Building on years of joint work within the Copenhagen Process, European countries have now committed to common priorities laid down in the 2020 Council Recommendation on Vocational Education and Training (VET) for Sustainable Competitiveness, Social Fairness and Resilience and the Osnabrück Declaration of the same year. The Recommendation marked the beginning of the current VET policy cycle at EU level. Cedefop, together with its European network of expertise in VET (ReferNet) and the European Training Foundation (ETF), has followed countries' work in progressing towards these priorities. The priorities are long-term and broadly defined, allowing each country to develop specific activities responding to their national circumstances and needs. They aim to make VET more flexible and adaptive to labour market needs, to ensure its high quality and to provide progression routes and lifelong learning opportunities to all learners. They also aim at making VET more inclusive and attractive, fostering excellence and innovation, offering continuous training to teachers and trainers and access to state-of-the-art infrastructure to learners. This briefing note provides an overview of Cedefop's interim findings on what countries have achieved so far and on the areas which need further attention.