Overview
WARNING: As this organisation lists one or more EP accredited lobbyists, it may not be probable that its lobbying costs are lower than €10,000.
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
8
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Forum of technical and Vocational Education and Training (EfVET)
EU Transparency Register
147656111703-83 First registered on 12 Aug 2013
Goals / Remit
EfVET is a unique European-wide professional association which has been created by and for providers of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in all European countries. Its mission is to champion and enrich technical and vocational education and training through transnational co-operation by building a pan-European network of institutions and practitioners. EfVET aims to:
- promote quality and innovation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training throughout Europe;
- develop collaboration, mutual co-operation and sharing of good practice;
- Recommendations for the improvement of Erasmus+ programme;
- to encourage co-operation in Vocational Education Training at European level;
- to promote the development of VET;
- give VET institutes a platform of influence in EU policy.
EfVET has over 200 members in almost all the EU member states; also members in Turkey and Russia. It is able to reach out to over 1500 VET institutions across Europe. This European network also has direct links to other European organisations including EUCIS, EAEA, EUCEN, and the EVBB.
EfVET published the following positions in order to comment on the respective policy developments:
- Recommendations for the improvement of Erasmus+ programme
- EfVET statement on Rethinking Education
- EfVET Statement on Wellbeing in VETMain EU files targeted
EfVET has been very active in its policy advocacy work for vocational education in this few years and was a strong contacts with the European Commission and other European Institutions.
in 2014 and 2015 EfVET was or be involved in the policy implementation of DG-EAC, DG- Employer, Social Affairs and Inclusion and other institutions' initiatives where it introduced a strong civil society perspective by providing the point of view of EfVET members.
EfVET has had regular contact with the Vocational Training and Adult education unit in DG- EMPLOYMENT SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND INCLUSION. Informal meetings were happening throughout the year, and regular exchanges about plans and opinions took place.
Furthermore EfVET participates in the Working Groups on:
- European Qualification Framework (EQF)
- European Credit Transfer system for VET (ECVET)
- European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQARF)
- Launched the European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAFA)
- European Social Funding (ESF)
- Multilingualism platform
- Working Group on Vocational Education and Training
-Pledge to European Pact for Youth
- Pledge to Digital Agenda
Also, via the European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS-LLL), the relationship with other units in DG- EAC and DG-EMPL has been reinforced and EfVET has been very active in the stakeholder initiatives. EfVET also participated in the LLL week and in the EC Education Forum in Brussels
Also, EfVET was invited along with the other five Association members of VET4EU2 group to participate in the Meeting of the Ministers in charge of Vocational Education and Training (VET), the European Social Partners and the European Commission which was held 21-22 June 2015 in Riga, organised under the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in cooperation with the European CommissionAddress
Head Office
Rue d'Arlon, 40
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 12 Jan 2018
Name Start date End Date Paolo NARDI 14 Jul 2023 12 Jul 2024 Valentina CHANINA 03 Aug 2023 02 Aug 2024 Valentina CHANINA 03 Aug 2022 03 Aug 2023 Valentina CHANINA 13 Nov 2019 13 Nov 2020 Valentina CHANINA 09 Nov 2018 09 Nov 2019 Valentina CHANINA 07 Nov 2017 07 Nov 2018 Valentina CHANINA 10 Nov 2016 05 Nov 2017 Valentina CHANINA 17 Nov 2015 10 Nov 2016 Complementary Information
The following persons are involved in lobbying activities on behalf of the EfVET:
Staff:
Valentina Chanina
Peter Hodgson
Alicia Gaban
The Executive Team:
Santiago Garcia, Stylianos Mavromoustakos, Rasa Zygmantaite, Liisa Metsola, Stefano Tirati, Leif Haar, Vibeke Holtum Norgaard
The Steering Committee:
Santiago Garcia, Stylianos Mavromoustakos, Rasa Zygmantaite, Stefano Tirati, Leif Haar, Vibeke Holtum Norgaard, Jon Harding, Luis Costa, Tibor Dori, Panayiotis Anastasopoulos, Ute Schmitt, Liisa Metsola, Kari Puumalainen, Alfredo Garmendia.Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Stylianos Mavromoustakos (Vice-President)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Santiago Garcia (President)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
EfVET is a member of the LLL Platform (Lifelong Learning Platform)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
N/A
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Expert group on European Quality assurance in Vocational Education and Training #E02415 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2415 #Member #C#Platform of European Associations of VET Providers#E03298 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3298 #Member #C#Structured Dialogue with European Structural and Investment Funds' partners group of experts#E03226 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3226 #Member #C#ET 2020 Working Group on Vocational Education and Training#E03005 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3005 #Member #C#European Credit for Vocational Education and Training Users' Group#E02251 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2251 #Member #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
We currently have 120 members in 25 countries in Europe, 200 learning providers, over 1500 VET institutions and more than 2 million learners, and we know as well that most of our members and partners acting as multipliers. In 2015, a new EfVET communication strategy was written and adopted and the new visual identity put in place.
Therefore the following dissemination activities and methods have been successfully implemented:
- The communication tools
The communication tools (conference folders, newsletter and leaflet and roll-ups) have been renewed in 2014 according to EfVET's new visual identity. EfVET international conference materials as roll-ups and conference folders are used at every EfVET project meeting, conference, as the Lifelong Learning Week.
EfVET has two leaflets that are distributed at the events and conferences the staff attends.
- EfVET website
The EfVET website builds a valuable source of information on VET education policy developments Europe wide. It gives an update about the currently political news, projects and news. we had around 1 500 unique visitors per week in 2014.
- Social Media Involvement
in order to serve all the interested parties with fast information flow, EfVET is present on Facebook, Vimeo.
- The EfVET Newsletter and Media Releases
the quarterly EfVET electronic newsletter has 1500 subscribers, and it goes to EfVET members, VET educators, policy markers, mangers in VET, learners and stakeholders in all European countries and beyond.
EfVET annual conference
EfVET events serve both the membership, boarder Vocational Education Training community and policy makers and build a platform for exchange, discussion, networking, dissemination of project results and creative development of new ideas.Other activities
The all EfVET international events
- Conference on Towards ET2020. Positive action to enhance Vocational Education and Training within a Lifelong Learning Agenda, Malta
- The drive toward European Credit Transfer within Vocational Education and Training (ECVET)and the new LLP programme ’Erasmus for All’ 2014 - 2020, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Conference on The College that Works!!!! in Athens, Greece
- VET – safe port for youth and business!, Porto, Portugal
- EXCELLENCE IN VET - Making the difference, Paphos, Cyprus
- Quality in Action - Putting the Learner at the forefront of everything we do!!!, Valencia, Spain
PUBLICATIONS
- Project currently active 2011-2013
- Project currently active 2012- 2014
- Project currently active 2013 -2015
- Good practice
- Activity report 2015-2016
- project currently active 2014-2016
PROJECTS
- EUROPEMOBILITY NETWORK
- Ent-teach
- Entangle
- Foundations for Work
- Capacity Building 4 LLP
- C-TEST
- SUPREME
- Employ Project
- Pools 3
- EBBD+
- INTGEN
- Second chance education.eu
- Promoting Mental wellbeing in VET
- Go Green & Care GGC
- SHINE
- JOAPP
- E-MOTIVE
- CAPE
- Life on-line
- Modern Tooklit
- ROI-MOB
- Safety4EL
- RAISE
- EAPPREN
- MASTER
- PROMOTE WBL
- LikeHome
- Empower
- DC4Work
- Lost
- VET-GPS
- Let's play
- TechSenior
- Home
-ICARO
STATEMENTS
EfVET statements on:
Wellbeing in VET
Rethinking Education
Refugees
Frankfurt Declaration
Memorandum of Understanding
4VET Association- Meetings
Meetings
8 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 19 Jul 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills roundtable with the digital transition sector. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
- Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - IOTA Stiftung
- Capgemini Invent - the Netherlands
- TIM S.p.A.
- fit4internet - Verein zur Steigerung der digitalen Kompetenzen in Österreich
- Asociatia Transilvania IT
- Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Avast Software s.r.o.
- Immutable Insight GmbH
- European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association
- SAP
- UNI Europa
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Date 19 Jul 2021 Location Videoconférence Subject Skills Roundtable on Digital Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - Avast Software s.r.o.
- European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association
- UNI Europa
- IOTA Stiftung
- Capgemini Invent - the Netherlands
- Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship
- SAP
- Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research
- fit4internet - Verein zur Steigerung der digitalen Kompetenzen in Österreich
- Immutable Insight GmbH
- TIM S.p.A.
- Asociatia Transilvania IT
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Date 11 May 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills roundtable with the renewable energies ecosystem sector. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
- Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
- Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Gas Networks Ireland
- Prime Laser Technology SA
- Eurelectric aisbl
- Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR
- industriAll European Trade Union
- EUROGAS aisbl
- European Federation of Public Service Unions
- Asociación Valenciana de Empresas del Sector de la Energía
- Končar Elektroindustrija d.d.
- FINCANTIERI SpA
- Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- ENEL SpA
- Ocean Energy Europe
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Date 11 May 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills roundtable with the renewable energies ecosystem sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - Ocean Energy Europe
- European Federation of Public Service Unions
- EUROGAS aisbl
- Eurelectric aisbl
- ENEL SpA
- industriAll European Trade Union
- Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Končar Elektroindustrija d.d.
- Asociación Valenciana de Empresas del Sector de la Energía
- Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR
- Prime Laser Technology SA
- Gas Networks Ireland
- FINCANTIERI SpA
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Date 05 Oct 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable skills on Microelectronics Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.
- ASML Netherlands B.V.
- FEANI
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES Management Services Limited Liability Company & Co. KG
- industriAll European Trade Union
- Melexis NV
- Commissariat à l'Energie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw
- SOITEC
- SEMI Europe
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Date 05 Oct 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills Roundtable with the microelectronic sector. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
- Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.
- SEMI Europe
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES Management Services Limited Liability Company & Co. KG
- SOITEC
- industriAll European Trade Union
- Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw
- Commissariat à l'Energie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Melexis NV
- FEANI
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Date 17 Jun 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Meeting on green skills. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
- Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 09 Jun 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Videoconference on Vocational Education and Training (VET) and the impact of the crisis on VET. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
- Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - European Association of Institutions in Higher Education
- Europäischer Verband Beruflicher Bildungsträger
- European University Continuing Education Network
- European Providers of Vocational Education and Training
- Association Européenne pour la Formation Professionnelle / European Vocational Training Association
- Meetings