Vidmantas T?tlys is Professor of Education Science and Researcher at Vytautas Magnus University Institute of Educational Research in Kaunas, Lithuania. His research areas cover development of vocational education and training policies, VET curriculum design, skill formation and qualification systems. Jörg Markowitsch is Senior Partner at 3s Research & Consulting in Vienna, Austria, and policy advisor on national and EU-Level in the area of education and labour markets. His areas of research include comparative research in vocational education and training, European educational policy, skill taxonomies and skills forecasting. Jonathan Winterton is Professor of Work and Employment and Head of the Department of Work and Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. His research addresses human capital issues along two axes: one concerned with the quality of work, from high involvement to precarious work, the other with how human capital is developed, deployed, and retained. Samo Pavlin is Professor of Education and Human Resource Development of Department of Human Resources and Social Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research areas cover knowledge management, development of competencies and European developments in higher education and vocational education.

Vidmantas T?tlys, Jonathan Winterton, Jörg Markowitsch and Samo Pavlin : Skill formation in the post-communist CEE countries. Areas for research and discussion — Vidmantas T?tlys, Genut? Gedvilien?, Lina Kaminskien? and Egl? Stasi?naitien? : Development of skill formation in Lithuania: Neoliberalism, statism or new welfare state? — Ilze Buligina and Biruta Sloka?: Skill formation policies in Latvia in the aftermath of economic crisis: towards a systemic consideration of skills needs. — Krista Loogma : Expanding the institutional landscape of skill formation: Estonia. — Horacy D?bowski and Wojciech St?ch?y : Towards better governance and integration: Polish policy development in the skills formation system 1989-2019. — Dominik Dvo?ák and Petr Gal : Skills for the labour market in the Czech Republic: between national and local perspectives. — Juraj Vantuch and Dagmar Jelínková : Skill formation in Slovakia at the crossroads — Andrea Laczik and Éva Farkas : Institutional arrangements of skills development in Hungary between 1989 and 2020: the tortuous reality — Samo Pavlin, Klara Skubic Ermenc and Branko Bembi?: Skill formation in Slovenia: segmentation and sectoral disparities. — Teo Matkovi? and Nikola Bukovi? : Unstoppable force meeting immovable object: the impact of Europeanization on the Croatian skill formation regime. — Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva, Kaloyan Ganev and Radostina Angelova : Skill Imbalances in Bulgaria since the Second World War: policy responses and effects. — Zoica Elena Vladut : The institutional development of skill formation in Romania: between state-led and collective skill formation models. — Serhii Melnyk : Development of a skill formation system in Ukraine: a case of late and iterative institutionalization? — Jonathan Winterton and Emma Wallis : Social dialogue and skill formation systems in the Central and Eastern Europe — Jörg Markowitsch and Horacy Debowski : The development of education and training systems in the CEE countries and the role of qualifications frameworks. — Sandra Bohlinger and Vidmantas T?tlys : European integration and EU policies: implications for development of skill formation in the CEE countries. — Jonathan Winterton : ‘Anglo-Saxon’ influences on Central and Eastern Europe and the market-based model of skill formation. — Andreas Saniter and Christianne Eberhardt : Collective skill formation in Germany – a blueprint, a mirror or not applicable for policy learning in the CEE countries? .