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Portals, networks, databases

international
This is the homepage of the German Centre of the UNESCO section UNEVOC (United Nations Vocational Education ). The German branch was founded in 2002 and is part of a world wide network of UNEVOC national centres. Its main objectives are: strengthening the UNEVOC network world wide, personnel development regarding executives in [...]

Europe
VOCTADE is a research project for the development of knowledge bases in the field of distance education and training, with a particular focus on the European distance training industry market.- This website offers full texts on the project, its focus and goal. It names the participating research institutions, outlines the research [...]

Belgium
This site offers a database for practical further training courses in Belgium. You can search for examples of training and vocational programmes, continuing education and language courses, as well as companies or educational institutions. Additionally, in the sector "bibliothèque", there are selected literary abstracts available.

Europe
ReferNet is a structured, decentralised, networked system of information collection and dissemination. It provides high quality information on a wide range of developments in vocational education and training, and learning in the European Union by bringing together the expertise of key organisations.

United Kingdom; England; Wales; Northern Ireland
The National Database of Accredited Qualifications (NDAQ) contains details of qualifications that are accredited by the regulators of external qualifications in England (Ofqual), Wales (DCELLS) and Northern Ireland (CCEA). Users can search for details on current and expired accredited [...]

Denmark
The Danish Institute for Educational Training of Vocational Teachers (DEL) is the national TTnet coordinator with the responsibility of fostering and supporting the national network. The network contributes to analysing and disseminating information on training of teachers and trainers in Europe. E.g. in relation to a Danish project on [...]

international; Albania; Andorra; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina [...]
The European gateway to recognition of academic and professional qualifications offers national profiles according to the following structure: National Information Centres, National education bodies, System of education, [...]

EQAVET (formerly: ENQAVET) is the European Network on Quality Assurance in Vocational Education. Information is given on the following topics: Policy developments. Network activities. Member countries. Organisational structures. Publications.

Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Switzerland; Greece; Hungary [...]
Eurydice (formerly Eurypedia and Eurybase) is a network of national units based in all countries of the Erasmus+ programme. [Its] task is to explain how education systems are organised in Europe and how they [...]

SOLVIT is a European network for citizens with practical problems regarding various aspects of the single market, particularly with aspects of mobility (recognition of qualifications, diplomas), visa, self-employment, social security, health insurance). National SOLVIT centres can be searched by the website, which also provides lists of useful links and basic information. [...]

ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present.

VOCED is a research database for technical and vocational education and training. It is an international database of research abstracts with a special focus on Australia and the Asia Pacific region. VOCED is a free database that contains over 30,000 English language records, many with links to full text documents. VOCED is produced by the National Centre for Vocational [...]

Ausführliche Verzeichnisse an Volltextsammlungen der UNESCO.

Der Bestand der UNESCO-Bibliothek steht hier (inkl. der UNESCO-Dokumente) online zur Verfügung.

Spain
The website informs about the TTNet Spain, its activities, about news, events and provides documents.

Czech Republic
TTnet CR is an informal partnership network of organisations providing training of (i) teachers teaching vocational subjects, practice and training, (ii) in-house company instructors, and (iii) trainers of further vocational/occupational training. TTnet’s mission is to support (the development of) proficiency of those training [...]

Hungary
The Training of Trainers Network – TTnet – is a network of national networks which was set up by Cedefop in 1998 as a Pan-European forum to allow key players and decision-makers in the field of training of teachers and trainers to share practices, knowledge and expertise on key issues in the training and professional development of [...]

United Kingdom
The website provides information about the activities of TTNet in the UK.

A glance from Germany

Das VET Repository ist der zentrale Publikationsserver für Berufsbildungsliteratur. In ihm wird durch das Dokumentationsteam des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung (BIBB) systematisch die deutschsprachige Fachliteratur zu allen Aspekten der Berufsbildung und Berufsbildungsforschung ab dem Erscheinungsjahr 1988 nachgewiesen. Den Kernbestandteil des VET Repository [...]