Issue 13 of EQAVET newsletter includes:

-Detlef Eckert editorial, Director of Skills Management within the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission;

- Overwiew of the annual EQAVET network meeting in 2016;

 - Why networking matters? The importance of the network: the views of EU VET providers' associations in the context of quality assurance;

- Establishing effective communication channels: the communication strategy of ARQA-VET. Article by Franz Gramlinger, ARQA-VET, Austria;

- Spreading the EQAVET message to VET providers: how the national reference point (PRN) Wales communicates with stakeholders. Article by Philip Whitney, PRN, Wales.