Integration of Learning Outcomes into Quality Management and Harmonization of Quality Standards in Vocational Education and Training in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integration of Learning Outcomes into Quality Management and Harmonization of
Quality Standards in Vocational Education and Training in Europe

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Context/background:
The improvements, developments and recommendations that have been done at European and national levels regarding quality assurance and the learning outcomes approach, still are in the need of improving transparency and comparability of qualifications to support coherent credit systems. Although, less attention has been given to the operational level where the action really takes place: The VET providers level.

Objectives of the project:
We want to improve our individual QMS by sharing best practices of all partners QMS in order to focus on the VET providers operational level and provide the needed support on a practical level.
A second objective of this partnership is to support the implementation of the most adequate QMS elements as a basis to further integrate the learning outcomes (ECVET approach) as part of the quality assurance systems in a future project. We believe we need a common understanding of each others QMS to provide a sustainable partnership for development of joint ECVET units in the future.

Number and profile of the participants:
The partnership will consist of VET organisations representing a wide variety of European regions. All partners are focussed on improving their qualty in order to deliver the best possible education, but all using different approaches.

Description of activities and methodology to be used in carrying out the project:
During the project, partners will organize project weeks in order to show how its own quality approach works in practice. This
methodology will allow partner’s experts to discuss, analyze and evaluate best practices in detail integrated in the tool kit to be developed.

Results and impact:
The project will deliver the following results, with direct impact on the participating organizations:
– One main Intellectual Output (IO) – the Quality Management Toolkit – made available for other organizations.
– Different staffs with gained competences resulting from several training activities in the form of job shadowing to be handled
during the Project Weeks.
– A new partnership of VET providers focused on quality that are willing to develop new and innovative projects that could
contribute for the increase in quality performance of European VET providers and VET systems.

Potential longer term benefits:
The outcomes of this project together with the dissemination activities will stimulate other parties to work on their quality assurance
systems, contributing to aware others to this important issue. Hopefully, this will be achieved, as all partners work very close to the
district/regional/national bodies responsible for the quality assurance in VET to make the results available to other providers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 151034,1 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stichting Regionaal Opleidingen Centrum Aventus & Country: NL

Project Partners

• BBS Syke EUROPASCHULE
• ATEC – Associação de Formação para a Industria
• bit Schulungscenter GmbH
• West Lothian College
• Kainuun ammattiopisto