EVTA is finding ways of enabling vocational training professionals to learn from each other and to apply new creative and innovative tools to new and existing problems in the field of lifelong learning and vocational training in particular. In June 2008, in Turin, the EVTA members agreed on three lifelong learning themes that are the heart of the network activities. Each theme is the subject of specific work being carried out by a group consisting of network members, according to the “special interest” principle, meaning that each organization participates in the group or groups that correspond to its priorities.

The role of the EVTA secretariat is to facilitate the work by fulfilling 3 functional objectives: