The LeGaQual2Do project is the result of one decade long reflection on the training low-skilled employees, initiated with LeGaQual method. This thinking has evolved in past recent years and is even more relevant today in the context of high unemployment rate and the evolving demands of employers in terms of professional skills and geographical mobility. Recognition of professional competences and training experiences of learners is necessary so that the supply of employers and demand of learners can meet both on the French and European labour market. This recognition should give a response to the difficult access of precarious individuals or with specific needs first to vocational training and then to the classical labour market. Creation of job repositories (green spaces, cleaning and distribution/sales) according to the ECVET methodology, divided into Acquired Training Units, will lead to the consolidation of a common database. This new LeGaQual2Do database will be a memory tool of training experiences, of recognition of the acquired competences, of validation of acquired experiences, of skills’ transfer and of professionnal mobility. Vocational trainings and evaluation methods in the workplace will be adapted and proposed to low skilled people, as well as to technical supervisors and trainers. The LeGaQual2Do method (database, European Portfolio for the implementation of vocational trainings, educational tools and training programs) will be tested in each partner country, approximately 100 participants will benefit from that. The experimental stage of the LeGaqual2Do project is essential as far as it will determine the final form of vocational training programs, educational tools and its transnational dimension (2-3 participants per training module will participate in transnational mobilities). The methodology of the project implementation will be based on the involvement of all partner countries in each activity, whereas the phases of dissemination and of project monitoring will be under the responsibility of the project coordinator, la Régie des Ecrivains. Partner organizations from each of the five countries will collaborate on their side with a local training center and a local certification agency in order to optimize vocational trainings and skills’ recognition of learners there. Afterwards, all these experiences will be shared in order to make adjustments in terms of conduct and evaluation of vocationl trainings and to proceed to the formalization of a common methodology. La Régie des Ecrivains, the project coordinator, will guarantee both internal communication between partners and the external one around dissemination and development of the LeGaQual2Do method at European level. Supervision and evaluation of the project activities and results will be based on the Quality Plan in conjunction with the Steering Committee and on an appropriate strategy of risk management. In the short term, the project will impact mainly adult learners and target groups with spécial needs who will benefit from vocational trainings in workplace, from improving their professional skills and from ther recognition, as well as from their increased mobility on the national and European labour market. The potential benefits of the project in the long term will especially impact vocational training organisations and social enterprises which Professional positions will evolve and which will develop new learning methods and forms of evaluation.
The LeGaQual2Do project is the result of one decade long reflection about on-the-job training for low-skilled people, initiated with the LeGaQual method. This reflection has evolved in the past years and is even more relevant in today’s context characterized by high unemployment rate and evolving employers’ demands in terms of professional skills and geographical mobility. The recognition of learners’ professional skills and learning outcomes is necessary so that employers’ job offers and learners’ demands can be met both on the French and European labour market. This recognition should bring an answer to the difficult access of precarious individuals or with specific needs first to vocational training and then to the classical labour market. Hence the main objective of the project, which is the definition and the implementation of a protocol in on-the-job training and evaluation engineering in three activity sectors: cleaning, green spaces, sales and distribution. The aim is to promote access to certification and / or common law qualification for people searching professional integration or with disabilities, which must necessarily be accompanied by evolution of postures of different players involved in on-the-job training protocol: employee - learner, supervisor - trainer, trainer - evaluator. In this purpose, the partnership considered development of tools promoting integration of training models in professional situations, and aiming at certifications of common law within project partner countries. A tool allowing capitalization of skills acquired in the workplace and resulting European skills passports appear as guarantee of professional recognition at European level. The achievement of the project’s objectives and expected results was possible thanks to the composition of the partnership, led by the Régie des Ecrivains, which consisted in an articulation of actions between training centers, experts in pedagogy and certification, learning companies, social enterprises and professionals in the fields of cleaning, green spaces and sale and distribution. The partner organizations come from 5 European countries: France - Régie des Ecrivains, Solivers and INHNI, Belgium - AIGS and IPEPS, Italy - StudioCentroVeneto and Comune di Vicenza, Latvia - SIAMC Austrumvidzeme, United Kingdom - WSX Enterprise. They have implemented cooperation with a training organization, a certification body or a learning company in order to optimize learners’ training paths and skills recognition. The main activities implemented in the framework of the project are the development of the LeGaQual2Do training and assessment method and tools dedicated to learners and trainers supervisors. The training tools (job profile, professional occupational guidelines, training programme, pedagogical support, interactive teaching tools) and evaluation tools (evaluation grids, Mobipass - digital skills portfolio) have been experimented in the framework of training activities for trainers (37 people in total) and learners (120 beneficiaries), of which 16 participated in European mobilities organized in 5 partner countries. All the tools were adapted and adjusted at the end of the experimental phase, as part of evaluation activities conducted with learners, trainers supervisors, managers of partner organizations and certifiers. The experimental and evaluation reports reflect the progress and results of training and evaluation activities. The tools developed and the activities implemented throughout the project were based on the ECVET method, and this in order to ensure better recognition of professional skills and to promote learners' mobility. In order to achieve the widest possible dissemination of project results and achievements, in each country the partner organization(s) organized an event for the dissemination of one or more intellectual outputs. Each dissemination event aimed at gathering together professionals, trainers supervisors and certifiers, as well as people with a low level of qualification who wish to improve their professional and geographical mobility. The main impact of the project is the recognition of beneficiaries’ professional skills thanks to Mobipass, the improvement of their professional and geographical mobility and the implementation of new methods of on-the-job training, evaluation and certification.