Working Group deliverables:

• Vocational Education and Training: A compendium of inspiring practices - 2023 edition

• Vocational Education and Training: A compendium of inspiring practices - 2024 edition

Working Group operating documents:

• Terms of reference (July 2021)

• Rules of procedure

Other useful resources and policy documents:

• Council Recommendation on VET for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience (2020)
• Osnabruck Declaration on VET (2020)

Inspiring practices from the 2023 edition of the Compendium

• Albania - Green Elements for VET Curricula in Albania
• Austria - Apprenticeship Metal Technology 
• Austria - Climate Protection Training Centre
• Austria - Financial Support 'Digi Scheck for Apprentices'
• Austria - Green Village Training Centre 
• Austria - Photovoltaic Academy
• Belgium (Wallonia) - Adaptation of the training offer
• Belgium - Erasmus+ mobility project Itineris
• Belgium (Wallonia) - Regal Plan
• Cyprus - Classic car restoration and electric car conversion
• Cyprus - Online workshop 'VET goes green'
• Cyprus - The  LIFE FOODPRINT project
• Denmark - Mapping of future competence needs in relation to the green transition
• Denmark - Pool for development and testing of teaching courses
• Denmark - Pool for equipment investments and associated skills development
• Denmark - Pool with an entrepreneur green focus across youth education
• Denmark - Special subsidy for providers of VET and labour market education in the technical field
• Denmark - Subsidy for nine knowledge centres related to green transition and sustainability 
• Denmark - Subsidy or Centre for IT in teaching VET
• Estonia - Green Talks
• Germany - BOOM Holiday Camps in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Germany - Network Education for Resource Conservation and Efficiency
• Germany - Transfer phase of VET for Sustainable Development
• Germany - Updated nationwide standard for all trainees in the German dual system
• Finland - Development Programme Sustainable development and green transition in VET
• Finland - Optional Unit in initial vocational qualifications 'Working with Climate Responsibility'
• France - The Centres of Vocational Excellence
• France - The Health, Citizenship and Environmental Education Committee of each school
• Hungary - Green Earth Complex sustainability pedagogy programme for VET
• Italy - Civic Education Discipline and ReGeneration School Plan
• Italy - LIFE FOSTER
• Italy - The Reform of Tertiary VET - Higher Technological Institutions 
• Luxembourg - Exchange Platform 'Education for Sustainable Development'
• Luxembourg - Modules of the Diplom+ programme 'Green Skills and circular economy'
• Luxembourg - Neobuild
• Luxembourg - Technicians' programme 'Smart Building and Energy'
• Luxembourg - Technicians' programme 'Smart Technologies'
• Luxembourg - Training 'Sustainable Digitalisation'
• Luxembourg - Training programme 'Waste & Resource Management'
• Latvia - The Riga State Technical School
• Latvia - Bulduri Horticultural Secondary Vocational School
• Malta - Reducing the carbon footprint in agribusiness education
• Poland - Establishment and support for the operation of 120 sectoral skills councils
• Poland - Green skills in core curricula and school programmes
• Portugal - Green Skills in the National Catalogue of Qualifications
• Slovenia - Project Climate Goals and contents in education
• Spain - Acuaponic project
• Spain -  Construction of an educational High Performance Liquid Chromatograph
• Spain - Green entrepreneurial schools
• Spain - Fair Trade in Action
• Spain - Renewable present
• Spain - Sustainable Fashion Brand project
• Spain - Sustainability-driven entrepreneurship
• Spain - Tknika's Circular Economy Platform
• Spain - Training courses for trainers related to clean energy and energy efficiency
• Sweden - Strengthening the role of Higher Vocational Education
• Türkiye - Increasing employability for Syrian refugees and Turkish host communities

Inspiring practices from the 2024 edition of the Compendium

• Austria - Sustainability Coordinator in schools

• Austria - Green Energy Solution Competition

• Austria - Apprenticeship Climate Gardener

• Austria - Green School Energy Project

• Austria - Green Transformation Cards

• Austria - New Skills Workshops (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Austria - Fighters4Climate (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Belgium (Flanders) - VR in the pipeline

• Belgium (Flanders) - Online learning and evaluation automotive

• Belgium (Flanders) - New training profiles

• Belgium (Flanders) - Research into training needs

• Croatia - Development of standards and curricula (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Cyprus - Outdoor nature based and experiential learning

• Cyprus - Blue Growth panel discussion

• Denmark - Knowledge center

• Denmark - Green culinary education standard (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Germany - Designing learning processes in VET with sustainability in mind

• Germany - Further qualification of teachers

• Germany - Additional qualifications

• Germany - Key competences in crafts

• Germany - Make it green

• Germany - Materials implementing competence standard

• Germany - Qualification screening skilled crafts (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Greece - Upskilling and retraining programmes for unemployed

• Greece - Integrated intervention training, certification and employment

• Greece - Apprenticeship class on green skills

• Greece - Upskilling and retraining workers

• Greece - Energy saving construction (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Hungary - eSmart Home project

• Ireland - Climate justice education

• Ireland - National network NZEB / Retrofit centres of excellence

• Latvia - Ogre technical school is going green

• Latvia - Module green skills

• Lithuania - Competencies for green and digital transformations

• Lithuania - Apprenticeship

• Luxembourg - Sustainability Management

• Luxembourg - Web Eco Design

• Luxembourg - Competence Centre Energy Efficiency and Transition

• Luxembourg - Energy management small companies

• Luxembourg - Cycle in CSR

• Malta - Pilot project VET course agribusiness

• Malta - Buzzing for Biodiversity

• Norway - Tripartite industry programmes skills development

• Norway - Accounting for future competence

• Poland - Sectoral Agreement for VET

• Portugal - Specialised Technological Centres

• Portugal - Ecotermolab (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Romania - Photovoltaic systems electrician

• Romania - Education for Sustainable Cooking

• Romania - Centre of Vocational Excellence in Urban Greening

• Serbia - Challenge Special

• Slovenia - Modernisation vocational and technical secondary education

• Slovenia - FoodTuristic (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Slovenia - Forest bathing (*practice proposed by stakeholders)

• Spain - Women's Entrepreneurship Lab

• Spain - Sustainable Santa Clara

• Sweden - Technology Leap

• Sweden - Student Finance Scheme

• Türkiye - Strengthening VET in special education with zero waste

• Türkiye - Climate Workshop

• Türkiye - MET-UP Vocational and Technical Education Application Platform

• Türkiye - Green Transition in Textbooks

• Türkiye - Climate change awareness survey report

• ALBATTS Alliance for Batteries Technology Training and Skills
• Apprenticeship Inter-network (AppInterN)
• CLIMADEMY - CLIMAte change teachers' acaDEMY
• Good DEEDS - Digital Energy Efficiency Designers 
• EcoSME Business sustainability skills for SMEs in the Hospitality Sector
• Eco_Tag Achieving sustainable culinary centres
• Energy education - Energie(k) onderwijs
• PARADIGM  Tools to Enhance Internet of Things and STEM in Environmental Education
• GreenSkills4H2 - European Hydrogen Skills Alliance
• SIMPLE - Social Impact Measurement Plan, Learning and Empowerment