Curriculum für die (Weiter-)Bildung zum europäischen Sozialberichtsanalytiker Erasmus Project

Project Title

Curriculum für die (Weiter-)Bildung zum europäischen Sozialberichtsanalytiker

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Social dialogue; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Since 2017 Directive 2014/95/EU has made it obligatory for certain public-interest entities to disclose non-financial and diversity information. This includes information on matters that have an impact on environmental, social and employee-related, human rights, corruption and bribery issues. At the time of the application for the project it was clear that the reports resulting from this obligation would be a new source of information, which could potentially be useful for workers’ representatives and trade unions to engage in or deepen social dialogue. Yet there did not exist any knowledge, systematic approaches or trainings on how to analyse non-financial information reports from their perspective, neither on a national nor on a European level.
“CENOFIA – Curriculum for the Further Education of European Non-financial Information Analysts” therefore set out to identify and document skills and competences needed to analyse non-financial and diversity information of undertakings. Based on this, the project partners developed analysis tools and a curriculum with corresponding teaching materials and made them available through an Online Learning and Transparency Platform under www.non-financial-information.eu. This platform combines all aforementioned outputs with additional media in an interactive format to support learning and teaching activities. Furthermore, it provides a database with meta data and links to existing analyses and other sources of information, which can be used to share information and supports trainers and analysts. All outputs are published as Open Educational Resources (OER) and can be downloaded in a separate section of the platform.
The curriculum and all corresponding materials follow a modular design, thus allowing adjustment for different target groups, depth of analysis and skill levels.
All intellectual outputs were developed in joint efforts by the seven, respectively six organisations or institutes with links to national social partners from Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Spain. Project partners organised, coordinated and carried out the work on a continuous basis through web- and telecommunications as well as in seven transnational project meetings.
In order to refine project results beyond the scope of directly involved project staff and to take into account as many as possible different perspectives and national specificities, the partners tested the curriculum in two Joint Staff Trainings with participants from the six partner countries. At the same time, the participants from these trainings became the first non-financial information analysts and started to carry out analyses, give trainings on the subject matter or use the newly acquired knowledge and skills in their professional context. Towards the end of the project, results were shared and discussed with national and European audiences in seven multiplier events.
In follow-up activities it is planned to adapt project results and the OER to country specific requirements.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 223301 Eur

Project Coordinator

Arbeit und Leben DGB/VHS NRW e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Solution4.org Szólgáltató és tanácsadóBt
• Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia
• IAL Toscana Innovazione Apprendimento Lavoro srl. Impresa Sociale
• Instituto Sindical de Trabajo, Ambiente y Salud
• BUSINESSHUNGARY
• Lietuvos Profesiniu Sajungu Konfederacija