{"id":1457,"date":"2025-07-18T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:34:03","slug":"vocational-excellence-and-regional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/vocational-excellence-and-regional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocational Excellence and Regional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Role of VET in a Competitive and Inclusive Europe<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Practice to Policy Conference, Brussels \u2013 July 15\u201316, 2025<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the invitation of Borboly Csaba \u2013 Vice-President of Harghita County Council and member of the European People&#8217;s Party (RO\/EPP), participants and representatives of the EASI project held one of the sessions of the EASI Capacity Building Conference \u2013 Building the Future of VET Together at the European Committee of the Regions. This was an excellent opportunity for participants to build connections and strengthen cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representatives from Romania: Harghita County Council; K\u00f3s K\u00e1roly Vocational High School; Babes-Bolyai University \u2013 Faculty of Geography \u2013 University Extension, Gheorgheni; V\u00e1mszer G\u00e9za Public Art School.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe faces a dual #challenge: a widening skills gap and regional disparities, worsened by demographic change. Vocational Education and Training (VET) is key to addressing these issues by providing practical, labour-market-oriented skills\u2014especially in disadvantaged areas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"better-gallery-container\"><div id=\"gallery-1178760888\" class=\"better-gallery  better-gallery-img-publisher-lg\" data-gallery-id=\"1178760888\"> <div class=\"fotorama\" data-nav=\"thumbs\" data-auto=\"false\" data-ratio=\"16\/7\"><div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-18-at-13.46.10-2-150x150.jpeg\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-18-at-13.46.10-2.jpeg\" class=\"slide-link\" data-not-rel=\"true\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\"  data-id=\"1462\" src=\"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-18-at-13.46.10-2-750x430.jpeg\">\n                        <\/a>\n                  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style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 15\u201316, the inaugural #EASIConference took place in Brussels, bringing together experts, policymakers, and educators from across Europe to strengthen Vocational Education and Training (VET) through international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opening day at the European Parliament and Committee of the Regions focused on aligning practice-based education with policy, supporting #NEET youth, and adapting #VET systems to the green and digital transition. Key speakers: Attila S\u00e1ndor, President of MeOut Group; Winkler Gyula, Member of the European Parliament; Vicsek Annam\u00e1ria, MEP; Maria Alonso from the Committee of the Regions; Kinga Jo\u00f3, from the European Economic and Social Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Day two explored cross-regional #collaboration, with country teams from Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Greece, and Hungary presenting national VET systems and co-developing roadmaps to improve in-company tutor support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference highlighted successful models\u2014like Harghita County\u2019s localised VET initiatives\u2014and identified shared goals for future cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funded by the EU, the EASI project empowers company tutors to better support international learners during work-based training, fostering modern, inclusive, and sustainable VET systems across Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#EASIproject #VET #EUeducation #RegionalDevelopment #Inclusion #SkillsForFuture #MeOut<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Role of VET in a Competitive and Inclusive Europe From Practice to Policy Conference, Brussels \u2013 July 15\u201316, 2025 At the invitation of Borboly Csaba \u2013 Vice-President of Harghita County Council and member of the European People&#8217;s Party (RO\/EPP), participants and representatives of the EASI project held one of the sessions of the EASI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}