No. 1/1999
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No. 1/1999 |
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European exchange of experience is extremely valuable for national regulatory activities in initial and continuing vocational training and is directly translated into new qualification concepts. This was the conclusion reached in January 1999 by the participants of a European seminar on the contribution of Leonardo projects to the development of new job outlines and qualification profiles.
80 specialists from 22 European countries attended the event organized in Dresden by the Federal Institute for Vocational Training (BIBB) as the national coordination unit of the Leonardo da Vinci programme. The seminar had the goal of ascertaining the impact of the Leonardo pilot projects, and of finding out how national vocational training systems can benefit from the results. The participants took stock of the situation in three workshops on media production and management, environmental engineering, and network and system engineering. Since 1995 185 pilot projects dealing with the European dimension of national VET concepts were implemented under the aegis of the BIBB. They led to the production of curricula, learning material and training concepts which take account of the labour market requirements in Europe. For instance, the participants of Leonardo projects developed continuing training concepts for solar technology, tele-work and telecommunications which have been incorporated in the German VET system via a continuing training examination in a chamber district. The pre-requisite for such a transfer is, however, that the people responsible for VET in the individual countries should participate in these projects or at least be informed at an early stage of the results. The seminar participants believe that all those involved, the project staff and regional actors, the social partners, the national vocational training policy makers and the European Commission, must contribute to the dissemination of the concepts. They said that the Commission should make more use of the creativity and support of the projects and the Member States than it has done in the past. Together with them the European Commission should see that there is more effective dissemination of the project findings throughout Europe. The contributions of the workshops and a summary of the discussions can be found in Internet under the address www.bibb.de/leonardo/index/htm. Furthermore, three publications issued by the Leonardo coordination unit of BIBB give information on current Leonardo pilot and research projects. The Compendium 1997 describes all 59 projects which were supported in Germany in 1997. Two theme-oriented brochures entitled "Multi-medial learning" and "Environmental education in the crafts sector" have appeared in the "Leonardo-pilot" series. They describe how the themes have been handled in the European context and how they can be implemented in practical professional work. All publications are available free of charge from the Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Leonardo-Koordinierungsstelle, Fehrbelliner Platz 3, D-10707 Berlin, Tel (49-30) 86432260, Fax (49-30) 86432637, e-mail: leonardo@bibb.de.Source: BIBB/CEDEFOP/SK |
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