Workshops 2025

Because it hurts if one is excluded: Building Inclusive Spaces – Diversity and Inclusion Workshop

This short but impactful workshop aims to raise awareness and promote understanding of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Beyond the project period: the continuation of CoVEs

How to continue the collaboration between the partners and stakeholders after the project funding ends is a central question in all Erasmus+ CoVE projects. In this workshop, 6 CoVEs from 2020 share their experiences with the continuation of their CoVEs after the project funding finished.

Blueprints for Brilliance: Designing Diverse Centres of Vocational Excellence

Explore the core components and strategies essential for building and sustaining Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE). This plenary session will offer a streamlined exchange of experiences, focusing on the critical elements that constitute a successful CoVE and the methodologies to operationalize them effectively.

Boss Ladies

Since 2018 the foundation Divers has been working on how to recruit and retain more female talent within the building and industry and how to get more young women engaged in T-VET through their largest and longest-running project, Boss Ladies. Through this workshop you will gain insights into their methods and work on how you can incorporate them into your own arena.  

Building and Expanding Europe’s Future: T-shore’s Vision for a Strong CoVE Network

This session will explore how CoVEs can harmonise vocational education practices and increase industry competitiveness through structured engagement.

Co-Creating Skills for a Digital and Green Society

This workshop focuses on identifying and prioritizing skills required for a human-centric, digital, and green society under Industry 5.0.

Communication beyond the EU project bubble: tools & best practices

How to reach outside your EU project bubble? Tips, tricks and tools for effective communication

CoVEs and CoVE Community in 2035: shaping their future

The session consists of teamwork around 3 different scenarios describing the development of the CoVE program and role play to define and advocate for policy recommendations to make the CoVE ecosystem effective and sustainable in the next future.

CoVEs as Catalysts for the Hydrogen Economy

CoVEs on the Move

In this session, various Centers of Vocational Excellence will share concrete examples of innovative mobility schemes for students, teachers and workers, showing the impact these activities made on the participants, but also explaining how you can organize these kind of mobilities yourself in your CoVE so you do not have to reinvent the wheel.

Defence in aerospace and defence

Designing Digital Learning Materials for GreenComp: Methodology and Cultural Perspectives – From the

This workshop focuses on the methodology behind designing engaging and effective learning resources that introduce and reflect upon GreenComp’s 12 sustainability competences.

How can vocational training contribute to solve Climate change

Join the gaming universe on climate change perspectives!

How to establish CoVEs in new emerging industries? Examples from the battery and hydrogen industry

Our workshop will briefly outline: the challenges in our three regions and projects; successful examples from our regions and projects

How to hackathon?!?

Lessons learned on Sustainable Energy Education (SEED)

The session will focus on three important lessons learned of the SEED project to inspire participants how to move from plans and ideas, to applying knowledge and establishing CoVEs.

National CoVE initiatives: how to create synergies and scale up

Many EU countries have national CoVE initiatives: how can we learn from each other and create synergies?

Project management: tips, tricks and life hacks

PROMOTEing Change: How to Build a European Ecosystem in a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Learning Us

This interactive training session explores how to build a collaborative European ecosystem for upskilling professionals in the correctional sector, with a focus on a multi-disciplinary approach to learning.

Reskilling & Upskilling: Approaches from the NL & Norway

This interactive session brings together expertise from two European countries leading the way in hydrogen-economy workforce transformation. Representatives from the NL and Norway will share their experiences reskilling and upskilling programs.

Sharing stories on digital education – Lessons learnt from DIGI ENE peer learning activities

DIGI ENE is a sub initiative of the ETF Network of Excellence in which COVEs with in-depth expertise on digital education engage in peer learning activities. 

Skill Verified: The Power of Micro-Credentials and Digital Badges

Sustainable Transformation & Future Competences

This interactive workshop will examine a collaborative approach, essential skills, and strategies to facilitate sustainable transformation across industries.

Tackling GBV and racism through and thanks to Sport

This interactive workshop explores gender-based violence (GBV) and racism in sports while also highlighting how sport itself can be a tool for change.

The potential of Collaborative Applied Research for Vocational Training

This workshop aims at setting and highlighting the value of Applied Research in the context of CoVE training.

The Workforce of 2050: Empowering Vocational Training for a Changing World in regions in transition

This dynamic and hands-on workshop is designed to explore the key digital, green, soft, and technical skills required for the workforce to remain resilient as the green transition evolves through 2050 to EU’s climate neutrality.

Tourism Meets Agrifood: Advancing Vocational Excellence for Sustainable and Resilient agri-tourism i

The session will present the primary results in terms of skills gaps identified in the two sectors (agri-food & tourism) and it will foster a guided discussion through a co-creation workshop in small groups

Training Needs Analysis (TNA) as a driver for skills development: Insights from the STARS Project

This workshop will position the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) as a critical tool for identifying skills gaps and shaping targeted upskilling initiatives across sectors.

What if there was a recipe for Vocational Excellence?

Are you ready to uncover the secret recipes for Vocational Excellence? Join us at our interactive workshop and dive into Cookbook on Vocational Excellence developed as part of the EU-funded Internationalising Vocational Excellence initiative.