As the Christmas holidays approach, we all rewind and take stock of what we have achieved and what we have not in 2024. However, we cannot ignore the feeling of dissatisfaction and disappointment with our inability to properly manage information and knowledge (personal, community or company) to be more effective and more useful for ourselves and the people we live and work with. As a result of these reflections, wishes were born!

May 2025 bring us success:

• in purifying and optimizing our information channels. Let us overcome the stress of our inability to filter and use only the useful from all that attacks us in the information space.

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Dimitar Hristov

This article is a continuation of our series of blog articles on excellence in vocational education and training. In it, we focus on the characteristics of Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs). At the held on 30.10.2024 workshop of experts in the field of vocational training, the question of what CoVE's model would be suitable for Bulgaria was considered and discussed. The issue became relevant in connection with the participation of the cluster and two more organizations from Bulgaria in the international InvesTech project. Excellence in learning is the goal of all education and training systems both within and outside the European Union (EU).

Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the context of institutional autonomy in implementation of vocational training is a way to increase its effectiveness.

Interesting and instructive for anyone planning to create a Center of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) are the results of the study of the European Training Foundation (ETF), shared in its report "CoVEs: processes and practices. Study of working processes and key practices of CoVEs for advancing autonomy and PPPs".

Below we focus on the main challenges and lessons learnt reflected in this report.

They fall into the eight categories described below:

1. Towards greater CoVE autonomy.

Following on from the previous article dated November 3, which outlined the difference between a Vocational Training Centre and a Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE), this short article looks at the functions and activities of such centers as CoVE. Thus, the difference between these two types of centers is further emphasized.

We believe that the Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) in the ICT industry can play a vital role in promoting professional training, research and innovation and thus be of immense help to this industry, which is the aim of the InvesTech project. To achieve this, the center must be designed in such a way that it can perform certain functions and activities seamlessly.