ECVET from principles to practice

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ECVET from principles to practice

• Workshop C
• ECVET Partnerships and recognised mobility

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Speakers

• Sabine Tritscher-Archan
• Austrian system
• Focus on IVET
• Nick Juba
• EWNI - qualifications and credit framework
• Second-generation framework
• Focus on lifelong learning

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ECVET - who is it for?

• More than one target group for ECVET
• IVET
• CVET
• Recognition of non-formal and informal learning
• Focus
• on lifelong learning
• on learners needs
• on labour market future needs - retraining and
  upskilling

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Preparing for ECVET

• Qualifications must be described in learning
  outcomes and referenced to EQF levels
• Qualifications must be unitised
• Need for top-down and bottom-up actions to be
  coordinated
• Political leadership
• to define criteria for learning outcomes
• to identify Competent Bodies
• ECVET can then develop from the ground, on a
  demand-driven basis

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Where to start?

• ECVET should be demand-driven
• Sectors where there is demand for mobility and
  for achieving qualifications by accumulation
• Sectors where up-skilling and retraining are
  required
• To enable adult learners to achieve
  qualifications
• What seems to be impossible now may be feasible -
  - and desirable - if circumstances change

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What use is ECVET?

• Need to communicate
• the benefits of using credit in VET
• what ECVET can do
• Not just to the qualifications specialists
• To various learner groups
• To employers
• To education and training providers
• To policy-makers

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ECVET partnerships

• No single model of ECVET partnership
• Partnerships to drive policy change
• Partnerships to develop systems
• Partnerships for mobility at the national level
• Partnerships for international mobility
• Mobility may be better achieved through one
  general alignment between systems than via
  multiple bilateral agreements

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ECVET a team player

• Mobility should be supported by a suite of
  integrated European initiatives
• EQF
• ECVET
• ECTS
• Recognition of non-formal and informal learning
• Europass
• ENQAVET
• ECVET should be integrated with national
  qualifications arrangements
• NQF, national or system-based credit

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Moving forward

• Learn from experience
• The Projects
• Countries where credit systems are in use in VET
• Communicate!
• Develop mobility where there is demand
• Build an integrated suite of European initiatives
  to support lifelong learning