Europe's learning systems

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Europe's learning systems

Europe's ambition of a genuinely borderless learning space — where qualifications travel with people, and skills earned in one context are recognised in another — remains work in progress. Despite two decades of sustained policy effort and investment, learning outcomes are still not fully portable across institutions, sectors, and Member States. The question is not whether this matters. It is what happens next.

Drawing on evidence from the past two decades, Cedefop's latest research paper, Shaping the future of lifelong learning: policy scenarios for 2040, published this month, uses policy scenarios to explore how European education and training systems could evolve by 2040, and how today's choices will shape that future.

The report is part of Cedefop’s Transparency and Transferability of Learning Outcomes work, and builds on two earlier phases. The first examined European and national policy initiatives from 2000 to 2020 aimed at making learning more transparent and transferable. The second tracked how individuals' lifelong learning opportunities evolved over the same period, finding significant progress alongside persistent gaps — particularly around the portability of learning across sectors and contexts.

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