Leonardo da Vinci Thematic Conference

5-6 July 2007

Rome – Italy

“Competences, Learning outcomes, Qualifications:

Transparency contributing to Employability”

Venue: Centro Congressi Frentani, Via dei Frentani 4 – 00185 Rome (Italy)

AGENDA

July 5, 2007

12.00 Registration of participants & Opening of Exhibition area

13.00 Welcome Lunch for all Participants

14.30 Introduction to the day

Ms Marina Rozera, ISFOL - Director of LLP-Leonardo da Vinci National Agency (IT)

14.45 Welcome Addresses

Mr Sergio Trevisanato, ISFOL President (IT)

Ms Vera Marincioni, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Director General for Guidance and Training Policies (IT)

15.10 The contribution of the Lifelong Learning – Leonardo da Vinci Programme to promote employability

Mr Joao Delgado, European Commission – Directorate General for Education and Culture – Head of Unit B5 “Leonardo da Vinci”

15.30 Transparency of qualifications and competences to support employability

Ms Marta Ferreira, European Commission – Directorate General for Education and Culture – Head of Unit A3

“Vocational training and adult education”

15.50 Questions and Answers session

16.00 Coffee and Networking

16.30 Skills and qualifications: the needs of the labour market in Italy

Mr Domenico Mauriello, Senior researcher, Study Center of Unioncamere

17.00 Questions and Answers session

17.15 End of first day

July 6, 2007

9.30 Introduction to Workshops Session

Chair: Ms Marina Rozera, ISFOL - Director of LLP-Leonardo da Vinci National Agency (IT)

Speaker: Mr Loukas Zahilas, Project Manager, CEDEFOP

10.00 Workshops Session (6 workshops run simultaneously)

Experts and projects presentations

WS	Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3
Title	Towards National Qualifications Frameworks: challenges and perspectives	Learning outcomes as a basis for credit transfer	Methods and tools for the assessment of competences
Chair	Ms Karine Jacques, ECOTEC - National Agency for Leonardo, Grundtvig & Transversal Programmes (UK)	Mr Klaus Fahle, National Agency Education for Europe at BIBB (DE)	Ms Sonia Dubourg-Lavroff, Agence Europe Education Formation (FR)
Expert/s	Ms Gabriella Di Francesco, ISFOL – Department of Learning Systems and Methodologies (IT)	Ms Gabriela Ciobanu, National Center for TVET Development (RO) Mr Jean-Luc Lamboley, Université Pierre Mendès France, Bologna Experts Network (FR)	Mr Tijs Pijls, CINOP (NL)
Experiences	Ms Linda Betraoui, CNCP (FR): The French experience Mr Eduard Staudecker, Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture (AT): The Austrian experience	Mr Philippe Perfetti, Assemblée Permanente des Chambres de Métiers (FR), ECVET project “S-M-E Master” (DE) Mr Hans Thormählen, Arbeit und Leben Hamburg (DE) and Mr Norbert Reimer, Airbus Germany (DE), Leonardo project “Developing common modules.. for mechanics and electronic engineers…”	Mr Håkan Linde and Mr Ingemar Andreasson, Utek (SE), Leonardo project “VOMTE; IT-based Validation and Certification System for practical working Maintenance Technicians” Ms Barbara De Micheli, EXA TEAM (IT), Leonardo project “VAI – Valorising non-formal and informal learning within SMEs”
Rapporteur	Ms Marianne Feldt, Leonardo da Vinci National Agency – Internationella programkontoret för utbildningsområdet (SE)	Mr Rolf Kristiansen, Masters of Crafts-Mesterbrevnemda (NO)	Ms Daniela Staneva, Human Resource Development Centre (BG)

WS	Workshop 4	Workshop 5	Workshop 6
Title	The role of guidance to foster employability	Sectoral approaches to qualifications	Mobility as an asset for professional development
Chair	Ms María Kristín Gylfadóttir, Leonardo da Vinci National Agency (IS)	Mr Siegfried Willems, National Agency Leonardo da Vinci (NL)	Ms Irina Severin, NACPFEVT – Agentia Nationala Pentru Programe Comunitare(RO)
Expert/s	Ms Elisabeth Gros, Centre Euroguidance (FR)	Mr André Richier, European Commission - Directorate General Enterprise and Industry – Innovation Policy Directorate	Mr Saul Meghnagi, Istituto Superiore di Formazione (IT)
Projects	Ms Anna Maria Ajello and Ms Cristina Belardi, Università Roma 1 (IT), Leonardo project “EGEIS - European guidance and the evaluation of informal skills” Ms Teresa Hemar, Centre Interinstitutionnel de Bilan de Compétences (FR), Leonardo project “EuroguideVal” (SE)	Mr Gerald Thiel, Dekra Academy (DE), Leonardo project “Embedding standards” Ms Clementina Marinoni, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (IT), Leonardo project “EURO ICT LANE”	Ms Janka Fedorova, Secondary Agricultural School in Pruske (SK), Leonardo project “Teachers exchange of the FLORNET network” Mr Kaspar Fischer, MAN Diesel SE (DE) Leonardo project “Industrial-technical trainees are trained in Danish companies” Mr Ulisses Garrido, CGTP (PT), Leonardo project “European Passport of trade union skills” (FR)
Rapporteur	Mr Gerhard Volz, National Agency for Lifelong Learning (AT)	Ms Siv Andersen, Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NO)	Mr Cristian Popescu, NACPFEVT – Agentia Nationala Pentru Programe Comunitare(RO)

11.30 Coffee and Networking

12.00 Workshops Session Debate

13.30 Lunch

15.00 Presentation of Workshops Conclusions

Workshops rapporteurs

15.30 Round table discussion: “Transparency of Qualifications and Employability – Bridges and Challenges in Europe”

Chair: Ms Alessandra Tomai, Ministry of Labour and Social Security - D.G. for Guidance and Training Policies – Head of Unit ESF Coordination

Participants: Mr Wilhelm Vukovich - European Commission-DGEAC, Mr Michel Aribaud - European Commission-DGEAC, Mr Loukas Zahilas - CEDEFOP, Mr Peter Thiele - Federal Ministry of Education and Research (DE), Mr Roberto Pettenello - CES/ETUC, Mr Octavian Bojan - Employers Association of Bucharest (RO)

17.00 Conference conclusions, Ms Alessandra Tomai, Ministry of Labour and Social Security

17.15 Goodbye cocktail