Valorize Non Formal and Informal Learning across Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Valorize Non Formal and Informal Learning across 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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

CONTEXT:

The project started when all European Countries had already defined their own NFIL validation procedures, as requested by the EU Commission, but the operational measures adopted by each Country were different and, above all, did not take into consideration the possibility of recognizing NFIL in a transnational way. Furthermore, many researches highlighted the inadequate application of these procedures with migrants.

GOALS:

Obviously, the project could not set itself the objective of modifying institutional practices to guarantee the transnational recognition of NFIL, so the main objective has been defined and summarized as follows: to increase the level of transparency in the process of recognition of skills and qualifications in a transnational context in order to facilitate learning, employability and labor mobility for migrants.

NUMBER AND TYPE / PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS

The project was addressed to two main categories of stakeholders:

a) DIRECT STAKEHOLDERS: The main stakeholders, (who have an important role to play in facilitating the opportunities for NFIL recognition and in managing all validation processes) were national organizations and operators involved in the process of recognition of professional qualifications and in the assessment and certification of learning outcomes, employment services, education and training providers, civil society organizations.

b) Indirect TARGET: the work aimed to provide support for the recognition of NFIL to “traditional” migrants from EU and non-EU countries but also to a relatively little taken into consideration category, INTRA-EU migration, which today it represents over 50% of the migrants within European countries

REALIZED ACTIVITIES

In addition to the usual activities foreseen by each KA2 project (management, transnational meetings, dissemination …) there are activities related to the 4 Intellectual Outputs provided:
• A research on the state of the art of NFIL recognition (in particular on migrant targets), a constantly evolving situation;
• A study on how to identify correspondences between similar professional qualifications acquired in different Countries, through the reference to ESCO as a repertoire of professionals recognized at European level;
• The creation of an online database aimed to facilitate the identification of which skills can be recognized in a Country different between the one in which they were acquired;
• A methodology and training tools aimed to assist people in defining their own migration project which also includes the possible recognition of NFIL abroad.

RESULTS ACHIEVED

1) Operational materials were produced (available online at http://valorizenfil.eu/) also translated into the European languages of the partner Countries, in order to facilitate the possibility of use by indirect beneficiaries.
2) two tests were carried out:
– one with operators external to the partnership to verify the possibility of increasing the information contained in the database also in the future and by any European operator dealing with NFIL;
– one involving 206 migrants of the 3 foreseen targets (non-EU migrants, refugees and intra-EU migrants) to test the methodology and tools developed for the coaching phase

A network has also been created (VYSAE network – Valorize Your Skills Across Europe) consisting of 27 hubs scattered in 9 European Countries) to which a migrant can write in order to have information on the possibility of having their professional skills recognized in a specific sector and in a country other than the one in which it acquired the skills.

IMPACT and LONG-TERM BENEFITS

The pandemic crisis has partly influenced the possibility of directly involving direct and indirect beneficiaries, but the actions realized (both in the phase before the pandemic and during the pandemic, with remote contact methods) have made it possible to achieve some results that can be included among the impact results and the long-term benefits:
• A topic was opened (that of the transnational recognition of NFIL) that had never before been at the center of the debate on the recognition of NFIL;
• Some significant institutions were involved (European Commission, Piedmont Region and some other public and private bodies) with which tools and results were shared and from which a certain interest was expressed in continuing the work on this issue also starting from results achieved with the Valorize NFIL Across Europe project;
• Some tools are available (and can be increased) (the database, the two researches, the methodologies and operational tools, the information tools) that can represent a starting point for the future development of the theme.

Project Website

http://valorizenfil.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 295339 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDAZIONE CASA DI CARITA ARTI E MESTIERI ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• LJUDSKA UNIVERZA PTUJ
• Training Vision Ltd
• SDRUZENIE MEZDUNARODEN INSTITUT POMENIDJMANT
• LYCEE CHARLES ET ADRIEN DUPUY
• COMITE EUROPEEN DE COORDINATION
• CONFEDERACION ESPANOLA DE CENTROS DE ENSENANZA ASOCIACION C.E.C.E.