Kopie Qualification, Open Resources & Toolkit for the Work-Based Learning Professional
- Adela Vitkovska
- Nov 6, 2025
- 15 min read
Start date 01-12-2016–End date 30-11-2018
EU Grant–246.542,29 €
Programme–Erasmus+
Key Action:
Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type:
Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training
Countries covered–6
Coordinator
VOLKSHOCHSCHULE IM LANDKREIS CHAM EV
PFARRER SEIDL STRASSE 1
93413 CHAM
BAYERN
🇩🇪 Germany
Coordinator Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Adult education
Phone: +499971850110
Summary
In the context of high youth unemployment rate in EU, VET with a strong WBL component is a mean of enhancing the employment opportunities of youth. It is estimated that the demand for work-based trainers and educators will still continue to increase, and yet there is no single qualification that brings together the range of skills that these professionals need. Significantly, many occupationally and technically competent staff members are also being asked to support learning in the workplace, as tutors or trainers, and as mentors to apprentices, but not all are being supported in developing their personal skills to allow them to do this effectively. WBL-PRO aimed to create, pilot and mainstream a new job profile for the WBL Professional in a transparency approach, i.e. through the application of EQF and ECVET, detailing the specific knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy necessary to promote, guide, assist, facilitate and assess effective WBL experiences. The EU WBL Professionals are endowed with an online platform for training purposes offering: a sound understanding of theoretical perspectives which underpin WBL and offer justification for its place in the curriculum; a skill base which will allow them to deploy a range of facilitation, learning and assessing methodologies when supporting students, assuring quality in WBL delivery and facilitating the recognition of learning outcomes; and a content-based toolbox, meant as a repository of relevant best practices and tools collected from sharing and mutual learning activities among the countries involved. WBL-PROFESSIONAL.EU is a One Stop Virtual Space for WBL Services– an innovative online platform with open educational resources. All the Intellectual Outputs of the project are uploaded and implemented on and via the platform - Intellectual Outputs: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report (O1), WBL Professional Job Profiles (O2), WBL Professional Qualification Manual (O3), WBL-PRO Toolkit (O5), WBL Professionals Peer Network and Top 12 Empower Talk Movies Panel (O6). WBL Professionals can enhance the employability perspectives of young adults by: facilitating learning at work, linking learning, teaching and assessing in VET and CET and work-based learning; assessing the learning of work-based students in a view of recognising learning outcomes and assuring quality control and assurance of WBL programmes. The project goals were in compliance with the program priorities for innovating and increasing the quality and range of VET, including the production and adoption of OERs in diverse European languages.The project team included 10 organizations from 6 European countries: CIAPE, USRV and SCALIGERA (Italy), ANESPO and ISQ (PT), EMCRA and VHS im Lkrs. Cham (DE), BFE (Bulgaria), UEM (ES) and Biedriba Eurofortis (Latvia). The partners possess outstanding expertise and experience and the synergy of their professionalism, pro-activeness and commitment to high quality performance, teamwork in the spirit of cooperation, mutual respect and support was the solid basis for the successful implementation of the project idea.The activities included: management, coordination and monitoring activities; activities dedicated to the production of the Intellectual Outputs and achieving the set objectives and outcomes and activities for dissemination, exploitation and provision of sustainability.The envisaged impact for the first main target group - the young adults is their better employability. The impact for the second target group - tutors, trainers, assessors and those who design, develop, facilitate, support, deliver and assess learning at work is that they are able to improve the quality and widen the scope of the services they offer and thus improve their managerial skills and enhance their pro-activeness and sense of initiative.The whole society including the stakeholders, employers, representatives from VET organisations, etc. as indirect target group of the WBL-PRO project can benefit from the innovative and practical solutions to some of the most challenging nowadays problems. The main impact of the successful implementation of the project for the society is the reinforced interaction between practice, learning and policy. The dissemination activities were designed ad hoc for the new virtual generation and to promote the WBL-PROFESSIONAL.EU platform. All members of the strategic partnership expressed commitment to contribute with their networks of partners and professional contacts in their countries and across Europe for the dissemination, multiplication and mainstreaming of the project's outputs and outcomes. All projects partners were strongly committed that the WBL-PROFESSIONAL.EU and all Intellectual Outputs will be maintained and utilized for at least 5 years beyond the funded period. WEBPAGE: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2016-1-DE02-KA202-003339
Partners
ASSOCIACAO NACIONAL DE ESCOLAS PROFISSIONAIS 🇵🇹 Portugal
AV 5 DE OUTUBRO 176 1 ESQ
1050063 LISBOA
Lisboa
🇵🇹 Portugal
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +351217818320
BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS 🇱🇻 Latvia
ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37
1067 RIGA
🇱🇻 Latvia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37127763451
CIAPE - CENTRO ITALIANO PER L'APPRENDIMENTO PERMANENTE 🇮🇹 Italy
VIA FRANCESCO GIANGIACOMO 38
00147 ROMA
Lazio
🇮🇹 Italy
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +393475645583
emcra GmbH 🇩🇪 Germany
Hohenzollerndamm 152
14199 Berlin
BERLIN
🇩🇪 Germany
Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Adult education
Phone: +493031801330
FONDATSIYA NA BIZNESA ZA OBRAZOVANI 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
UL SHIPKA 3
1504 SOFIA
София (Sofia)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Partner Type: Foundation
Phone: +359 2 4918027
INSTITUTO DE FORMACION Y ESTUDIOS SOCIALES (IFES) 🇪🇸 Spain
Canarias 51
28045 Madrid
Comunidad de Madrid
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Adult education
Phone: +34915064930 INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE 🇵🇹 Portugal
TAGUSPARK AVENIDA PROFESSOR DR CAVACO SILVA 33 TALAIDE
2740 120 PORTO SALVO
Lisboa
🇵🇹 Portugal
Partner Type: Accreditation, certification or qualification body
Phone: +351214228100 Scaligera Formazione scarl 🇮🇹 Italy
Via Berardi 9
37139 Verona
Veneto
🇮🇹 Italy
Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Vocational Training (secondary level)
Phone: +390458167229 UFFICIO SCOLASTICO REGIONALE PER IL VENETO 🇮🇹 Italy
S. Croce 1299
30135 Venice
Veneto
🇮🇹 Italy
Partner Type: Regional Public body
Phone: +39 041 2723161 UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID SL 🇪🇸 Spain
CALLE TAJO S/N
28670 VILLAVICIOSA
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Higher education institution (tertiary level)
Phone: +34912115361
Results
Practical & reusable resources for the practitioners
IO2: European qualification framework for the WBL professional EN
Description
European qualification framework for the WBL professional provides a description of qualifications, which is aimed at defining the new job profile for the Work Based Learning Professional. The description delivers a common reference framework for qualifications systems, covering vocational education and training and to accommodate qualifications acquired through (the validation of) non-formal and informal learning for the wide spread profession of WBL Professional.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO2: European qualification framework for the WBL professional DE
Description
European qualification framework for the WBL professional provides a description of qualifications, which is aimed at defining the new job profile for the Work Based Learning Professional. The description delivers a common reference framework for qualifications systems, covering vocational education and training and to accommodate qualifications acquired through (the validation of) non-formal and informal learning for the wide spread profession of WBL Professional.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO2: European qualification framework for the WBL professional BG
Description
European qualification framework for the WBL professional provides a description of qualifications, which is aimed at defining the new job profile for the Work Based Learning Professional. The description delivers a common reference framework for qualifications systems, covering vocational education and training and to accommodate qualifications acquired through (the validation of) non-formal and informal learning for the wide spread profession of WBL Professional.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO2: European qualification framework for the WBL professional IT
Description
European qualification framework for the WBL professional provides a description of qualifications, which is aimed at defining the new job profile for the Work Based Learning Professional. The description delivers a common reference framework for qualifications systems, covering vocational education and training and to accommodate qualifications acquired through (the validation of) non-formal and informal learning for the wide spread profession of WBL Professional.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO2: European qualification framework for the WBL professional ES
Description
European qualification framework for the WBL professional provides a description of qualifications, which is aimed at defining the new job profile for the Work Based Learning Professional. The description delivers a common reference framework for qualifications systems, covering vocational education and training and to accommodate qualifications acquired through (the validation of) non-formal and informal learning for the wide spread profession of WBL Professional.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO2: European qualification framework for the WBL professional LV
Description
European qualification framework for the WBL professional provides a description of qualifications, which is aimed at defining the new job profile for the Work Based Learning Professional. The description delivers a common reference framework for qualifications systems, covering vocational education and training and to accommodate qualifications acquired through (the validation of) non-formal and informal learning for the wide spread profession of WBL Professional.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO2: European qualification framework for the WBL professional PT
Description
European qualification framework for the WBL professional provides a description of qualifications, which is aimed at defining the new job profile for the Work Based Learning Professional. The description delivers a common reference framework for qualifications systems, covering vocational education and training and to accommodate qualifications acquired through (the validation of) non-formal and informal learning for the wide spread profession of WBL Professional.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024- Certification Manual EN
Description
WBL Professionals Certification System based on ISO 17024 - is a quality manual for certification to create a proposal to an harmonized and common WBL professionals’ skills certification system following the general principles of ISO 17024:2012 (conformity assessment and requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) for successful recognition.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024- Certification Manual DE
Description
WBL Professionals Certification System based on ISO 17024 - is a quality manual for certification to create a proposal to an harmonized and common WBL professionals’ skills certification system following the general principles of ISO 17024:2012 (conformity assessment and requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) for successful recognition.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024-Certification Manual BG
Description
WBL Professionals Certification System based on ISO 17024 - is a quality manual for certification to create a proposal to an harmonized and common WBL professionals’ skills certification system following the general principles of ISO 17024:2012 (conformity assessment and requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) for successful recognition.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024- Certification Manual IT
Description
WBL Professionals Certification System based on ISO 17024 - is a quality manual for certification to create a proposal to an harmonized and common WBL professionals’ skills certification system following the general principles of ISO 17024:2012 (conformity assessment and requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) for successful recognition.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024- Certification Manual ES
Description
WBL Professionals Certification System based on ISO 17024 - is a quality manual for certification to create a proposal to an harmonized and common WBL professionals’ skills certification system following the general principles of ISO 17024:2012 (conformity assessment and requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) for successful recognition.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024- Certification Manual LV
Description
WBL Professionals Certification System based on ISO 17024 - is a quality manual for certification to create a proposal to an harmonized and common WBL professionals’ skills certification system following the general principles of ISO 17024:2012 (conformity assessment and requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) for successful recognition.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024- Certification Manual PT
Description
WBL Professionals Certification System based on ISO 17024 - is a quality manual for certification to create a proposal to an harmonized and common WBL professionals’ skills certification system following the general principles of ISO 17024:2012 (conformity assessment and requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) for successful recognition.
Type
Guide
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024 - Qualification Manual EN
Description
The document describes the general requirements for the WBL-PRO qualification and certification, this system is designed to meet the requirements of ISO 17024.
Type
Tutorial
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024 - Qualification Manual DE
Description
The document describes the general requirements for the WBL-PRO qualification and certification, this system is designed to meet the requirements of ISO 17024.
Type
Tutorial
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024 - Qualification Manual BG
Description
The document describes the general requirements for the WBL-PRO qualification and certification, this system is designed to meet the requirements of ISO 17024.
Type
Tutorial
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024 - Qualification Manual IT
Description
The document describes the general requirements for the WBL-PRO qualification and certification, this system is designed to meet the requirements of ISO 17024.
Type
Tutorial
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024 - Qualification Manual ES
Description
The document describes the general requirements for the WBL-PRO qualification and certification, this system is designed to meet the requirements of ISO 17024.
Type
Tutorial
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024 - Qualification Manual LV
Description
The document describes the general requirements for the WBL-PRO qualification and certification, this system is designed to meet the requirements of ISO 17024.
Type
Tutorial
Contents
IO3: WBL Professionals Skills Certification System based on ISO 17024 - Qualification Manual PT
Description
The document describes the general requirements for the WBL-PRO qualification and certification, this system is designed to meet the requirements of ISO 17024.
Type
Tutorial
Contents
IO6: WBL Professionals Peer Network and Top 12 Empower Talk Movies Panel
Description
WBL PROFESSIONALS Peer Network is a virtual place on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wblpro/ and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13505202/ where professionals of work-based learning (both from educational and business sector) are able to exchange ideas, best practices, and methodologies, and promote themselves and the services they offer with view to work-based learning opportunities. It is a dynamic environment where the participants can discuss and organize joint projects and initiatives, receive counsel and advice from colleagues, and offer or search for training opportunities and apprenticeships.
On the online platform of the project there are the interviews with WBL professionals about the main advantages of work-based learning, challenges they have encountered and solutions they have found to overcome these challenges. Additionally, with contribution from the European WBL-PRO Peer Network, 12 of the most empowering and inspiring WBL stories of young adults can be seen.
Type
Other: Peer Networking;Interviews; Videos.
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit online
Description
The WBL-PRO Toolkit is a virtual library of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe.
The virtual library is meant as repository of relevant best practices and tools collected from sharing and mutual learning activities among partner countries. In the virtual library, it is possible to use the search function entering a key word of phrase, or click the little arrow on the right in the header of “Learning Area” – the files will be rearranged according to the preferences:
LEARNING AREA A: Design quality work based learning
LEARNING AREA B: Develop quality work based learning
LEARNING AREA C: Deliver quality work based learning
LEARNING AREA D: Assess quality work based learning.
Additionally, more than 25 other projects representing best practice and/or tools for WBL activities throughout Europe were described by the WBL professionals joining the WBL PROFESSIONALS PEER NETWORK within their interviews and gathered during the research phase of the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit EN
Description
The document includes description of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe collected within the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit DE
Description
The document includes description of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe collected within the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit IT
Description
The document includes description of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe collected within the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit BG
Description
The document includes description of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe collected within the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit ES
Description
The document includes description of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe collected within the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit LV
Description
The document includes description of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe collected within the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
IO5: WBL-PRO Toolkit PT
Description
The document includes description of more than 160 best practices and tools for work-based learning in Europe collected within the project.
Type
Toolkit
Contents
Research material bringing forward the reflection in the sector
IO1: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report - Summary of National Reports EN
Description
The report shows an overview of the state of the art in the involved partner countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia) in relation to work-based learning (WBL).
The following topics are addressed through desktop research and interviews:
- National legal frameworks and theoretical perspectives supporting WBL.
- WBL in the education systems.
- Knowledge, skills and competencies of the WBL professionals involved.
- WBL forms/types. Their advantages and disadvantages.
- References to main observatories dealing with WBL quality.
- Main advantages for SMEs and VET organisations deriving from managing effective WBL pathways.
Main barriers/incentives met by companies and VET institutions in introducing WBL pathways.
- To what extent WBL supports efficient learning and employability.
- Educational needs, support and supervision.
Type
Research publications
Contents
IO1: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report - Summary of National Reports DE
Description
The report shows an overview of the state of the art in the involved partner countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia) in relation to work-based learning (WBL).
The following topics are addressed through desktop research and interviews:
- National legal frameworks and theoretical perspectives supporting WBL.
- WBL in the education systems.
- Knowledge, skills and competencies of the WBL professionals involved.
- WBL forms/types. Their advantages and disadvantages.
- References to main observatories dealing with WBL quality.
- Main advantages for SMEs and VET organisations deriving from managing effective WBL pathways.
Main barriers/incentives met by companies and VET institutions in introducing WBL pathways.
- To what extent WBL supports efficient learning and employability.
- Educational needs, support and supervision.
Type
Research publications
Contents
IO1: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report - Summary of National Reports BG
Description
The report shows an overview of the state of the art in the involved partner countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia) in relation to work-based learning (WBL).
The following topics are addressed through desktop research and interviews:
- National legal frameworks and theoretical perspectives supporting WBL.
- WBL in the education systems.
- Knowledge, skills and competencies of the WBL professionals involved.
- WBL forms/types. Their advantages and disadvantages.
- References to main observatories dealing with WBL quality.
- Main advantages for SMEs and VET organisations deriving from managing effective WBL pathways.
Main barriers/incentives met by companies and VET institutions in introducing WBL pathways.
- To what extent WBL supports efficient learning and employability.
- Educational needs, support and supervision.
Type
Research publications
Contents
IO1: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report - Summary of National Reports IT
Description
The report shows an overview of the state of the art in the involved partner countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia) in relation to work-based learning (WBL).
The following topics are addressed through desktop research and interviews:
- National legal frameworks and theoretical perspectives supporting WBL.
- WBL in the education systems.
- Knowledge, skills and competencies of the WBL professionals involved.
- WBL forms/types. Their advantages and disadvantages.
- References to main observatories dealing with WBL quality.
- Main advantages for SMEs and VET organisations deriving from managing effective WBL pathways.
Main barriers/incentives met by companies and VET institutions in introducing WBL pathways.
- To what extent WBL supports efficient learning and employability.
- Educational needs, support and supervision.
Type
Research publications
Contents
IO1: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report - Summary of National Reports ES
Description
The report shows an overview of the state of the art in the involved partner countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia) in relation to work-based learning (WBL).
The following topics are addressed through desktop research and interviews:
- National legal frameworks and theoretical perspectives supporting WBL.
- WBL in the education systems.
- Knowledge, skills and competencies of the WBL professionals involved.
- WBL forms/types. Their advantages and disadvantages.
- References to main observatories dealing with WBL quality.
- Main advantages for SMEs and VET organisations deriving from managing effective WBL pathways.
Main barriers/incentives met by companies and VET institutions in introducing WBL pathways.
- To what extent WBL supports efficient learning and employability.
- Educational needs, support and supervision.
Type
Research publications
Contents
IO1: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report - Summary of National Reports LV
Description
The report shows an overview of the state of the art in the involved partner countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia) in relation to work-based learning (WBL).
The following topics are addressed through desktop research and interviews:
- National legal frameworks and theoretical perspectives supporting WBL.
- WBL in the education systems.
- Knowledge, skills and competencies of the WBL professionals involved.
- WBL forms/types. Their advantages and disadvantages.
- References to main observatories dealing with WBL quality.
- Main advantages for SMEs and VET organisations deriving from managing effective WBL pathways.
Main barriers/incentives met by companies and VET institutions in introducing WBL pathways.
- To what extent WBL supports efficient learning and employability.
- Educational needs, support and supervision.
Type
Research publications
Contents
IO1: WBL Pathways Research and Analysis Report - Summary of National Reports PT
Description
The report shows an overview of the state of the art in the involved partner countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia) in relation to work-based learning (WBL).
The following topics are addressed through desktop research and interviews:
- National legal frameworks and theoretical perspectives supporting WBL.
- WBL in the education systems.
- Knowledge, skills and competencies of the WBL professionals involved.
- WBL forms/types. Their advantages and disadvantages.
- References to main observatories dealing with WBL quality.
- Main advantages for SMEs and VET organisations deriving from managing effective WBL pathways.
Main barriers/incentives met by companies and VET institutions in introducing WBL pathways.
- To what extent WBL supports efficient learning and employability.
- Educational needs, support and supervision.
Type
Research publications
Contents
Others
Certificate - Qualiication, Open Resources & Toolkit for Work-Based Learning Professional (WBL-Pro)
Description
After successful completion of the training and conducting online guide sussions the participants are awarded with certificate. The certificate indicates the skills and competences acquired during the training and completition of online guide sessions.
Type
Other: Certificate
Contents
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