Cross-border skilled worker training in the Southern Baltic

Five partner countries have joined forces in the research and development project “BBVET – Boosting business integration through joint VET” to develop and pilot a training year comprising two programmes which are linked in structural, curricular and didactic terms and which take place in accordance with the prevailing general conditions of various European VET systems. The article presents the respective approaches adopted and looks at issues relating to comparability of training levels and periods as well as considering the challenges to cross-border skilled worker training created by the involvement of the stakeholders responsible.