CoP on Employment, Education, and Skills
The ESF+ Community of Practice (CoP) on Employment, Education and Skills aims to support its members by organizing mutual learning events, preparing reports, and other documents on topics related to education, employment, and skills. The main focus is on the following topics: modernization of employment services to improve the management of labour market transitions; ESF/ESF+ support for vulnerable youth; improving the resilience of education and training systems.
Through its activities, the community brings together representatives of ESF+ Managing Authorities, Implementing Organisations, Intermediate Bodies, and other stakeholders to exchange knowledge, experience, and inspiring practices in social innovation and investment.
Events
June
16
– 17
Study visit: ‘Effective Approaches to Building Basic Skills for Vulnerable Adults’
October
07
– 08
Social Innovation Forum 2026
Past event
Innovative Work-Based Learning for Vulnerable Adults
Past event
On-site event: ‘Uniting Efforts: From Material Support to Skills Development for a Strong Social Europe’
Past event
Making Skills Recognition More Inclusive How Can the Validation of Non – Formal and Informal Learning Better Serve the Most Vulnerable?
Past event
Social Innovation Forum 2025
Past event
Online event ‘Counterfactual impact evaluation: Do we need it, and why?’
Past event
Study Visit: ‘The Role of NGOs in Upskilling Vulnerable People’
Past event
The First Joint Online Event of the Three Communities of Practice
Past event
Bridging Gaps in Vocational Training:
The Role of NGOs and the Impact of ESF Support in Europe
Past event
Study visit ‘Partnerships’ Ecosystem developed by Actiris’
Past event
Social Innovation Forum 2024
Past event
Study visit “Nobody is unemployable: the French Approach to Zero Long-Term Unemployment“
Past event
Peer review on managing and financing cooperation between Public employment Services (PES) and NGOs
Past event
Towards zero long-term unemployment in the EU: Job guarantees and other innovative approaches
Past event
Study visit: how to target vulnerable youths
Past event
Social Innovation Forum 2023
Past event
Online webinar: Overcoming obstacles to young adults in work-based learning and internships abroad: Promising practices from ALMA and Erasmus+
Past event
Peer Review on Outreach to Adults in Need of Basic Skills
Past event
Peer Review on Target Indicators in the ESF+ Projects
Past event
Peer Review on Outreach to (Vulnerable) Young Persons
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Work programmes
Event summary reports
Surveys
Outputs
Other