VAluning Education and Experience of Local
councillors in Europe (VA2EL)
- Initiated by the National Institute for Local Development
and IRIV under the "Lifelong learning" programme (call for
proposal 2008), under the Leonardo da Vinci programme, the project
is meant to identify, evaluate and validate
skills and qualifications acquired by local coucnillors as an
informal learning for a professional purpose". Six
countries have been selected : France, Austria, Greece, Italy,
Lithaunia and Poland. This is a transfer of
innovation of former LdV project initiated and directed by Iriv
(www.eEuropeassociations.net.) This project is
supported by the European programme Leonardo da
Vinci.
Website of the project : www.va2el.eu
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- Presentation
Local autonomy is a main trend in Europe, with its
corollary, the administrative process of decentralisation. New
responsibilities depend on local authorities and their elected
managers, the local councillors. The professional environment of
such local leaders has become more and more complex. Local
councillors are demanding that their experience be taken into
account to be more efficient for their elective work but also when
they have to come back on the labour market. A European portfolio
for voluntary managers, meant to identify skills and competences
to be used on the labour market, has been chosen for the transfer
of innovation as their profile is very similar to those of local
councillors. Our VA2EL project will propose a concrete tool and
method: an e-portfolio meant to identify the main activities,
skills and competences, training to be proposed and action plan on
the basis of needs expressed by local councillors. This
e-portfolio will take into account the different status of local
councillors in Europe and the tasks they have to fulfil in the
local authorities of the different countries ; the administrative
context is a main issue for the delegation of competences.
Context
In all European countries, new
powers and competences have been delegated to local authorities
(towns, departements, regions…) in various fields (social, economic,
cultural and environmental). Local councillors are quite numerous in
Europe. France with 36500 cities has the highest number of local
councillors (497208). The role and the missions of local councillors
are a moving reality. Willing to be active and involved to one's
community is not enough any more. Specialised skills and competences
in technical and administrative matters, in entertainment and
management, are required to fulfil their tasks. Local councillors
often discover in their day to day work, new skills and competences
to be acquired. They are learning by doing. Autonomy, competence and
responsibilities are very linked raising the question of a status for
local councillors in many European countries. It is dealing with
continuous training and professional insertion together with the need
for a specific accompaniment expressed by local councillors to value
the specific knowledge, skills and competences acquired in their
elective work.
Main goal and expected
impact
The project " Valuing Education and Experience for Local
councillors in Europe " (VA2EL) will propose a a portfolio, available
through Internet (e-portfolio) for local councillors to help them
identify and value the specific skills and competences acquired
through their elected experience together with a handbook to use it
on the labour market. The e-portfolio will also identify required
training to enhance and improve them, and/or will think of a real
validation (with a diploma) in the perspective of a professional
insertion. Local councillors need a specific accompaniment to value
and enhance the formal, non formal and informal learning they are
experiencing. The choice of a portfolio for voluntary managers as a
basis for the transfer of innovation is explained by the proximity of
the tasks to be fulfilled by both local councillors and voluntary
managers (pathways between associative functions and elective
functions are numerous). The expected impact is to better take into
account the experience acquired by local councillors, to underline
the required professionnalisation of their activity, and so to
enhance recognition of their specific experience on the labour
market. The VA2EL project should allow local councillors to value key
competences enhanced by the Lisbon strategy: social and civic
competences, entrepreneurship and leadership spirit, and digital
competence (with the e-portfolio). It will allow an exchange of good
practises between local councillors coming from various European
colleagues with diverse administrative background (more or less
decentralised process)
Results
Here are the expected
results:
- 1) National reports on the
situation/status of local councillors in the 6 countries together
with the needs expressed by local authorities for the training of
local councillors
- 2) A portfolio for local councillors
(main activities, skills and competences, training
followed/required, action plan)
- 3) An e-portoflio (digital development
of the portfolio for local councillors)
- 4) A handbook to use the e-portfolio
- 5) A guide for local councillors and
professional councillors (on the labour market) to use and enhance
the use of the portfolio
- 6) National steering committees
gathering local councillors and job councillors together with a
data bank of associations representative of local
authorities
- 7) A final publication summarising the
different situation of local councillors in the Europeancountries,
the structure and goal of the portfolio and the added value of the
e-portfolio
- 8) A website of the project -
www.va2el.eu
- 9) A Newsletter- Valuing Education and
Experience for Local councillors in Europe (every 4-5 month)
- 10) Leaflet of the project in the 7
languages
Planning
1st of October 2008 - 30th of
September 2010
Partners
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France
INDL, chef de file
M. Jean-François
PIN, Directeur général
Thomas Bertin
Avenue Michel Serres
BP 32
47901 Agen cedex 9
Tél : 00 33 5 53 48 06 70
Fax : 00 33 5 53 48 06 71
www.va2el.eu
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IRIV Conseil, coordinateur
Dr Bénédicte Halba
11 rue de Saussure
F-75017 Paris
Tel.: +33-1-42 84 08 25
fax : +33-1-42 84 08 25
www.iriv.net
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ARIC
Valérie Autissier,
Director
13 Place des Marelles
35 573 Chantepie cedex
Tél :00 33 2 99 41 50 07
Fax : 00 33 2 99 41 51 33
www.aric.asso.fr
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Austria
- Oikodrom
- Dr Heidi Dumreicher, Director
- Mag Franziska Haydn, Chief project
- Stutterheimstrasse 16-18/3
- 1150 Vienna /
Austria
- T : +43/1/9842351
- F : +43/1/9842351-2
www.oikodrom.org
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- Greece
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- Association for Adult Education (AAE)
Mr Christos Doukas, Director
Gedeon 18
- 19002 Peania
- Nomos Attikis
- Greece
- Tél :00 30 210 96 40 12
- Fax : 00 30 210 96 40 1
www.aae.org.gr
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Italy
- FIVOL
- Ilaria Mascittti, Chief of International
Department
- Universita Telematica " Guglielmo Marconi "
- Via Plinio, 44
- 00193 Rome
- Tél : 00 39 06 37 72 55 15
- Fax : 00 39 06 37 72 55 44
www.forcom.it
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Lithuania
- Kaunas labour Market Training and Counselling
Service (KLMTCS)
- Egle Pauzienne, project coordinator
- E. Ozeskienes Str. 16
- LT - 44254 Kaunas
- Lituania
- Tél : 00 370 37 409 271
- Fax : 00 370 37 409 275
www.kaunas.ldrmt.lt
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Poland
- Institute for Developing Social Services
(IRSS)
Mrs Agnieska Hryniewicka, project coordinator
- UI Marszalkowska 34/50
- 00 554 Warsawa
- Tél : 00 48 22 62 10 423
- Fax : 00 48 22 62 10 423
www.irss.pl
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