Teilzertifizierung im Berufsfeld Veranstaltungstechnik 3 - Assessment and Recommendation for Part-Certification in the Professional Field of event technology

"The modern reality of an ever-changing-workplace and the demographics of the EU will soon force job-seekers, employers, educators and their institutions as well as validating bodies and the regulatory bodies involved in vocational educational training to rely on processes for the recognition of lifelong learning outcomes. The speed of change and the explosion of knowledge as well as the quick evolution of technologies requires people to learn at many intervals throughout their lives.The TeBeVAT 3 project within the scope of Erasmus+ focuses on the recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning outputs in the special labour-market of event technology - a truly international area of occupation, as numerous employees are engaged in cross-border operations. Therefore, this field is of remarkable interest for the present transnational project. This project will be a follow-up to the three former projects ECVÆT (ECVET-system of competences) and TeBeVAT 1 & 2 as well as including results and information gained through the ETTE, LAAR, and TALQ projects.The occupation of event technician can have the function of a role model for the validation of non-formal and informal learning-outputs in other professions. Such models provide valuable contributions to the European Commissions’ education policy since many years. People without a formal certification but with profound professional knowledge, skills, and competences should not only get the chance for a formal validation, but also be empowered with a self-regulated learning process enabling them to have a central asset: A Lifelong-Learning-Document-Tool. The process belongs to the candidate and the identification and recognition of lifelong learning outcomes can be the key to employment opportunities and career choices. The development of a valid diagnostic instrument represents a key-challenge to the efforts of including uncertified workers into the labour market. In the previous TeBeVAT projects first an instrument in a partial field (TeBeVAT 1) was tested and then extended to all fields of the event technology (TeBeVAT 2). Throughout this process, the ESCO occupational skill profiles were correlated accordingly. Consistently the process of non-formal learning with a mentor and the informal learning with a own, ""private"" didactic gained increased attention within TeBeVAT 2. To advance these developments, TeBeVAT 3 will provide a clear basis for the identification and recognition of non-formal and informal learning and ultimately complete the TeBeVAT-process. This will be done by defining the last (missing) phase - the assessment and appeals process. The development of assessment strategies in correlation with assessment tools (methodologies) will deliver concrete guidelines and procedures for organisations to fulfil the requirements of EN-ISO-IEC 17024 (Conformity assessment - General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) in the context of the sector. This includes the application process, rights of candidates and appeal process. Occupational profiles of the TeBeVAT mentor and assessor will be developed based on the ESCO competences and detailed in a sectoral layer in a sector specific environment. In addition, the assessor is responsible and manages the assessment process, which the mentor has to know likewise. To fulfill all the requirements specific training modules (based on the developed occupational profiles) for the assessor and the mentor will be necessary and developed in TeBeVAT 3 with specific event technic related tasks under consideration of social components. This approach enables the further use of the training modules for different occupational areas. TeBeVAT 3 will clear the way for formal certification, whether partial or in full. In a first step the prerequisites and expectations of national authorities like the awarding bodies will be examined and mapped with measured stakeholder (e.g. candidates, employers) requirements and provided as a TeBeVAT policy recommendation. These recommendations will be an aggregation of all contents from the TeBeVAT projects in a concise, readable and accurate way. For wider dissemination and constant availability of the TeBeVAT contents a TeBeVAT Online Handbook will be implemented. This includes the large TeBeVAT Glossary with needed definitions for a common understanding and TeBeVAT Guidelines for the hole TeBeVAT process. By implementing a Wiki, the further collaborative work on the TeBeVAT contents will be made possible and all contents can be accessed and transferred every time.In the end, the TeBeVAT-Process will facilitate an EU-wide recognition platform, that will allow learners to truly own their own lifelong learning perspective that is understood and accepted by the employers, educational institutions and regulating bodies. This will counteract the lack of specialists of the labour market by integration and enabling transnational exchange of professionals."