From career education to vocational education and training in digital era: exploiting Communities of Practice

The aim of this contribution is to sketch the possible role of the Communities of Practice (CoPs) in projecting in the digital dimension both the activities aimed at orienting towards a future professional life, and those aimed at Vocational Education and Training (VET). While the former are especially targeted at students just exiting from high school, the latter rather span an overall lifetime, including life-long learning, continuous in-service training and professional outplacement. Though the stakeholders participating the two processes might be different, the core underlying processes have much in common.