EQF-adapted educational elements in a predictable framework of change

1. EQF-adapted educational elements in a predictable framework of change Gerald Thiel DEKRA Akademie GmbH Conference EQF from Theory to Praxis – The Implementation of Sectoral Frameworks Athens, 26.11.2010

2. Project Background • A lot of differing point of views exist with regard to the question how the EQF should be properly used resp. how educational instruments should be related to the EQF in the future • The original EQF use approach might therefore be diluted. • Some essentials appear as unchangeable(as learning outcome orientation, level structure of frameworks, principal subdivision of descriptors) • This will have a certain impact on various elements of educational systems.

3. Project Goals (1) • To identify a predictable framework of change and in this framework to describe howEQF-adapted educational elements (curricula, human resources development measures, assessment approaches, legal regulations, certificates, consultancy services) could look like • To support these descriptions by pilots as far as possible, thereby providing for examples of EQF use which are at the same time oriented to the strategic aims of the EQF and the issues of educational practice.

4. Project Goals (2) • To establish services which can help those who are not familiar with EQF requirements to deal properly with them

5. Project Goals The Other Way Round (1) • To establish services which can help those who are not familiar with EQF requirements to deal properly with a situation which does not provide for EQF application based on clearly defined criteria • In order to be able to make those services work, to refer to examples and typologies of EQF-assigned and EQF-assignable educational key elements • If not available, to produce and define these examples and typologies

6. Project Goals The Other Way Round (2) • To identify the framework within which EQF assignment can take place

7. Key Activities • Describe the predictable framework of change and deliver perspectives for future development (WP 2 and WP 7) • Adapt key educational elements to the EQF (WP 3, 4,5) • Pilot the use of EQF-adapted key educational elements (WP 6). • Provide for a sustainable basis of use beyond the lifetime of the project (WP 8). • Provide for dissemination of project results (WP 9). • Manage the project and ensure quality by specific monitoring, risk management and quality assurance (WP 1 and WP 10).

8. Partnership • DEKRA Akademie GmbH, DE • 3s research laboratory, AT • Institut für Bildungsforschung der Wirtschaft (IBW), AT • IG Metall, DE • Lux Personal & Kommunikation, DE • Universität Bremen, Institut für Technik und Bildung, DE • Volkswagen Service Deutschland, DE • Οργανισμός Επαγγελματικής Εκπαίδευσης και Κατάρτισης (OEEK), EL • Conversaction Learning Services S.L., ES • Fundación Laboral de Metal, ES • Centre Regional pour le développement, la formation et l’insertion des jeunes (CREDIJ), FR • Centro Produttività Veneto (CPV), IT • Agenţia Naţională pentru Calificările din Învăţământul Superior şi Parteneriat cu Mediul Economic şi Social (ACPART), RO • Fastrak Consulting, UK

9. Thank you!