"The project ""EDU4Events - Vocational Training in Transition - Developments and Potentials for the Event Industry"" aims to promote and develop work-based learning in all its forms in a well established consortium and in the event industry. The international partnership follows the European Vision to support the acceptance and implementation of innovative approaches applying digital technologies for teaching and learning. It contributes to addressing the major pan-European challenges in VET and the objectives of the Europe 2020 education strategy, in particular for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and to achieving the key objectives in education, training and employment. The project also supports the European flagship initiatives and ""Agenda for New Skills and Jobs"". In more concrete terms, the project contributes to the development of vocational training in the field of event technology. The current COVID-19 crisis has locked the events industry and at the same time accelerated the trend towards digital teaching. While the changeover has been implemented quickly and largely successfully in universities and schools of basic education, the vocational and especially the adult education sector is lagging massively behind. For example, the seamless provision of security-related further training in the phase of ""contact avoidance"" during the COVID 19 crisis was (or still is) no longer guaranteed. A core question the project discusses will be: ""How can the initial and continuing training of key vocational qualifications be provided in a crisis-proof manner? Which cross-disciplinary skills and competences have to be strengthened specifically for the target groups learners, teachers and educational organisations? In order to provide the required skills and competences in vocational and adult education and in the economy, the actors like teachers and trainers request to get access to specialist sharing their well developed competences and also to efficient systems towards digital education. Through the transnational and professional composition and interdisciplinary cooperation within this project, the consortium wants to discuss the corresponding modernisation and further development using the example of current education and training programmes, in the context of the international recognition of informal and non-formal competences and skills, taking into account existing transparency systems and the European Qualifications Framework. The results from the successful ERASMUSplus projects (e.g. the ECVAET series, TeBeVAT series, ETTE, LAAR, DTW, OiRA, TALQ, etc.) will be discussed within the consortium's circle of experts and against the background of the new challenges for vocational education and training and in particular for the event industry. A catalogue of possible directions for the development of international, continuing vocational education and training in event technology and according to the main topics for the future will be developed. Studies on success factors, formation of country-specific aspects, common qualification level, influencing factors, etc. will be included in the discussion process. A possible direction could be to point out those success factors and possibilities that a master craftsman training in event technology on the basis of distance training and the qualification with international recognition (e.g. between AT/DE/CH/FL) can lead to. Within the framework of three transnational partner meetings with accompanying virtual conferences, seminars (seminars to support learning from each other / from the persons involved) will be conducted and recorded in so-called ""mutual learning"". In all expert discussions, external experts with the respective expertise on the seminar topic are also involved. At the end of the project, the minutes of the working sessions will be summarized in a report, which will be disseminated accordingly.This project serves in particular to develop several sustainable concepts for further vocational training in the industry shaken by the COVID 19 crisis and to design ways out of the current constriction. The joint further work in the European vocational training topics in event technology is also a desirable result of the consortium partners."

"The project ready4future (""Professional qualification and supplementary skills for self-employed individuals and one-person companies in the exhibition and event industry"") contributes to the modernisation and internationalisation process in vocational education and training and supports the European agenda for new skills and employment.With the global crisis triggered by the Corona Pandemic, the international event industry has come to a complete shutdown. The question of when and how it will be possible again to hold events involving large numbers of people cannot be answered clearly and unambiguously in the near future. In concrete terms, the project aims to combat the acute threat of unemployment in the event industry. Often these are especially young, professionally inexperienced people, as well as career changers and immigrant workers who are particularly affected by a lack of qualification, competences and skills. A key question discussed by the project is: ""How can this target group be strengthened through qualification and competence acquisition, including the development of supplementary skills and of cross-sectional competences?"" In a working environment as multicultural and international as the event industry, it is necessary to tackle challenges in the field of qualification as well as training and further education transnationally. The organizations involved in the project ready4future are united by the European spirit and the ""good practice"" from numerous joint European cooperation and projects. One of the project's objectives is to examine and discuss the results of the successfully developed, sector-specific Erasmus+ projects (including the ECVAET series, TeBeVAT series, ETTE, LAAR, OiRA, TALQ, EI-Integr) by reflecting the latest developments and challenges. Furthermore, the consortium will discuss and develop answers to the following detailed questions:•How can the “antifragility” of the event industry and its actors, especially the self-employed, be strengthened? •What does this mean in concrete terms for the conception and adaptation of training and qualification of employees and stakeholders in the event industry? •How can the industry be supported by defining, developing and applying the urgently needed skillset for a new future? A catalogue of potential approaches is to be developed out of these questions. This also relates to topics like the digital and technological change and the perspectives of lifelong learning which play a key role in this context. Studies on success and influencing factors, the formation of country-specific aspects and common qualification levels are also included in the discussion and development process. In doing so, the consortium aims to integrate the European transparency systems (e.g. EQF, ECVET, ESCO) and standards (e.g. EQAVET) in the work processes.Three transnational partner meetings in Vienna (AT), Frankfurt (DE) and Brussels (BE) are the cornerstones of the joint cooperation. External national experts are also involved in the discussion and working process. The results from the discussion rounds are recorded and summarized in a report at the end of the project together with working papers. The cooperation during the transnational meetings is digitally supported by a ""Mutual Learning Seminar"", which is also used for preparation and follow-up. A series of online conferences addressing different kind of topics will be held between the partner meetings. The one-year strategic partnership, in which organizations from Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and Austria collaborate, begins in October 2020 and ends in October 2021."