IMPROVE

IMPROVE is an international project co-financed by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme, Grundtvig.  The IMPROVE project  includes the development and testing of a guide for the validation of competences acquired by career guidance practitioners through non-formal learning. This guide shall be coherent with the European guidelines on the matter.

The consortium of project partners is composed of organisations from six countries (IT, CZ, ES, EL,RO, DE) involved in research and training in the field of career guidance and in the delivery of career guidance services who seek the following through IMPROVE:

• to better understand how the existing frameworks for validating the competence of career guidance practitioners work,
• to evaluate how effectively the frameworks assess non-formal learning,
• to identify how the efficacy of the frameworks can be improved and finally,
• how the recent CEDEFOP Guidelines on assessment of non-formal learning and work and can be applied to the existing frameworks.