”Your learning outcomes are your passport

to the European labour market”

EURIAC

EURIAC – European Industrial Automation Class

EURIAC – Project Information

• Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project

• Budget – about € 380 000

• Lead partner – Kungsbacka Municipality, Sweden

• Project leader – Elof Lindälvs gymnasium, Sweden

• Transnational consortium – Kungsbacka municipality (SE), Elof Lindälvs gymnasium (SE), UTEK (SE), Optima (FI), ROC Westbrabant (NL), Politeknika Ikastegia Txorierri (ES), BIBB (D), Wear-Management (CH)

• Duration – 2 years

• Kick-off – October, 2011 Breda, the Netherlands

• Final conference – September 19th, 2013Kungsbacka, Sweden

Workplan – EURIAC

Project Meeting 2(Finland3 days)

ProjectMeeting 4(Germany

3 days)

ProjectMeeting 3

(Spain3 days)

Final Confer.

(Sweden, Kungsbacka

2 d)

2011 2012 2013

Mobility 1Mobility 2

Mobility 3

Planing & preparation Test & implementation Comple-tion

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Evaluation of test & impl.

ProjectMeeting 1(Holland3 days)

Communication & Dissemination & Exploitation

VC1Mutual

trust

VC2Market

investigation

VC3Technical modules

VC4Mobilityplanning

VC5Recognition

process

VC6Validation

VC7Evaluation

EURIAC Aim

Create a European VET in industrial automation to facilitate young people’s entry to the European labor market:• Interest gap: Increase young people’s interest in vocational

education & industrial technology

• Mobility gap: Create mobility opportunities for young people in VET in industrial automation

• Knowledge gap: Reduce the gap between educational content & industry multi-skills requirements

• ECVET gap: Apply & develop ECVET in existing VET in industrial automation at EQF 4 & 5

EURIAC - Objectives• Objective 1 – Conduct a market investigation to identify the skills needs

of maintenance electrians in industrial automation

• Objective 2 - Utilize the ECVET tools & methods from the European Class in Trucks Maintenance project to create an ECVET platform for EURIAC

• Objective 3 - Utilize the ValidMaint validation system to establish students’ skills level before entering the European Class & to validate learning outcomes at completion

• Objective 4 - Establish a mutual trust consortium of European partners from the industry, administration & education sectors

• Objective 5 - Test the European Class concept by organizing mobilities with students from Sweden, Finland, Spain & the Netherlands

• Objective 6 - Disseminate the results of the EURIAC project to strategic stakeholders

ECVET works & adds value

• ECVET provides a common language & platform for transnational cooperation!

• The shift to LOs increases the student’s self-confidence & engagement in & control of his/her learning process

• The EURIAC concept being based on ECVET opens up for NON-EURIAC VET providers in IVET & HVET to set up their own European Class

• International cooperation using ECVET provides bench marking & quality assurance opportunites of national VET

• Practical experience using ECVET – provides VET teacher competence development

• ’ECVET-ising’ national qualifications/units - facilitates the implementation of high quality work placement, advisory board participation & cooperation between VET & the world of work in national qualifications

Identify unitsWhat job profile?1. Agree on what job profile/-s to focus on What work processes & time available for mobility?2. Identify common work processes for the job profile 3. Determine & agree on the scope of the mobility - what work processes with

regard to time frame. Common work tasks for the job profile?4. Identify & agree on common work tasks for the work processes

For instance, the EURIAC mobility unit Working on safety systems includes work processes such as: assembly, programming and commissioning of a production line controlled by a PLC-system including a safety system, risk assessment and fault finding. This enables students to carry out work tasks such as analyse and plan for, install, program, and verify a complete industrial installation as carried out in a common industrial workplace.

Describe learning outcomes

Naming of unit & EQF level of qualifications?5. Create a title for the mobility unit, e.g. based on the work process6. Identify the EQF level of the involved qualificationsLevel of difficulty for the training?7. Decide & describe at what level of difficulty (under instruction, independently,

or functioning together in a team) the training of the unit of learning outcomes should be carried out using level descriptors (level of difficulties/ level of responsibility and autonomy)

What learning outcomes are involved?8. Describe the work processes & identify the underlying learning outcomes of a

unit in terms of knowledge, skills, & competences: - Begin by identifying the competences,- Then identify the knowledge,- End by identifying the skills.

The learning outcomes should be measurable and possible to use for assessment!

What is what?

• He/she is responsible for applying the right strategy to fix identified faults.• He/she is able to analyse the process that has to be controlled. • He/she knows how to recognise if a machine is working in proper conditions.

Put the following LOs in the correct column:

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Skill

Competence

Example – Unit of Learning Outcomes

EURIAC Recommendations - creating Units of learning outcomes

• Involve VET teachers from day 1

• Establish mutual understanding of the difference between learning outcomes & learning input

• Establish mutual understanding of the term “competence”

• Decide on a mutual terminology to be used for describing LOs – i.e. active verbs that describe observable action that can be measured

• Agree on a sufficient level of details for describing learning outcomes to support VET teachers, avoid misunderstandings but still keep the units open enough to allow for technical development

• Design a pragmatic template for the units of learning outcomes including information such as work process, work tasks, LOs in terms of KSC, level of difficulty, assessment, prerequisite KSC etc.

• Keep an open mind, be patient & flexible!

Recognition of Learning Outcomes

• Units has been identified as part national vocational qualifications and has by that been referenced to the same EQF level as the qualification.

• The concept of ECVET points needs further elaboration to be utilised in practice.

• The principles of delivering, assessing, and validating the learning outcomes are stated in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

• Mutual Trust

• The learning outcomes will not be carried out and assessed again on return

• The achieved learning outcomes will be documented by using the Europass Mobility.

Lessons learned – Using ECVET

Establishing a mutual platform & language• Create an ECVET glossary in which the national VET qualifications are

described in terms of ECVETCreating mutual trust & Memorandum of Understanding• Visit each other to see the facilities & equipmentCreating Units & Learning Outcomes• Really important to involve VET teachers from start in a bottom-up process• Learning outcomes should be measurable & created thinking of how to assess

themCreating & using a Learning Agreement• Young VET students must be able to understand content & aim of the LA Assessing international students• A real challenge! Try to focus on assessment tasks & criteria that are common

for the job profile of the educational pathway. Still needs to be further elaborated!

EURIAC Effects• Improved learning opportunties for students, both for those traveling &

those welcoming international students• Improved: technical skills,

learning strategies, language skills, self-confidence, & personal network for students

• More attractive & quality assuredVET qualifications

• Competence development for VET professionals

• Inspiration to & experience of European cooperation

• Organisational development opportunities for involved organisations & qualifications

Next step – EURIAC II• Select partners & create a consortium• Identify & agree on aim & objectives, e.g:

Continue elaboration on ECVET:- Develop existing units & create additional units- Continue the development of an assessment scheme to assess LOs at different EQF levels- Establish cooperation with industry for international work placement- Create a EURIAC network of VET providers offering EURIAC mobility

• Apply for funding (Erasmus+strategic partnership project

• Launch the EURIAC II project in October 2014 (if approved)

Take part of the EURIAC experience!

• Read more – discussion paper: Implementing ECVET: crediting, recognition and transfer of learning outcomes between European target stipulations and national System conditions (2013, BIBB)

• Follow the EURIAC project at:www.euriac.eu

• Like us at facebook.com/Euriac

• Contact us at:Project manager: Elof Lindälvs gymnasiumPernilla ÖhbergDirect +46 300 833554Mobile +46 709 921035Email pernilla.ohberg@kungsbacka.se

Lead partner: Kungsbacka municipalityAndreas MårtenssonDirect +46 300 83 41 99Emailandreas.martensson@kungsbacka.se