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AVE in a professional perspective. Pilot Project Leonardo da Vinci (2003-2006 ) With the support of the Regional Council in Champagne Ardenne October 2003- March 2006. Speaker. Dr France Huntzinger Professor at the University of the Maine,
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AVE in a professional perspective Pilot Project Leonardo da Vinci (2003-2006) With the support of the Regional Council in Champagne Ardenne October 2003- March 2006
Speaker Dr France Huntzinger Professor at the University of the Maine, Director of the IUP Charles Gide, Institute for Management in Social Economy Le Mans, France
From Copenhagen to Helsinki • Best Practices Supporting European Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training (VET) • Centre for International Mobility CIMO in cooperation with the Finnish Ministry of Education and the European Commission • Helsinki, 4th-5th of December 2006
The AVE project in the perspective of non-formal and informal learning • Volunteering is a perfect example of a non formal and informal experience • Skills and competences are acquired through voluntary work • The main goal of the AVE project is to focus on the ways and means to assess this specific type of professional experience on the labour market
A pilot project Leonardo da Vinci • AVE : assessing voluntary experience in a professional perspective • Two conditions • Justifying a representative voluntary experience • Willing to renew with the labour market • Publics • Youngsters with no professional experience • People kept away from the labour market • Long –term unemployed persons
Genesis of theproject • From Assessment of Experience to Assessment of Voluntary Experience : • In a French context : the law of social modernisation of January 2002 • In an European context : lifelong learning • A previous pilot project Leonardo (2000-2001) • A curriculum of continuous learning for professionals working with volunteers • One part dedicated to assessment of learning through volunteering
The partners • 7 countries : • “old partners” : France, Germany, Austria, Italy, and United Kingdom • “new partners” : Poland and Hungary • 14 partners with the following profiles : • Institutes of research • National Volunteering Centres • Regional State services • Universities
Partners - France Institute for Research and Information on Volunteering Maine University - IUP Management of Social Economy CICOS AFEV Regional Direction for Youth and Sports Regional Council in Champagne Ardenne
Partners Austria European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research VÖV Germany INBAS Sozialforschung DPVW Hungary OKA
Partners (suite) Italy Fondazione Italiana per il Volontariato Poland Centrum Wolontariatu United Kingdom Institute for Volunteering Research
A state of the art • Assessing voluntary experience • Legal base • Institutional partners • Positive or negative context • Valuing voluntary experience • An example of Portfolio : in Austria • The accreditation : in the United Kingdom • An official recognition : in France
Needs to be answered • A consultation among the associations • A questionnaire dispatched among the association • Positives results : responding associations in favour of the AVE process • An experimentation of the portfolio • Among the volunteers • Among public partners • Among professionals (of the labour market)
Methodology-European seminars • Warsaw (March 2004) : • State of the art on volontary policy • Questionnaire for the associations • London (November 2004) : • Result of the consultations • Framework of the portfolio • Rome (May 2005) : • Result of the portfolio experimentation
Methodology (suite) • Vienna (October 2005) : • Synthesis • Building of the European Portfolio • Building of the guide for the coach • Châlon-en Champagne (March 2006) : • Valorisation of the project • Dissemination of the research
A portfolio of competences • A volunteer’s biography • A list of the training followed by volunteers • The missions fulfilled • Identifying one’s own competences (mind-map) • Skills and competences developed (table) • An action plan (further steps) • Synthesis of the portfolio (1 page) • An identity card of the volunteer (1 page) • Annexes : European CV , certification of the association, presentation of the association
A guide for the coach • The context : a European project • The steps of the AVE project : 4 steps • A tool : the portfolio • The aims of the portfolio : assessing an experience • A method : self-evaluation and/or need for coaching • The framework for coaching: the workshop • The steps for the coaching
A complementary tool • Complement to the Europass, • Complement to the European Curriculum Vitae • Complement to any portfolio existing on the national levels
Perspectives • A tool easy to use • Easy for volunteers to understand • Easy to be downloaded from a website • A need for training/accompanying • For associations • For trainers • An official recognition • On the labour market • Among public partners • Among professionals on the labour market
Selected websites • www.eEuropeassociations.net • www.iriv.net • www.management-iup-ecosociale.org