Description

The eCult Skills Project will address the shortage of skilled professionals with ICT qualifications in the Cultural sector. It will analyze the market needs, the existing trainings available for the different competences, and define a professional standard in the participating European countries. To make qualifications and profiles more comparable, it will refer the identified skills and competences according to the European Frameworks EQF/e-CF. As a consequence, employment of Culture professionals and their mobility across Europe will be reinforced.

New challenges in Culture sector professions call for new initiatives, flexibility and adaptability. Culture Industry development policies need to place strategic goals of a broader context, seeking enhanced quality of service that will enforce the existing workforce and eventually attract young people to the profession.

The objective of the eCult Skills project is to transfer the results of previous projects and to adapt the methodology to eCultural IT Jobs to set up a reference profile model.

The expected impact will allow for comparable skills sets for these professions of the future, so as to support the European labor market and thus, the employability of professionals while at the same time contributing to one of the major challenges of Europe 2020.

Description

The e-VIRTUE project will take an in-depth look at VL professions, such as learning technology strategist, virtual classroom facilitator, blended learning curriculum designer and develop European Role Profiles that are in compliance with the principles of the European metaframeworks EQF/e-CF and ECVET as well as Training Guidelines in the area of Virtual Learning.

eVIRTUE will provide comparable skills sets for Virtual learning professions, thus supporting the European labor market and the employability of professionals, contributing to one of the major challenges of Europe 2020. Role Profiles will be issued by the expert group of the project consortium in line with EQF and e-CF. National training frameworks will be taken in consideration in this process. Those Role Profiles, based on market needs, will be then evaluated by professionals in the VL sector before publication.

By this approach, the project will directly address three of the main issues covered by the initiative New Skills for New Jobs “Promote better anticipation of future skills needs, develop better matching between skills and labor market needs and bridge the gap between the worlds of education and work”.

e-VIRTUE will use the results of projects to develop tools that will ensure high accuracy of trainings in the VL field with market needs and contribute to the enhancement of the transparency and comparability of qualifications and competences in the VL sector.

The expected impact will be a refined methodology to map skills and competences to EQF/ECF, and to assign ECVET weigh and points to previously defined learning outcomes, characterized by the respective skills and competences.

Description

CompAAL is an EU funded project aiming to develop qualification profiles for jobs in Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL). AAL specialist skills are needed in many professions, in which job requirements have changed because of fast-evolving technologies. New skills profiles have to be set-up for professionals from various backgrounds, for example architects building AAL compatible homes, staff of ambulatory home care and, most of all, IT specialists in order to enable them design AAL systems and interfaces, to manage interoperability, as well as to create, manage and moderate social networks.

CompAAL will identify the main needs and requirements in jobs in the field of AAL in the participating countries and the knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes), which are insufficiently trained in the framework of related qualification programmes. For this purpose, each project partner will carry out desk and fiel research analysing all available studies and extracting the learning outcomes, i.e. knowledge, skills and competences needed for AAL related jobs.

CompAAL will have a long-term impact on vocational training institutions providing further education in the fields of AAL-related ICT applications and geriatric care in the sense that they will be able to improve their training offers based on the developed training guidelines. These adaptations will reduce the mismatch between trained competences and competences needed in the labour market and will also increase the comparability of qualifications in the field of AAL via reference to the various levels of EQF. Employers in AAL-related jobs will be able to recruit appropriate staff from all over Europe, as qualification profiles will increase transparency and comparability of all AAL qualifications.