VILMA – Validation of Informal Learning in Mobility Actions

Providing instruments to assess and evidence competence development in mobility actions

• Collecting existing approaches and instruments used to validate informal learning; evaluating them in terms of their feasibility for the context of mobility actions;
• Investigating the demand for evaluation with regard to competence development in mobility actions;
• Establishing an inventory of possible learning outcomes through mobility actions;
• Developing reference systems to evidence learning outcomes and competence developments based on the LEVEL5 evaluation system designed for informal and non-formal learning (to evidence learning outcomes on the cognitive, affective and activity related level);
• Developing and piloting a European training course aiming at raising awareness for the topic of evidencing and validating informal learning and enabling the participants to apply the VILMA approach in their mobility projects;
• Creating a transnational network consisting of experts from research and practice contributing to greater recognition for the validation of non-formal and informal learning.
• Nine partner organisations from eight European countries
• Project coordination: BUPNET GmbH, Germany
• Funded by the European Lifelong Learning Programme Grundtvig
• Duration: 01/11 – 12/12

Further information: www.vilma-eu.org