From VPL principles ......... ........ to a VPL Charter

1. From VPL principles ......... ........ to a VPL Charter VPL, The unfinished story European Conference on VPL and lifelong learning21-24 September 2005, Utrecht, NL Anita Calonder GersterCo-President Association CH-Q Kees SchuurPresident Foundation Competence Management CH-Q NL/B

2. Association CH-Q Roof-Organisation The Association CH-Q - Switzerland • A non-profit organisation active on a national scale (an association since 1999) • Responsible for: the CH-Q System of Managing Competencies the political, strategical and structural functions • Ensuring the frame of conditions, the development, the quality assurance, the national and international coordination • Morally or financially supported by decision-makers of theSwiss educational system and representative bodies of labour and management and applied research

3. Foundation CompetenceManagement CH-Q NL/B Roof-Organisation The Foundation CH-Q NL / B • A non-profit organisation active on a national scale (a foundation since 2005) • Responsible for • Creating a holistic competence structure in NL • the bottom-up CH-Q System of managing competencies • the political, strategical and structural functions • Ensuring the frame of conditions, the development, the quality assurance, the national and international co-ordination

4. VALUATION PROCESS OF COMPETENCES: THE POWER OF CONTROL Frame law, decrees, forms, regulations Norm setting NVQ Branch Company Social Self FORMAL ValidationFormal Accreditation DYNAMIC: processes and valuation External evaluation External assessment STATIC: system, procedures, norms External estimation Self-evaluation Self-assessment Self-estimation Personal development INFORMAL (c)

5. VPL System of valuation & recognitionProcesses/values - normes/procedures TOP DOWN Frame laws, decrees, normes, regulations ValidationFormal Accreditation Formal recognition External evaluation Processes External assessment Procedures External estimation(non qualifying) Self-evaluation Self-assessment Informal valuation Self-estimation Personal development BOTTOM UP

6. VPL System of valuation & recognitionStakeholders - roles, responsibilities TOP DOWN Authorities, Executive bodies (conferences) Frame laws, decrees, normes, regulations Bodies, responsible for quality assurance& control in respect of formal documents Formal Accreditation - Validation Institutions / Companies responsible for qualifying and giving recognition External evaluation Standards Institutions responsiblefor quality & control Selfevaluation processes Standards Institiutions responsible for general information BOTTOM UP

7. VPL System of valuation & recognitionPrinciples - Institutional level Principle of „holistic approach“ • Respecting and Linking different areas of life / acivity • Recognizing achievements from all areas of life • Linking cultural, general and vocational educationand building bridges to labour market • Equivalency of formal and non-/informal learning • Including all types of competencies (technical, methodical, social, self-competencies) • Connecting bottom-up und top-down approaches • Challenging equal chances

8. VPL System of valuation & recognitionPrinciples - Individual level Principle of lifelong learning Promoting of learning environments which empowers individuals to acting autonomouslyand in groups by • enhancing their understanding of themself andtheir possibilties  consistency / self-identity • enhancing their competency of self-responsibility  steering own decision making • enhancing their career flexibility and mobility  marketability

9. VPL System of valuation & recognitionIndividual objectives Goals on the individual level Enabling individuals •to make use of their own potential in a deliberate and realistic way and accept full personal responsibility for it •to take charge of managing their own capabilites, compentencies and qualifications in a sustainable way •to focus on competence oriented solutions while planning their careers •to use their selfmanagement of competencies in a profitable way for their personal development

10. VPL System of valuation & recognition......towards a new educational future learning culture CHARTERSustainable competence-culture to achieve lifelong learning Mission We want to make a major contribution to the setting up of a society that empowers individuals to act in an autonomous way. We concentrate our efforts on building a sustainable competence-culture within an active, permanent and wide dissemi- nation of lifelong-learning

11. VPL System of valuation & recognition......towards a new educational future CHARTERSustainable competence-culture to achieve lifelong learning Goals We want to build a sustainablecompetence culture by • defining the principles for an open andflexible system of competence-based formal and informal learning • creating specific proccesses, procedures and supporting actions to guarantee access and quality both to formal and to informal • setting up a frame of reference determing the application

12. Towards a new learning and development future... Creating a sustainable competence culture to achieve lifelong development Let‘s realise it together Association CH-Q, Switzerland Foundation CompetenceManagement CH-Q, the Netherlands and flemish Belgium Qualification and Curriculum Authority QCA, England Utrecht, 23d september 2005