Dott.ssa Gloria Zenari Project Manager & Researcher Provincia di Alessandria Servizio Formazione Professionale - Area Innovazione Citizen competence portfolio Presentation Stakeholders

Knowledge economy Present setting, marked by Knowledge Economy, therefore by Learning Organizations and Citizen Lifelong learning, places the person at the heart of Education / Training and Work systems, introducing elements of strong discontinuity compared to the past.

Competence Validation The issue of competence validation takes a considerable importance in a system based on the possibility of validating not only degrees, but also previous experiences.

Importance of non-formal situations The European Council ( recommendation 1437 / 2000) considers: Non – formal education a foundamental part that comes together with formal education, what, by itself, cannot meet and cope with the quick social, economic and technological change in our society;

Moreover, it is written that “non-formal education is an integral part of the LIFELONG LEARNING concept, permitting the youth and adults to acquire and preserve skills, capacities and perspectives necessary to follow suit the steady environmental change ”.

Professional Identity Right The right recognized to workers to be allowed to cross the different territories / systems during whole their life, without wasting those acquisitions / competences that account for their “professional identity”

Therefore, the right of a person to capitalize and spend his own professional competences turns into the obligation for every system to make its choices compatible with those made by other systems, since this condition is the indispensable pre- requirement for the safeguard of such right.

The Need The problem Comp. Card wants to face is the non recognition of competences acquired in situations different from the formal ones by workers who want to re-skill, along training / education paths, or return to the labour world or simply enhance the value of their own professional path.

The shared problem A common problem for Comp.Card partner countries concerns the progressive increase in situations of dependence due to demographic and socio- economic changes ; therefore promotion of personal autonomy through empowerment actions towards citizens represents one of the main challenges from developed countries.

This requires answers, supported by public authorities, aiming at providing instruments of active policies that :  foster citizen employment and mobility ;  make lifelong learning easier during the whole life span;  and promote social cohesion paying particular attention to those people for whom no professional qualification is recognized.

Objective Project target is to enhance the value and highlight competences acquired also in non-formal and informal situations by adults, often lacking a recognized professional qualification, who return to the training / education circuit to go back to the labour world or to start professional development paths.

Sustainability A further objective consists in providing the essential support to build a sustainable training and lifelong learning system, by means of validation of competences acquired in non formal situations, with a reduction in training times and a broader training offer that meets the needs of production world and workers.

Training Company Certification & Governance The Company system is a foundamental stakeholder for the project governance, that can take advantage of it since it will dispose of standardized methods to recognize worker competences acquired in different situations also in order to get quality certification, human capital quotation and eventual tax reliefs.

The value added at European level. Greater attention to the necessity of reacting to the challenges coming from the European profession market and to worker mobility, and this requires:  System integration;  Social cohesion of people;  Tool transparency.

Competence validation path Work team Assessors + User orientation Mutual agreement interview Evidence research ”On the job” observation Or eventual different methods Portfolio construction User Feed Back Validation process stages Max. duration: 5 hours