The Fukushima Daiichi accident in March 2011 has definitely slowed down the expansion or development of nuclear power programs. However, a number of countries are still decided to embark on nuclear power or to expand their existing programmes in the coming years. This development will be...

This European Training Foundation (ETF) report and the project behind it are an outcome of the 2010 Torino Process in Eastern Europe. The Torino Process is a biennial analysis of vocational education and training (VET) systems and policies implemented by ETF partner countries, and in Eastern...

In order to be competitive in the knowledge market, in today's modern times, which is both a time of constant change and great insecurity, we need to be prepared for the challenges ahead. The only way any of us can achieve this is - lifelong learning. According to the Lisbon Declaration,...

The main purpose of this document is to give a synthesis of the national reports on the financing of vocational education and training (VET) prepared by the National Observatories for the European Training Foundation (ETF) in 2002/03. These reports were done in seven of the EU new Member States...