Scientific advisers

Cedefop and ETF provide technical and scientific support to the EQAVET Network. They are co-opted to the EQAVET Network in an advisory capacity. As such, they support EQAVET and the European Commission in their work to the generation of an added value knowledge on issues concerning VET, contributing in the formulation of relevant, up-to-date and informed policy initiatives.

Cedefop

The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, established in 1975, is a European agency that helps promote and develop vocational education and training in the European Union. It is the EU's reference centre for vocational education and training.Cedefop was one of the first specialised and decentralised agencies set up to provide scientific and technical know-how in specific fields and promote exchanges of ideas between different European partners.

Originally based in Berlin, in 1995 Cedefop's head office was transferred to Thessaloniki. Cedefop has a liaison office in Brussels.

Contact person:

Tina Bertzeletou
Project Manager
tina.bertzeletou@cedefop.europa.eu

Tina Bertzeletou is CEDEFOP’s expert in charge of Quality in VET since 2000. Of sociology and sciences of education background, she joined Cedefop in 1984.Over the recent years she has worked on the training needs of SMEs and micro-firms and on quality in VET. She has provided technical and scientific assistance to the European Commission FORCE programme and the programme on Quality in VET under the Copenhagen process. More recently Tina Bertzeletou participated as scientific advisor, on behalf of Cedefop, in the ENQA-VET, the European Network on Quality in VET.

ETF

The European Training Foundation is an agency of the European Union based in Turin, Italy. It was established in 1990 to contribute to the development of the education and training systems of the EU partner countries. It became operational in 1994.Its mission is to help transition and developing countries to harness the potential of their human capital through the reform of education, training and labour market systems in the context of the Eu's external relations policy. ETF base its work on the conviction that human capital development in a lifelong learning perspective can make a fundamental contribution to increasing prosperity, creating sustainable growth and encouraging social inclusion in transition and developing countries.

ETF recruit and deploy experts from multiple disciplines to handle complex and multidimensional topics in a team environment, in order to create new knowledge, insight and solutions.

Contact person:

Margareta Nikolovska
Human Capital Development Specialist
Country Manager Albania
Operations Department
Margareta.Nikolovska@etf.europa.eu

Margareta Nikolovska is a human capital development specialist at the European Training Foundation, an agency of the European Union that supports the reform of human capital development policies under the European Union’s external relations instruments. With over 15 years work experience in the education sector, she has performed various assignments including policy analyses, feasibility studies, and the identification of major priorities in the vocational education and training sector. Her experience is particularly related to the policy environment in the IPA region.
Margareta is an expert in the ETF peer learning methodology that is based on the principles of policy learning. In particular, her work on the impact of VET polices on VET schools and school management in the IPA region has contributed to the development of new knowledge about managing and leading the education sector. In 2007 she was co-editor of the ETF Yearbook flagship publication on Quality in Vocational Education and Training: Modern Vocational training policies and learning processes. Since January 2007 she has been ETF Country Manager for Albania, where she works in cooperation with local partners to ensure ownership of VET policies by supporting national policymakers to take the lead in policy developments and their implementation. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Management from the Graduate School of Public Policy and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.