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To keep in touch with new developments concerning ECVET implementation in Europe, consult the ECVET magazines produced  several times a year by the ECVET-Team.

ECVET Magazines

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The editions currently produced :

ECVET Mag 14 - 04/2013

State of play of ECVET developments in Europe : 

- The UK’s national team: helping organisations to understand and implement ECVET
- Synergy and integration – keywords for Sweden’s ECVET National Contact Point
- An analysis of ECVET in the Italian community of Leonardo da Vinci
- NETINVET - A European network of training centres and companies
- A third country perspective - how the European initiatives can inspire change
 
Testimonies : 
Reflections from an employer
My mobility diary – from Lisbon to Paris
 
To go further : 
- A brief summary of Cedefop's monitoring of ECVET 
- “Qualification designers” and “mobility” seminars: responding to the needs of the ECVET community
- ECVET calendar of activities 2013 
 

ECVET Mag 13 - 03/2013

  • European tools and principles need to be implemented in an integrated process
  • ECVET in the context of lifelong learning: Examples from the pilot projects
  • CPU-Europe: Certification based on units (Certification par Unités)
  • 2get1care - Addressing challenges in health care professions by supporting lifelong learning, interprofessionality, and competence based teaching and learning
  • ICARE: A recognition model to valorise competences of mobile workers in the health care sector
  • News from the NETINVET project
  • VET-CCS Fi

ECVET Mag 12 - 01/2013

Editorial 
  • Using units within professional qualifications
  • UEAPME ECVET customised seminar
  • Customised seminar :  ECVET for the nuclear energy sector
  • ECVET team calendar of activities
  • The ECVET pilot projects' approaches to the definition of learning outcomes and their assessment
  • ECVET expert teams
  • VET-CCS : Vocational Education and Training Credit Conversion System in Malta
  • The C.O.L.O.R project : Competency valorisation and learning outcome recognition for migrants and mobile workers within Italy
  • An ECVET- solution to the recognition of prior learning in Germany - The ESyCQ project
  • MEN-ECVET - Analysing alternatives  for recognised mobility in France
  • Promoting ECVET to practitioners : the NetECVET network
  • “PEP goes local”
  • ECVET mobility guide up

ECVET Mag 11 - 12/2012

dedicated to the  ECVET Forum held in Brussels in June 2012

ECVET Mag 10 - 08/2012

- Editorial : Mr Antonio Silva Mendes - European Commisson, Director Lifelong Learning: policies and programme

Focus :
- Quality Assurance in ECVET mobility: a basis for trust 
- EQAVET - promoting a culture of quality assurance in VET 
- Quality Assurance and ECVET - The results from pilot projects 
- Joint activities between ECVET -EQAVET-EQF and Higher Education 
- An ECVET Community of Practice : What does it mean? 
- A step by step sectoral approach - ECVET in the shipbuilding industry 
- From 'Trying ECVET' to 'Putting ECVET into practice': The CREDCHEM example 
 
News and events :
- ECVET calendar of activities 2012 
- Annual ECVET Forum 2012
- Hungarian Team of ECVET experts 
 

- Editorial : Ute Haller-Block - Head of Unit - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency 

- Focus :
Shared understanding of ECVET – Diversity of practical solutions
Lessons learnt from the ECVET pilot projects (2008-2012)
Results of the 2008 ECVET pilot projects
What are the necessary conditions to implement ECVET?
Summary of the results of the second day of discussions during the final conference of ECVET pilot projects
Learning Outcomes of the FINECVET initiative
Final Conference in Helsinki on 15 March 2012

- What’s New

ECVET Mag_8 - 03/2012

Editorial by Madlen Serban - Director of the European Training Foundation (ETF)
Articles :
- ECVET mobility seminar
- ECVET national contact/coordination/reference points
- Conference about the ECVET system in Luxembourg (October 2011)
- ECVET workshop in Berlin (October 2011)
- ECVET resources
- Network activities
- Annual ECVET forum

ECVET Mag_7 - 01/2012

Editorial : Social partners get actively involved in implementing the common European tools
Christian Lettmayr - Acting Director of Cedefop
Articles :
- First generation of ECVET pilot projects in the process of finalisation: Final projects meetings and conferences in December 2011 and January 2012
- CPU- Europe: Certification based on units
- MENECVET – How do French qualifications of the Ministry of national education compare with ECVET?
- EASYMetal: European Credit System for Basic Qualifications in the Metal Industry
- Improving Mobility and Career Paths for Personal Care and Social Workers: The I CARE project
- 2get1care: Supporting lifelong learning and interprofessionality in health care professions

ECVET Mag_6 - 11/2011

Editorial : Erik Hess, Policy officer ECVET, European Commission, DG EAC;
Articles :
- presentation of  the 2nd generation of ECVET pilot projects started in January 2011;
- presentation of NETINVET, the network founded as a result of the RECOMFOR project;
- the impact of CAPE-SV project on the French social partners;
- the testing of the ECVET technical specifications by the NETWORK project;
News  from the ECVET Forum in Madrid in June 2011.

ECVET Mag 5– 05/2011

Editorial by UEAPME
Articles :
- The ECVET team and its activites
- presentation of NetECVET : the ECVET Thematic network
- Is ECVET an asset to mobility?
- ECVET for Transnational Mobility : the Austrian approach
- ECVET and the Catalan VET system
- VET reform in Turkey : the key of ECVET

ECVET Mag 4– 04/2011

Editorial : Christian Lettmayr, Acting Director of Cedefop;
Articles :
- the results of the OPIR project, from their final conference on 18-19 February in Brussels;
- designing and testing of mobility units developed by the AEROVET project;
- the way the CREDCHEM project  developped and tested a credit system for enhancing mobility in the chemical sector;
- the tests done on mobility in the tourism sector by the M.O.T.O project ;
Information :
- phase of development of ECVET in Europe;
- seventh ECVET seminar in Vienna

ECVET Mag 3 – 01/2011

Editorial: Stefano Di Giusto from the Education, Audivisual and Culture Executive Agency;
Articles :
- presentations about the ASSET and VaLOReg projects ;
- synthesis of results from the ECVET workshop in Prague;
- linking ECVET and ECTS by the project Be-TWIN.

ECVET Mag 2 – 10/2010

Editorial and interviews on the context and development of ECVET
Presentation of the ECVET Network : ECVET governance and network activities,  calendar of ECVET workshops and seminars
Examples of practice :
- Supporting learning pathways; 
- ECVET in Germany 'DECVET'; 
- ECVET in the Czech Republic.

ECVET Mag 1 – 06/2010

Editorial by Joao Delgado, Head of Unit VET & and LDV of the European Commission, DG EAC
Articles : 
-  the approach of the SME Master plus project working in the area of skilled crafts
-  the work of the project OPIR which is ready to test ECVET for mobility in 2010
-  the way the project CAPE-SV in the sector of performing arts faced the issues about transparency and recognition of qualifications
-  the VET reforms related to ECVET in the French Community of Belgium
-  the role of ECVET in recognising knowledge, skills and competence, including those achieved outside the formal learning context

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