Validation of service-oriented learning outcomes with an innovative IT-based Assessment and evidencing system

Setting up a unique and innovative validation system for service oriented competences to provide evidence of professional potentials both for learners and potential employers

Main activities carried out in the two-year project:

• Setting up a comprehensive inventory of personal and social competences relevant for the service economy;
• Providing a system to facilitate the assessment and evidencing of service related skills and competences;
• Piloting the approach in different educational domains (school, higher and adult Education, vocational training);
• Supporting learners, learning providers, HR managers and potential employers in validating personal and social competences;
• Providing staff training and counselling on the validation of learning outcomes in the different educational sectors,
• Intensive networking to attract stakeholders  from practice and research to play an active role in our community;
• Linking the VITA approach to formal certification systems (EUROPASS) in order to give evidence and increased value to personal, social and organisational skills and
  competences.
• Ten partner institutions from nine European countries
• Project coordination: BUPNET GmbH, Göttingen, Germany
• Funded by the European Lifelong Learning Programme Key Actions ICT
• Duration: 01/12 – 12/13

Further information: www.vita-eu.org

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.