QUANTUM

The project aims to promote the relevance and effectiveness of vocational education and training (VET) with regard to employment in Europe, by creating and testing multi-stakeholder quality networks in Slovakia, Austria, Italy and Portugal. The Quality Networks have been working on new monitoring tools or systems based on feedback loops and graduate tracking in order to improve the overall quality of VET in the areas of EQAVET indicators No. 5 and 6.

Project Goals

• create a common graduate tracing system for VET, in order to have a clearer picture of VET graduates and improve the availability of comparable data on employment of VET graduates, as highlighted in the Council Recommendation on the tracing of graduates (2017);
• to create an appropriate framework for cooperation that will be beneficial to all participants and enable mutual learning,
• encourage the use of common practices, in particular in the field of adaptation of the peer review method and EQAVET indicators.

Project activities

• creation and piloting of national/regional quality networks that will serve as a systematic model of cooperation between VET providers, policy makers and other target groups
• definition and implementation of a joint monitoring system for quality assurance and relevance of VET in cooperation with various actors,
• Implementation of focus group meetings and 4 trainings in the field of quality assurance and peer review

Project outcomes

• The Joint Monitoring System
• guidelines for setting up and implementation of quality networks in VET
• capacity building, implementation and sustainability of quality networks
• Recommendations for policy makers at regional and national level

More informations:

Sylvia Luti - liuti@azione.com