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Almost all European training systems are going through a change process to adapt to the demands and needs of companies being under high pressure to be able to deal with a globalising world. Especially SME have to make big efforts to keep their HR updated and to keep the business competitive. This is the reason why VET providers need to move themselves from traditional training methods towards learning approaches in which the actual problem situations of companies can become the pedagogical basis of their learning.


In order to support these learning processes, it is necessary to promote facilitation of learning through facilitators* able to stimulate learning more then providing teaching. Facilitation makes informal learning intentional and structured in terms of learning objectives, learning time and support. Facilitation raises the quality of non formal learning and can lead to further formal learning or validation processes (e.g. certification).


That’s in this particular context that 13 European organisations with responsibilities and positive intervention in the VET field decided, with the support of the European Commission through the Long Life Learning Programme, to work together and develop the “RESYFAC – Reference System for Facilitators of Learning” project. More Info
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Anyone who promotes the acquisition of knowledge and skills by establishing a favourable learning environment, including anyone exercising a teaching, training, supervision or guidance function. The facilitator helps the learner develop knowledge and skills by providing guidelines, feedback and advice throughout the learning process.

Project Aim

The general aim of the project is to contribute to the recognition/transparency of qualifications of facilitators of learning in the European space and consequently to contribute to a sounder and effective mobility of these professionals in the European Space through the setting up of a Reference System at the European level which will be the basis of a future ECVET System for Facilitators of Learning.

Specific Aims

  1. To make an investigation concerning the possibilities and the variety of facilitation in a cross-sectoral and cross national field: analysis of current practice in countries (27) that have made progress with evaluating and defining the competence of facilitators of learning in their national contexts with the respective specificities and to establish a comparison among the different realities

  2. To investigate how can mobility be an added value to the European recognition of the qualification given by the intercultural specificities

  3. Developing a typology of knowledge, skills and competences (following the technical specifications of ECVET) based on the comparison of the results and with the perspective of turning effective mobility of facilitators

  4. Setting up an European Reference System for the qualification of facilitators of learning

  5. Developing a tool which will support validation of individual work experience and learning outcomes*, especially during periods of mobility, when people move from one professional environment to another

  6. To establish a Fora of consultation putting in place testing scenarios with representative actors like the direct target group themselves, the social partners and other strategic organisations to discuss and get feedback on the results of the investigation, reason why the project involves 4 strategic partners from the VET system of different countries (Advisory Committee)

  7. To establish an Internet portal that will be a tool for:

    • sharing and using the information about the project progress

    • presentation of the countries based map experiences within facilitation of learning in SME’s

    • knowledge management system in the field of facilitation of learning

    • interactive gateway for using points of reference in cross national settings

  8. To disseminate the project results and empower target groups (mainly VET providers, companies, learning facilitators, social partners and other relevant  stakeholders) through the implementation of dissemination and exploitation strategies

Target Groups and Long Terms Beneficiaries

The direct target groups of the project are the training providers and the SMEs in which external and internal facilitators are performing their work.
Long Term Beneficiaries will be the facilitators themselves, who will gain the possibility of getting a wider qualification enriched by the different dimensions offered by the mobility of facilitators and a transparent recognition of their qualifications through the development of a common reference European system.
But beneficiaries will also be the companies who will get better services done by professionals who dispose a European dimension and apply an approach to learning which is oriented towards the company’s problems instead of being “catalogue-oriented”.

Results

Duration

24 months – January 2008 - December 2010
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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