The Italian INAPP (which hosts the EQAVET National Reference Point), jointly with the Piedmont region, hosted their peer review on 22-23 May 2025 in Turin. The event focused on the quality assurance of the Piedmont region’s guidance system. EQAVET Network members from Austria, Greece, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain acted as peer reviewers.
Italy’s national guidelines from 2022 include a commitment to reform education and training and to improve the quality of VET. In the Piedmont Region a guidance system is active since the beginning of the millennium, providing guidance services to children, adolescents and adults from 8 to 24. Since the 2022 national reform, these services can also contribute to the 30 mandatory guidance hours for lower and upper secondary schools, with the objective of developing Career management skills and preventing early school leaving. The peer review focused on the quality assurance of the guidance system, which involves large numbers of stakeholders and is monitored through an external inspection process.
The peer review included a visit to a Guidance Centre and presentations from the EQAVET National Reference Point, the Piedmont regional authorities and a representative from the organisation for VET centres. After each presentation, the peer reviewers had an opportunity to ask questions and discuss how the quality assurance of the guidance system was organised, and how it operated in practice. The presentations highlighted the amount of work and the number of organisations which contribute to the guidance system.
The peer review was the opportunity to discuss the role and assessment of guidance providers, the level of autonomy given to VET schools, the specific needs of VET schools for quality assurance, the support offered in their evaluation, the importance of data, as well as the challenges associated with monitoring the effectiveness and quality of the overall guidance system.
Read the flash report summarising the main outcomes of the discussion.
Additionally, a separate report containing detailed feedback from the peer reviewers will be shared with the host country.
