Results from the ECVET pilot projects and impulses for national implementation

Keeping you informed about European Credit System for Vocational Education & Training. The latest issue of the ECVET magazine is available for download: ECVET Magazine - Issue 19 (May 2014).
Results from the ECVET pilot projects and impulses for national implementation
An article by Anette Curth, ICF GHK. One of the main objectives of the eight ECVET pilot projects 2011-2014 was to contribute to the national implementation of ECVET. However, they all came from very different starting positions: the projects VET-CCS and CPU-Europe in Malta and the French Community of Belgium were implemented by governmental institutions and connected to comprehensive VET-reforms; the French project MENECVET was implemented by the Ministry of Education, with the aim of testing the compatibility of the existing regulatory framework for the design and description of French qualifications with the ECVET technical specifications; the Italian project CO.L.O.R was implemented by ISFOL, a national centre of VET-expertise, and was designed to support greater coherence in the Italian VET system; and the German projects EASYMetal, 2get1care, and ESyCQ and the Italian project ICARE were instead driven by practitioners who developed solutions and recommended them to the competent institutions for implementation at the systemic level. This article briefly summarises the suggestions, models, impulses and contributions of the projects to the national implementation of ECVET. Read more in ECVET Magazine - Issue 19 (May 2014).