HANDLE ECVET
Title: HANDLE ECVET – ECVET in the field of Health AND sociaL carE - Investigating and sharing implemented instruments and principles
Project type: LLP / LdV – Learning partnership
Ref. no.: LLP-LdV/PAR/2011/RO/131
Promoter /Coordinator: Akademie fur berufliche Bildung gGmbH, DE
Duration: 2 years
Actual stage: in progress
Grant value for the Group for European Integration: 14.000 Euro
Summary:
Due to population ageing, there is hardly another professional field, where the need of well qualified employees in some European countries like Italy, Germany and France will increase so fast as in the branch of health and social care.
The aim of the project is to promote the use of ECVET instruments and principles to support workers to use the freedom of work mobility within the field of health and social care by the recognition of learning outcomes, which can also be achieved by non-formal or informal learning.
This sector therefore represents an important field for the implementation of ECVET on the labor market. The systems of initial and further vocational education and training can promote this implementation.
The project will start up with developing an overview about the different systems of VET concerning professions in this field in the participating countries at EQF-level 2-5.
The partners will share a common understanding of ECVET instruments and principles. The main task will be to share existing best-practice-models concerning methods to describe qualifications, to define assessment standards, to compare qualifications and to recognize learning outcomes corresponding to ECVET instruments and principles.
The outcome of this will be a summary of best practice models.
Also, the project will support the development of ECVET-partnerships by developing criteria for memoranda of understanding that are adapted to the specialties of this field.
The partnership project will refer to the transfer of innovation project "PROPER CHANCE", which will be applied for by the coordinator of this partnership (AFBB). Both projects are meant to support each other but can be accomplished successfully on their own as well.
Objectives:
1. Share a common overview about the different systems of vocational education and training concerning accredited professions in this field.
2. Building a common understanding of ECVET instruments and principles between the partners.
3. Investigation of existing ECVET implementations within the field of health and social care among the countries of the partners.
4. Sharing and summarizing best-practice-models concerning methods to describe qualifications in terms of learning outcomes, to define assessment standards, to compare qualifications and to recognize learning outcomes, corresponding to ECVET instruments and principles.
5. Positioning of each partner institution in terms of strengths and weaknesses according to the ECVET implementation with the aim to work out promoting and restraining factors.
6. Sharing criteria for memoranda of understanding between institutions of vocational education and training that are adapted to the specialties of this field.
Outcomes:
- Overview about the different systems of vocational education and training concerning accredited professions in the field of health and social care of the participating countries at the EQF-level 2-5;
- Common understanding of ECVET instruments and principles between the partners;
- Summary of best-practice-models concerning the implementation of ECVET in the field of health and social care;
- Summary of promoting and restraining factors concerning the implementation of ECVET based on each partner's strengths and weaknesses;
- Sharing and summarizing criteria for memoranda of understanding between institutions of vocational education and training that are adapted to the specialities of this field;
- Documentation and dissemination of the project results.
Partnership:
- Akademie fur berufliche Bildung gGmbH (Coordinator), DE
- Alter-Form AID asbl, BE
- Izobraževalni center Kadis 2002, zavod, SI
- MEROSYSTEM s. r. o., CZ
- Siawns Teg Limited, UK
- TENDA Solidarieta e cooperazione Brescia Est - Consorzio di Cooperative Sociali,
Soc. Coop. Sociale, IT
- Rigas 1. medicinas koledza, LV
- Grupul pentru Integrare Europeană, RO
- OESSE – Officina Sociale, cooperativa sociale a r. l., IT