This year, we have re-elected the VETENT board; for details, consult vetnetsite.org, the community website of VETENT. There are some colleagues stepping back from the board. They were active for many years. Here, it is not the space to honour their scientific contribution, but just to name them and to say Thank You: Ludger Deitmer, M’Hamed Dif, Karen Evans, Lorenz Lassnigg.
The ECER in Glasgow was scientifically enriching. Substantial VET research from almost all over the world was presented and discussed. We are happy that, again, many presentations were published as short papers in the 6th edition of the VETNET ECER Proceedings. The presentations show the importance of VET research also to advance the practice of VET. Even if VET may look different in different countries, research shows the underlying principles and addresses common challenges.
This year saw the birth of EERN-VETNET. It is a VET-research-specific network from and for emerging researchers in VET.
The conference was also a good occasion to re-strengthen connections within our network and to other networks in the wide area for VET research. We are happy that many colleagues support VETNET not only by presenting their substantial work at the ECER but also at other conferences and events related to VETNET. See vetnetsite.org for more details.
VETNET would not function without the many colleagues doing reviews, being engaged in program planning, actively supporting the Proceedings as editors, or reading and commenting on papers submitted to be published in the Proceedings and all the many other things that need to be done to keep a network running. For more details, see vetnetsite.org, the VETNET community website.