AVE EXEMPLO

Sponsors/Clients: Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013, Leonardo da Vinci, MULTILATERAL PROJECTS, TRANSFER OF INNOVATION

Objective:

AVE EXEMPLO means Assessment, Visibility and Exploitation of non-formally aquired competencies of EXperienced EMPLOyees in Enterprises.
Overall objective of the AVE EXEMPLO project is to provide companies and employees with equally manageable methods for self-assessment and external assessment of the competencies acquired in non-formal learning processes. More specifically, the project primarily aims at integrating experienced employees in life long learning processes by enabling them to self-organised learning. The second aim is to provide companies with a methodology for knowledge-transfer. The third objective is to enhance the existing set of tools for the assessment of non-formally acquired competencies and the fourth aim is a sustainable use of the tools in companies by including intermediaries and decision-makers of vocational training and by winning them for implementation in standard operation.

Desired Results:

AVE EXEMPLO is based on the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project EXEMPLO, 2003 – 2006 in which partners from seven European countries with different vocational education systems and traditions of competence promotion as well as validation of non-formal and informal learning worked together. The common goal was to promote of competence development in Enterprises incl. SMEs and to provide tools that give SMEs and their employee's information on competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning processes.

The previous project has proved its validity and its usefulness in real life. AVE EXEMPLO will have an added value and unique approach. The new project team is going to adapt the best practice issues of EXEMPLO (approach, partner composition, product-variety), into a new geographical context (Turkey, Greece, Romania) and to combine them with media-technological innovations (ePortfolios and online-learning-scenarios) and recent developments in recognising non formal learnings. Altogether innovation in this projects will apply to the following areas:

• Instruments particularly suitable for being used in a transnational context
• Different focuses, objectives and methods

Partners:

Turkish Employers' Association of Metal Industries (MESS), TR
bfz o.p.s., CZ
Forschungsinstitut betriebliche Bildung (f-bb), DE
ESTA, DE
ASSET TECHNOLOGY, GR
SIVECO Romania SA, RO
MESS Training Foundation, TR