VITA – Validation of service-oriented learning outcomes with an innovative IT-based Assessment and evidencing system

Setting up a unique and innovative validation system for service oriented competences to provide evidence of professional potentials both for learners and potential employers

Main activities carried out in the two-year project:

• Setting up a comprehensive inventory of personal and social competences relevant for the service economy;
• Providing a system to facilitate the assessment and evidencing of service related skills and competences;
• Piloting the approach in different educational domains (school, higher and adult Education, vocational training);
• Supporting learners, learning providers, HR managers and potential employers in validating personal and social competences;
• Providing staff training and counselling on the validation of learning outcomes in the different educational sectors,
• Intensive networking to attract stakeholders  from practice and research to play an active role in our community;
• Linking the VITA approach to formal certification systems (EUROPASS) in order to give evidence and increased value to personal, social and organisational skills and
  competences.
• Ten partner institutions from nine European countries
• Project coordination: BUPNET GmbH, Göttingen, Germany
• Funded by the European Lifelong Learning Programme Key Actions ICT
• Duration: 01/12 – 12/13

Further information: www.vita-eu.org