This publication comprises papers drafted by Cedefop’s community of apprenticeship experts on apprenticeship resilience, and apprenticeship vision and purpose. To complement the country-specific angle, Cedefop developed a comparative, cross-scheme and cross-country analysis and shared its reflections. The publication shows that approaches may vary significantly between individual EU Member States. It also reveals that the two topics examined are connected, and share similarities in the way apprenticeship schemes are designed and governed. Understanding such interconnections will help policy-makers to introduce better targeted and more effective reforms that benefit learners, employers and societies.