“It is indeed a real pleasure to work with Rolf, a committed professional who I look up to for his remarkable breadth of vision, great management skills and his genuine passion for developing new ideas in the field of eLearning. I am sure his willingness and strong determination will allow him to succeed brilliantly well in all his projects and endeavors.” From beginning of October 2010 until end of March 2011, I was responsible on behalf of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning, to work on the following Leonardo da Vinci projects, targeting educational activities in the Vocational Education & Training sector:
EQAVET
Grants have been awarded to a consortium consisting of MENON (coordinator), SCIENTER, EVTA and EFQUEL to support national projects for the development of a national approach to improve the quality assurance of Vocational Education & Training systems by promoting and developing the use of the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework in Vocational Education and Training.
The project EQAVET should not be misunderstood as the organisation EQAVET (http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-policy/doc1134_en.htm), which was set up in 2010 to align the different approaches including Europass, the European principles for the identification and validation of non-formal and informal learning, ECVET and the European Qualification Framework for lifelong learning (EQF).
Sophie Weisswange, responsible on behalf of the European Commission for the project activities has explained the project with this presentation:
My activities:
- Review of the application / proposal
- Administrative tasks for the tender
- Participation in the set-up meeting
Personally, I see a very strong potential in this project to finally suceed in mainstreaming a common European framework for Quality Assurance including the support of its implementation on the national levels.
The demand has been emphasized on the two most important European policy institituations: The European Council and the European Parliament.
