ETAAP meeting

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• ETAAP meeting
• Hamburg, May 16th 06
• Update on TRANSAVOIRS
• Equal project

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TRANSAVOIRS Partnership

• CARIF OREF,
• Observatory on training employment
  relationship.
• Information centre on vocational training.
• Private status but financed by public authorities
  in charge of employment and vocational training
  policies.
• ?AGEFOS PME and OPCAREG,
• Two organisations with similar objectives
• Raise a tax payed by companies for the financing
  of their training actions,
• Advise employers for the implementation of their
  training plans.
• Social partners, employers and employees
  representatives
• Gathered into a steering committee to support the
  mainstreaming of the project achievements.
• Euro Info Center,
• Facilitator for transnational coordination.
• Hosted by local CCIs and member of a network set
  up by the EC.

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TRANSAVOIRS Context

• Since the 1970s, continuing vocational training
  has been developed through a system of mandatory
  tax paid by companies.
• In 2003 a national Agreement redifines a number
  of regulations concerning continuing vocational
  training, especially for older workers.
• Objective to increase the employement rate of
  people over 50 from 36,8 to 50 in 2010.
• Employees with 20 years of experience or aged 45
  will be able to apply to
• Personal skills analysis,
• Validation of personal and vocational skills,
• Employees over 50 will benefit from
• special working contracts,
• Personal skills analysis,
• Validation of personal and vocational skills,
• Training leave.

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TRANSAVOIRS Specific objectives

• TRANSAVOIRS project aims at
• Creating synergy among regional partners to
  improve information and access to continuing
  vocational training for employees who usually do
  not benefit from training actions, particularly
  employees aged over 45.
• Through a better understanding of the age
  diversity in each company,
• The identification of current factors of
  discrimination,
• A testing of specific training schemes and
  competence oriented measures on pilot
  companies,
• The diffusion of the findings among social
  partners and policy makers.

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TRANSAVOIRS achievements

• ? The project has been selected in June 2005
  only project on the theme E the Pays de la Loire
  region.
• Results after one year of activity
• 1st phase development
• ? 1st concrete output is a software developed in
  order to collect data on companies training
  activities as well as age distribution (1st
  objective of the project).
• ? Workshop on E-Portfolio, support from Eifel.

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TRANSAVOIRS achievements

• 2nd phase testing
• The testing of the software has been carried out
  by Agefos and Opcareg training advisors
• 1300 companies data have been collected
• 3rd phase exploiting the data
• A training programme is currently designed. This
  programme should enable the advisors to use
  companies data (extracts from the software) to
  provide IAG in order to define training
  strategies applied to workers over 45.
  Individualized
• Based on case studies
• Mainstreaming activity
• The steering commitee of the project involves
  social partners