The document discusses the European Scheme for Validation of Competencies (ESVaC) and its role in moving towards the Catalan Space for Vocational Education and Training (VET.CAT). It describes some of ESVaC's successes in strengthening trust and transparency between European regions. It then outlines challenges for integrating VET subsystems and moving towards lifelong learning goals. Finally, it proposes plans for developing the VET.CAT framework through adapting qualifications, developing teaching standards, and piloting the credit transfer system in certain professional fields.

1. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
Firenze-
ESVaC
European Scheme for Validation of
Competencies
From ESVaC to the
Catalan Space for VET
Miquel INGLÉS. Firenze. September 2007
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

2. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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ESVaC successes
• Visualisation and comparison of the levels of
transparency and opacity among the
different regional systems and identification
of the present difficulties, barriers and limits
of permeability among them.
• Strengthening of a trust network in 5
European Regions: Tuscany, Catalonia,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Västra Götland and Wales.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

3. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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Deconstructing VET’s inner parts
• Ghettos: segregating subsystems.
Ghettos
• Walls and barriers: national legislations.
barriers
• Strongholds and tolls: standardisation and
tolls
validation.
• Mirages: adaptation to the market’s needs.
Mirages
• Technocentrism: functional analysis.
Technocentrism
• Expensive and non-viable pyramids:
pyramids
integration.
• Mist: opacity among teaching institutions
Mist
and subsystems.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

4. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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Non-appropriate VET legal framework
• A complex and afar from reality subsystem
architecture is visible through the current
legal framework for VET.
• It neither fosters nor prevents relationship
processes among VET subsystems.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

5. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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Lisbon 2010 agenda
• A European space for VET.
• A lifelong learning system.
• Professional mobility and employability.
• European educational pathways: learning
accumulation and transfer.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

6. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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A remarkable European heritage
• Consolidated national systems.
• National European Qualifications
Framework.
• Common Quality Assurance Framework.
• EUROPASS.
• VET students mobility inside the European
space.
• Complementary “European Classes” in VET
teaching institutions.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

7. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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European guidelines for VET
• Quality improvement in VET.
• Support to the professional mobility.
• Implementation of devices ensuring the
learning transfer and validation.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

8. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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ECVET: a solution just in time
• Credits: learning units acknowledged by all
Credits
European stakeholders.
• Mobility: facilitated and ensured.
Mobility
• Transnational connectivity: technically
connectivity
comparable, connectable, compatible.
• Subsystems permeability: open; validation
permeability
and capitalisation.
• Organisational and managerial flexibility:
flexibility
personal pathways.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

9. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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Integration of VET subsystems
• The nearly two decades long effort on the
need for standardisation and integration of
VET subsytems has not yielded actual
results.
• VET integration brought into light institutional
slowness and legitimate interests of the
stakeholders. These facts acted as inhibitors
of the whole process.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

10. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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The Copenhaguen process: VET.CAT
• The VET Catalan space is devised as an
integrated system of accumulation and
transmission of validation units of
competence. This system will make it easier
to obtain certifications and diplomas based
on combinations and validations of modules,
credits or units.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

11. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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VET.CAT answers to LLL
• The Catalan space immersed in the VET
European space shall provide a solution for
the LLL challenge through personal
pathways, validation and mobility.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

12. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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VET.CAT Challenges
VET.CAT shall endow Catalonia with VET and
LLL immersed in the European space, giving
answers to:
• People’s working needs.
• Companies competitiveness.
• Development of the knowledge society.
• Contribution to social cohesion.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

13. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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VET.CAT construction
• Planification of the VET credit transfer
system.
• Experimentation of the credit transfer system
in certain professional fields.
• Follow up of the implementation of the VET
credit transfer system.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

14. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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Planification of the VET.CAT
• Adaptation of the Catalogue of Professional
Diplomas and Qualifications (CQF) to ECVET.
CQF
• Design and development of the diplomas included
in the Educational Modular Catalogue.
• Set up of the quality criteria for the teaching
institutions (CQAF).
CQAF
• Development of the legal framework.
• Research and innovation.
• Development of programmes and methodologies.
• Lifelong Learning for teachers and experts.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

15. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
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VET.CAT Pilot Plan
• Holistic action in the VET system.
• Actual innovation projects in Catalan public
schools.
• Examples of validation of knowledge
acquired through working experience.
• Technical co-ordination and follow up of the
Pilot Plan both by the Regional Ministries of
Education and Work.
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació

16. European
ESVaC Scheme for
Validation of
Validation
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Firenze-September 2007
Firenze-
ESVaC
European Scheme for Validation of
Competencies
From ESVaC to VET.CAT
Miquel INGLÉS. Firenze. September 2007
Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Educació