Minutes Kick-off meeting ALLinHE
Date:
Location:
Attendants:
11-13 December, 2011
Århus, Denmark.
all partners, incl. external evaluator. See list of names and signatures.
Participants
JAMK
UN
ECAP
IRIV
SNU
JAMK
NVR
UN
ECAP
NVR
NILE
Ecom
NVR
CPZ
UN
INH
INH
CPZ
WUT
Bénédicte Halba
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Dae Joong Kang
[email protected]
Eila Burns
Ellen Enggaard
[email protected]
[email protected]
Emma Sims
[email protected]
Furio Bednarz
[email protected]
Håkon Grunnet
[email protected]
Hae-Young Lee
[email protected]
Kees Schuur
[email protected]
Kirsten Aagaard
[email protected]
Metka Ursic
[email protected]
Rose Richard
[email protected]
Ruud Duvekot
[email protected]
Seerp de Blauw
[email protected]
Sergeij Gabrscek
[email protected]
[email protected]
Aino Lepanjuuri
Anita Devi
Antonella Thomas
Simona Sava
Day 1, Sunday, December 11, 2011
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Arrival of participants at Århus
Informal meeting and knowledge-exchange
Erasmus Multilateral Projects
agreement nr. 2011-3902/001-001
“AllinHE” – Access to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Project nr. 517978-LLP-1-2011-1-NL-ERASMUS-ESIN
Day 2, Monday, December 12, 2011
Chair: Kirsten Aagaard, NVR
1. Welcome and opening of the meeting
Steffen Svendsen, Executive Director , VIA University College
2. Introduction to the project ALLinHE
Ruud Duvekot, Inholland, projectleader ALLinHE
Explanation of the goals and mission of the project:
- ALLinHE is about linking the systematics of Validation of Prior Learning (VPL) to a practical
strategy for social inclusion of underrepresented and non-traditional target groups in higher
education (HE).
- ALLinHE aims at strengthening and further developing/implementing VPL as a multi-targeted
approach for empowering and integrating underrepresented groups by:
 guiding them with VPL to transparency of their HE-learning opportunities ánd
 strengthening VPL as an innovative methodology for making universities more accessible
and adapted to lifelong learning-needs of all EU-citizens.
3. Round the table: getting to know each other
All partners and the external evaluator introduced themselves.
4. The workpackages
Ruud Duvekot, Inholland, projectleader ALLinHE
a) The project management (WP1)
- The Steering Group = Partners 1-4 (NL, FI, DK, UK)
- The planning:
 Change of venue 2nd and 4th partnermeetings between Switzerland and Finland: the 2 nd
partner meeting is in Finland, September 3-4, 2012.
 The 3rd meeting will be in March 2013 in France.
 The steering Group will meet in June 2012 to prepare the 2 nd meeting.
 If necessary, we will have an extra meeting in Slowenia.
 All changes to the planning will be added to the planning-sheet.
b. Dissemination (WP2)
- Leaflet + logo : in EN en translated in national language (IRIV)
- Website + learning community (NVR). Subcontract is granted to EVC Consult.
- Newsletter (Start April): Info project, website, learning community
- 1st national stakeholders meeting (June 2012)
 Every national partner organises their own meeting
 About the (draft) national report, learning outcome approach, etc.
 Invitees: trade union, employers, government (ministry of education), experts form HRM
and education, marketing, etc. Minimum is 4 members.
c. Preparing ALLinHE (WP3)
- Product 1 = methodology of the multi-targeted VPL-approach
- Product 2 = national report / inventory  building stones target group approach
- Product 3 = framework for training assessors / guiders (VPL-procedure)
Erasmus Multilateral Projects
agreement nr. 2011-3902/001-001
“AllinHE” – Access to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Project nr. 517978-LLP-1-2011-1-NL-ERASMUS-ESIN
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2nd partner meeting (September 2012, Finland); From quantitative to qualitative research
(e.g. 2 cases from 2 sectors per partner, or 4 per partner): alternative case study model
d. Implementation (WP4)
- 3rd meeting in March 2013 in Paris
e. Valorisation (WP5)
- To other experts, continents, countries  making clear which groups, part of WP5.
Exploitation/valorisation plan + list invitations, already in meeting 2, connect to learning
community and then updated
- 2nd national stakeholders meeting (Nov/Dec 2013)
- 1st biennale (A‘dam, Mar2014)
- Raising awareness campaign
 Involve marketer at local level
 local plan and share with others
f. Q&E-plan (WP6)
- internal evaluation and quality management.
- Mr. Kees Schuur from Ecommovation explains the set-up for the external evaluation.
g. 3rd country partners from Korea
- Present at 1st, 3rd & 5th meeting
- WP3 workshop ACBS masterclass
- WP4 Korean Pilot + march meeting Paris + report
- Expertise in academic credit accounting system
5. Work-Package 3: the VPL-approach
Ruud Duvekot, Inholland, projectleader ALLinHE
The VPL-approach of ALLinHE will be based on:
- The multi-targeted VPL-model with 3 main approaches: personal, summative and formative.
- how to work with this holistic model will be tested in WP4
- product in WP3 = a methodological framework for the project
- Linking VPL to a target group
- The draft-model is presented and commented; it will lead to an updated draft-model, to be sent
in February 2012 for further comment.
6. The financial-administrative tasks
Ruud Duvekot, Inholland, projectleader ALLinHE
- Explanation of the financial-administrative tasks:
 The administrative tasks
 The financial ways of working
 Presentation of the templates for travel, DSA, time and other costs
- The central message is: no proof of costs and spending, no subsidy.
- All questions from the group related to the budget will be answered in the Brusselsprojectleaders-conference in January 2012.
- In February final instructions for partners on ways of working with templates.
Erasmus Multilateral Projects
agreement nr. 2011-3902/001-001
“AllinHE” – Access to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Project nr. 517978-LLP-1-2011-1-NL-ERASMUS-ESIN
7. Decisions & tasks from day 2
Nr.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Decision/task
Changes in the planning will be updated in the planning-scheme
Update of draft-model Multi-targeted approach VPL
Presentation of logo and text for leaflet
Report on Brussels-projectleader conference
Final instruction on how to work with the financial-administrative
templates
The VPL-stories that will be presented in the course of the project will
be used for dissemination-purposes
Dropbox will be organised to host all working documents,
presentations, etc.
who
Inholland
Inholland
IRIV
Inholland
Inholland
when
Jan 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
All
20112014
Jan 2012
Inholland
8. working dinner 1
2 partners present a personalised VPL-story: IRIV and Ecommovation.
Day 3, Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Chair: Ruud Duvekot
9. Work-Package 3: the national reports
Richard Rose, UN
The national reports aim at providing a state of the art of VPL in the partnercountries:
VPL levels of performance
The stakeholders
Challenges:
o terminology,
o aims  specify by stakeholders: win-win-win
o sustainability (incl. cost-benefit analyse; long-/short-term)
o traditions & practices
targetgroups: refugees, 50+, EU migrants, Ethnic minority, SEN disability
Key questions
o Finding representation of target groups for testing the VPL-model
o Within sector variables
o It is about under-represented target group ‘at HE level’
Groupwork on target-group focus brings an overview of linkages partners and targetgroups.
Decision will be made to cover all groups with at least three partnercountries!
Refugees
50+
EU Migrants
Ethnic minorities
Special needs
NL, KR
UK, SL, NL, KR,
RO, FI
SL, DK, FR, CH
RO, FR
UK,DK, FI
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The final grid will be presented in Feb 2012, together with the decision on who deals with
which target groups.
Together with the grid for the national reports a methodological framework will be presented
for working with case studies.
Erasmus Multilateral Projects
agreement nr. 2011-3902/001-001
“AllinHE” – Access to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Project nr. 517978-LLP-1-2011-1-NL-ERASMUS-ESIN
10. Work-Package 3: the model for training assessors and guiders
Kirsten Aagaard, NVR
Presentation of aims and outcomes of this product.
- Aim is to support the VPL-model with expert-assessors and guiders.
- 3-day training model
- Concept of self-management of competences is added
- Update-module (yearly required for the trained experts) is additional 1 day
Roadmap:
- January 2012, steering group provides a basic programme for the training
- February: reflection on programme (all partners)
- March: rewriting
- April: presentation of final training programme
- May / June: reflection of professionals ( 4 assessor , 4 guiders) for training
- Result will be a training-model that will support the testing in WP4. The experts in the testingphase will be trained and/or validated against this model. This means that a group of
assessors and guiders will be part of the testing; they will be recruited from the partner’s own
list of assessors/guiders. Decision on whether they need the full or parts of the training
programme is taken by the partners themselves; decision has to be accounted for!
11. The Quality-management (WP6)
Eila Burns, JAMK
Aims:
- Recording progress on project proceedings
- Accounting for planning and targets
- Identifying problems in operation
- Internal evaluation: questback - Online inquiry
- External evaluation (independent); focus on assessment of sustainability of partnership and
project results
Decision is made on preparing a simulation of the ACBS-model in the partnercountries by the
steering group. This simulation will be helpful in designing a model for transferring
competences/learning outcomes & credits.
12. The Academic Credit Bank System (ACBS)
Hae-Young Lee, NILE
A good practice from Korea: the Academic Credit Bank System (ACBS) is presented. See
dropbox for the powerpoint. This is a model for credit-transfer: from learning outcomes to credits.
See also decision nr. 14.
ACBS is one of NILE’s policy measures and is a Korean characteristic of the approach to lifelong
education. ACBS is a system that maintains a network of formal, informal and non-formal
education settings through institution accreditation and credit approval. For ACBS to be
effectively run, NILE has constantly evaluated the institutions for quality assurance and puts
Validation of Prior Learning (VPL) processes in place to recognize informal learning experiences at
workplaces by developing and implementing criteria for accredited certificates that are eventually
interpreted into credits.
Erasmus Multilateral Projects
agreement nr. 2011-3902/001-001
“AllinHE” – Access to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Project nr. 517978-LLP-1-2011-1-NL-ERASMUS-ESIN
ACBS is targeting those people who lost their first chance of learning in schools. Consumers of
ACBS mostly are young students. Others are people in their mid-age, workers, women, foreign
workers, and people in military service.
13. Decisions & tasks from day 3
Nr.
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Decision/task
Decision which targetgroups will be dealt with by which partners
Presentation of the grid for writing the national report
A methodological framework for working with case studies
Roadmap for training-model
Reflection on training-model
1st evaluation: kick-off meeting
Preparation of a simulation of the ACBS-model
Erasmus Multilateral Projects
agreement nr. 2011-3902/001-001
who
St.Group
UN
UN
St.Group
All
JAMK
St.Group
when
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Feb 2012
Mar 2012
Jan 2012
Feb 2012
“AllinHE” – Access to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Project nr. 517978-LLP-1-2011-1-NL-ERASMUS-ESIN