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OFTL® EUROPE
Leonardo da Vinci Program – Transfer of Innovation (2008)
General description of the project.
In today's European labour market the procedures to match supply and demand are rarely codified and are often aleatory. At this stage, a legislative intervention of the Union on this matter has been required by different parties. The problems to tackle often concern: lack of availability of workers with professional skills that satisfy the requirements of companies; lack of guidance of the non employed and/or unemployed in the choice of the professional direction to take considering the local context; progressive lack of public funds for effective employment placement which is satisfactory for both worker and company. With these problems in mind the Istituto A. Provolo in Verona (Italy) has conceived, tested, defined and modelled the OFTL® Orientamento-Formazione-Tirocinio-Lavoro system (Guidance – Training – Apprenticeship - Work), which has the purpose of overcoming temporary employment in favour of the employment of the unemployed. The purpose of OFTL EUROPE is to transfer OFTL®, an innovative Vocational Training system that offers “lifelong” Guidance, Training and Transition to Work support. Project Objectives are: the study in partner countries of the different legislative “feasibility conditions”, of the job market, career guidance systems, and employment assistance training; the study and selection of the innovative OFTL® elements that satisfy said requirements and their feasibility in the transfer process; testing of the OFTL® system in view of its integration, in terms of training procedures, in the bodies of partner countries; adaptation of the OFTL® system to the requirements and needs of the different partner countries.
The partnership is made up of partners from six European countries with a high level of expertise in the guidance and training field and many years of experience, some over twenty years, as regards taking part in and managing European projects.
The project addresses temporary workers, long-term unemployed people, workers on a mobility list, the disabled according to Law 68/99 and immigrants with a valid permit to stay in the country.
OFTL EUROPE shall be divulged through an Operating Manual and CD ROM.
The results achieved by OFTL Europe will support the creation of integrated guidance, training and employment systems that will allow people to acquire new know-how, update skills and above all become marketable in the labour market.
The OFTL EUROPE project will produce cascade effects as regards: the improvement and adaptation of system competences; marketability of the acquired competences; increase in guidance and employment placement actions; employment opportunities for people with weak qualifications.
Improving the effectiveness of vocational training (.pdf)
OFTL EUROPE actions include:
1. RESEARCH (though a comparative study) into the “feasibility conditions” for the transfer of OFTL®; this will include methods to find financial resources, public/private network working methods, characteristics of job intermediation firms and types of “just in time” training.
The final step of this action will be the identification of the basic elements of the OFTL EUROPE network operational procedure.
2. TESTING through the implementation of the operational procedure called OFTL EUROPE; the partners shall plan one or more OFTL programmes and prepare the local network protocol for employment placement.
This action foresees the creation of OFTL Europe programmes (at trans-national level) and the preparation of the local protocol to support the creation of OFTL Europe programmes.
3. Scientific VALIDATION of the OFTL EUROPE operational procedure tested in each partner country and of the jointly planned programmes.
The final step of this action will include the production of a Manual and CD ROM and the application for the patent for OFTL EUROPE for each partner country.
4. DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS; at European level this will be achieved through a trans-national seminar for the presentation of OFTL EUROPE; in each partner country it will be achieved through a local seminar for the presentation of the results and CD ROM produced in the national language of the partner countries.
The final step of this action will include the application for the EU patent for OFTL EUROPE.
General description of OFTL Europe products
OFTL Europe project provides to realize several mid-term and final products:
1) Project web site, used both to promote and disseminate the structure and the results of the project and to give project partners an on-line platform to discuss, exchange good practices and to up/download products and materials.
The web site will have different areas of content.
a) General information of OFTL Europe (descriptions, partners, expected results and products).
b) Project materials available for all users.
c) Project materials available on a private section, to be downloaded and uploaded by partners.
d) Private platform to be used by partners to constantly communicate (on-line conferences).
e) Further developments of OFTL procedures.
2) Research procedure, to be translated in all the partner languages. It will be used for providing partners and other beneficiaries with a research pattern to deepen the relation among labour market, training and employment agencies in different backgrounds.
The research procedure includes all the necessary guide lines to analyze the national and local backgrounds of involved partners. The procedure will provide a general path to collect information about the conditions of feasibility of OFTL procedures.
The target of this product are:
- Project partners;
- Any organization, institution, enterprise determined to understand how to use OFTL procedures in its own context.
The expected result concerns the set up of an operative system of instructions useful to understand the effectiveness of OFTL procedures in different backgrounds.
3) OFTL Europe manual, hard copy and CD-ROM: it will summarize the development of the project, taking in consideration all the partners' contributions, in order to have a pattern effective at European level. Since it will be translated in all the languages, each partner will use the manual to disseminate the project results in its specific context.
The OFTL Europe manual is supposed to be the main project product. It will include information about legal, economic and social differences and common points among involved partners; examples of OFTL procedures tested in different backgrounds; interactive materials; instructions and suggestions about how to create an OFTL procedure and make it effective.
The target of this product are:
- Project partners;
- Any VET organization, institution, enterprise interested in the project and its further developments. The expected results concern the overall summary of the project development, including all the adjustments depending on partners' contributions and suggestions. The CD-ROM will be also an attractive tool for dissemination and exploitation of the project at European level.
Involved partners
WSINF - College of Computer Science
Address: Rzgowska 17a 93-008 Lodz Poland
Homepage: http://www.wsinf.edu.pl
Wisamar
Address: Ungerstr. 6 04318 Leipzig Germany
Homepage: http://www.wisamar.de
HRDC - Hellenic Regional Development Center
Address: 138 Ag. Andreou Str GR 262 22 Patras Greece
Homepage: http://www.hrdc.org.gr
CNA - Cefag
Address: 61 rue Orfila 75020 Paris France
Homepage: http://www.cna-cefag.org/
University of Cyprus
Address: Kallipoleos Street 75 1678 Nicosia Cyprus
Homepage: http://www.ucy.ac.cy
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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