In this article, we present the most important information about The Integrated Skills Strategy 2030. Strategy has the status of a public policy in Poland and defines the basic conditions, goals and directions of the country's development in the social, economic and spatial dimensions of a given field or a given area, which result directly from the medium-term national development strategy, i.e. the Strategy for Responsible Development (with an outlook until 2030).

2021 saw, for the first time in Poland, an implementation of a pedagogical innovation concerning the idea of lifelong learning and the Integrated Qualification System.

The last ten years have seen major reforms of the Polish VET system: new and revised core curricula based on learning outcomes, introduction of new types of VET schools, upgraded infrastructure, opening the examination system for extra-mural students with previous learning or working experience, strengthening existing institutions for non-formal VET to name but a few. We talked to Wojciech Stęchły (IBE), about the Polish VET system, the Integrated Qualifications Register, the ongoing development efforts, demographic trends and building more life-like models of learning pathways.

Over the past two years, the work on developing AI/NLP based applications aimed at supporting users of the Integrated Qualifications Register has been in progress. The applications integrate data from various sources to help search and explore qualifications, and create personalised development paths. We talked to Marcin Będkowski (IBE) on defining goals, dangerous flexibility, latest technology, high expectations, and overcoming barriers.

An interesting report - Regional Qualifications Framework Initiatives Around the Globe 2020 - a joint product of 3S Research Laboratory and the European Training Foundation Qualifications Project - was published in February 2021.

A government project has been launched in Scotland - a collaboration between the SCQF Partnership (SCQFP), Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help veterans make efficient use of the skills they acquired in the military after leaving the service.

We highly recommend the newly published series of three practical guides issued by CEDEFOP on Understanding technological change and skill needs.

This publication is the result of the cooperation of institutions responsible for maintaining and developing databases or registers of qualifications in selected European countries and presents selected databases or qualifications registers that currently exist in Austria, Croatia, France, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Scotland.