WBL Guarantee is a 3 years project aiming to develop, design and validate two curriculum programmes for the professional development of ''in-company tutors'' (SMEs) and ''job-counselors/professionals'' (public/private sector) working with WBL measures in Europe.
The project identifies the new contexts (both in terms of current European labour market conditions and in the WBL measures and programme delivered) that are impacting upon, and therefore changing, the traditional roles of employers/mentors working within SMEs and employment counsellors and professionals working in VET/employment agencies asking for an enhancement of their skills and capabilities - with corresponding challenges for how this occupational profiles are to be developed, trained for and accredited across Europe.
The project therefore sets out a work programme and a series of deliverables (‘intellectual outputs’) that will meet this challenge.
It brings together 5 partner Countries and 11 Organisations representing WBL Alliance in Europe and coming from different sector: Public Authorities with regulatory capabilities for VET/ALMPs; VET/Employment agencies and providers; Social Partners representing SMEs and University. All the partner organisations, with different roles and ways are involved in WBL measures at National and European level.
The project will look at reinforcing and upskilling the in-company tutors and job-counselors' competences following a base line study into the existence of the roles across a number of EU partners, this project will seek to indentify a set of key competencies which will then be tracked across to the EQF and NQF standards to identify if there is any scope for the development of a competency based framework. The project will also aim to develop two curriculum programmes (CVET) through a number of best practice ‘models’ , ‘tools’ and mobility programme which the successful in-company tutors and job-counselors can incorporate into their work with job seekers, learners and apprenticees/trainees to ensure successful sustained WBL outcomes.