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SKills UP: Enhancing of teachers and trainers in developing, improving and evaluating key competences and soft skills for students' and trainers' success and mobility in the labour market

This proposal is based on the result of a valid and acknowledged best practice “Competencies for the Labour Market” consisting in a bulk of training tools and devices which have succeeded in many different countries in teaching, developing, improving and evaluating a set of 14 basic soft skills & key competences. Moreover the number & typologies of the soft skills developed are the results of a concrete large scale survey carried on directly on thousands of SMEs employers, the key-actors of the labour market. The core of the best practice stands on the concept that SOFT SKILLS and KEY COMPETENCES are “difficult to measure & difficult to develop”. In order to cope with this, the BP developed complete training programmes for teachers/trainers for 14 soft skills & key competences identified, starting from the methodological aspects up to teaching/training techniques, devices & evaluation tools. The entire training of trainers has been then finalized to a certification and registration of certified trainers in a qualitatively guaranteed register. Therefore, under the selected priority, the proposal has been conceived in order to promote the geographical adaptation/transfer of the best practice, in order to:- promote the acquisition of competences enabling VET professionals to teach soft skills & key competences (2006 EU Recommendation on K-competences for Lifelong learning);- strengthen the response of VET professionals to systemic changes such as the shift to competence-based systems and consequently to learning outcomes.This project reflects important effects either on direct beneficiaries, i.e. teachers/trainers & VET Professionals in general, either on indirect/final target groups: VET students & adult trainees or adults/unemployed in the labour market. The impact envisaged for the VET Systems of the 5 countries involved is concerned with the insertion of the best practice in the institutional activities of the VET structures involved in the project, and, with a multiplier effect, the further extension of the best practice at National level through certified trainers, as a medium-long term impact effect. The partnership (IT;CZ;BE;PT;EL), having consolidated mutual cooperation experiences in transnational projects, included the owner of the best practice, and all partners are directly involved in the VET systems development and in direct contact with the project target groups. The foreseen outcomes has been the production - for at least 2 competencies per country - of translated/adapted complete training toolkits including: training manuals, interactive DVD-video (for trainers and trainees); training and certification tools for competencies (for trainers); competencies level testing tools (for trainees); certified trainers. Attention has been paid on the analysis of evaluation tools and their possible use within the ECVET System, in order to produce criteria of commonly shared assignment of credit points in function of learning outcomes.
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