ENTITLE: objectives and workplan

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ENTITLE objectives and workplan
With support from the Lifelong learning programme
of the European Union
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What is ENTITLE doing - broadly speaking?

• Multilateral project under LLP KA4 Dissemination
  and Exploitation of Results
• valorisation getting the most out of things
• Support and extend progress made to date by
  Europes public libraries in supporting learning
• for all age groups and sections of society
• transversal i.e. across education sectors
  school, higher, vocational
• Disseminating, consolidating, enhancing the work
  of key existing networks, projects and
  initiatives
• Trying to develop ways to measure the impact of
  learning through (public) libraries
• Focus on the contribution to be made through
  informal learning settings (libraries) to
  lifelong learning ,
• combating digital illiteracy and social exclusion
• special attention to role of ICT

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ENTITLE 2 main objectives

• Identify, describe and disseminate good practice
• specific services, tools and approaches used for
  learning in public library settings
• build on work conducted under different
  programmes
• support multiplication and mainstreaming
• enable fuller understanding of contribution to
  learning agendas, maximise consensus
• recommendations to Member States/EU for
  supporting and extending contribution to lifelong
  learning policies and actions
• Provide an evidence-based framework for
  comparison and exploitation of results within and
  between countries
• impact on learners
• potential for future use in comparative research
  studies

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ENTITLE expected results

• Guidelines and recommendations
• Establish a web-based dissemination environment
• Including case studies
• Promotion innovation and consult via a series of
  national meetings
• Establish an impact assessment framework
• specific contributions of libraries to learning
• provide a basis for future comparison, experience
  sharing and assessment of progress
• Valorise and endorse through Final Conference for
  policy makers

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Who are we aiming at

• Policy makers, associations and networks in the
  cultural and educational sectors
• regional, national, and European level
• municipality and regional learning departments
  and decision-makers
• library managers and practitioners in the
  provision of learning services
• teachers/practitioners in the school,
  vocational and adult contexts and frameworks

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WP 2 Review of existing results, initiatives and
progress (leader Cross Czech)

• Structured survey, designed and co-ordinated by
  MDR
• Completed for all participating countries
• identify and document the policy background
• good practice instances
• dissemination and exploitation activities
• Results of available data collection and
  evaluation activities
• national and regional/local level
• impact assessment activities and frameworks
• Results consolidated and gaps identified
• presented on web site
• enable future moderated contributions (WIKI?)
• baseline for gap analysis and future work
• D2 Baseline survey results
• A systematic structured baseline document with
  data on which to base development of the
  remaining project work and outputs

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WP 3 Impact assessment framework design and
testing (leader - MLA )

• Design a framework for impact assessment
• build on work to date
• range of quantitative and qualitative instruments
  
• MLA working with MDR and EUN
• Online document for test completion by 3
  countries
• both institutional and national or regional level
  data completion
• 4 month testing period
• Multi-stakeholder meeting in Slovenia (M10)
• experts review framework in light of preliminary
  results
• Revise and extend framework to all participant
  countries
• Review and produce final framework
• conclusions and gaps in data availability
  highlighted
• basis for full scale use in future comparative
  studies
• D3 Finalised impact assessment framework
• A portfolio document providing validated and
  tested instruments for conducting impact
  assessment and analysing the data collected

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WP 4 Guidelines and recommendations (leader -
Aarhus)

• Series of concise guidelines on e.g. effective
  policy provisions, learning management, use of
  ICT
• draw on results of WP2
• Define coverage of guidelines
• link to good practice in service provision (e.g.
  CALIMERA)
• working group of 5 partners, editing by EUN and
  MDR
• dissemination and contributive comment on Web
• integrate with impact assessment work
• Draft recommendations for policy makers and
  professionals
• in public libraries and wider related learning
  communities
• Assess and review at multi-stakeholder workshop
  in Slovenia (M10)
• modify as agreed
• translate into national languages (nb limited
  funding)
• D4 Guidelines with draft recommendations
• A structured and navigable web tool for online
  browsing

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WP6 Web environment (leader - MDR)

• Basic site available by Month 3, ongoing
  development
• Established and maintained by MDR
• Based on a leading OS Content Management System
• Integrate moderated contributor access (wiki
  format?)
• All content and results disseminated through
  website
• guidelines, recommendations and impact assessment
  framework
• stakeholder database for distribution
• RSS newsfeeds
• newsletter
• lightweight registration (to receive
  notifications)
• Session later to discuss site sections and
  functionality
• Cost limitations !
• D6 ENTITLE web environment (WP6)
• An attractive and user friendly interface to
  project outputs, a news dissemination facility
  and a means of developing and involving a
  sustainable community of practice

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WP 5 Twelve National Meetings (leader - Veria)

• Audience
• policy makers, senior practitioners and partners
  from other learning sectors to disseminate
• Discuss and promote adoption of emerging ENTITLE
  results
• guidelines, recommendations and impact
  assessment framework
• 60-150 people
• Held in national languages
• Common core agenda
• flexibility to incorporate national perspectives
  and agendas
• outcomes incorporated in guidelines,
  recommendations, impact assessment
• WP 5 Reports from 12 national meetings
• Compiled as a section within the ENTITLE web
  environment , structured according to template
  format for purposes of comparability in national
  languages with translated versions in English

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WP7 Final Conference and Report (leader - Publika)

• Hosted in Hungary (by Publika)
• Target up to 150 policy makers and
  representatives of national and European
  associations in the learning sector
• special focus on countries not directly
  represented in ENTITLE
• additional, wider opportunity to validate,
  disseminate and promote exploitation of ENTITLE
  results
• high-level political keynote speaker
• issue a Declaration
• Conference organisation committee
• ENTITLE Final Report in English
• editorial support of MDR
• D7 Final Report and Conference Proceedings
• A composite report on the ENTITLEs work,
  including the proceedings and resolutions of the
  Final Conference, available via the web
  environment and also in print format ,in English.
  Summary translations will be produced in
  participants national languages and encouraged
  in all major EU languages

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WP8 Project Management (leader - MDR)

• Project co-ordination, management and web
  dissemination infrastructure
• communication and reporting to the Commission
• day to day communications between partners
• effective management of the projects finances
• assuring quality of project outputs (peer review,
  through wiki?)
• Project decisions will be taken by PMB
• 6 partners (secretariat support provided by MDR)
• Meets 5 times (combined with other events)
• Quality of project outputs
• Peer review e.g. through wiki
• WP leaders have high level of responsibility for
  results

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Workplan overview