Minutes of "annual meeting of Cedefop community of apprenticeship experts" in 2019
Dear European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
minutes of your annual meeting of Cedefop community of apprenticeship experts held in Paris on 8 October 2019. Please include the list of participants. Where the name of participants is protected by privacy laws, please include at least the corresponding affiliation.
Yours faithfully,
Rebekah Feldbaum
Dear European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,
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Yours faithfully,
Rebekah Feldbaum
Dear Ms Feldbaum,
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Kind regards,
Cedefop Info
RB(2020)00265
Dear Ms Feldbaum,
With regard to your request for the “minutes of the annual meeting of
Cedefop community of apprenticeship experts held in Paris on 8 October
2019”, please be informed that formal minutes were not created for this
meeting.
However, you can find via this a link a news item which provides a brief
account of the meeting:
[1]https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/news-an...
With regard to your request for the list of participants or their
“corresponding affiliation”, please note that the members of [2]the
community contribute to its activities as individual experts, on a
voluntary basis, bringing their personal professional expertise on
apprenticeship systems and their opinions, and do not formally represent
the organisations they work for. The community has 34 members (one per
country or sub-national level in the case of Belgium and the UK), and the
meeting was attended by 25 members, corresponding to the countries/systems
listed below:
• Austria
• Belgium – Flemish community
• Belgium – French community
• Belgium – German-speaking community
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Finland
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Malta
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovenia
• Sweden
• UK - England
• UK - Northern Ireland
• UK - Scotland
Kind regards,
Cedefop Info
Maria Toliou left an annotation ()
Vacancy "Cedefop/2016/04/AD_external" for Experts to work as Knowledge Brokers on Work-Based Learning and Apprenticeships was conducted unlawfully, and Experts on Apprenticeships did not have the opportunity as candidates to be assessed against all knowledge and skills listed in the vacancy notice.
See decision of the European Ombudsman, and brief description below, https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decis...
The Ombudsman finds that Cedefop committed a serious instance of maladministration by not fully respecting the legal framework laid down in the vacancy notice for the 2016 procedure. In light of the Court of Auditors’ close examination of Cedefop’s recruitment procedures, including its call for immediate corrective action, the Ombudsman does not consider it necessary to make a recommendation to Cedefop arising from this finding.
The European Ombudsman closed this inquiry with her public finding of maladministration on 20/11/2019.