BEQUAL is a European platform dedicated to quality assurance and benchmarking in vocational education and training and in work-based learning (for educational institutions and companies).
BEQUAL provides resources and benchmarking tools, for the quality assurance and continuous improvement of organisations involved in vocational education and training and in work-based learning (for educational institutions and companies).
There are three different benchmarking tools, available in BEQUAL platform:
- Quality assurance in apprenticeships and work-based learning (tool for companies)
- Quality assurance in apprenticeships and work-based learning (tool for educational institutions)
- Quality assurance in Vocational Education and training (tool for educational institutions)
- Policy makers and stakeholders, who can find statistics, articles and links to base their policies.
- VET institutions, who can use the benchmarking tools, read good practices or contribute with their own and be promoted in the platform.
- Companies involved in work-based learning
- Use the benchmarking tools, identify your strong and weak points and improve your organisation
- Browse our rich resources, you will find good practices, articles, videos, documents and links related to quality in vocational education and training and work-based learning.
- Contribute with your own good practice, promote your organisation



The three different benchmarking tools are:
- two new tools addressing Quality Assurance in Apprenticeships and Work-Based Learning (for educational institutions and companies). They have been developed in the framework of the Bequal.app project.
- an older tool addressing Vocational Education and Training institutions. It has been developed in the framework of the BEQUAL project (2008) and expanded in the framework of the projects BEQUAL+ (2011), EXPANDVET (2012) and BEQUAL.net (2014).