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.
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Pick a country to see its specialisation routes
Select a country on the map
See its regulatory framework, specialisms, mid-tier routes and CPD requirements.
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 (CA25113) 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.
Action timeline
COST Action CA25113 — 2026–2030
Each row is a Working Group. Bar = activity window. ◆ = deliverable due date. Coral dashed line = today; navy line = official action start (1 Oct 2026).
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Help map veterinary specialisation across Europe.
Vets, colleges and national bodies are building this register together. Add your country's specialist routes, CPD requirements and regulatory position.
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