According to ETUC Action Programme 2023-2027, ETUC advocates the effective implementation of the first principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights at European and national levels within the green and digital transition. This should ensure the right to education and training for all by guaranteeing high quality and inclusive employee training and paid educational leave for all workers, preferably during working time, and the right to access to full qualifications, validation of non-formal and informal learning and work experience, and free and quality career guidance and counselling. It is important to ensure this right by law or collective agreements.
The ETUC represents member organisations in several European Commission bodies, such as: European Commission Advisory Committee for VET (ACVT), Meeting of Director-Generals for VET (DGVT), European Qualification Framework Advisory Group, European Alliance for Apprenticeship, European Quality Assurance for VET (EQAVET), Member States’ Working Group on European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO), European Network on Graduate Tracking, Europass network and ETUC is the coordinator of the Employee’s Group of the Management Board of CEDEFOP.
ETUC affiliates and European Trade Union Federations discuss trade union strategies in the ETUC’s Training, VET and Skills Committee.
