Happy Holidays from the ETF and Dr. Pilvi Torsti ✨
22.12.2025 07:46
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Happy Holidays from the ETF and Dr. Pilvi Torsti ✨
Migrant women and skills: Prejudice vs evidence: www.etf.europa.eu/en/publicati...
Prejudice: women migrate mainly for family reunification.
Evidence: many women migrate to work or study, to build careers and invest back home.
👉 Read Migrant women and skills: Prejudice vs evidence (link in comments)
#Migration #Skills4All #GenderEquality #AdultLearning
The ETF and DVV have published a report on adult learning, based on high-level discussions held in Turin.
👉 Read A Framework to Drive Adult Learning Reforms: www.etf.europa.eu/en/news-and-...
#AdultLearning #LifelongLearning #SkillsForAll
What turns connectivity into real opportunity for local communities?
A conversation with Ambassador Eduards Stiprais on skills, people and EU Central Asia cooperation.
🎥 Watch the interview : www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1xS...
📄 Read the written version : www.etf.europa.eu/en/news-and-...
Last days to apply for the ETF New Learning Award 2026!
If your practice integrates multiple key competences through active or cross-curricular learning, we invite you to apply.
📆Deadline 15 December.
Apply here: openspace.etf.europa.eu/newlearninga...
#ETFNewLearningAward #Skills4Future
There is still time to apply for the ETF New Learning Award 2026 🌟
If your teaching blends multiple key competences in creative ways, this call is for you.
Deadline 15 December.
Link in comments.
#Skills4Future
🌱Discover new insights on the skills needed for a green future - join us as we present two new ETF studies on skills and green transformation of the construction sector.
👉 17 November, 12:00 CET: shorturl.at/BDJul
#COP30 #ClimateAction #Skills4Future
The ETF New Learning Award celebrates learning innovators who combine digital, citizenship, sustainability, entrepreneurship, STEM and personal or social learning competences.
🏆 Finalists will join the Innovation in Learning Event in Brussels, spring 2026.
📅 Apply by 15 December
#Skills4Future
The webinar of the European Training Foundation "Tracking graduate pathways: building evidence for better skills anticipation".
Following what happens to learners after they finish education is key to shape smarter education and skills policies.
👉Join our webinar to learn more about it: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅20 November 2025 | 10:00–12:00 CET
#Skills4Future
New ETF report says that skills drive a green economy, emphasizing education and lifelong learning for a sustainable future are a key success factor for green transition to be fair to everyone.
💡 Skills are the real climate currency.
🌍 Tech can cut emissions, but education and lifelong learning make the transition fair for all.
As #COP30 begins in Brazil, let’s put people and skills at the heart of climate action.
👉 Read more link.europa.eu/WbnwYv
#ClimateAction #Skills4Future @unep.org
🧭No one has their career all figured out, that’s why guidance matters at every age
🔍On 5 Nov #GlobalCareersMonth kicks off with ILO, OECD, UNESCO, EC, World Bank exploring how all generations can make better choices on learning and work
🔗Register tinyurl.com/yzu22m9u #CareerGuidance #GlobalCommunity
🌍Careers don’t come with maps, that’s why career guidance matters.
Join us on 5 Nov for the Global Careers Month opening with experts from @ILO, @oecd-ocde.bsky.social , @cedefop.europa.eu,@unesco.org,@ec.europa.eu & @World Bank.
🔗Register: tinyurl.com/yzu22m9u
#CareerGuidance #globalcareersmonth202
A giant step for Africa’s skills future! 🌍
The African Continental Qualifications Framework (ACQF) is now led by an African network of experts, connecting skills and opportunities across the continent.
🇪🇺 Supported by the EU | Implemented by ETF
🔗 link.europa.eu/QvVDtH
🎉Excited to launch the ‘Towards a Global TVET Agenda’ initiative! Funded by @BMBF_Bund , coordinated by @bibb.de with partners UNESCO-UNEVOC, ILO, @oecd-ocde.bsky.social shaping the future of #TVET.
ETF contributes via partnership for vocational excellence
🔗https://lnkd.in/e4mbR-JU #GlobalTVETAgenda
🌍 EU–Egypt High-Level Event: Global Europe in action
ETF Director P. Torsti joined leaders to discuss research, innovation, and skills at the core of the partnership.
Through ETF work, we support the connection between education, industry & research, building a resilient Euro-Mediterranean region💪
🌍 The Pact for the Mediterranean was launched by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu of @ec.europa.eu to set a path for shared prosperity, skills & stability. New MED Skill Tracker will document skills, boost recognition & mobility. ETF will keep supporting a shared Mediterranean future. #skills4future
🟡 Reduce stress. Build resilience. Promote well-being.
Mental well-being is a skill. Poverty and exclusion increase stress and anxiety, making it harder to learn or adapt.
Inclusive education can support not just skills—but the minds and lives behind them.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
🌍 Can digital transformation in skills be fair for everyone?
At the event “Skills for Fair Digital Transitions in Africa”, ETF Director Pilvi Torsti joined African and European experts in a discussion on inclusive, people-centred digital change.
#Skills4Future
We take a deeper look on the path they must take and how the management system of each country is empowering them.
Update from Armenia link.europa.eu/tqtXkP
Update from Azerbaijan link.europa.eu/jxrcbmdt
Update from Georgia link.europa.eu/mbnhfhgf
Update from Moldova link.europa.eu/ktktccxd
Support the teachers, support the future. In Eastern Europe, educators face long journeys to the classroom and need strong institutional to thrive.
This #TeachersDay, let’s reflect on how do we empower those who empower us?
To learn, more read first reply.
#WorldTeachersDay
Two days ago, Moldova held parliamentary elections, with results showing strong support for the country’s EU path.
At the ETF, we stand ready to support the country in strengthening institutional capacity and building inclusive skills system in line with European frameworks.
#Skills4Future
🤝A warm welcome to @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu Executive Vice-President for Social Rights, Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, who visited us today!
ETF Director P.Torsti greeted the Commissioner at Villa Gualino to discuss skills, competitiveness, future of work.
#Skills4Future
President von der Leyen’s #SOTEU2025 speech reminds that Europe should keep people, competitiveness and jobs at the heart of its agenda.
Our future depends on #skills, innovation and opportunities to grow 🌱
Join us for #SOTEU 2025!
🌍AI transformation brings challenges, but also big opportunities for education & training.
💡Join our webinar with global experts to discuss:
-AI’s impact on jobs & skills
-Digital transformation in training
-Inclusive AI-powered tools
📅Save your spot→ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Skills4future
Vocational excellence = education that drives innovation, inclusion & resilience.
🌱 330+ institutions in 50+ countries are building Centres of #VocationalExcellence to help vocational training keep pace with a changing world.
👉 Full story: europa.eu/!dvbdbjpj
#Skills4Future
🚧 Construction creates 21% of global emissions—but the green transition could add 18M jobs by 2030. The challenge? Only 1 in 4 workers has the skills.
🌱 New ETF report shows how Centres of Vocational Excellence can close the gap.
📘Learn more: europa.eu/!jhfcrcyj
#skills4future #vocationalexcellence
