Innovation in Training and Guidance Service for Employee Representatives (ITSER) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovation in Training and Guidance Service for Employee Representatives (ITSER)

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The relaunch of the European Social Dialogue by the European Commission as well as the new European Social Dialogue Work Programme (2019 – 2021) have highlighted the importance of the role of social dialogue and the social partners, on all levels, to ensure a fair and effective labour market.

The aim of the “ITSER” project is to develop a relevant range of trainings to support Employee Representatives capacity building. The current project will focus on improving quality of existing training activities by bringing innovation in the content, the methods and the tools as well as to design a stand-alone guidance service supporting the development of employee representatives’ knowledge, skills and competences.

The project will benefit from the involvement of complementary groups whether it be Trade Unions from Austria, Germany and Luxembourg or important stakeholders, training providers as well as trainers and employee representatives.
Above the project management, that will ensure the delivery of the project outcomes within the project timeline, the work of the project consortium will be broken down into a series of overlapping phases incorporating research and analysis, design and development, testing and validation of the outputs. Underpinning the work through all the workpackages will be effective management and monitoring of the scheduled activities, on-going assessment and evaluation of the project outcomes, rigorous quality management and appropriate dissemination activities to generate awareness of the aims and objectives of the ITSER project.
The project will count 4 workpackages:
WP1 Employee Representatives framework
WP2 Employee Representatives Training Framework
WP3 Innovation in training for Employee Representatives
WP4 Training Guidance design for Employee Representatives

Any interested organisation will find the following project outputs that will be published on the Erasmus platform.
Intellectual Output 1:IO 1 Report on a common Framework for Employee Representatives
Intellectual Output 2:IO 2 Employee Representatives Knowledge Skills and Competences map
Intellectual Output 3:IO 3 Training framework for Employee Representatives
Intellectual Output 4:IO 4 Innovation in trainings targeting Employee Representatives
Intellectual Output 5:IO 5 Recommendations on Guidance service design and implementation

Partners will also publish these 5 final documents on their website.
– (Project Leader)Chambres des salariés du Luxembourg: www.csl.lu
– (Project Partner)Arbeitskammer des Saarlandes : www.arbeitskammer.de
– (Project Partner)Arbeiterkammer Wien : www.arbeiterkammer.at

Professional Chambers of employees from Vienna in Austria (AK Wien) as well as from Saarland in Germany (AK des Saarlandes) are, like the Chambre des salariés (CSL), strongly committed in employee representatives continuous training and development.
Thefore the need for more cooperation between our three professional Chambers, but also more exchange of best practices and elaboration of common training activities is evident/obvious in an ever changing world of work, employee representatives need to be equipped with the relevant tools in order to effectively fulfil their duties.

DGB (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, Germany), VÖGB (Verband östereischicher Gewerkschaftsbund, Austria) and SECEC (Secrétariat européen commun de l’OGBL et du LCGB A.s.b.l, Luxembourg), as Trade Unions umbrella organisations, will help to implement this project effectively on national level as well as help coordinate dissemination.

ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) will contribute to the ITSER Project dissemination activities. As a European organisation for Trade Unions and especially its Education and Training Committee, it will support the consortium by giving the project an access to valuable communication path for the project results on a European level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 201807,38 Eur

Project Coordinator

Chambre des salariés & Country: LU

Project Partners

• Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestelte für Wien
• Arbeitskammer des Saarlandes