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"PEP: Practical Experimentation with ECVET in a Partnership"
Promotors:
Leonardo da Vinci Partnership project: September 2009 - August 2011
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In these times of economic depression and ageing population, the quality of employees is of high importance. One of the solutions in improving the quality of personnel is mobility. Studying or working abroad enables individuals to acquire new skills in a context abroad during their training programme or work and to develop themselves professionally and personally. It increases the employability of people and it helps to close the gap between offer and demand on the labour market. On the other hand, we can only speak from successes and an added value in mobility in vocational training when we manage to recognize and valorize these competences of individuals.
There are three main observations which lie at the basis of this experimental ECVET project:
| 1. | An EVTA study (2008) about mobility in the EVTA network showed that there are students and adults going abroad to work or study, but that the recognition of their competences is still a weakness. |
| 2. | Although all the partners have their interest in Vocational Education and Training, their roles, responsibilities, target groups and sectors are very diverse. How to deal with these differences when collaborating on ECVET at European level? |
| 3. | The development of common profiles for mobility can be a solution to facilitate the implementation of ECVET, but taking into account the diversity between the partners, this is often not a realistic option. |
This argues for an approach with an experimental character to check out “if and how” ECVET can contribute to solutions in the context of the partner countries.
As none of the partners had concrete experiences in working with ECVET, the working method was set up by "learning by doing".
The outputs of this project will contribute to the establishment of a sustainable mobility network at European level and the development of a common Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on ECVET.
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Project outputs
Outputs:
| • | Inventory on the feasibility of ECVET implementation in the partner countries; |
| • | Progress of the ECVET implementation in the partner countries; |
| • | A blueprint or plan for the implementation of an ECVET based recognition system; |
| • | Experiments with the outcomes of the system in concrete mobility cases in each partner country; |
| • | Recommendations for the transfer: the PEP magazine! (available beginning of December 2011); |
Information and publications
| • | kick off meeting: 28& 29 September 2009, Brussels, Belgium |
| • | 2nd meeting: 18 & 19 November 2010: Gothenborg, Sweden |
| • | 3rd meeting: 11 & 12 March 2010, Lyon, France |
| • | 4th meeting: 21 & 22nd October 2010, Valencia, Spain |
| • | 5th meeting: 23 & 24 March 2011, Ede, The Netherlands |
| • | Final meeting: 28 June 2011, Brussels, Belgium |
Links to other related EU projects of EVTA
| • | EU move, the EU mobility portal for VET |
| • | Move-it: Study on obstacles to mobility |
| • | INTENT:About intercultural and entrepreneurial competences when going abroad |
| • | TIPTOE: Overcoming interpretation differences in EQF referencing in the trade sector |
Links to other thematic dossiers of EVTA
| • | thematic dossier on ECVET |
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