WORK EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Leonardo Project 20 – 22 February 2003

1. WORK EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Leonardo Project 20 – 22 February 2003 First Partnership Meeting in Italy

2. The Basic Project Data • WEM – Work Experience Management • Leonardo Pilot Project • Approved for 2 years with a total budget of 196 000 Euro • Based on the ENETRAC network • Covers 5 European countries: Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal

3. What is WEM in practice? • The main goal is to improve the management of training placements abroad for pupils and students in training. This means in particular: • Improved mechanism when choosing a placement • Improved monitoring of the training placement abroad • A common and transferrable approach to support the people involved in the implementation of placements

4. WEM – For What Purpose? • Training placements abroad are increasingly recognised as valuable training component. • But there are problems: • The participating institutions are different in character (universities, training agencies, private and public entreprises, local and regional authorities) • National legislation and practice of training placements differ considerably • Individuals (tutors, administrators, students, pupils) have sometimes little international or European experience • In some countries, e.g. Italy, training placements have only been recently introduced into vocational training legislation

5. What will WEM do? • Compare national practice and find out existing best practice • Develop a shared system to • Prepare • Monitor and • Certify practical placements abroad • Disseminate the common procedure nationally and Europe - wide • Create a database which collects offers and requests for placement in a commonformat, in coherence with the needs of preparation, monitoring and certification

6. WEM - Value Added for the Students? • Access to offers of placements, which are clear (requirements, tasks, use in their training path) • Better guidance before and during the placement • A certification, which gives substantive information on their tasks and performance

7. WEM - Value Added for the Education Agencies? • Preparation of placements is easier and can be done by more people • More ensurance of success of placements – better motivation of pupils/students and their families • Better information on the requirements the entreprise has for specific placements • More structured way of cooperation with tutors in the entreprise • Easier communication with European partners on the basis of agreed concepts

8. WEM - Value Added for the Social Partners ? • Hosting entreprise: Clear guidance on their tasks for receiving a trainee • Hosting entreprise: Possibility to communicate more clearly the requirements that a trainee must fulfill • Future employers: Increased transparency of qualification acquired by pupils/students abroad • Opening up of training placement to new target publics, e.g. un-employed adults, because of increased information

9. WEM Project Timetable 2003 • February - June • Information and Data Survey on a national basis • Data Analysis – sharing and best practice • May - December • Standard Procedure for placement preparation, monitoring and certification • Design a testing system • May – September • Set up the Practical Placements Database. It will be fed with information during the project and after.

10. WEM Project Timetable 2004 • November 2003 – September 2004 • Testing of the procedure – 10 trainees per country sent abroad • February - October • Adapt and publish the procedure on Web-site and as CD Rom • January 2005 • Dissemination conference. Dissemination happens throughout the project on national and European levels.

11. Steering Committee Technical University Ostrava, ROC Midden Brabant, Munidservicos, IAL Piemonte (Chair) External evaluator Working Group 1 Research Working Group 2 Procedure General Project Secretariat at IAL, coordination, accounting Working Group 3 Testing and Evaluation Working Group 4: Database 5 National Steering and Dissemination Committees One per country with representatives from multiplier organisations Working Group 5: Dissemination Partner Secretariats One operational contact person at each partner How is the project structured?

12. Tasks of the Partners

13. Project Team in Italy • IAL PIEMONTE • APEF • CISL UNIONE SINDACALE REGIONALE PIEMONTE • CONFCOOPERATIVE PIEMONTE • 3i Srl

14. IAL Piemonte Tullio Colombo - Co ordinator - tullio.colombo@ialpiemonte.it Claudia Oehl - Co ordinator, International consultant, oehl@libero.it Carla Molinatti - Administrative responsible carla.molinatti@ialpiemonte.it Gino Gomba - Project manager, Expert in mobility actions, gino.gomba@ialpiemonte.it Eileen Browne - Educator, Expert in transnational working group, eileen.browne@ialpiemonte.it Elisa Valentini - Secretarial assistant of mobility projects, elisa.valentini@ialpiemonte.it APEF Valentina Pelazza CISL REGIONALE Oscar Bianco CONFCOOPERATIVE PIEMONTE Cristina Maroglio 3i Srl Franco Repetto “The Italians”

15. Project team in Europe • Czech Republic • ATHENA - OSTRAVA • REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - OSTRAVA • TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY - OSTRAVA • Germany • TUV AKADEMIE - BERLIN • The Netherlands • ROC MIDDEN BRABANT - TILBURG • Portugal • MUNDISERVICOS - LISBOA

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