PROMOTE – Promoting and Validating Key Competences in Mobility and Traineeships in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

PROMOTE – Promoting and Validating Key Competences in Mobility and Traineeships 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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

The project aims at promoting and validating social, personal and organisational key competences such as entrepreneurship, civic competences and learning to learn with the help of an innovative, self-directed learning approach at the interface of higher education and business.Social and personal key competences are hardly to be acquired in lectures, frontal teaching and self-learning.The ideal learning contexts to develop these competences are informal/non-formal learning contexts such as learning in mobility and in traineeships.However, up to now only singular attempts have been made to assess these competences, to give evidence of their development in the learning activity, to connect them to existing certification systems and to offer a European wide validation approach.PROMOTE has developed and piloted an approach to tackle this issue based on a long term partnership of academia, business and educational partners from all over Europe.The traineeships involving learners from 15 institutions, including universities, businesses and public authorities has been piloted in different EU member-states. The innovative momentum of these internships was that they work along a project management structure; each trainee had to plan, develop and assess his or her project, which lead towards at least one of the key competences described above.In the framework of the project well-proven evaluation approaches (6 LEVEL5 projects, EDUCCKATE) were applied to assess and evidence informal learning in different mobility learning environments and traineeships.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 699913 Eur

Project Coordinator

VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS & Country: LT

Project Partners

• LANDKREIS KASSEL
• TRENDHUIS
• SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT’ANNA
• BUPNET BILDUNG UND PROJEKT NETZWERK GMBH
• CATRO BULGARIA
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
• BLENDED LEARNING INSTITUTIONS COOPERATIVE