ValiSkills – Feststellung beruflicher Handlungskompetenzen bei Geringqualifizierten als Zugang zum Berufsabschluss Erasmus Project

Project Title

ValiSkills – Feststellung beruflicher Handlungskompetenzen bei Geringqualifizierten als Zugang zum Berufsabschluss

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: Recognition, transparency, certification; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

A vocational degree is a prerequisite for skilled employment and social participation. Work experienced adults without formal degrees (“low or unskilled” workers) acquired in their employment careers valuable knowledge, skills and experiences that remain largely unconsidered and unproductive. Utilisation of this important resource is of high significance for backing up the economy’s demand for skilled labour. It is a key educational challenge to valorise those applicable competences through recognition (validation) and/ or a degree oriented formal training, tailored to the individual needs. Formally low-skilled adults need efficient training offers that are appropriate to their needs and their situation, take previous learning performance into account and lead to a professional degree. The development of such individual training offers is based on identification and evaluation of their applicable professional competences through reliable methods and procedures.

The “ValiSkills” competence assessment procedure serves this purpose. It was developed in a Transfer of Innovation Project ( 2012-14 ) as a web-based procedure at the example of one profession and in the meantime introduced into further training practice. The “ValiSkills2” follow-up project (2015-17) focused at an essential extension of application scopes and dissemination prospects. For this purpose, it could make use of already exisiting ValiSkills application experience and the expertise from eight former and present project counties. (www.valiskills.eu)

High quality application of the procedure and its instruments in the work with low qualified people demands therefore qualified staff. A main goal of the project was the development and allocation of a comprehensive further training curriculum (with teaching and learning materials) for VET experts in competence management. It provides theoretical and practical knowledge for the professional and high quality application of “ValiSkills” and other procedures and experience from the European validation practice.

Another project aim was the extension of the range of professions and an improved flexibility of the instruments to open new application prospects and to establish sustainable conditions for future further developments. Therefore, technical and service professions were made accessible and instruments (ePortfolio) were designed technically more flexible and user friendly. Characteristics of professions were analysed and defined in terms of action-oriented competence indicators.

A third major goal was to transfer the ValiSkills procedure, previously focused at the German further training market, to Poland and to adapt it to the further training demands of this county.

The ValiSkills procedure and the accompanying training offer for specialists (competence management) are based on demands of the further training market. It was developed for those needs and jointly introduced by the consortium partners into the training market. Training curriculum and ePortfolio were jointly tested with future applicants. Results could be directly introduced into their daily training activities with low qualified learners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 296534 Eur

Project Coordinator

ABU Akademie für Berufsförderung und Umschulung gGmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• FOUNDATION EUROPEAN CENTRE VALUATION PRIOR LEARNING/STICHTING EUROPEESCENTRUM WAARDEREN VAN LEREN
• IHK- PROJEKTGESELLSCHAFT MBH
• TOP-PROJEKT-AKADEMIA SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA
• MINISTERE DE L’EDUCATION NATIONALE DE L’ENFANCE ET DE LA JEUNESSE