ECVET (European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training) for the restaurant and hotel industry

3s was project coordinator of the ‚Master plan for Ensuring Human Resources for Re-newable Energies‘, which was developed in collaboration with the following project partners: 17&4 Organisationsberatung, ÖGUT – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Umwelt und Technik, TU Graz, FH Joanneum, Austrian Energy Agency and Umweltdachverband. The project was financed by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund (‚Klima- und Energiefonds‘) in the context of the programme „New Energies 2020“.

The overall objective of the `VALBUK´ project was to implement and use ECVET principles in order to facilitate access to lifelong learning and qualifications in the area of cleaning services. Specific aims included:

The aim of the project `Quality by Units´ is to show how (units of) learning outcomes used as an organizational principle in vocational education and training can be used in order to achieve a higher quality in the process and effects of VET. The project applies two elements of ECVET technical specifications:

“Developing ECVET” – from theory to practice! The two-year project was launched in October 2012 to explore several practical aspects of developing and implementing ECVET.

The NoBoMa project aims to transfer the VQTS model which was developed in the Leonardo da Vinci project „VQTS – Vocational Qualification Transfer System“ and further elaborated in the Lifelong Learning project „VQTSII– Vocational Qualification Transfer System II“, both coordinated by 3s research laboratory, to the occupational field „elderly care“, to the countries Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia and to different languages. The projects background is that qualifications acquired in elderly care vary greatly across countries and that it thus, is difficult to mutually understand and recognise these qualifications within Europe.

On behalf of TÜV NORD Akademie, a leading provider of certified training and certification of personnel in Germany, represented with a branch in Austria since 2010, 3s analysed the importance, supply and demand for certified training in Austria.

Within the Framework Service Contract to provide expertise and support for a European Cooperation in Education and Training – Lot 1 the Commission/DG EAC has asked 3s for continued support in connection with ongoing developments of the Cross-Sector Reference Group (CSRG).

 The project will conduct an analysis of the Leonardo da Vinci (LdV) multilateral projects (development and transfer of innovation, and networks) implemented between 2007 and 2011 which have addressed the needs for vocational education and training of a specific economic sector or profession. The study will include:

3s (Sigrid Nindl) was invited to write a peer country comments paper and to take part at a peer review on 24th/25th of September 2012 in Berlin , hosted by the German Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs. Peer Reviews are a method based on the exchange of experiences between a ‘host country’ who presents and wishes to gain feedback on an effective policy – in this case the dual system in Germany – and similar measures from other countries (‘peer countries’). In a two-day event, various measures were presented and discussed. A peer review offers the possibility for exchange of experience and best practices between participating countries.

Further informations: http://www.mutual-learning-employment.net/