The European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training – EQAVET is a tool adopted by the European Union Member States that allows them to document, develop, monitor, evaluate, and improve the effectiveness of Vocational Education and Training (VET) provision and the quality of management practices.
- It involves regular monitoring processes, including internal and external evaluation mechanisms and progress reports;
- It establishes quality criteria and indicative descriptors that support the monitoring and reporting by VET systems and providers;
- It highlights the importance of quality indicators that support the evaluation, monitoring, and quality assurance of VET systems and providers.