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The VITA pilots

Poster VITA die Berater_reduziertVITA intends to provide a system to validate personal and social competences by making use of the LEVEL5 system which is specifically designed to assess and visualise personal, social and organisational competence developments in rather non- and informal learning settings. In the VITA pilots LEVEL5 was tested in a huge variety of learning contexts. Read More »The VITA pilots

GEP VET – Kick-off Meeting in Sofia

Logo_GEPVETGEP VET stands for Grow Entrepreneurship Potential in vocational education and training. GEP VETS intends to promote entrepreneurial culture of socio-economically disadvantaged young participants of labour-market oriented VET programmes through adaptation, enlargement and transfer of the training course and handbook previously developed in the PECAE project.

The GEP VET partners met in November 2013 in Sofia in order plan the forthcoming project activities and discuss several aspects of entrepreneurship. It was concluded that entrepreneurship is a competence that includes a number of “sub competences” such as:Read More »GEP VET – Kick-off Meeting in Sofia

VITA Final Conference in Dublin

Minister Ciarán CannonThe final conference of the VITA project was honoured by the presence of the Minister of State for Training and Skills. It was hosted by the Irish partner AONTAS, the National Adult Learning Organisation and took place in All Hallows College – a historic building with a long history of learning.

The conference gave the opportunity to explain the VITA validation system that the ten partners have been developed and piloted in the previous 20 months. The VITA system is aimed to assess and evidence competence developments by means of the LEVEL5 system which is specifically designed to assess and visualise personal, social and organisational competences acquired in rather non- and informal learning settings. Each partner institution organised local pilots in order to test the VITA system. The pilots covered all educational fields and considered a big variety of competences related to the service economy and are currently being evaluated. You will read more on them in the near future. But we can summarise already now that LEVEL5 worked well in these informal contexts and was considered as valuable tool also to promote self-reflection on learning processes.

The conference had several highlights…Read More »VITA Final Conference in Dublin

La VITA è bella – award ceremony in Dublin

La vita e bella In May 2013, the VITA consortium launched the European Award “La VITA è bella” – an award for innovative practice and initiatives on validating competences in informal and non-formal learning in Europe. The consortium wanted to find out in how far innovative learning projects already tackle the topic of validation of social, personal and organisational competences. Award participants were asked to present projects or initiatives that promote the development of these competences in an innovative way and include practical cases or at least ideas on how learning outcomes and competence developments within this specific competence area can be assessed and evidenced also beyond the walls of formal education.

An independent jury had the difficult task of choosing the most creative projects from among the numerous entries.

And the award goes to…

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E-MARIA – Training offers

The E-MARIA team proudly presents the two training handbooks that have been developed and piloted in the previous months:

  1. Training manual for professionals: Risk assessement & Management
  2. Traiing for trainers providing training for survivors: Empowerment & Autonomy

The main aims of the training course for professionals are: Read More »E-MARIA – Training offers