The mission of the National Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training Development (NCTVETD) is to contribute to the development of a qualitative and attractive technical and vocational education, offering equal chances of personal and professional development to each student so that to make that person able to work and to continue its lifelong learning, to be able to contribute as a TVET graduate to the economic development of its community, to consolidation of the Romanian democratic society.

In order to accomplish this mission, NCTVETD
* assures harmonisation of the Romanian developments with those realised at European and international level in elaborating the policies and strategies referring to the technical and vocational education, in identification of qualifications and curriculum development for the formal education system, in cooperation with the social partners.
* contributes to the methodological developments referring to the educational supply planning, to development of schools institutional capacity, to organization and development of the teaching-learning process, to examination and certification, to quality assurance in technical and vocational education.