1) The document outlines a project to create and consolidate the IMI Network for Professional Qualifications in Romania (IMI PQ NET) to support the development of the Internal Market Information System. 2) The project has several partners including the Ministry of National Education and the National Qualifications Authority. It aims to better use the IMI system to facilitate administrative cooperation between EU member states. 3) Planned activities include workshops and trainings to build institutional capacity and involve network members in information exchange through the IMI platform. The project also aims to develop common reference terms for certification standards.

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STUDY VISIT INSTUDY VISIT IN DKDK
27th
of May – 1st
of June 2013
Strategic ProjectStrategic Project
Network of Competent Authorities forNetwork of Competent Authorities for
Professional QProfessional Qualificationualificationss in Romaniain Romania (IMI PQ NET Rom(IMI PQ NET Romaania)nia)
ID 53132

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Project overviewProject overview
1. Partners
2. General objective
3. Specific objectives
4. Project activities
5. Results expected
6. Results obtained until today
•
Events in 2011, 2012 şi 2013
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Next events in 2013
7. Conclusions

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PartnersPartners
The Ministry of National Education (MEN, www.edu.ro) participates since 2008 to the
implementation of the IMI PQ (Internal Market Information System, component of
“Professional Qualifications”) in Romania, as an IMI Delegated/Legislative Area coordinator.
The National Qualifications Authority (ANC, www.anc.gov.ro) implements the National
Qualifications Framework by: elaborating methodologies, instruments and procedures;
supporting the education institutions to apply this; assuring the functioning of the informatics
support and updating the Qualifications National Registry; publishing manuals, guides and
good practices, studies, information bulletins as well as other dissemination and promotion
materials of the national and European qualifications system.
The “Institute for Social Politics” Association (IPS, www.politicisociale.ro) contributed to
the conception and elaboration of the project, is effectively involved in the progress of the
promotion actions of the project, media events and in the organization of conferences of
promotion of the IMI PQ system in Romania, through its wide expertise in the domain of
formation and information and publicity actions.

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General objectiveGeneral objective
Creating and consolidating the IMI Network for Professional Qualifications
in Romania (IMI PQ NET),
towards sustaining the initiative of the European Commission regarding
the development of the Internal Market Information System

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Specific objectivesSpecific objectives
Use the IMI centralised communication instrument
to implement the Administrative Cooperation
between Member States with support from
the European Commission
A better and efficient use
of the European legislation
related to the Internal Market
Improve
the Internal
Market functioning

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Specific objectives (2)Specific objectives (2)
a) Creating and development the IMI NET Network for Professional Qualifications in
Romania  support activities at a national level;
b) Involving the network members in the information exchange enabled on the IMI
platform, by providing information/data based on the requests addressed through this
platform by the organizations/associations from EU/EEA
 active participation in the information exchange;
c) Creating, developing and implementing common reference terms regarding the
certification standards of the Romanian workforce competencies and recognition of
the European Community citizens’ professional qualifications
 appropriate working tools and procedure for reciprocal consulting.

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Project activitiesProject activities
• A1. Institutional capacity building of social partners (competent authority –AC)
and strengthen their member services
• A2. Activities to strengthen multi-sectoral partnership structure created by the
project (IMI PQ NET Network) platform with the support of the European
Commission IMI PQ
• A3. Support social partners and the partnership formalized by IMI PQ NET
network, the development and active involvement in the network
• A4. Promoting partnerships and ensuring communication between competent
authorities in Romania and the Member States of the EU / EEA, the platform PQ
IMI (Innovative activities)
• A5. Improved and diversified services for AC members via ICT supported
platform, which will provide information through websites (web-based Portal
with support for standard database)

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1. Sustaining 70 social partners and non-governmental organizations through the
activities developed in the project;
2. Supporting 63 partners / non-governmental organizations that offer services to the
community by developing networks and partnerships with the representatives of the
civil society;
3. Sustaining 30 Competent Authorities for standardization;
4. Signing 40 collaboration protocols;
5. Developing and implementing the IT&C Support Platform of the IMI PQ NET network;
6. Achieving 7 training sessions with users of the support platform;
7. Organizing 5 annual conferences / regular meetings with staff members of the
network;
8. Organizing 6 training and information sessions addressed to a number of 140 persons
from the Competent Authorities members / staff;
9. Organizing 3 workshops with the Management/Implementation team members and
Competent Authorities guests-participants in order to define the contents;
Results expectedResults expected

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10. Organizing 21 workshops for the members of IMI PQ RO Working Group and
dividing them in subgroups for professional formation, assistance, exchange of
good practices, provided with the purpose of raising the capacity and
competences in order to make an analysis of the actual fields legislation:
a) recognition of qualifications;
b) regulation of the services that provide professional formation;
c) competences validation and certification;
11. Realizing and implementing the procedure of competences validation /
certification as well as organizing the processes of qualification recognition;
Results expected (2)Results expected (2)

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12. Implementing the formation sectorial plans and strategies and the certification /
authorization standards of the professional formation provision services:
• Integrating some standard reference terms for the validation and
certification procedures and for the processes of recognition of the
professional qualifications by elaborating some publications;
• Elaborating 30 certification and recognition guides for standardized
professions / professional qualifications through assistance, consultancy,
information, for the standard implementation;
• Drafting some action plans that support professional formation,
development and implementation at the Competent Authorities that wish to
benefit of consultancy, information, evaluation for this purpose.
Results expected (Results expected (33))

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Results obtained until todayResults obtained until today
a) Creating the area IMI PQ NET Romania Working Group: approx. 60 collaboration
protocols signed with various organizations in Romania (professional associations,
sectoral commitees, ministries, agencies); 420 persons designated in the Working
Group;
b) Selection of the external experts of the Ministry of National Education and of the
National Qualifications Authority;
c) Creating the ToR (terms of reference) required for the development of the national
IT&C support platform for the users of IMI System;
d) Elaborating the Terms of Reference (ToR) pentru calificări, documentaţie şi procese,
standardizare (rundele 2 şi 3 din ateliere)
e) Implementation of a prototype of the IT&C support platform, hosted in the Data
Center of the Ministry of National Education – www.imipqnet.ro/fengoffice .

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1. Project launch (Bucharest, April 2011)
2. The 1st
meeting of IMI PQ NET Romania Working Group (Mamaia, June 2011)
3. The 1st
annual conference to promote IMI in Romania (Bucharest, September 2011)
4. The 1st
training session for IMI PQ users in Romania (Bucharest, September 2011) -
version 4 of IMI
5. Study visit to the UK (London and Manchester, November 2011)
6. The 1st
annual conference of the Network IMI PQ NET Romania (December 2011)
Events in 2011Events in 2011

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1. The first round of workshops in the SA 1.3 + SA 3.1 (Sinaia, March 2012)
2. The 2nd
meeting of the IMI PQ NET Romania Working Group (Sinaia, March 2012)
3. The first round of workshops in the SA 3.2 + SA 3.4 (Sinaia, May 2012)
4. Training course for “Evaluation of Competencies" (Neptun, July 2012)
5. Training course for "Strategic Management" (Neptun, September 2012)
6. The 2nd
training session for IMI PQ users in Romania (Neptune, September 2012) -
version 5 of IMI
7. The 2nd
annual conference of IMI PQ NET Romania (Neptun, September 2012)
8. Study visit to the Netherlands (November 2012)
9. Study visit in Italy (November 2012)
10. The 2nd
annual conference to promote IMI in Romania (Sibiu, December 2012)
11. The 3rd
meeting of the IMI PQ NET Romania Working Group (Sibiu, December 2012)
Events in 2012Events in 2012

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1. The 3rd
training session for IMI PQ users in Romania Romania (Bucharest, January
2013) - version 6 of IMI
2. Study visit to Spain (January 2013)
3. The 3rd
round of workshops "Support for social partners" (Brasov, February 2013)
4. Workshops "The development of standard terms of reference for the procedures of
validation and certification of competences and qualifications recognition processes"
(Sinaia, April 2013)
5. Workshops on "Information, training and advisory services for the competent authorities,
taking into account their needs (legal and financial issues, implementation of procedures
for validation / certification of competence, organization processes of recognition of
qualifications / authorization providing training services)“ (Sinaia, April 2013)
6. Specialty training program “Occupational Standards“ (Brasov, May 2013)
Events in 2013Events in 2013

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1. Study visit in Denmark (May 2013)
2. The 4th
meeting of the working group IMI PQ NET Romania (Tulcea, June 2013)
3. The 2nd
conference to promote IMI (Tulcea, June 2013)
4. Study visit to Germany (June 2013)
5. Study visit to Portugal (June 2013)
6. The 3rd
round of the workshops “Information and advice for achieving the terms of
reference” (July 2013)
7. The specialty training program “Legislative competences (July 2013)ˮ
8. The 4th
training session IMI PQ users in Romania (Bucharest, September 2013) - version
7 of IMI
9. Closing Conference of the project (Bucharest, October 2013)
Next events in 2013Next events in 2013

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CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS
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The Ministry of National Education (MEN), through its specific statute and
responsibilities concerning the projection, foundation and implementation of the
global education strategy, assures a support platform essential to the project, due to
the infrastructure, expertise and human resources carried along for this purpose.
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The ”IMI PQ Net România” project supports the development and the
implementation of the “Internal Market Information System” (IMI) at national level
through the development of consolidation activities of the social partner’s network.

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CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS
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The IMI PQ NET România network includes organizations (social partners) and professional
associations from Romania that are authorized through laws or other administrative acts to regulate the
processes of professional qualification recognition, as well as for the non-regulated, as well as to
elaborate standards and methodologies for the formation, certification and validation of the competences
for these qualifications.
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The network will be expanded as the European Commission extends the IMI system by covering a
larger number of professions and qualifications. Therefore, the members of the network will benefit from
assistance and will take part at a series of training sessions that have the role to support them in the
management of the information exchange that is realized through the IMI system.
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The goal is to raise on long term the institutional capacity of the social partners (professional
associations, governmental organizations) and the consolidation of the services intended for their
members as well as for the wide public (Romanian or community citizens from other EU Member
States).

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Thank you!Thank you!
Nicoleta IGNAT
Responsible for project monitoring
nicoleta_ignat@yahoo.com
www.imipqnet.ro/en
Alexandru-Ionut CHIUTA
Methodologic expert
alexandru.chiuta@medu.edu.ro
www.imipqnet.ro/fengoffice