BEQUAL

The first French workshop took place in Blois on 07/09/2010.

Objectives of the workshop was to introduce the trainers of OPCALIA Centre Auvergne Limousin to CQAF and BEQUAL benchmarking tool, as well as to demonstrate them the necessity for helping training organisations managing their Quality Systems. OPCALIA is one of the two most important organisations that finance the training of private companies in France.

Objective of the translational conference that took place in Piraeus on 24/06/2010 was the presentation and launching of the online benchmarking tool and the portal on Quality Assurance in VET.

The transnational conference in Greece had a remarkable success, with all actors of VET in Greece invited and represented in the conference through 58 participants (including various types of VET institutions, the National Accreditation Centre-EKEPIS, the Organisation for VET-OEEK, the General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning and social partners).

23 VET providers, policy makers and stakeholders participated in the workshop that took place in Bucharest on 9/6/2010.

The overall objective of the workshop was to disseminate the Bequal project, to assist and support the VET providers filling in the benchmarking questionnaire and using the online tool.

During the workshop in Florida, we interviewed several experts and stakeholders on the issue of quality assurance in VET and the necessity of a benchmarking tool to allow comparison of different VET centres and exchange of good practices.

The next partners meeting of BEQUAL project will be organised in Athens, hosted by the promoter IDEC in collaboration with the partner OBES.

The first German workshop took place on Fürstenfeldbruck on 06/11/2009 during the annual meeting of Learning Regions.

The annual member conference of the association of Learning Regions Germany was used to make its members familiar with the BEQUAL tool and to introduce to them the questionnaire inclusively the evaluation of the questionnaire.

The Spanish workshop took place in Catarroja, Valencia, on 23/10/2009.

The workshop in Valencia was the first opportunity to present the preliminary results of the project in a wide audience. 22 VET providers and stakeholders participated and contributed by participating in the benchmarking and by providing feedback regarding BEQUAL portal.

After expert review, the benchmarking tool is finalised and published for end-user evaluation. You can download it from the documents section. Please feel free to use it and send us a filled questionnaire along with the evaluation sheet. Your help is valuable, in order first to validate the benchmarking tool and second to gather enough benchmarking data, in order to launch the tool on-line.

The 3rd partners meeting took place in Valencia on 22-23 of October 2009, hosted by Florida Association.

The first BEQUAL workshop took place in Athens on 12/12/2008.

Main objectives of the workshop were to present the project to the members of OBES and through them disseminate it in a much more wide audience and to gather input of the issues that are considered important from the point of view of the social partners.

We would like to invite you to the workshop in Tours, France on June 19th, 2009 at 14.00. The workshop addresses managers and quality managers of VET institutes of any type. During the workshop, we will present the BEQUAL benchmarking tool and you will have the opportunity to test it and give us your feedback. For reservations please contact us.