European Green Mastery: Comparison and development of skills and competences in the green sectors, EQF levels 2-6, through Learning Outcome based qualifications. Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Green Mastery: Comparison and development of skills and competences in the green sectors, EQF levels 2-6, through Learning Outcome based qualifications.

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 : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The green sector cover a broad range of occupations from floristry and green production into gardening and landscaping. The emerging effects of climate change, the restructuring of retail and a diversity of new approaches to design, development and delivery of green services are all challenging the involved companies – usually small and medium sizes enterprises – as well as training providers and certification organisations. The EGREEN project is established as a transnational partnership covering three different occupations, floristry, gardening and landscaping, with unexplored overlaps and representing seven different countries (AT, DE, EE, ES, FR, NL, NO). It is an effort to use learning outcome descriptions to describe new qualification definitions across occupations. The benefit of using learning outcomes as the common denominator will allow the climbing through five levels, from 2 to 6, in the EQF ladder. It will also open for transversal moves in the labour market to secure flexibility in learning and training pathways and opening for permeability between the core occupations. One of the objectives is to fully exploit the use of learning outcomes as recommended with EQF and ECVET to develop easily applied mechanisms for validation and recognition of prior learning (VNIL/RPL), regardless of being picked up through formal, non-formal or informal learning. To fill the gaps towards full certificates the developed training programmes with MOOC-type provisions will be deployed through the training providers in the partnership and the associated stakeholder organisations. The validation and recognition of prior learning is also a valuable asset for people in a changing labour market, for migrants and refugees and for the general upskilling of the workforce.he partnership consists of stakeholders from the labour market, training providers and an international umbrella organisation supported by technical expertise on competence analysis and IT solutions. With this composition of the partnership the project itself, as well as the outcomes, are well anchored in a professional environment. To fully support the development, the new qualification matrices will be delivered in multilingual versions for a parallel presentation using the Skillsbank system. This will allow comparable assessments of learning outcomes across language borders and open up for more mobile work and learning. Milestones are: •development of new learning outcome based qualification matrices across occupations•availability of the matrices in different languages•availability of relevant and adequate training programmes with VR/AR and MOOC support•options for VNIL/RPL towards certifications•issuing of green sector craft certificates in a common European format

Project Website

https://skillstools.eu/european-green-mastery/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 724238 Eur

Project Coordinator

NTI-MMM AS & Country: NO

Project Partners

• SARL KALIBAO
• WIENER INSTITUT FUR ARBEITSMARKT- UND BILDUNGSFORSCHUNG
• VERENIGING VAN HOVENIERS EN GROENVOORZ
• OU YEBISU EESTI
• EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION
• KUNNSKAPSDEPARTEMENTET
• EUROMASC AS