Promoting the Efficiency of VET Learner Mobilities in health and social care professions by implementing ECVET Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promoting the Efficiency of VET Learner Mobilities in health and social care professions by implementing ECVET

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Recognition, transparency, certification; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Already nowadays, demographic developments result in a lack of a qualified health care work force, especially in western European countries. It is expected that this lack will increase in the next decades. The mobility of qualified workers across Europe is one essential means of acting against this. To enable and to motivate young people, who are being trained in a health care profession in VET, to benefit from the European labour market as a whole for the pursuit of their careers, was thus a central objective of this project. Mobility projects for VET learners are an opportunity to foster the intercultural and linguistic competences of the participants, and at the same time they help to diminish thresholds for access to the European education and labour market. Therefore, the project started out to develop tools for the facilitation of mobility project implementation.
The project consortium was composed of altogether six institutions from Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands and Turkey. The partners represented VET schools and / or experts in mobility implementation. Together they developed processes and instruments for the efficient implementation of VET learner mobility projects. High quality standards are now guaranteed by a sustainable partnership among these institutions.

The project successfully completed the following objectives:
1. To support and facilitate the implementation of VET learner mobilities by developing reliable processes which are to be implemented according to defined quality criteria.
2. To provide for the recognition of learning outcomes acquired during these VET learner mobilities. For this purpose, the project provides transparent descriptions of Units of Learning Outcomes according to ECVET principles alongside with instruments and methods for delivery, assessment, validation and recognition thereof.
3. To support flexible learning pathways and readiness for European mobility of VET learners in health care professions, which plays an important role for the provision of well-qualified staff: young professionals with an easier access to the European labour market.

The project consortium undertook the following activities to reach these objectives:
1. Analysing the needs of the regional and local labour markets as well as of the existing training profiles in initial VET at the participating institutions in health and social care professions.
2. On the basis of a multilateral comparison thereof, defining units of learning outcomes in health and social care which are suitable for acquisition during VET learner mobilities and which represent a particular added value. The learning outcomes have been described transparently in terms of knowledge, skills and competences according to ECVET requirements.
3. Defining processes for the assessment, documentation and validation of learning outcomes acquired during mobility.
4. Defining processes for mobility project management from an organisational point of view and developing templates which can be used for the facilitation of these processes.
5. Summarizing the above-mentioned findings in a “Quality Guideline for mobility projects in health and social care professions”
6. Implementing VET learner mobilities of altogether 25 learners for testing purposes and revising the beforehand developed documents according to the findings.

The tangible results of the project – a set of Units of Learning Outcomes and a “Quality Guideline for mobility projects in health and social care professions” – makes provisions for the desired impacts to increase
– the percentage of VET learners who participate in European mobility projects and
– the use of ECVET for the recognition of learning outcomes acquired during mobility.

The project results will remain available to support the implementation of more mobility projects with a high quality level and the guarantee of recognition of acquired learning outcomes. The project partners have established a network of institutions active in mobility implementation, and are open to welcoming new members to their network.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143014 Eur

Project Coordinator

WBS TRAINING AG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Erdemli Kanuni Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Viesoji istaiga “Svietimo, tyrimu ir konsultaciju centras”
• ROC de Leijgraaf
• Centrum Ksztalcenia Zawodowego i Ustawicznego
• ET LABORA – SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA SOCIALE