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Meet the MCEU Partner: IÐAN Education Centre Organisational Profile, Role and Contribution in the MCEU-Hospitality Project. IÐAN serves as Iceland’s education and training centre for industry and skilled professions. The organisation focuses on competency enhancement, offering upskilling and reskilling courses, validation of prior learning, qualification exams, and maintaining strong partnerships with labour market stakeholders. Within…

Meet the MCEU Partner: University College of Northern Denmark (UCN) Coordinating European collaboration on micro-credentials in hospitality. The University College of Northern Denmark (UCN) is the coordinator of the Erasmus+ project MCEU Hospitality – Upskilling the EU Hospitality Industry with Portable Micro-Credentials. As a Danish public university college specialising in professional and applied sciences education,…

What hotels, restaurants and tourism businesses need right now Perspectives from the Icelandic tourism industry on skills development and micro-credentials Tourism in Iceland and the need for competence developmentTourism is one of the largest industries in Iceland and generates the largest foreign exchange earnings for the national economy. The recommendation score of tourists visiting Iceland…

Micro-credentials show promising results – new learning pathways now open across Europe MCEU pilot demonstrates how flexible learning works in hospitality – and invites professionals to join the next phase. Flexible learning works in practiceNew results from a European pilot show that short, flexible learning can work in practice in the hospitality sector. The European…

Upskilling and Reskilling in Spain: Preparing Hospitality for the Skills Shift Spain’s hospitality industry has long been one of the pillars of its economy, employing approximately 1.85 million people and serving as one of the country’s most visible sectors internationally. However, as hospitality evolves under the influence of digital transformation, sustainability requirements, and changing workforce expectations, the…

Hospitality skills are changing – how should the industry recognise them? The hospitality industry is evolving rapidly, and so are the skills needed to succeed within it. Short courses, online certifications, workplace learning, and specialised learning experiences are becoming increasingly common across hospitality. Yet many of these skills are still not formally recognised in a…

Flexible learning works – but only when workplaces make room for it Short and flexible learning opportunities are becoming increasingly important across Europe. But one challenge continues to stand out in practice: People need time to learn. This is one of the key insights emerging from MCEU Pilot 2, where hospitality learners and employers across…

MCEU Roundtable: From skills to trusted signals Micro-credentials are increasingly recognised at EU level as a key instrument for lifelong learning, upskilling and labour mobility. The challenge is no longer defining them – but making them work in practice. To explore this, the MCEU project invites you to an online roundtable:From skills to trusted signals:…

The availability of short learning opportunities has expanded rapidly in recent years. Online modules, targeted courses, and micro-learning formats are now widely accessible across Europe. Yet their value for individuals and the labour market remains uneven. Completion alone does not demonstrate what has been learned, nor how that learning translates into workplace performance. Micro-credentials have…

Understanding micro-credential recognition in hospitality today The MCEU Hospitality project has published a new report presenting the results of its second large-scale survey on the recognition of micro-credentials in the European hospitality sector. The report explores how micro-credentials are currently understood, valued, and recognized across different parts of the sector. The analysis is based on…