The programme support is available for the creation and updating of Community reference material.

The content of this measure is described as "the development and updating of reference material through support for surveys and analyses, the establishment and updating of comparable data, the observation and dissemination of good practices and the comprehensive exchange of information".
Action under this measure should contribute towards:
 

establishing comparable data on vocational training systems and arrangements, practices and various approaches to qualifications and competences in the Participating Countries, or

producing quantitative and/or qualitative information, analyses and observing best practices in support of policies and vocational training practices for lifelong learning that cannot be made available by Eurostat or CEDEFOP.
 

The term "reference material" here means all the analyses, studies, surveys and identification of good practice which make it possible to locate, at Community level, the relative position of the various Participating countries and the progress made on a given subject or in a given area.
The measure mainly involves two types of action:
 

surveys and analyses in the selected priority areas, taking account of quantitative, qualitative and comparative aspects at national and European level;

observation of good practice in vocational training, according to precise criteria and on the basis of monographic studies that may be conducted at various levels.