Press Release: ETF conference reviews countries’ progress towards EU accession

Ministers, international experts and representatives from eighteen countries met in Zagreb on 17-18 February 2005 to review progress made in the reform of vocational education and training (VET) by countries seeking to join the EU. The European Training Foundation (ETF), which organised the event, provided a forum to chart the way forward in the context of the EU's most recent policy initiatives. On the first day of the conference, participants evaluated the impact of peer reviews which had been carried out in Albania, Croatia and the three Former Yugoslav Republics (Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro) during 2002 and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey during 2003. These reviews are available via the first Related Url. The second day of the conference concentrated on new developments in EU VET policy.

European Training Foundation: South Eastern Europe: Overview: Peer reviews http://www.etf.europa.eu/WebSite.nsf?OpenDatabase&Content=http://www.etf.europa.eu/WebSite.nsf/Pages/ETF%20peer%20reviews%20on%20reform%20policies%20in%20VET?OpenDocument&LAN=EN

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/04/293&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/04/293&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Croatian National Observatory: Conference background note, February 2005 http://www.national-observatory.org/docs/Background_Note_Zagreb 2005.doc

Croatian National Observatory: Conference on outcomes of ETF Peer Reviews on implementation of VET policy in South Eastern Europe and dissemination of the Copenhagen Process, Zagreb, Croatia, 17-18 February 2005 http://www.national-observatory.org/conference.html

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