New publication: “Cooperate to Validate. OBSERVAL-NET experts reports on Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning”

The present publication is one of the outcomes of the OBSERVAL-NET project, the follow-up of the OBSERVAL project. 3s was partner in both projects and 3s team members contributed to this publication.

The main aim of OBSERVALNET was to set up a stakeholder-centric network of organizations supporting the validation of non-formal and informal learning in Europe based on the formation of national working groups in the 8 participating countries of the project. Each national working group worked towards bringing together key stakeholders in VNIL and political decision-makers at national level in order to coordinate policy implementation in the field. These national networks were supplemented by a cross-national level of networking, which focused on the following three thematic areas outlined in this publication:

_The bottom-up process: The role of grassroots initiatives in supporting VNIL, and strategies towards mainstreaming them;

_VNIL at the workplace: The competence profile required for VNIL practitioners; 

_VNIL professionals: Success factors in the implementation of VNIL in employment settings.

The report is available here. 

Link: Observal-Net