RAFT: Work-based learning recognition

💡 The future of Adult Learning: share your ideas and wishes for the future of education 📚
How can Adult Education contribute to matching people’s skills and competences with labour market needs while supporting their desire for personal development? How does Adult Learning need to change for the future? Which innovations are needed in the face of current challenges and crises? What do professionals want?
EPALE, the e-platform of adult education in Europe is currently collecting answers to these questions and more to compile and publish them digitally in the EPALE Community Storybook. Adult educators are invited to share their ideas and visions as a “community story” until 30 September.

👉 Check it out: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/2023-community-stories-initiative

In 2016, the Council of the European Union adopted the Recommendation on „Upskilling Pathways: New Opportunities for Adults”. Its objective is to respond to the risk for adults who do not possess a functional level of basic skills to get stuck in a „low skills-poor jobs trap”, and to provide adults with lower level of skills, knowledge or competence with opportunities to develop basic skills and/or acquire a wider set of skills, relevant for active participation in society and the labour market.
In the course of the European Year of Skills 2023, the Commission has now evaluated the actions taken in response to the Council Recommendation on Upskilling Pathways and the evaluation package was adopted recently. The results paint a picture of an overall moderate impact of the Recommendation, and the findings confirm the relevance of projects like RAFT in the context of skills assessment, the provision of tailored and flexible learning offers and the validation and recognition of acquired skills.

👉 For the full report click here: https://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=27023&langId=en

Philipp Assinger, Assistant Professor at Institute of Educational Science of the University of Graz visited Chance B for research work in the course of his habilitation project on the quality of validation procedures in Austria. He interviewed Priska Schukoff in her functions as project manager of RAFT and KomKom with the objective to gain insights in the quality and in quality assurance of KomKom as a validation procedure and its potential in the context of inclusion in the education system and on the labour market. 🗣️💬

👉 Learn more about Philipp Assinger’s research: https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/philipp.assinger/forschung/

On July, 1st Europass celebrated the 3 year anniversary since the launch of the new Europass and 5 million registered users. In the context of the European Year of Skills, Europass has also launched a new tool called ‘Job and Skills Trends’. This tool is a dynamic resource that helps users identify the occupations most in demand in a particular EU country or the most relevant skills required for a specific occupation which makes it easier to make informed career decisions. 🤝

👉 Check out the tool here: https://europa.eu/europass/eportfolio/screen/skills-intelligence?lang=en