Another preliminary remark is needed to clarify the position of the author. Surely, I cannot pretend to be a neutral observer and writer of documentary report. Just as I have been an actor in the history of VETNET, I now try to be a learner who examines the experiences we have made in the course of time.

Here, I need to remind myself that I have witnessed these processes from three different perspectives:

1)     as a young comparative researcher from Finland observing the European developments in VET from a relative distance;

2)     as an employee of an EU-agency (Cedefop) with an interest to promote European research cooperation and with a role of facilitator;

3)     as an experienced researcher working as an expatriate in Germany and with the role of project promoter or partner in specific European projects on VET.

So, after this reminder I should keep in mind that there are different perspectives to shared memories and to reports on the ...

What kind of content should a VETNET present for discussion? And why should we be interested to discuss these contents? These questions need to be answered before submitting any content. My idea is that we need to look at the milestones and consider, what has happened at different phases in the history. Then we need to explore the themes that have characterised the development of the VETNET community - not only the sessions in ECER, but also the work between conferences.

Looking at the milestones: To me, each VETNET programme at ECER (ever since the founding of VETNET 1996) counts as a milestone of its own. Also, I would include the ECER’92 in Enschede and the IRNETD’94 conference in Milano to the history of VETNET (as the key events of the pre-history of EERA and VETNET). But, it would not be very interesting to recapitulate what happened in each conference and then go to the next ...

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