
The VET digital transformation is of paramount importance in several ways: on the one hand, it can ensure we can grasp the jobs opportunities that will come with the digital transformation. On the other hand, learners with the necessary digital competences can be a transformation vector in companies, especially in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
On 7 and 8 March 2024, the Digital Education and Skills Team (Digital Economy Unit) of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) organised the ‘Digital Transformation of VET’ – onsite workshop. Vocational Education and Training (VET) related experts, policymakers, practitioners and professionals from international organisations, academia, research centres, private sector and other institutions, together with the European Commission staff exchanged, discussed, and worked around the main topic of digital transformation of the VET sector.
The main goal of the workshop was to gather several experts from different sectors with diverse backgrounds, knowledge, and expertise to contribute to the discussion during the meetings, which aims to exchange knowledge and share experiences debating, among peers, the enablers, and challenges for the digital transformation of the VET sector in general.

Overall, the discussion, work and feedback collected from the workshop have been used to fine-tune the findings from the JRC ongoing work around digital transformation of the VET sector and it will be included in the related publication.
You can read and download the full report HERE