THE EUROPEAN WORKPLACE TUTOR

About the project

The professionalisation of VET personnel has received increased attention not only at national but also at European level. This is mirrored by the prioritisation within the Lifelong Learning Programme. VET personnel is increasingly faced with new tasks and challenges. The shift of paradigms from instructor to learning guide requires a complete re-thinking of the role of VET trainers. New roles and responsibilities of VET personnel require a wide range of competencies which until today only slowly find their way into recognised qualification programmes.

The previous project "It's time - high level qualifications for European training personnel" has highlighted that an interest and a demand for improved and innovative qualification programmes for VET personnel exists across Europe. The qualification market in this field remains highly fragmented. In many countries, there are no or few training offers that go beyond a basic training in instruction methods, often higher level qualifications are only offered at university level. The it's time project has proven that the need for better quality in the training of VET personnel exists and that new offers receive positive reactions.

The European Workplace Tutor is a training programme which aims at equipping trainers with the competences they need to plan, deliver and evaluate training, to guide learning processes at the workplace, to assess individual and organisational training requirements and respond to them. The EWT project aims at transferring the training contents of this training programme to new countries (Romania, Spain and Hungary) as well as to further embed it in existing structures by developing common standards and exploring certification and permeability between educational sub-systems.