Kick-off Event
11 February 2008 COMMET Kick-off Event
As part of the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme, bbw (Educational Institute of Industry and Commerce in Berlin and Brandenburg) is implementing an innovation-transfer project entitled: "Transfer of innovations and methods for identifying vocational competences in vocational training courses in the metal and electrical industry as illustrated by two occupations."
Project partners from seven European countries met at the kick-off event to discuss methods currently used for identifying vocational skills in the industry's vocational courses. The meeting unanimously gave the project the acronym "COMMET". COM stands for competences and MET for metal.
The next step will be to take up conclusions drawn from – and experience gained with – the EUROPASS* up to now, and to consciously use this information to design a uniform method of assessing and classifying vocational competences as illustrated by the two metal occupations "mechatronics technician" and "milling worker".
The project is supported by Gesamtmetall (German employers' association in the metal and electrical engineering industry) and is being carried out in close contact with the European sectoral associations of the metal and electrical engineering industry. It is being implemented by a transnational consortium of partner organizations that can look back on many years of collaboration. The consortium is led by bbw.
The project is funded by the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme via the National Agency at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training.
*) The EUROPASS Mobility replaced the former EUROPASS Training in January 2005. It can be used to document learning experience of every kind, at every level, towards every objective and for every person. The EUROPASS Mobility promotes qualifications and competences and makes them transparent at the European level.
