European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning
“Experience from policy
cooperation and innovation”
Information Day, 20 January 2015
Audrey Frith, Director of EUCIS-LLL
Building a citizen’s voice on education and training issues
European civil society platform on lifelong learning
A few words about
EUCIS-LLL and the
LLL-HUB project
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A unique European platform on Lifelong Learning
36 European organisations in education, training and youth
European civil society platform on lifelong learning
Call: “KA1: Policy cooperation and innovation - Networks”, LLP
Duration: December 2013 – May 2016 (30 months)
Total budget: 408 785€
Number of partners: 10
National actions: PL, BE, NL, TK, ES, BG, PT
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Vision: creating a space for lifelong learning
Objectives:
•Foster a shared meaning of lifelong learning
•Enable cross-sectorial, multi-stakeholder cooperation
•Structure the first transnational policy learning on EU LLL
strategies based on genuine research and dialogue at
regional/national level
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3 phases:
LLL-Labs (until Jan 15)
LLL-Forums (Spring 15)
LLL-Agora (Feb 16)
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Success factors for EU
policy development
projects
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1. Relevance
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Relevance
Key elements
•Relevance: to your organisation, your system & EU…
•Become familiar with the objectives & priorities of the call and
understand the political context
EU policy papers, research, international surveys, projects results…
Follow the links… Use key words…
•Demonstrate the EU added value / innovative aspect of your project
•Build on the results of successful projects (CB4LLP methodology)
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State of the art
A growing influence
•LLL comprehensive strategies
LLL most cited positive impact of ET2020 (EASQ Survey)
•Development of EQF/NQFs
•Development of validation systems
Inventory: from 50% to 75% MS have developed stratregies
•Increased use of learning outcomes approach…
From transparency and mobility tools to transformative tools:
push towards more learner-centred systems.
ET2020 Review… momentum to move a step forward. Is LLL
still relevant (UNESCO 2013)?
How to make sure actors work together?
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State of the art
Identifying gaps and building evidence
•Lack of political will: inertia (no implementation of policy priorities)
•Resistance from educational actors (recognition of NFIL)
•Lack of use by final beneficiaries (Eurobarometer 417: 34% heard
about one of the EU tools)
•Difficulty to implement cros-sectoral approaches
•Lack of partnerships accross sectors and actors
•Funding / sustainability: who pays?
•Bottlenecks in the systems (i.e. dead ends, lack of guidance)
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Quality
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Quality of project design and implementation
Setting goals and priorities
•What do we want to achieve together (outcomes)?
•What are partners own expections about the project?
•Do we understand the same thing behind the concepts used?
Recommendations:
•Working together in the writing process: make sure your partners
understand the objective of the project; take into account their
different needs, approaches, capacities, competences…
•Define clearly the approach and the policy priorities
•Risk analysis: what are the changes you are demanding on the
systems / who is impacted / is there resistance to be expected…
•Have in mind your future exploitation plan
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Quality of project design and implementation
Project planning
•Activities planned (WP): logic steps
•Share of responsability: i.e. who will translate national practices
into policy recommendations and identify success factors
Recommendations:
•Step by step approach: what does it mean for each partner (avoid
having partners who cannot deliver their tasks)
•Take time to share with your partners (i.e. national states of play)
at the start of your project before drafting tools/reports
•Budget needs can be different from one partner to another (i.e.
translation/interpretation needs, capacity to host events/meetings)
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Quality of project design and implementation
Project planning: reversing the curve
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Quality of project design and implementation
Partnership
•Multi-stakeholder partnerships
•Understanding of their strenghts and weaknesses
•Capacity to bring change, to work with others (credibility)
Recommendations:
•Think our of the box: working with other actors and identify support
partners (i.e. European networks)
•Strong coordination: Teamlab, Skype, Google forms… to be in
permanent contact with partners (quality plan – external evaluator
to identify potential risks) + report forms / vademecum
•Intercultural dimension and language
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Impact
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How can change happen?
Innovation
•Unique approach / methodology to be applied/developed
•Partnership
•Exploitation of results
3 phases:
LLL-Labs
LLL-Forums
LLL-Agora
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How can change happen?
Communication/Dissemination
•Adapt the results/messages to the target groups
•Build alliances
•Use social media, IT tools…
Recommendations:
•Policy-makers: messages should be SMART
Specific / Measurable / Achievable / Relevant / Time-bound
•Monitoring tools
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Thanks for your attention and good luck!
Rue de l’industrie, 10
1000 Brussels
[email protected]
www.eucis-lll.eu
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