Executive Agency, Education, Audiovisual and Culture
EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-13
Subprogramme Leonardo da Vinci
Call for proposal 2012 EAC/27/11
Priority 1 "Implementing ECVET for
transparency and recognition of
learning outcomes and qualifications"
Action “Multilateral Projects for
Development of Innovation"
Project Code
526412-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-LEONARDO-LMP
CertEnt
Applying ECVET and ECTS to Certify Learning Outcomes and
Qualification of the Entrepreneur in Construction sector
EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-13
Subprogramme Leonardo da Vinci - Call for proposal 2012 EAC/27/11
Priority 1 "Implementing ECVET for transparency and recognition of learning outcomes
and qualifications"
Action "Multilateral Projects for Development of Innovation"
Project Code 526412-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-LEONARDO-LMP
WP 8 - Information to key actors on quality, relevance and
effectiveness of project results
The action plan to activate ECVET combined with
ECTS for the entrepreneurs in Constructions
across Europe: Info-Pack 2
Information package focusing on the activities and products
of work package 3, related to the action plan to activate
ECVET combined with ECTS for entrepreneurs in
Constructions in the European countries participating to the
project
May 2013
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INDEX
Overview on aims, activities and products of CertEnt WP 3
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Common tool for CertEnt WP 3 research activities
4
Strategy and methods to activate ECVET combined with ECTS for entrepreneurs in
Constructions
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Activities to activate combined ECVET-ECTS for entrepreneurs in Constructions
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Common tools of the guideline to activate ECVET process combined with ECTS
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Key actors detection grid – Public authorities
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Key actors detection grid – Private organisations
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Sample letter for the involvement of key actors
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Overview on aims, activities and products of CertEnt WP 3
The work package 3 of the CertEnt project includes the activities aimed to define
a guideline, with a coherent plan of activities and transferable methods to design
concerned qualification in units of learning outcomes with allocation of ECVET
points, for activating the ECVET process combined with ECTS to the perimeter of
entrepreneurial figures operating in Construction sector, defined within previous
work package 2 (cfr., the report “Overview on Entrepreneurs in EU
Constructions” on analysis and preparatory researches on entrepreneurial figures
operating in Construction sector in European countries participating to CertEnt:
www.cert-ent.eu/moduli/documenti/scarica_file.php?id_versione=78).
This guideline to activate ECVET process combined with ECTS for entrepreneurs
in Construction sector has been defined building on the collection, analysis and
adaptation of experiences and best practices already realised on transparency
and recognition of learning outcomes and qualifications, on ECVET process
activation and on ECTS credit system, giving particular attention to experiences
and best practices in European VET systems of building sector and higher
education fields more related to entrepreneurial learning, particularly in
concerned sector.
More in particular, the guideline contains:
- a report on the research, analysis, and adaptation on experiences and best
practices already realised on transparency and recognition of competences
and qualifications, on ECVET activation and ECTS use, both in building and in
the other EU learning sectoral context (in the next pages you will find the
analysis common tool shared and utilised by the partners, and the coherently
analysed experiences and best practices);
- the planning for the activation of the ECVET combined with ECTS for the
qualification of entrepreneurs in Constructions, defining strategies, activities
and tools to be implemented by the partners to activate and develop ECVET
combined with ECTS: the plan focuses on the involvement in this process, in
each participating Country, of competent public institutions, interested social
partners and VET and higher education providers, and on methods to design
qualifications in units of learning outcomes with allocation of ECVET and ECTS
credits points (in the last pages you will find the strategies, activities and
tools defined by the guideline).
This guideline to activate ECVET process combined with ECTS for entrepreneurs
in Construction sector has been defined by the CertEnt partners starting from the
sharing of common approaches and tools during 2nd Consortium trans-national
meeting (Liège - Belgium, 21st and 22nd February 2013), till the 3rd Consortium
trans-national meeting (Paris - France, 30th and 31st May 2011), with a common
discussion, evaluation and validation, in the perspective of its effective
implementation for the whole duration of the project, and also beyond it.
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EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-13
Subprogramme Leonardo da Vinci - Call for proposal 2012 EAC/27/11
Priority 1 "Implementing ECVET for transparency and recognition of learning
outcomes and qualifications"
Action "Multilateral Projects for Development of Innovation"
Project Code 526412-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-LEONARDO-LMP
CertEnt
Applying ECVET and ECTS to Certify Learning Outcomes and
Qualification of the Entrepreneur in Construction sector
EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-13
Subprogramme Leonardo da Vinci - Call for proposal 2012 EAC/27/11
Priority 1 "Implementing ECVET for transparency and recognition of learning outcomes
and qualifications"
Action "Multilateral Projects for Development of Innovation"
Project Code 526412-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-LEONARDO-LMP
WP 3 - Definition of a guideline to activate ECVET combined
with ECTS for entrepreneurs in Construction sector
Collection, analysis and adaptation of experiences and
best practices already realised on transparency and
recognition of learning outcomes and qualifications, on
ECVET process activation and on ECTS credit system:
The analysis common tool
February 2013
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1. Good practice / experience denomination:
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2. Project or initiative type (e. g: funded within an EU initiative, national framework, etc.):
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3. Need for which was defined and realised the good practice / experience:
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4. General aims and specific objectives:
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5. Territorial/sectoral application level / context:
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6. Involved partners / developers:
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7. Beneficiary / target groups (in qualitative and quantitative terms):
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8. Temporal placement / realisation period:
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9. Main activity contents:
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10.1 Products and results - General description:
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10.2 Products and results - Relation with the common European tools Europass, EQF,
ECVET, and ECTS and with CertEnt aims and objectives:
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10.3 Products and results - Sustainability (the results are still in use or ended, and because):
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10.4 Products and results - Main barriers to the exploitability:
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10.5.1 Products and results – Likely Transferability (considering the generality of potential European
national, territorial and sectoral transfer contexts):
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10.5.2 Products and results – Specific Transferability (particularly within CertEnt):
Transferable products / results
Why the results are transferable
within CertEnt
How the results are transferable
within CertEnt
Why the results are transferable
How the results are transferable
Result 1 : “……………………………”
Result 2 : “……………………………”
Transferable products / results
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within CertEnt
within CertEnt
Result 3 : “……………………………”
Result n : “……………………………”
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APPENDIX
Documentation sources
used for the analysis
Document type
Title
Website
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Strategy and methods to activate ECVET combined with ECTS for
entrepreneurs in Constructions
The fundamental aim of CertEnt is constituted by the application of the European
framework and tools ECVET to people operating as entrepreneurs, particularly of
Construction sector, through development, testing and implementation of a new
European sectoral qualification system incorporating EQF, ECVET, ECTS and Europass,
able to overcome fragmentation of territorial (national and also regional, if regions are
competent in Vocational Education and Training - VET matter) qualifications systems,
and to enhance the mobility of the entrepreneurs, contributing to the emergence of
generally accepted professional qualification and training standards.
The major activities foreseen by the project for this aim are focused on the
preparation of the contents of the Memorandum of Understanding - MoU ECVET and
on its implementation and integration with ECTS system (designing qualification in
transferable units of learning outcomes with allocation of ECVET and ECTS credit
points), on its formalisation by relevant organisations (particularly, public authorities
competent in VET, social partners of employers and workers of concerned sector,
sectoral VET providers, at national and territorial level) and on its enforcement at
individual level (through expressly designed VET programmes and integrated higher
education modules with flexible devices for validation, transfer and recognition of
learning outcomes, and procedures for assessment, transfer, validation and
accumulation of learning outcomes achieved in formal, informal and non formal
contexts, to allow qualification to interested entrepreneurs: these programmes and
procedures will issue an ECVET quality label to qualification, and the pilot test will also
entail the definition of common models for ECVET–ECTS Learning Agreements, and for
ECVET–ECTS credits awarding based on Europass Certificate Supplement, and the
utilisation of them, applying the national and regional rules), as well as on the
mainstreaming and multiplication of these results, in the perspective of its effective
implementation for the whole duration of the project, and also beyond.
Thus, the strategy (and also the activities and tools) of the ECVET process combined
with ECTS starting with the Memorandum of Understanding - MoU for entrepreneurs in
Constructions supported by CertEnt, seems necessarily to be centred both on the key
actors involvement, in each Country (public institutions competent in VET and
higher education, interested sectoral social partners, and VET-HE providers), and on
methods for professional figure designing in units of learning outcomes with
allocation of ECVET and ECTS points, in order to enable the certification of these
professionals beyond the barriers among different VET systems.
Concerning the methods to design qualifications in units of learning outcomes with
allocation of credit points, based on ECVET technical specifications combined with
ECTS, the project specifies that, to activate and develop the ECVET process in
combination with ECTS for entrepreneurs in Construction sector, the partners will
proceed defining the already focused perimeter within entrepreneurial professional
field in terms of activities and tasks, knowledge, skills and competences, learning
outcomes units and units parts, and related ECVET or ECTS credit, focusing firstly on
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standard elements present in all partner Countries (vocational profile, skill
specifications, certification objectives), and then, on subsidiary factors (ways of
accessing certificate via initial and/or continuing training, validation of formal, nonformal and informal learning, procedures and qualification bodies), with a particular
focus on already existing in national/regional/sectoral contexts procedures for
assessment, transfer, validation and accumulation of learning outcomes achieved in
formal, informal and non formal contexts, and also on VET programmes with flexible
devices for validation, transfer and recognition of learning outcomes, also defining
specific ECVET quality standards to apply the new European sectoral qualification
across participating countries at national/regional level, allowing the issuing of an
ECVET quality label to the qualification).
Concerning the involvement, in each Country, of competent public institutions,
interested social partners and VET-HE providers, the project focuses on the
integration of the planned technical work on qualification design with the planned
process of providing information on quality, relevance and effectiveness of the project
results to key actors, and also with planned process to ensure that the successful
project results will be transferred to the appropriate decision-makers in regulated
local, regional, national and European systems (mainstreaming activities, targeted on
public institutions competent in VET and HE, and on Construction social partners) and
that these results will be adopted and applied by individual end-users (multiplication
activities, targeted on entrepreneurs and VET-HE providers). This continuing process,
supported by the Consortium partners also through Info-days and Focus Groups
scheduled in each participating Country, will be based on a clear and dynamic focus
on user needs and ensuring shared responsibility across all partners and a continuous
interaction between partners and known and potential end users/beneficiaries, to
ensure the exploitation of results through the whole project life-cycle and also after its
end.
Summarizing, it seems that the first aspect of this process to be highlighted is
constituted by the integration which should characterise, on the one hand, the
definition of the MoU contents (and particularly, the qualification design of the
entrepreneur in Constructions), and on the other hand, the involvement of the key
actors who are to be engaged to ensure the endorsement of MoU provisions at
national and regional level, within the specific VET-HE systems of Construction sector
across Europe. In other words, since the signing of the MoU and the related
commitment by the key actors, particularly of those which has legislative territorial
competence on professional qualification and certification, is the first step for an
effective transposition of the qualification in the respective territories and then for the
effective possibility for individuals to obtain the recognition and certification of related
achieved learning outcomes, it seems necessary, to maximise the efficacy of this
process, that these key actors are engaged upfront, or as soon as possible.
Secondly, considered the great differences existing, especially in terms of professional
qualification and certification competences, rules and procedures, among European
VET-HE systems in the participating countries, it seems even more necessary to have
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a clear look around the articulation of competent and interested public and private
key actors in each concerned relevant territorial context. E.g., concerning the public
authorities competent in VET, in France, through the CNCP – Commission Nationale de
la Certification Professionnelle, the national government has general competence for
professional qualification and certification, whereas in Italy each Region (and also the
Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano) has the same competence at regional
level: thus, to ensure that the qualification concerned by the MoU has national extent,
in France is enough the engagement of the national CNCP, while in Italy it’s necessary
to involve 20 Regions + 2 Autonomous Provinces, a few at a time or through an
agreement of the State-Region Conference “Conferenza Stato–Regioni.”
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Activities to activate combined ECVET-ECTS for entrepreneurs in
Constructions
The activities foreseen by the CertEnt project to apply the European tools and
frameworks EQF, ECVET, ECTS and Europass to people operating as entrepreneurs in
the European Construction sector, start from and include principally the interventions
aimed to define and formalise, with a participatory process, the Memorandum of
Understanding - MoU for entrepreneurs in Constructions, to be enforced for the
individuals during an experimentation phase within the project duration, and also and
particularly beyond its end. More exactly, these activities entails:
- the preparation of a complete draft of the MoU, following the related experiences
and best practices collected and analysed during the workpackage 3, and
containing: an introduction relating to background and general context of MoU,
existing provisions for MoU at European level, definitions, general and specific
objectives of MoU; the form and content of MoU in terms of participants, purpose,
ratification and effectiveness (included the specific engagement of signatories VET
and higher education provider organisations to keep in use MoU for each
implemented course and mobility concerning learning outcomes formalised by
MoU); the qualification, designed during work package 4, to establish the European
correspondence for assessment, transfer, and accumulation processes of learning
outcomes achieved in formal, informal and non formal contexts (learning outcomes
units, unit parts and ECVET and ECTS related credits), including the specific ECVET
quality standards to apply the new European sectoral qualification across
participating countries at national/regional level, allowing the issuing of an ECVET
quality label to the qualification; the mechanisms to implement the MoU and for
dialogue and administrative co-operation, the regulations relating to nationality,
the revision of agreement and notice of termination;
- the activities aimed to involve in the MoU, beyond the project partners, the public
institutions competent in VET and HE matter and the other interested
organisations, particularly social partners and VET-HE providers of the concerned
sector at national, regional and local level, to be realised within workpackage 5;
- the formalisation, by the partners and by the competent/interested organisations
already involved, of the MoU concerning the professional qualification
“Entrepreneur in Constructions” (the official signature of the MoU will take place at
the end of work package 5, during 5th project meeting (01/2014, Madrid - Spain);
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the enforcement of the MoU, starting from a pilot test to be realised within
workpackage 6 involving at least 120 entrepreneurs in all participating countries,
to recognise and certificate the achieved related learning outcomes and ECVETECTS credits in compliance with national and regional rules on certification ways
and procedures, formal, non-formal and informal learning validation, qualification
bodies, also defining and applying common models for Learning Agreements
ECVET-ECTS, and for ECVET and ECTS Credits Awarding utilising Europass
Certificate Supplement and ECTS Diploma Supplement (following model developed
by European Commission, Council of Europe and UNESCO/CEPES), with the issuing
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of ECVET quality label too, and designing and testing specific VET programmes
with flexible devices for validation, transfer and recognition of learning outcomes,
also supporting MoU endorsement activities within national/regional qualification
systems.
Considering the issues already highlighted for a strategic approach to the planning of
this process (particularly, the opportunity of an earlier and effective engagement in it
of key actors having competence or / and interest to its implementation, and the
related implicit necessity to have a clear and complete awareness of these key actors
in each participating country), it seems that the project Consortium, in this phase of
the project work, has to share and quickly implement two specific additional tasks,
to be completed in each participating country, this is the detection of all public and
private key actors at national, regional and sectoral level, and the organisation
and scheduling of a “get in touch” initiative addressed to them.
As regards these tasks, beyond the significant differences among the VET systems of
building sector in the countries represented within the Consortium, it’s possible also to
evidence and define some common criteria and tools, easily adaptable and useable
by the partners in each specific national context.
Concerning this criteria and tools, the Consortium partners has firstly shared the
definition of a “detection grid”, which summarize the different typologies of key actors
to be involved in the ECVET-ECTS process started by CertEnt, to be filled by each
partner for the respective country, and secondly drafted a “sample letter” to be
utilised to contact them about their wished involvement.
The “key actors detection grid”, articulated in two sub-grids for public and private
organisation, and the “engagement invitation sample letter” are presented in the
following pages.
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Common tools of the guideline to activate ECVET process combined with ECTS
Key actors detection grid – Public authorities
Public Authorities
Competent in VET
Competent in Higher Education (HE providers too)
National level
Regional level
Local level
European level
National level
Regional level
Local level
European level
Denomination:
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Key actors detection grid – Private organisations
Private Organisations
Associations
Employers Organisations
National
Regional
level
level
Denomination:
Denomination:
Responsible /
Contact
person:
Local level
Workers Organisations
European
National
Regional
level
level
level
Denomination:
Denomination:
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Responsible /
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person:
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person:
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person:
Address:
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Contact date:
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Local level
Sectoral VET and HE providers
Other Organisations
European
National
Regional
level
level
level
Denomination:
Denomination:
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Responsible /
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person:
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person:
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person:
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person:
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Sample letter for the involvement of key actors
SUBJECT : Leonardo da Vinci project CertEnt: Applying ECVET and ECTS to
Certify Learning Outcomes and Qualification of the Entrepreneur in
Construction sector :
Involvement of relevant key actors.
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are writing to you in connection with a Leonardo da Vinci Project that forms
part of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013, involving a
multilateral intervention for the Development of Innovation focused on
transparency and recognition of learning outcomes and qualifications of
professionals operating as entrepreneurs in the Constructions economic sector,
through the implementation of the European tools and framework ECVET
(European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training), ECTS
(European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), EQF (European
Qualification Framework), and Europass.
Project Summary
The official title of the project is “CertEnt - Applying ECVET and ECTS to Certify
Learning Outcomes and Qualification of the Entrepreneur in Construction
sector”. The project addresses the Priority “Implementing ECVET for
transparency and recognition of learning outcomes and qualifications” of the
Leonardo da Vinci Programme. It has started in October 2012 and will last until
September2014.
The project starts from the consideration that In European Vocational
Education and Training - VET systems of Constructions, while in Italy (cfr.,
implementation of Leg. Decrees 81/2008 and 106/2009 on license point
system in building and asseveration of work safety management systems,
especially for safety) and in several Member States only now it’s growing an
interest on enterprise certification, in other European countries this issue is
object of interest up several years (cfr., Belgian “Loi du 20 mars 1991” on
“agréation d’entrepreneurs”), with specific rules / systems on construction
enterprise and entrepreneur competences certification.
On this fundament, sectoral VET providers and social partners, and public
institutions competent in VET across Europe, has verified that these
competences are not defined and certified in many EU countries, agreeing that
an intervention for transparency and recognition of building entrepreneur
learning outcomes, applying and implementing ECVET, could have significant
impact.
At this aim, applying ECVET principles and technical specifications, project
activities will: define and apply operational and transferable methods and
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guidelines, to design qualification in units of learning outcomes with allocation
of ECVET points; test units of learning outcomes based qualification with
associated procedures for assessment, transfer, validation and accumulation of
learning outcomes achieved in formal, informal and non formal contexts;
design and test quality standards to apply ECVET (issuing an ECVET quality
label) to the qualification; design VET programmes with flexible devices for
validation, transfer and recognition of learning outcomes; develop concepts
based on learning outcomes approach to combine ECVET and ECTS and
enhance their compatibility.
These activities are focused on the definition and formalisation, by competent
and interested key actors, of a Memorandum of Understanding - MoU ECVET
with ECTS provisions and ECVET quality standards
concerning the new
European sectoral qualification “Entrepreneur in Constructions” (allowing its
shared definition at European level in terms of learning outcomes, designing
the qualification in transferable units of learning outcomes with allocation of
credit points), and on its enforcement, starting from a pilot test to be realised
within the project involving at least 120 entrepreneurs of Construction sector
across Europe (30 in Italy and 90 in the other participating Countries, with
priority for women and aged people), to recognise and certificate the related
achieved learning outcomes and ECVET-ECTS credits in compliance with
national and regional rules on certification means and procedures, on formal,
non-formal and informal learning validation, and on qualification bodies, also
utilising common models for learning agreements (Learning Agreements
ECVET-ECTS), and ECVET-ECTS credit awarding (Europass Certificate
Supplement and ECTS Diploma Supplement).
It is expected that these activities will enhance the mobility of concerned
entrepreneurs of Construction sector, contributing to the emergence of
generally accepted qualification and training standards.
Why and how the CertEnt Project needs your engagement
As mentioned above, the main activities of the CertEnt project are focused on
the involvement, in each Country, of competent and interested key actors, and
particularly public institutions competent in Vocational Education and Training
and Higher Education, social partners (particularly of employers), other
interested associations, and VET and HE providers in the concerned sector.
This involvement is strongly needed because the will of these different
categories of key actors has a direct influence on the possibility and on the
extension of the envisaged ECVET process combined with ECTS: e.g., the
participation of the public institutions competent in VET and HE will determine
the territorial extension of the MoU provisions, while the participation of
sectoral social partners and VET-HE providers is fundamental to ensure to
interested professionals concrete opportunities of application of MoU provisions
in terms of recognition and certification of achieved related learning outcomes
and ECVET credits, still in compliance with national and regional rules on
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certification ways and procedures, formal, non-formal and informal learning
validation, qualification bodies.
Thus, the project focuses on the integration of the planned technical work on
qualification field design with planned process of providing information to key
actors on quality, relevance and effectiveness of the project results, also to
ensure that the successful project results will be transferred to the appropriate
decision-makers in regulated local, regional, national and European systems,
and that these results will be adopted and applied by individual end-users.
In other words, the CertEnt project needs your engagement as a fundamental
key actor, to verify and qualify our work in progress and results, and to ensure
the exploitation of results through the whole project life-cycle and also after its
end.
In the light of the above, we gently ask you to allow a meeting between our
respective organisations so that we are able to discuss the matter in more
detail.
Yours sincerely.
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