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The University of Tampere was founded in 1925 as a civic college and is today the leading academic institute for social studies in Finland. It has also distinguished in computer science and has good facilities for distance communication and studying. Faculty of Education has since 1980´s become the first and leading centre for vocational education in Finland offering MA and PhD programmes with focus on vocational education, open university courses and courses for practitioners in different fields of vocational education. These include tailor-made licentiate and doctoral programmes for teachers in new polytechnics. An essential part of activities is research focusing on motivational and organisational factors influencing basic and continuing vocational education, on evaluating reforms and experiments in vocational education and on historical and cultural aspects of vocational education. Much of courses and research is funded by administration, enterprises and educational organisations, partly carried out in collaboration with researchers from other Finnish, European and US universities. Project Researcher: Docent, MPh, MA, Dr. Anja Heikkinen, co-ordinator for the European network is a researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Education. She has professional experience as a mathematics and science teacher and teacher-trainer in gymnasium and vocational college, as head of local board of education and in educational planning. Anja Heikkinen has participated in a number of European research networks and projects. Most important from the recent ones are 1) a 4-yeardevelopmental project in Zambia, where she works as a consultant for planning and implementing new forms of vocational education and training, 2) a 2-year Leonardo-project EUROPROF, where she works as a research partner in surveying and developing the occupational profiles and training of the VET professionals in Europe. Dr. Heikkinen has studied and published on philosophical, cultural and historical aspects of education and is recently heading the research project "Searching for the peculiarities of Finnish vocational education. She is co-ordinating European research network "VET and culture - European perspectives" and a related network of gender-research on VET. Anja Heikkinen has for several years been and currently responsible for developing study programmes for MA and doctoral students in education with focus on vocational education in her university. In relation to this, she is also heading a doctoral school "Vocational education and culture", which is part of the national graduate school "Education, Knowledge and Culture". Young researcher: Two young researchers will be involved in the project. Both are already carrying through research for the department of education. |
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The Bureau d’Economie Theorique et Appliquee was founded in 1972 and is associated to the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) since 1985 (URA 1237). BETA is a research laboratory in Economics and Management counting at present up to sixty researchers including doctoral students. The investigation fields are very broad including micro-economic theory and the history of economic thought, theoretical modelisation methods and filed work. Among this diversity, a particularly large component of the laboratory is working on technological and economic evolution on the meso and macro economic levels as well as at enterprise level. BETA’s research activities are structured into 18 programmes, federated into 6 operations: International Macroeconomics, Microeconomics modelisation, industrial economics, environment and innovation, Management and evaluation of industrial systems, Labour education and social cohesion, history of economic thought, political philosophy and history. BETA has considerable experience of European research programmes and has participated, among others, in the ESA programme, in FAST-MUST and in BRITE-EURAM. One of BETA’s teams is associated to Cereq, the national Centre of Studies and Researches on Qualification. It is this team, the Cra-Cereq BETA, in priority working on the operation "Labour education et social cohesion", which will attend to the co-ordination of the present proposal. The teams research staff consists of fourteen researchers of various disciplines: Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Education Sciences. Cra-Cereq BETA has, besides its academic and scientific activities, to fulfil a mission of assistance to the local social partners and State administration in the field of training and employment. It is thus, among others, in close contact with the Urban Community of Strasbourg and its Eurocities network. Finally the co-ordinating team belongs to a French network of research centres (BETA-Strasbourg, Cereq Marseilles, CRPEE Montpellier, INRA Toulouse, LASTREE Lille, LERSCO Nantes) associated to the Cereq, and has been working for four years in the field of young people of low educational level and their professional insertion. Project Researchers Eric Fries Guggenheim is Maitre de Conferences de Sciences Economiques at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg and is also Directeur d'Etudes at the 'IUFM d'Alsace. He has been working in his present position since 1988 where he leads a cross disciplinary research team. He has directed a considerable number of national and international research projects. Previous work has included work organisation and human resources and relationship to vocational education and training. More recently he has been undertaking three research projects: - The relation between education and training and employment - including systems of innovation and the potential for development, the professional insertion of young people, training regulations and occupational profiles in Alsace; - The analysis of the relations between systems of training and systems of employment and a comparison between regional and national training for professionals; - Human resource development - including the mobility of workers The new contact person is M'hamed Dif. |
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The Institut Technik und Bildung is a research institute within the University of Bremen. The prime focus for the Institutes work is the development of prospective vocational education and training and its relation to technology and work. The institute employs over thirty engineers, vocational education experts, and social and humanities scientists in interdisciplinary teams. The interrelations between pure research and applied developments for industry leads to a special quality of research. The Institute has wide experience in leading European and international projects. It provides policy advice for the development of vocational education in China and in many African and Asian countries and has recently engaged on a programme of co-operation with the USA. The Institute has managed European research programmes under SPRINT, Leonardo, EUROTECNET, FORCE, ADAPT, TSER and EUROFORM. The institute has undertaken extensive research programmes for the German Lander and for the BIBB on the development of the German Dual System and on the future of apprenticeship training in Germany. It also acts as advisors on training to the Volkswagon Motor Car Company. The work on school to work transition has been extended to an international arena through work with OECD and through involvement with Leonardo research projects on Post-16 education in Europe. More recently the Institute has produced a major report on future reform of the Dual System in Germany for the Lander of North Rhine - Westphalia. It is expected that this report will act as a blueprint for the future development of vocational education and training in Germany. The many different ties within the university as well as outside of it, with European industry and other international partner institutions, form an important basis for the ITB. The director of the Institute is Professor Dr. Felix Rauner who has extensive experience in the design of vocational training systems and in the definition and development of networks of small and medium enterprises for regional innovation. Project Co-ordinators and Researchers Graham Attwell is a full time researcher at ITB. Formerly based in Wales, UK, where he was director of the Centre for Research and Education Development, he moved to Germany in 1995 to lead the European Leonardo research project New Forms of Education for Professionals in Vocational Education and Training (EUROPROF) with partners in 14 European countries. He has been working on European developmental programmes and research projects for the last ten years including directing and managing projects under the EMPLOYMENT programmes, EUROTECNET, FORCE, Leonardo and Tacis Phare. Previously he acted as a consultant for the Further Education Unit in the UK and the last few years has been invited to provide expert opinion for the European Commission on vocational education and training. His research interests include curriculum development, training the trainers, school to work transition, the development of distance learning and social inclusion for young people. Graham Attwell is currently participating in a Dutch, German, UK, USA comparative study of school to work transition in those countries and the development of policy guidelines for successful transitions. This work was published in the USA in 1997. He has published numerous papers and journal articles and is presently editing a book on the education of vocational teachers and has been invited to speak at conferences and symposia throughout the world.
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The laboratory is part of the Education Department of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Patras. The main activities of the Laboratory are scientific research on educational issues, the creation of educational material, Laboratory and teaching assistance for students and training seminars for school teachers. The main research subjects include: adult education, school to work transition, vocational education and training, investigating economic, social and cultural parameters of education structure and educational processes and minority education and intercultural education. The major current research projects involve the creation of the first classification of occupations for the Greek Labour Market and partnership in the Leonardo da Vinci EUROPROF project led by the ITB at Bremen University. The Laboratory are also leading a European Horizon project on Unemployment and mental health. Project Researcher Nikitas Patiniotis is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Education Department as well as being Director of the Laboratory on Sociology and Education and Director of the section of Social Theory and Analysis. He was previously Director of The Greek Ministry of Research and Technology and has represented Greece at numerous international conferences and symposia. In the past few years he has often served as European Union expert on subjects of education and its relation to employment and issues of professional qualifications. He has published three books, thirteen scientific monologues and scores of articles in Greek and foreign journals. Young researcher: to be appointed Selected Research Projects: -Comparability of Occupations and vocational training qualifications
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Experience in research into: - evaluation of methods for designing occupational profiles -designing training profiles and model curricula for vocational education on basis of occupational profiles -international comparison of systems for continuing vocational education and training -co-ordination of the national FORCE-reports (FORCE Article 11 (2) and compiling the European synthesis report -the effectiveness of vocational education and training Project Researcher Dr. Jittie Brandsma: Graduated as an educational sociologist (University of Groningen), she has performed research within vocational education and training and adult education for 13 years. Since 1987 she is working at the Center for Applied Research on Education at the University of Twente, where she is presently employed as coordinator of the research programme on vocational education and training and as replacing director of theresearch center. In 1993 she obtained her doctor's degree (University of Twente) on an evaluation of existing methods for designing and developing occupational profiles. Research fields include: -development and implementation of occupational profiles and national qualification structures -management and quality assurance in vocational education -effectiveness of vocational education and training -evaluation of curricular innovations in vocational education Young researcher: to be appointed |
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The Institute for Employment research is one of the UK’s leading centres of research into the area of education, training and employment. It was established almost twenty years ago and as well as conducting research, it has frequently been asked to give policy advice at national and European levels. Nationally it has played a key role in labour market forecasting. Project Researcher Alan Brown has recently been appointed a Senior Fellow at the University of Warwick. Until recently he was a senior researcher at the University of Surrey where he led research in vocational education and training. He has been centrally involved in a number of national and European research and development projects on work-based learning, competence-based qualifications and progression to higher education over the last decade. He has carried out four projects on aspects of policy and curriculum development associated with General National Vocational Qualifications and has advised government agencies on the review of GNVQ. Alan Brown is one of the UK’s leading researchers into school to work transition. For the past four years he has been an ERSC fellow leading the Anglo German longitudinal study into school to work transition. This project has also received support from the DAAD in Germany and the Anglo German foundation. More recently the study has received the backing of the Dutch Ministry of education to extend the analysis to the Netherlands. He has been instrumental in the development of close matching as a methodology for the study of school to work transition. He has published numerous books, journal articles and papers on the subject and been invited to contribute to many international conferences. Young researcher: to be appointed |