TIPTOE
Lifelong learning and mobility for learning are taking place increasingly in a wide variety of contexts; formal, non-formal and informal and in different countries. Mobility can be an instrument to address existing skill or labour market shortages and skills mismatches in a country or region, thus improving the efficiency of labour markets as well as of the internal market and removing brakes on economic growth.
The question of course is, if all parties involved do in principle benefit from transnational mobility, why – on a proportional basis - doesn’t the participation in transnational mobility by young people in initial vocational training increase substantially? It seems that transparency of qualifications, and moreover the differences in the meaning, content and interpretation of tasks and functions on the European labour market and the mutual agreements on qualification profiles are one of the barriers in the mobility of learners and workers.
At European level, a number of instruments have been developed to support European citizens, learning providers, companies, guidance counsellors and educational authorities to fully exploit the potential of the European lifelong learning area and the EU-wide labour market. One of these instruments is EQF: the European Qualifications Framework. Even with a reference tool as EQF, experiences from earlier projects tell that Europewide agreements on qualification profiles do not always hold when it comes to their interpretation and implementation.
The TIPTOE project intends to discover how and why these interpretational differences occur and, especially, how they can be overcome, or better, prevented. Read more about the TIPTOE project... , brochure (EN)
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