BACKGROUND:The DITOGA project started on 01/09/2018. The background of the project was to meet the demands of the working world regarding the offered VET programmes of VET providers/institutions for VET students/VET graduates across Europe. Thus, the main idea was to align and adapt the offered VET programmes with the constantly changing demand of the world and therefore the labour market outside the educational institutions across Europe. A fact is, that the demands of the world of work and the labour market are constantly changing and in the context of contemporary challenges like digitalisation, individualisation and internationalisation, the skills and qualifications that were and are expected of VET students/graduates were and are constantly changing as well. VET providers have to face these challenges, but it seems that as soon as they have gathered enough relevant data and are ready to adapt their VET programmes accordingly, the world outside the VET institutions has already evolved again.This is where the DITOGA project tried to catch up with this evolvement.OBJECTIVES:That challenge of skill gaps was and still is increasingly addressed by the European Commission. In alignment with the objectives defined by the ET2020 Strategic Framework, the EQUAVET recommendations, and especially by the Riga Conclusions, the main priority of the DITOGA project was to enhance the quality and sustainability of vocational and educational training (VET) programmes across Europe in order to provide VET learners with a modern, comprehensive, and resilient skill set. By establishing continuous feedback loops on personal level with VET graduates using digital technology, new sets of meaningful qualitative and quantitative and consequently and most importantly interpretable data were generated and used complementary to existing data pools which allowed VET providers to increase their performances and efficiencies in a progressive way.Due to conducting the DITOGA project and making its products relevant and usable to and for all EU member states, their policy makers, and in particular their VET systems, the transparency and comparability of said data as well as the deductions drawn from them were ensured by committing to European transparency tools available (e.g. ECVET).PROJECT RESULTS:IO1 DITOGA VET Graduate Tracking Strategy, leading partner: Jugend am Werk Stmk. GmbH, AT:The first intellectual output (IO1) the empirical-theoretical part, in which VET providers learnt how they could use the collected data to improve their training programmes.IO2 DITOGA Mobile App, leading partner: ENTER GmbH, AT:The second intellectual output (IO2)) dealt with the creation of an app, which was used by VET students/participants and was created in cooperation with an external programmer in the project partnership.IO3 Analytics Software, leading partner: Co&So, IT:The third intellectual output (IO3) ensured the usability and accurate filtering of the data entered in the app (IO2) for the training providers in the individual project countries in the form of a database, in order to be able to adapt or re-adjust their training content accordingly and to keep a finger on the pulse of the changing requirements of the economy.In the overall context of all three intellectual outputs, the distribution of tasks in the project partnership - excluding the main responsibilities for the different IOs - was always well distributed. The tasks were accordingly well perceived and productively fulfilled by the project partners. The partner organisations with main responsibility for the individual IOs always performed their tasks very well and productively to date.The involvement of the individual project partners was in line with the original planning, except for the Belgian partners who left the project.PROJECT ACTIVITIES:Several activities were conducted during the project period by the project partnership, including five transnational project meetings (MTG1-5) the last two of which were virtual ones due to Covid-19 restrictions. Additionally, a Learning-Teaching and Training-Activity was conducted (virtually) covering the training of VET professionals for IO3 in March 2021, close to the project's end. Moreover, the Multiplier Events in the respective partner organisations took place between 31/03/2021 and 27/05/2021 as an individual handling of the different dates was more effective for the partner organisations to due Covid-19. Overall, there were 115 VET students, 96 VET professionals and 108 stakeholders involved.PROJECT PARTICIPANTS:31 professionals/external stakeholders and 60 VET professionals participated in the conducted survey of IO1, 163 VET students/graduates tested the app during the pilot phase of IO2, 12 VET professionals were involved in the LTTA and 319 persons were involved in the MEs. This shows that there was a huge variety of people beside the project partners involved to make the project become a success.