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ECVET development
Ms Claudia Villante and Ms Michela Volpi, ISFOL – LLP - Leonardo da Vinci National Agency, Italy
Italian ECVET expert team
Framework
Dynamic institutional processes regarding
the labour market and the performance
of education and training system
are ongoing in Italy. The recent reform
of the Labour Market (Law 92/2012)
approved by the Italian Parliament on
July 2012 contains specific reference
to lifelong learning provisions thus offering
some space for a gradual implementation
of ECVET: the establishment
of steady local networks of VET providers
to ensure lifelong learning and guidance,
the recognition and validation of
non formal and informal learning (NFIL),
a national competence certification system
and a national inventory of qualifications
as well as the possibility to recognize
NFIL as learning outcome credit
with reference to qualifications included
in the national inventory. Furthermore, in
the last months Italy intensively worked
on the EQF Referencing Report through
a wide consultation process.
22 ECVET magazine n°12 / December 2012
Aims
Within this framework, the Italian Team
of ECVET Experts, coordinated by IS-
FOL – LLP - Leonardo da Vinci National
Agency with the financial support
of the European Commission and the
Italian Ministry of Labour, aims at giving
an answer to the widespread interest
towards ECVET by the several actors
involved in the VET context.
The team includes 13 experts : researchers
in the field of VET and labour
market policies, members of the ECVET
Users‘ Group established at European
level, project officers of the LLP – Leonardo
da Vinci Programme, members of
the National Coordination Point for EQF,
Members of the National Reference
Point for Quality, Members of the National
Europass Centre, experts involved in
ECVET pilot projects.
The main aims of the National Team of
ECVET Experts are the following:
• increasing the knowledge of ECVET
and its technical specifications and
ensuring that the added value of
ECVET is understood and perceived,
in view of a progressive accumulation
of learning outcomes in a lifelong
learning perspective and transfer of
results from one learning context to
another;
• supporting the implementation and
the concrete use of this tool in Italy, in
coherence with the ongoing reforms in
education and training as well as with
labour market needs;
• promoting a more effective and widespread
exploitation of the testing opportunities
currently offered by the
LLP – Leonardo Programme, in order
to support implementation of practices
on ECVET and consolidation of
mutual trust among several actors involved;