Category: Project Updates

In the framework of our VALLEY project we are looking for innovative initiatives and activities that promote the development of competences in an innovative way and include practical cases or at least ideas on how learning outcomes and competence developments within volunteering work can be assessed and evidenced also beyond the walls of formal education.

• Are you working with volunteers?
• Do you support them in validating their competences acquired or do you have an innovative idea?

The VALLEY-prize is an award given to the most innovative and promising European initiatives and projects that:

• Send and/or host volunteers in their organisation
• Focus on enhancing the learning dimension of volunteering work in Europe
• Reflect on/consider ways of measuring and documenting volunteers’ development in relation to competences

Award ceremony in Marseille, France

We want you to be creative and present your learning projects in an innovative way. All ideas should take into account competences’ dimension. The three best contributions will be invited to the Award Ceremony in Marseille (France) on Thursday 16th February 2017. Moreover, you will receive a certificate and your idea will be published in newsletters and articles!

More information about participation, award criteria and submission: valley-eu.org/award

VALLEY is …

a 2-year project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme (Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships in the field of Youth). VALLEY aims to enhance the learning dimension of volunteering work through the development of a new approach to promote volunteering among young people as a resource of personal empowerment.

Information about the project : valley-eu.org

ComProCom: Project Progress

ComProCom is running according to the agreed schedule. Six “National Reports on the Current Situation relating to national competence standards and their use”, referring to Austria, United Kingdom, Poland, Ireland, Germany and Greece, were delivered in December 2015. Τhe Synthesis Report titled “Models and uses of ‘competence’ in six EU countries’ VET systems” was completed in January 2016.
The second partners’ meeting was held on 2 – 4 February 2016, in Dresden (DE) and the third meeting on 8 – 9 June 2016, in Clane (IRE). The first multiplier event took place in London (UK) on May 6th 2016, coordinated by SLD.

The partnership is working towards the development of the five competence frameworks on the basis of an innovative methodology. Contact us for our second newsletter!

ComProCom – First step finished

The first step in our project ‘Communicating Professional Competence’ (acronym: ComProCom) has been just finished.

ComProCom was approved for funding in August 2015, in ERASMUS+ Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training, with contract number 2015‐1‐EL01‐KA202‐013960.

The project aims to develop competence descriptions that are supported across the partnership’s countries and take account of multiple national VET systems, NQFs and modes of professional organization, making it easier to develop a common international ‘language’ of competence to aid mutual recognition and transferability.

The partnership consists of six partners: Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government – EETAA, coordinator (EL), Stan Lester Developments (UK), Irish Institute of Training and Development (IR), Sächsische Bildungsgesellschaft für Umweltschutz und Chemieberufe Dresden mbH (DE), Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji-Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy (PL) and die Berater Unternehmensberatungs Gesellschaft mbH (AT).

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