This focus group facilitated by ETF will help identify priorities for the development of resources andservices to support thedevelopment of vocational excellence and of Centres of VocationalExcellence.The first phase of the program “Internationalising Vocational Excellence” saw thecreation of framework for vocationalexcellence consisting of 23 criteria grouped into threedimensions: Teaching and Learning, Partnership andCollaboration, Governance and Funding. Thesecriteria, derived from the Erasmus + calls for CoVEs havebeen developed to create the EU’sInternational Self-Assessment Tool for CoVEs-ISATCOVE.The findingsfrom this focus group will be used to design the services and activities supported by thisprogramme.