B.        INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT AND THE PARTNERSHIP

 

 

Project title (including acronym, if any)

A modern conception of occupational training

 

B.1 Summary of the project

Ø       This section is mandatory for NEW projects only.

Ø       Projects applying for RENEWAL should read the summary presented last year and, if it requires amendments, insert the complete and appropriately amended text here.

 

Please give a brief description of the project (no more than 200 words). This description may be used elsewhere by the European Commission and/or the National Agency when providing information on selected projects, so please be clear and precise.

A modern conception of occupational training; it seeks to give a step beyond in goals, contents and methodologies of this kind of training.  The main objective is to provide the trainers with tools so that the students can get into the market in an autonomous way, stay there and have opportunities to improve all along their working life. In order to achieve this, we will come to conclusions from the analysis of the labour market and the training measures and, in addition, we will carry out the training of the trainers.

 

 B.2  Project identification data - 1

Ø       NEW Projects must complete section B.2 in full.

Ø       Learning Partnership Projects applying for RENEWAL only need to complete this section if changes have occurred as compared to last year's application (these changes will have to be explained in the answer to question C.2.4 below). If no change has occurred since the original application, tick the "no change" box below.

 

NO CHANGE          r

 

Project topic(s): Please describe the precise topic(s) of the project to be carried out by the Learning Partnership	Analysis of the labour market Design of training actions Design of quality indicators system Training
Broad subject area(s) covered by the project	□    Basic skills                                                □     Information technology                         □     Health □    Active citizenship                                    □     Sustainable development                    □     The media □    Intercultural issues                                 □     Arts, music, culture                                 □     Education for parents □    Languages * (see below)                  □     Consumer education                           □     Environment □    Learning about European countries / the European Union n    Other, namely: transverse competences and professional skills to face the current and future labour market.
Please indicate also whether the project will be concerned with one or more of the following aspects:	n    Strategy for stimulating / promoting adult learners' demand for learning n    Guidance / counselling / information or other support services n    Experimentation with new pedagogical approach(es) □    Management of adult education organisation / institution n    Methods for providing credit for knowledge or competence acquired outside formal education

 

If the project proposed by the Learning Partnership will be related to the learning of languages, which are the languages on which it will focus ("target languages")?

q       Danish q       German q       Greek q       Spanish q       French q       Irish

q       Italian q       Portuguese q       Finnish q       Swedish q       English q       Other(s), namely: ............................................

 

B.2 Project identification data - 2

Ø       This section must be completed in full by NEW and RENEWAL Learning Partnership Projects.

 Duration

Duration of the project (as from 01 August 2003)[1]

■ 12        r 24       □ 36 months

Target Groups

You may select up to three categories numbering them from 1 to 3 in order of relevance (1 = highest)

q               Persons living in rural or disadvantaged areas q               Migrants / travellers / ethnic or other minorities Ê     Young adults (15-25 age range) at risk of social marginalisation Ë    Other economically or socially disadvantaged groups, unemployed persons, persons in  prison q               Disabled persons q               Senior citizens q               Local community groups Ì      Women q       Others (please specify) ----------------------------------------------

Main activities planned

You may select up to three categories numbering them from 1 to 3 in order of relevance (1 = highest)

q               Seminars / workshops / conferences q               Bi/multilateral exchanges[2] of staff q               Bi/multilateral exchanges of learners Ì     Fieldwork, project research q               Performances (e.g. theatre plays, musicals, etc.) or exhibitions resulting from the project activities Ê    Publication of studies / reports / books / teaching material resulting from the project activities Ë      Web site / internet based activities q       Others (please specify): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

B.3         Participating organisations data

 

Please provide the requested information for each of the organisations involved in the Learning Partnership application . Specify for each of them if it is NEW to the project or was already funded in the 2002/2003 year[3]

 

Note that the Applicant organisation in section A above may be either the “Coordinating institution” or one of the other “Partner organisations” indicated in section B below.

 COORDINATING ORGANISATION                             New r                    Currently funded n

 

Full legal name of the coordinating organisation in the national language:		Empresa Municipal per a la Formació Ocupacional i l’Ocupació, SL -(EMFO)
Translation of the name into EN, FR or DE if none of these languages is the national language :		Municipal Corporation for Occupational Training and Occupation, Limited Society
Country:	Spain	Town	Mollet del Vallès
Contact Person's name	Maria-Nadal Sau i Giralt	Telephone	0034 935705160
Contact Person's function	Manageress	Fax	0034 935703507
		e-mail	info@emfo.com  or formacio@emfo.com

 

 

 

Participating Organisation 2                             New r                    Currently funded n

Full legal name of the participating organisation in the national language:			Scarabeus Associazione Culturale
Translation of the name in EN, FR or DE if none of these languages is the national language			Scarabeus Cultural Association
Country:	Italy		Town	57127 Livorno - Toscana
Contact Person's Name		Franco Vero	Telephone	0039 0586 813691
Contact Person's function		Project Manager	Fax	0039 0586 813691
			e-mail	Scarabeus@tiscali.it

Participating Organisation 3                             New ?                    Currently funded n

Full legal name of the participating organisation in the national language:			TCX Consultancy, SRL
Translation of the name in EN, FR or DE if none of these languages is the national language			TXC Consultancy, SRL
Country:	Romania		Town	Bucharest
Contact Person's Name		Sebastian Taralunga	Telephone	0040 92 202086
Contact Person's function		Managing Director	Fax	0040 1 2236797
			e-mail	Office@tcx.ro

Participating Organisation 4                             New ?                    Currently funded ?

Full legal name of the participating organisation in the national language:
Translation of the name in EN, FR or DE if none of these languages is the national language
Country:			Town
Contact Person's Name			Telephone
Contact Person's function			Fax
			e-mail

Participating Organisation 5                             New ?                    Currently funded ?

Full legal name of the participating organisation in the national language:
Translation of the name in EN, FR or DE if none of these languages is the national language
Country:			Town
Contact Person's Name			Telephone
Contact Person's function			Fax
			e-mail

Participating Organisation 6[4]                            New ?                    Currently funded ?

Full legal name of the participating organisation in the national language:
Translation of the name in EN, FR or DE if none of these languages is the national language
Country:			Town
Contact Person's Name			Telephone
Contact Person's function			Fax

  

C.        OTHER QUESTIONS

 

C.1         For NEW Learning Partnerships ONLY

 

Your answers may not take more than 5 A4 pages in total (not including the table mentioned under question C.1.2).

 

Please answer the following questions, which are designed to identify the project aims and objectives, expected outcomes, main activities and final beneficiaries, as well as the internal organisation of the partnership.

Please distinguish in each answer - if appropriate - between the various organisations / institutions participating in the Partnership.

C.1.1.      What are the aims and objectives of the project proposed by the Learning Partnership?

C.1.2.      Please provide information on the nature and expertise of the organisations involved in the partnership

C.1.3.      Please fill in the Activity Planning table at the end of section C and provide information on the activities taking place in each participating organisation as well as the transnational mobility activities applied for (i.e. project meetings, staff exchanges / visits / placements, learner mobility) and the particular results or other outcomes to which the activities at each institution and the project as a whole are expected to give rise.

Please give special emphasis the activities expected to take place during the year 2002/2003 for which funding is sought in the present application.

C.1.4.      What impact is the project expected to have? Please indicate:

A.       the expected impact on  (1)the learners and staff directly participating, (2) the organisations / institutions participating in the Learning Partnership as a whole and (3) and, where relevant, on the local community / region where each institution is located.

B.       whether the project is expected to contribute more generally to teaching / learning in the chosen subject area, and if so how.

C.1.5.      How do you intend to evaluate the success of the project, in terms of the extent to which it has achieved the objectives and impacts set out in your answers to questions C.1.1. and C.1.3. above?

C.1.6.      How do you intend to disseminate the results, experience and, where applicable, ‘end products’ of the project?  Please refer to the steps that the participating organisations intend to take to disseminate these results (1) amongst the participating organisations / institutions, (2) to other organisations / institutions in the local community and (3) where applicable, to the wider lifelong learning community.

C.1.7.      Does the project relate to the training of persons involved in providing learning opportunities for adults? If so, please describe briefly.

C.1.8.      How and to what extent will the project ensure the active participation of learners throughout the project (planning, implementation and evaluation)?

C.1.9.      Are there any provisions for the (self-)assessment of the learners participating in the project? If so, please describe briefly the (self-)assessment methods which it is intended to use?

C.1.10.    Will the project address in any way the issue of accreditation and certification of the knowledge, skills or

competence acquired by adult learners prior to and/or during the project? If so, please describe briefly.

C.1.11.    Will the project take any specific measures to :

Ø       enhance in any way the availability of learning opportunities for persons with a disability, chronic illness or other special educational need?

Ø       promote the participation of learners or organisations / institutions disadvantaged for socio-economic, geographical or other reasons?

Ø       promote equality between women and men?

Ø       promote intercultural education, help combat racism / xenophobia, or encourage the integration of persons from ethnic and other minority groups (including migrant workers, Gypsies and Travellers, and occupational travellers)?

If yes, please describe briefly in each case.

C.1.12.    Within the project, what will be the respective roles and tasks of (1) the coordinating organisation / institution and (2) the other participating organisations / institutions?

C.1.13.    How will effective cooperation between the participating institutions be ensured?

C.1.14.    Does the project intend to use new technologies? If yes, what kind of new technologies? How and to what extent will they be used?

 

C.2 For RENEWAL of existing Learning Partnerships ONLY

 

Your answers should not take more than 4 A4 pages in total.

 

Please answer the following questions, which are designed to find out what the project has achieved so far, what modifications have occurred compared to the original objectives and workplan, and the justification for such modifications, the activities envisaged for 2002/2003 and the outcomes these activities are designed to give rise to.

 

C.2.1.      Please fill in the Activity Planning table provided at the end of section C and provide information on the activities taking place in each participating organisation as well as the transnational mobility activities applied for (i.e. project meetings, staff exchanges / visits / placements, learner mobility) and the particular results or other outcomes to which the activities at each institution and the project as a whole are expected to give rise.

Please give special emphasis the activities expected to take place during the year 2003/2004 for which funding is sought in the present application

 

C.2.2.      Using the same format as the Activity Planning Table for 2003/2004, please describe the activities carried out since the approval of the project

 

In the table of planned activities included in the application form for new projects for 2002, we include a previous phase, called Interphase 1. This phase consists of the meeting of the members of the project with the purpose to establish the bases of collaboration. At the same time, the tools with which we will work in the research that will be carried out in Phase 1 will be defined; Analysis of the labour market and training measures.

This Interphase, planned in principle for September 2002, has been carried out in January 2003. The causes of such delay are extensively explained in point C.2.4. 

The meeting of Interphase 1 was carried out in Mollet, 20^th and 21^st January 2003. The agenda dealt with the following issues:

-          Introduction of the members

-          Presentation of the project “A modern Conception of Occupational Training”.

-          Establishment of the bases of collaboration

-          Definition of the tools with which we will work in the following phases

-          Draft of the research that will be carried out

-          Definition of the research that will be carried out

-          Conclusions and bases for the next meeting of members of the project

 

	20-21/01/03 – Mollet – Members meeting – establishment of lines of cooperation. 22/01 to 7/05/03 – Bucharest, Livorno and Mollet- Phase 1: Analysis of the labour market and training measures – 3 members- Preparation of questionnaires for businessmen and students.

 

 

 

 

 

 

C.2.3.      Describe briefly the results of the project so far and try (unless it is too early to do so) to assess its impact on (1) the learners and staff directly participating, (2) the organisations / institutions participating in the Learning Partnership as a whole and (3) where relevant, the local community

      Since we are at the beginning of Phase 1, that is, the phase of the analysis of the labour market and the training measures, we still can’t give a first description and evaluation of the results, either of its setbacks. The participation and collaboration among the three members has been established in the creation of the questionnaires aimed at the businessmen and the students.

 

	Since we are at the beginning of Phase 1:Analysis of the labour market and the training measures, we still can’t give a first description and evaluation of the results, either of its setbacks.

 

 

 

C.2.4.      Describe any divergence from the project as originally designed. Specify the nature of the difference, how and why it emerged, the action taken by the partnership and its effects. Focus in particular on changes in :

Ø       the aims and objectives

Ø       the workplan and calendar

 

 There hasn’t been any change with respect to the objectives expected at first, either in the composition or papers inside the association.

Changes in dates due to problems with the agenda of the members and, a visit initially not planned to Bucharest has been added to follow Phase 2 better: design of training actions since it is required detailed group work.

The actual changes have been caused by the difficulty in finding appropriate dates for all the members involved in the project and for the load of work concentrated between September and December. This period of time coincides with the granting of recycling occupational training actions for active workers, in the co-ordinating company of the project.

These changes have affected the calendar of activities planned in the candidate form of Grundtvig 2 2002-2003 and in the planned meetings of the members. In the application table we describe the activities prepared for 2003-2004, taking into account the changes undergone in the application calendar.

                Next, we specify the changes in the calendar of the current project, application 2002-2003:

 

-          22^nd January to 5^th May 2003

Town: Bucarest, Livorno and Mollet del Vallès

Activity:  Phase 1. Analysis of the labour market and measures: Gathering of objective data about unemployment, interview with analysts of the labour market, analysis of the training curriculum and contrast of tendencies of the labour market with the training proposals.

Participants: EMFO, TCX CONSULTANCY and SCARABEUS

Foreseen result: Global conclusions of the analysis of labour market and current training tendencies. 

 

-          8^th and 9^th May 2003

Town: Livorno

Activity: Members meeting: Interphase 2. Which are the conclusions of the characteristics of the labour market and to what extent does the occupational training answer this situation?

Participants: EMFO, TCX CONSULTANCY and SCARABEUS

      Foreseen result: Global conclusions of the analysis and studies carried out.

 

-          10^th May to 16^th June 2003

Town: Bucharest, Livorno and Mollet del Vallès

Activity: 1^st part of Phase 2: Design of training actions: Indicator system, didactic material, tutor and trainer’s book and new pedagogical approach.

Participants: EMFO, TCX CONSULTANCY and SCARABEUS

Foreseen result: (depending on the ending of Phase 2) Design of training actions; Indicators, didactic material and tutor and trainer’s book.

 

-          17^th and 18^th July 2003

Town: Bucharest

Activity: Members meeting: Interphase 3. Following the design of training actions

Participants: EMFO, TCX CONSULTANCY and SCARABEUS

Final result: Draft for a new didactic approach.

 

 

 

	Changes in dates due to problems with the agenda of the members and, a visit initially not planned to Bucharest has been added to follow Phase 2 better: design of training actions since it is required detailed group work.

 

 

 

 

Ø       the composition and respective roles in partnership (if a new partner is now included, specify its expertise and role in the project)

Ø       the external environment in which the project operates

Ø       the financial and administrative management of the project

 

C.2.5.      Provide any additional comments you may wish to make to your National Agency or to the European Commission (such as recommendations for future measures, administrative and financial procedures, key issues, etc.)

Activity Planning Table[5]

 

Ø       NEW Projects should fill in this table for the entire duration of the project including its preparation, implementation, evaluation and dissemination stages

Ø       RENEWAL applications should describe the activities envisaged from the beginning of the 2002/2003 year until the end of the project

 

Planned Date ("from" - "to" to be expressed in months)	Location(s)	Activity description Describe the nature of the activity planned	Actor(s) involved Identify the organisation(s) and, if relevant, the function of the individual(s) involved in the activity	Expected result Describe the expects results / outcomes of the activity concerned
01/08/2003 14/01/2004	Bucharest Livorno Mollet del Vallès	2n phase of Stage 2: Design of training actions -          Indicators system -          Didactic material -          Tutor guide and trainer guide -          New pedagogic approach	-          TCX, Scarabeus and EMFO	-          Design of training actions: 1.        Indicators 2.        Didactic material 3.        Trainer guide and tutor guide
15/01/2004 16/01/2004	Bucharest	Meeting of members: -          Conclusions of results Phase 2. Design Phase 3	-          TCX, Scarabeus and EMFO	-          Conclusions to results Stage 2. -          Design Phase 3
17/01/2004 09/06/2004	Bucharest Livorno Mollet del Vallès	Stage 3: Training of trainers -          Planing and design of courses -          Teaching -          Evaluation	-          TCX, Scarabeus and EMFO	-          Fulfilment and evaluation of the training of trainers
10/06/2004 11/06/2004	Mollet del Vallès	Meeting of members: -          How can we focus the training actions for the future experts of occupational training?	-          TCX, Scarabeus and EMFO	-          Conclusions about the project
12/06/2004 31/07/2004	Bucharest Livorno Mollet del Vallès	Stage 4: Application conclusions in new training actions	-          TCX, Scarabeus and EMFO	-          Edition material -          Divulgation of final results