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EQF-Sports Project

Building Key Methodological Blocks for the Implementation of the Copenhagen/EQF Process in the Sports Sector

EUR/06/C/P/PP-84704

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SUMMARY OF THE LEONARDO PRE-PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

1. The EQF-Sports project is part of a process lasting since more than ten years intending to link all individual stakeholders of the sports sector (public authorities, social partners -employers and employees representatives-, the European sport movement, the VET providers, and support organisations such as EOSE)to specific European networks/organisations collaborating with each other in the field of vocational education and training.

2. Its content is a direct outcome of the Vocasport project, funded by the European commission (sports unit) and run in 2004 under the scientific direction of the European Observatoire of Sports and Employment (EOSE). Within that framework, more than 100 key stakeholders coming from the 25 EU countries have been invited to comment a pre-report on the situation, trends and perspectives of the VET in sports in Europeand to present their views on key actions to be promoted.

They have considered that the Copenhagen process was providing key responses to sectoral problems. In particular, implementing the flexibility and the transparency of the sports VET systems has been seen as a priority to tackle 4 of the main weaknesses of sports national systems: a) short careers; b) high mobility of workers; c) dominant non formal learning; d) numerous volunteers with no recognition of their competences.

3. In line with that statement, our intention is to develop two building blocks related to the implementation of the Copenhagen/EQF process in our sector:

-The development of a methodology and tools to provide better understanding, transparency and mutual trust between the qualification systems, frameworks and authorities active in the sports sector;

-The development of a methodology and tools to achieve credit transfer and accumulation, including unitisation and modularisation of learning outcomes, the assessment process and the allocation of credit points;

-The development of a methodology and tools for a coordinated approach tothequality validation of formal and non formal learning.

Those methodologies and tools will be adapted to the sectors needs from documents produced by the related Technical Working Groups and/ or from previous experiences run on a smaller scale (sports sub-sectors). They will be tested in sports pilot sub-sectors before being disseminated in the whole sector, primarily to policy makers, developers and training providers. Based on the strength of the European networks and organisations participating to our project, we intend to have these methods and tools used by 50% of the training providers within two years after the project, and 75% within 4 years.

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