WORK EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT

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• WORK EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT
• Leonardo Project
• 20 22 February 2003
• First Partnership Meeting in Italy

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The Basic Project Data

• WEM Work Experience Management
• Leonardo Pilot Project
• Approved for 2 years with a total budget of
• 196 000 Euro
• Based on the ENETRAC network
• Covers 5 European countries Czech Republic,
  Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal

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What is WEM in practice?

• The main goal is to improve the management of
  training placements abroad for pupils and
  students in training. This means in particular
• Improved mechanism when choosing a placement
• Improved monitoring of the training placement
  abroad
• A common and transferrable approach to support
  the people involved in the implementation of
  placements

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WEM For What Purpose?

• Training placements abroad are increasingly
  recognised as valuable training component.
• But there are problems
• The participating institutions are different in
  character (universities, training agencies,
  private and public entreprises, local and
  regional authorities)
• National legislation and practice of training
  placements differ considerably
• Individuals (tutors, administrators, students,
  pupils) have sometimes little international or
  European experience
• In some countries, e.g. Italy, training
  placements have only been recently introduced
  into vocational training legislation

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What will WEM do?

• Compare national practice and find out existing
  best practice
• Develop a shared system to
• Prepare
• Monitor and
• Certify
• practical placements abroad
• Disseminate the common procedure nationally and
  Europe - wide
• Create a database which collects offers and
  requests for placement in a common format, in
  coherence with the needs of preparation,
  monitoring and certification

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WEM - Value Added for the Students?

• Access to offers of placements, which are clear
  (requirements, tasks, use in their training path)
• Better guidance before and during the placement
• A certification, which gives substantive
  information on their tasks and performance

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WEM - Value Added for the Education Agencies?

• Preparation of placements is easier and can be
  done by more people
• More ensurance of success of placements better
  motivation of pupils/students and their families
• Better information on the requirements the
  entreprise has for specific placements
• More structured way of cooperation with tutors in
  the entreprise
• Easier communication with European partners on
  the basis of agreed concepts

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WEM - Value Added for the Social Partners ?

• Hosting entreprise Clear guidance on their tasks
  for receiving a trainee
• Hosting entreprise Possibility to communicate
  more clearly the requirements that a trainee must
  fulfill
• Future employers Increased transparency of
  qualification acquired by pupils/students abroad
• Opening up of training placement to new target
  publics, e.g. un-employed adults, because of
  increased information

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WEM Project Timetable 2003

• February - June
• Information and Data Survey on a national basis
• Data Analysis sharing and best practice
• May - December
• Standard Procedure for placement preparation,
  monitoring and certification
• Design a testing system
• May September
• Set up the Practical Placements Database. It will
  be fed with information during the project and
  after.

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WEM Project Timetable 2004

• November 2003 September 2004
• Testing of the procedure 10 trainees per
  country sent abroad
• February - October
• Adapt and publish the procedure on Web-site and
  as CD Rom
• January 2005
• Dissemination conference.
• Dissemination happens throughout the project on
  national and European levels.

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How is the project structured?
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Tasks of the Partners
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Project Team in Italy

• IAL PIEMONTE
• APEF
• CISL UNIONE SINDACALE REGIONALE PIEMONTE
• CONFCOOPERATIVE PIEMONTE
• 3i Srl

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The Italians

• IAL Piemonte
• Tullio Colombo - Co ordinator -
  tullio.colombo_at_ialpiemonte.it
• Claudia Oehl - Co ordinator, International
  consultant, oehl_at_libero.it
• Carla Molinatti - Administrative responsible
  carla.molinatti_at_ialpiemonte.it
• Gino Gomba - Project manager, Expert in mobility
  actions, gino.gomba_at_ialpiemonte.it
• Eileen Browne - Educator, Expert in transnational
  working group, eileen.browne_at_ialpiemonte.it
• Elisa Valentini - Secretarial assistant of
  mobility projects, elisa.valentini_at_ialpiemonte.it

• APEF
• Valentina Pelazza
• CISL REGIONALE
• Oscar Bianco
• CONFCOOPERATIVE PIEMONTE
• Cristina Maroglio
• 3i Srl
• Franco Repetto

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Project team in Europe

• Czech Republic
• ATHENA - OSTRAVA
• REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - OSTRAVA
• TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY - OSTRAVA
• Germany
• TUV AKADEMIE - BERLIN
• The Netherlands
• ROC MIDDEN BRABANT - TILBURG
• Portugal
• MUNDISERVICOS - LISBOA

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