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““Establishing an European Establishing an European Network for Anticipating Skill Network for Anticipating Skill

Needs in the Commerce Sector”Needs in the Commerce Sector”

Third Regional Conference in Athens

September, 27 2010

Susanna Casellato

Fondazione Giacomo Rumor Centro Produttività Veneto

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Fondazione Giacomo Rumor Centro Fondazione Giacomo Rumor Centro Produttività VenetoProduttività Veneto

Established in 1952 with the Marshall Plan experiments

1994 Foundation. Its founders and supporters include five Chambers of Commerce from the Veneto Region, the

Council of the Province of Vicenza, the main Trade Associations and State and private bodies.

Main activities:Training activities:

Short-term training courses addressed to companies, public bodies and other institutions

Long-term training courses for unemployed are mainly financed by the ESF and other EU-funded programmes

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Fondazione Giacomo Rumor Centro Fondazione Giacomo Rumor Centro Produttività VenetoProduttività Veneto

Information activities: conferences, conventions and Study Groups thematic tripsThe Study Groups constitute the backbone of CPV and they aim at promoting the exchange of information and knowledge between entrepreneurs, managers and technicians by organising conferences, meetings and study visits Trade and Marketing Management

Assistance from the Technological Information Counter Patent Information OfficeNew Enterprise Information Desk

International activities and European Community projects member of the European Association of National Productivity Centres (EANCP) and of CIOS (World Council of Management. partner in many international co-operation projects funded by the European Commission and by the Italian Government.

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EU-funded pilot projects EU-funded pilot projects on EQF and ECVETon EQF and ECVET

RECOMFOR

Be-TWIN – Testing a joint ECVET-ECTS implementation

S.E.S.A.M.O.

Testing and Implementing EQF- and ECVET-Principles in Trade Organizations and Education

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ESF-funded regional ESF-funded regional pilot projectspilot projects

ARGO Accreditare le Competenze non formali ed informali a Garanzia dell’Occupabilità

Driving towards EQF - Definire Risultati di apprendImento Verso la formazione INtegrata superiore riorGanizzata

Metodologie innovative ed accreditamento delle competenze per una formazione integrata in chiave europea

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Transnational Transnational Mobility ProjectMobility Project

Since 2003 CPV – Representing Italy at the LLP Leonardo da Vinci Anniversary and thematic seminar on Mobility on

November, 09-10 in Antwerp and Brussels

Some figures:

IVT Measure: Initial Vocational Training Students

2004 - Careers Promotion VI – 95 placements 2005 - Careers Promotion II – 99 placements2006 - Careers Promotion III – 150 placements2007 - Careers Promotion IV – 165 placements2008 - Careers Promotion V – 200 placements2008 – Eurotour – 45 placements2010 – Careers Promotion – 190 placements

Total: 944 placements

IVT Measure: Initial Vocational Training Students

2004 - Careers Promotion VI – 95 placements 2005 - Careers Promotion II – 99 placements2006 - Careers Promotion III – 150 placements2007 - Careers Promotion IV – 165 placements2008 - Careers Promotion V – 200 placements2008 – Eurotour – 45 placements2010 – Careers Promotion – 190 placements

Total: 944 placements

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Transnational Transnational Mobility ProjectsMobility Projects

Since 2003 CPV – Representing Italy at the LLP Leonardo da Vinci Anniversary and thematic seminar on Mobility on November, 09-10 in

Antwerp and Brussels

Some figures:

PLM Measure: young graduates

2007 - Expert training – 40 placements2009 – EUROTRAINING NETWORK - 40 placements2010 – EUROPEAN TRAINING - 40 placements

Total: 180 beneficiaries

PLM Measure: young graduates

2007 - Expert training – 40 placements2009 – EUROTRAINING NETWORK - 40 placements2010 – EUROPEAN TRAINING - 40 placements

Total: 180 beneficiaries

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Transnational Transnational Mobility ProjectsMobility Projects

Since 2003 CPV – Representing Italy at the LLP Leonardo da Vinci Anniversary and thematic seminar on Mobility on November, 09-10 in

Antwerp and Brussels

VETPRO: Professionals in vocational education and training

2006 - EUROTUTOR – 49 exchanges2008 - VETPROF Mobility – 111 exchanges2008 – N.ET.W.O.RK. (teachiNing compETences

Within a eurOpean framewoRK) – 50 exchanges

2009 – MOBINET MObility Network for Trainers – 24 exchanges

2010 – NETWORK 2 – 97 exchanges

Total: 331 teachers involved

VETPRO: Professionals in vocational education and training

2006 - EUROTUTOR – 49 exchanges2008 - VETPROF Mobility – 111 exchanges2008 – N.ET.W.O.RK. (teachiNing compETences

Within a eurOpean framewoRK) – 50 exchanges

2009 – MOBINET MObility Network for Trainers – 24 exchanges

2010 – NETWORK 2 – 97 exchanges

Total: 331 teachers involved

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CPV has been making efforts to institutionalize the projects’ approaches and results at the national/regional and sectoral

levels mainly developing along two complementary directions:

-Increasing the transparency of training pathways and the spendability of the competences certified as learning

outcomes with a view of encouraging their mutual recognition by the institutions and social partners;

- increasing the transparency of the different learning experiences regardless of the formal, non-formal and informal contexts in which they have been acquired

Efforts and main issues

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Promoting the comparability of qualifications between Promoting the comparability of qualifications between different national, regional or sectoral contexts and different national, regional or sectoral contexts and

their future compatibility with EQFtheir future compatibility with EQF

At present, Italy does not have a homogenous framework for identifying, representing

and certifying competences. This makes it difficult to ensure that credits are

legible andportable between education and training systems.

The learning outcomes approach has been the focus of much attention on the part of all

institutions, although it has not yet been fully implemented. This aspect does not facilitate

the permeability of education/training/employment systems.

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Some example of policy measuresSome example of policy measures

Italy has complied with the EU’s request to implement a European Qualifications

Framework by setting up, in 2006, the ‘Tavolo Unico Nazionale’ (Unified National Committee)

for the construction of a national system of minimum occupational, training and certification

standards promoted by the MLPS.

The Unified Committee’s objective is to draw up anational standards system that will conform with the

European Qualifications Framework..

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Promote the transfer and accumulation of qualifications betweenPromote the transfer and accumulation of qualifications betweendifferent national, regional or sectoral contexts and facilitating different national, regional or sectoral contexts and facilitating

the futurethe futureimplementation of ECVETimplementation of ECVET

IFTS system major contribution in Italy, in the context of policies for promoting the integration of

education/training/employment systems and the accumulation/transfer of learning outcomes

Designed and managed by at least four different partners - schools, VT centres or bodies, universities and businesses – addresses young people and adults holding an upper secondary school diploma

Recognition of credits system of national minimum standards of competences built on Capitalisable Units (CU)

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Referencing NQF to the EQFReferencing NQF to the EQF

A technical group is currently working at referencing the Italian qualifications systems to the EQF by the given deadlines (2010) and to

carry on networking with other European countries in order to guarantee the transparency and consistency of the correlation between our system and the EQF

levels. A draft of the Referencing Report has been submitted to a public consultation process in order to

achieve the maximum of dissemination and agreement.

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Major challenges/obstaclesMajor challenges/obstacles

Differences among decentralised VET systems

Long and laborious debate between national institutions (Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Education and

University) and the Regions (which are exclusively competent on vocational training qualification according to Constitution Title V) Regional Qualification Framework

Obstacles have been faced in the attempt to associate descriptors – with the language of learning outcomes –

referring qualifications to each of the 8 levels of the EQF lacking information and awareness about the benefits of

such a conceptual and practical shift

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Anticipation on skills needsAnticipation on skills needs

To understand procedures and mechanisms for implementing methods aimed

to anticipate training and vocational needs institutional processes regarding the nature and

function of vocational training in Italy for over a decade:

administrative decentralisation the integration of the training and educational

systems policy actions undertaken on the Community level

and aimed at encouraging the involvement, the participation and the accountability of all the

stakeholders.

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Anticipation on skills needsAnticipation on skills needs

Common framework for standardising the results of the analysis of the different actors:

“Network System for the permanent observation of vocational and training needs” planned and implemented by ISFOL

Available on-line athttp://fabbisogni.isfol.it

Sector trends Sector list of vocational needs Description of vocational needs

Estimates of job offers in the short term Medium term employment prospects

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Susanna CasellatoSusanna Casellatoc/o Fondazione Giacomo Rumor – Centro Produttività Venetoc/o Fondazione Giacomo Rumor – Centro Produttività Veneto

Tel.: +39 (0)444 994700Tel.: +39 (0)444 994700Fax: +39 (0)444 994710Fax: +39 (0)444 994710

E-mail:casellato@cpv.orgE-mail:casellato@cpv.org

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