project in EU

The underlying principle of lifelong learning is that initial education is no longer enough for a lifetime  social-economic career.

It is more important to develop your competencies (skills, knowledge, attitude & ambition) throughout life by realising that `your glass is already half filled', or the fact that every individual learns in every possible learning environment: formal (school) and non-formal or informal environments (working place, at home).

VPL stands for the Valuation of Prior Learning:

1. Valuation shows the real human potential on the basis of the analysis and valuation of personal competencies;Valuation of Prior Learning is the process of (a) assessing and validating personal competences within the social-economic context and (b) offering a personal development-strategy;
2. VPL focuses on the individual perspective and makes the (public and private) system customer-driven for the sake of personal development;Organisations benefit from VPL since individuals develop within their context.

Main goal: empowering individuals and organisations to serve their summative &  formative purposes by defining and creating zones of mutual trust for the use of valuation-principles in the main European learning cultures: Anglo-Saxon, East-European, German-dual, Mixed/Dutch, Romanic-French, Scandinavian and South-European

Objectives based on this general objective:

• To contribute to the Commission’s framework for Common European Principles on Validation of non-formal and informal learning (CP) to Lifelong Learning,
• To show the role of the decision makers in the chain of services available to individuals and organisations,
• To show the socio-economic possibilities and advantages of individual empowerment in the context of Lifelong Learning,
• to manage European diversity in lifelong learning by exchange of methodology, instruments and good practices.