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ECVET development
ECVET ExPERTS TEAMS
Irene Ntroutsa, Leonardo da Vinci coordinator and Alexandra Baka, Leonardo Mobility Action coordinator- the State
Scholarships’ Foundation-IKY (Greek National Agency)
Greek ECVET expert team
The last major developments in the
Greek VET landscape depict the legal
and institutional consolidation of
the National Qualifications Framework
along with a synchronized transfer of
focus from the content-oriented to output
–oriented approach. The design and
implementation of ECVET has arisen as
a top priority in Greek VET policy as a
means that will ensure vertical and horizontal
learning mobility, opening up learning
pathways and align in a coherent
manner the initial vocational training and
the continuous VET sub-systems.
With the Greek ECVET system under
elaboration, the aim of this project is
to analyze and project the relationship
between ECVET and the national VET
systems and initiatives with respect to
the appraisal, validation and certification
processes, as well as the accumulation,
capitalization and certification processes
for skills gained through VET in order to
identify the favourable conditions and
the obstacles emerging in Greece.
The ECVET Team in Greece consists
of three members being occupied and
professionally active in decision-making
bodies in the VET sector. The team has
already started working on the promo-
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tion of ECVET through events and activities
with the aim of safeguarding the
integration of ECVET to other national
and institutional initiatives and projects
in order to enhance mainstreaming. The
first results that have been produced so
far are the following:
• Design and production of an interim
report on the policies that have been
developed in Greece in connection
to ECVET. The interim report focuses
on the policies and initiatives taken to
promote the ECVET with particular
emphasis on the role of stakeholders,
their maturity and acceptance degree
of participation to the credit transfer
system and its interoperability to the
National Qualifications Framework.
Undoubtedly, the enactment and implementation
of the NQF constitutes
the central point which will contribute
to the promotion and deployment of
ECVET.
• Elaboration of a national report on
the state-of-the-art in VET in Greece
focusing on four principal axes: i) the
analysis of the institutional and legal
framework, ii) the critical review of the
operational and business context of
VET providers, iii) the implementation
of NQF, iv) the strategic planning for
the promotion of ECVET.
• Design and conduction of a survey
based on an on-line tool for collecting
and analyzing the views, opinions and
thoughts of the various VET providers,
stakeholders and decision makers.
The results of this survey will be
concluded in the beginning of 2013.
• Organization of a focus group approach
with the active participation of
20 representatives from key VET policy
makers, political and institutional
bodies, competent organizations and
employees’ unions and associations.
The focus group, which achieved its
expected objectives with great success,
addressed the following challenging
issues:
a the activation of VET providers and
stakeholders towards the development
of credit transfer systems;
b the most appropriate and effective
organization of the VET sector
in order to create the prosperous
field for a credit transfer system;
c analysis of the interrelation of vocational
standards, job profiles,
learning outcomes and skills validation;
d the infrastructure and the preconditions
required so that the Greek
VET sector will be able to sustainably
and constructively use the
ECVET system.
The results will be qualitatively analyzed
using content analysis method.
The Greek ECVET team will thoroughly
examine and deliver results such as:
• Production of a handbook that will explain
the role and purpose of ECVET in
Greek VET system as well as provide
simple examples on how to implement
it successfully.
• Organization of three training workshops
which will provide the necessary
background for refining and enriching
the ECVET concept in the Greek VET