Transfer of Innovation of the Project SAETO to New EU Regions.

Quality in Vocational Education and Training (VET) is one of the central issues of the Copenhagen/Brugge Process towards more trust-based transparency and quality in VET and in the labor market. Due to its discourse-based total quality conception, the EFQM Excellence Model is one of the favorite quality schemes in the pedagogic field, after an initial rush for ISO in the 90ies.The Leonardo Project SAETO (LI-05-B-F-PP-164510) developed a software supported system for self-assessment in Educational and Training Organizations (ETO) that translates the EFQM model to the educational sector and links it with ISO 9000 in one assessment effort. The solution is supported by e-learning modules.It is however not enough to just develop this solution and pilot it in some ETOs. Due to the not only national but sometimes even regional autonomy of the education system in Europe there is a need for a deployment and validation of the developed solution in as many regions as possible.

The partnership for this project consists of one ETO for each of the new target regions plus one expert on CQAF and the Copenhagen/Brugges process coming from the original SAETO project. Besides a piloting and validation, the project will carry out an adaptation of the SAETO solution to the requirements of the new regions. As a result it is expected to have SAETO adapted and validated for 3 more European regions.

This pick-up of SAETO in the new regions will help to strengthen the CQAF deployment throughout Europe and the following direct results are expected:

  • The SAETO solution will be adapted to the local requirements of 3 additional regions
  • At least 40 ETOs will pilot and validate a SAETO suported self-assessment implementation for their regions
  • 2.000 CDs with an introduction to the project’s results will be distributed to ETOs of the target regions
  • A Case Study on all test cases will be published helping other ETOs to set up their own quality system
  • The solution will have been written up in at least 3 business magazines and presented at 3 or more international exhibitions
  • A book on the SAETO solution will be published by a well known publishing house.  

     

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