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Improving Qualification for Elderly Assistants -IQEA Evolution
Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

Aim of the project is developing and experimenting an ECVET system for professional profile of elderly caregiver, providing assistance at home or in nursing homes/shelters. The process will lead to sign a partnership agreement between Italian, Romanian and Polish institutions allowing students to obtain credits, achieving a qualification in the care field, recognized all over the territories of experimentation regardless of the training institution issuing the diploma. This will make the training system more transparent, relied to real needs of the job market, promoting workers mobility and supporting new services for elderly people.The foreseen steps, clearly planned, are: A) Definition of the concerning professional profile (functions, knowledge and competences) by comparing analysis of professional profiles and available qualifications in all involved countries, taking in account local policies and organization of social services. Professional areas will be identified also related to European Qualification Framework (EQF) model and Europass system. B) Definition of training units and related credits by involving practitioner and social work experts of the participating countries. Those units will allow the trainees acquiring of basic skills on elderly care, basic health care practices and transversal competences related to job organization. C) Joint definition of common standards for training delivery (schedule, methods, classes and practices alternation, tools for validating acquired competences, use of ICT technologies). D) Joint definition of procedure to assess learning. The system will be afterwards experimented in the involved territories: Italy (Sardinia and Friuli Regions), Romania and Poland.Testing the developed tools, also related to regional policies on caregivers qualification and validation of non-formal and informal learning, will involve at least 130 learners: 80 in Italy (40 in Sardinia, 40 in Friuli), 25 in Poland, 25 in Romania.

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