Validation of transversal skills across Europe – TRANSVAL-EU Abbreviation: TVL-EU

Funded by: Erasmus+ KA3 Policy Reform – Policy Experimentations
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 28/02/2021
Ending: 31/08/2023
Partnership: 16 Partners from 7 countries
1. Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research through the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH), Austria – Coordinator
2. Consortium for the validation of competences (CVDC), Belgium
3. Qualifications and Vocational Education and Training Development Centre (KPMPC), Lithuania
4. Regional Agency for Active Labour Policies of Umbria (ARPAL), Italy
5. Lifelong Learning Platform – LLLP, Belgium
6. European Institute of Education and Social Policy (EIESP), France
7. Educational Research Institute (IBE), Poland
8. 3s research laboratory (3s), Austria
9. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
10. Nordic Network for Adult Learning (NVL), Norway
11. Lithuanian education and science trade union (LESTU), Lithuania
12. ALL DIGITAL, Belgium
13. FORMA.Azione, Italy
14. Pluriversum, Italy
15. Chamber of Labour for Salzburg (AK), Austria
16. oeibf NQF service centre, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Austria

TRANSVAL-EU is based on a paradox. On the one hand, employers place an increasing importance on transversal skills.

Yet, on the other hand, transversal skills are only an implicit part of the existing validation and guidance processes. There is a need to make the validation processes of transversal skills acquired in non-formal and informal settings explicit and to embed the lessons learned in validation and guidance policies.

What TRANSVAL-EU proposes is to experiment innovative approaches for the validation of transversal skills acquired through non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL) in five pilot countries – Austria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Belgium. TRANSVAL-EU aims to:
– improve the teaching of transversal skills
– improve the validation process
– train validation/guidance practitioners
– bridge the education and employment stakeholders
– develop new tools for validation professionals and test them
– monitor and evaluate the experimentation’s outcomes and impact both on practitioners and on the adults, who will have their skills validated.

The project partners will develop and test:
– a research base of good practices
– a set of training toolkits and programmes
– standardised competence profiles for validation/guidance practitioners with a specific focus on transversal skills.

TRANSVAL-EU intends to be one of the largest European policy experiments on VNFIL.