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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Central workshop - „LEONARDO - Transnational Quality Project“ meets in Venice
From 22nd to 24th of October the third central project workshop took place. 29 project members from 5 countries met to discuss the working results of 20 months of project work. Other topics were the open points and remaining work.
It's quite impressive what was accomplished with joint work in a relative short period of time. The most important project result are the improved QUALITY GUIDELINES. The revised second edition is a field-proven quality management system for international oriented education providers and training institutions. Furthermore the project develops implementation aids, which are concentrated and published in a compendium. This compendium, at the moment in the stage of polishing, shall be presented to the public on project conclusion, which will be on the end of february. Available languages will be german, english, polish, italian, spanish an catalan.
Two polish training institiutions presented their results on the introduction of the QM STAGE MODEL and the application of the QUALITY GUIDELINES. Like the other institutions in the project they made important contributions to the practical testing of the quality requirements. Also lots of important hints and tips came from these tests. Another example is the exemplary qm manual which bbw Frankfurt (Oder) produced for their german-polish youth factory. It incorporates the QUALITY GUIDELINES in this fundamental qm document. All project members cared for wide distribution and application of the project results in their respective countries. So the swedish members arranged a common workshop with a working board of the „Nordic Council" where they presented the QM STAGE MODEL and the QUALITY GUIDELINES. The italian partner strives to include named qm materials into the quality politics of the Venice region.
Another product of the project is the competence center. At www.leonardo-tqp.eu exists a web based platform for the communication of the project members. There the project partners describe their expierences and present their results on a regular basis. Most of the platform is publicly available. For a later to be published part of the platform, a competence assessment tool (CAT), ideas were developed how to capture and measure competences of teaching staff. Building on these results personnel and organisational development steps can be deduced.
More than enough stuff for three days of discussion. But not only subject-specific topics were discussed, the members also jumped on the opportunity to meet the meanwhile familiar partners for some off-topic talks.
Click on the photo to see the workshop collection, or go to the gallery:
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