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VET-PASS

Building Europe's veterinary specialisation register

A transparent, harmonised, data-driven framework for postgraduate veterinary specialisation across COST Members — delivered through six Working Groups covering evidence, standards, stakeholder engagement, workforce intelligence, career development and educational innovation.

30+

COST countries

6

Working Groups

10

Deliverables

4 yrs

Action duration

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What VetPass delivers

One schema. Every system. Across the whole of Europe.

Discover

Browse every national and supranational system governing veterinary specialisation across Europe — filterable by country, species, domain, and training route.

Compare

Training duration, supervised practice requirements, examinations, and CPD-for-renewal — displayed side by side across systems for any specialty.

Recognise

A full graph of mutual recognition links between systems — which recognises which, on what legal basis, and to what depth — the intelligence behind practitioner mobility.

Assure

Accreditation bodies, peer-review cycles, public registers, and complaints mechanisms held to the same comparable schema across every system in the register.

About the project

Six Working Groups. One shared goal.

VET-PASS (Veterinary Professional and Academic Specialisation Systems) is a COST Action (CA22144) running 2026–2030 across 30+ European countries. Its aim is to create a transparent, harmonised and data-driven framework for postgraduate veterinary specialisation across COST Members — enabling comparable standards, workforce intelligence, career development, professional mobility and stronger veterinary contributions to One Health.

Eight original Work Packages have been consolidated into six Working Groups in line with COST MoU guidance.

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Action timeline

COST Action CA22144 — 2026–2030

2027202820292030Pre-startAction startWG1Evidence Base and Data GovernanceWG2Workforce Intelligence and Market AnalysisWG3Standards, Quality Assurance and RecognitionWG4Stakeholder Engagement, Communication and ValorisationWG5Career Development and Educational InnovationWG6Inclusiveness, Monitoring and SustainabilityD1D10D2D3D4D5D6D7D8D9Today

Each row is a Working Group. Bar = activity window. ◆ = deliverable due date. Coral dashed line = today; navy line = official action start (1 Jan 2027).