Erasmus+: Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances Infoday

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1 Erasmus+: Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances Infoday 12 November

2 Erasmus+ Call for proposals 2015 Sector Skills Alliances Felix Rohn Directorate General Education, Audiovisual and Culture 2

3 Learning Mobility Staff High education students Vocational and education training students Master students Youth mobility Co-operation for innovation and good practices Knowledge Alliances Sector Skills Alliances Strategic Partnerships IT support platforms E-twinning Capacity building in third countries Support for policy reform Open Method of Coordination EU transparency tools Policy dialogue 3

4 Sector in which sense? Economic sector as defined by Eurostat (NACE) Examples: C-Manufacturing J-Information and communication Q-Human health and social work 4

5 Lessons learned One third of LdV projects were sector-based Analysis of LdV sector-based innovative projects 2012 Pilot Sector Skills Alliances (Automotive industry, Elderly care, Sustainable construction, Tourism) 2013 priority "Sector Skills Alliances" for LdV Development of Innovation projects Evaluators feed-back 5

6 Relevant EU initiatives European Sector Skills Councils Platform at European level for improving skills intelligence, highlighting skills mismatches and for shaping the educational and training offer correspondingly. Such Sector Skills Councils exist already for the Textile/clothing/leather sector, and Commerce. Skills Panorama Comprehensive and user-friendly central access point for information and intelligence on skill needs in occupations and sectors across Europe. 6

7 Relevant EU initiatives ESCO: ESCO is the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. It identifies and categorises skills and competences, qualifications and occupations relevant for the EU labour market and education and training, in 22 European languages. The system provides occupational profiles showing the relationships between occupations, skills, competences and qualifications. ESCO has been developed in an open IT format and is available for everyone to use free of charge. It does not set up competence standards. 7

8 Activity sets Delivering joint curricula Designing joint curricula Defining skills & training needs for professional profile/s in an economic sector 8

9 European Qualification Framework Application of European reference tools European Quality Assurance Framework for VET Learning Outcomes Approach European Credit System for VET 9

10 Expected Outcomes Evidence on sector skills needs/ competence standards Joint curriculum design Joint curriculum delivery/ Recognition Disseminati on/ professional orientation 10

11 What a good SSA proposal should have taken into account Sector Skills Alliance should take into account work of European Sector Skills Council and ESCO if existing in relevant sector If skills needs not identified yet then Alliance should include research institution competent in relevant sector European umbrella organisations or National players with European outreach Alliance should ensure recognition in partner countries during project or make it highly probable that this will happen afterwards Dissemination to services counselling on professional orientation/career guidance 11

12 Sector Skills Alliance Skills gaps -> need s European VET core curricula Employability Competitiveness Skills supply 12

13 Partnership "Trio" Vocational Education & Training providers Partners representati ve in sector with sector expertise/r esearch Bodies with regulatory function European transnational VET curriculum 13

14 Partnership Minimum of three countries to be covered by the Alliance All three partner categories must be represented in each country that the Alliance covers Minimum nine partners 14

15 Partnership One country in "trio" in! Partner trio Partner trio Partner trio Partner trio Partner trio 15

16 Call 2015 Deadline for submission: 26 February 2015 Available budget: ~ 6 m Eligible sectors: Manufacturing & Engineering Commerce Information and communication technology Environmental technologies (Eco-innovation) Cultural and creative sectors Health care Tourism 16

17 Main funding rules Duration: 2 or 3 years Grants: or up to Grant for implementation support based on staff unit costs (covering all project expenditure) and in duly justified cases for mobility activities. Target Up to 150 Sector Skills Alliances by

18 Additional information on the internet Erasmus+: us-plus/index_en.htm Ongoing pilot projects: cational-policy/sector-skills_en.htm 18