1. EVALUATION AND MONITORING METHODS, TECHNIQUES, AND TOOLS
The crisis has brought high unemployment – over 25 million people in the EU in 2012. And long-term unemployment is also rising. Yet, in many places, job vacancies go unfilled, perhaps because job applicants lack the required skills or the jobs on offer are in another region or country. The ESF is closing this ‘skills gap’ by giving job-seekers the modern skills and qualifications – including ‘green skills’ – that are in demand by employers. The EC-funded initiatives also help job-seekers to move across Europe to find work – for example, with internships abroad and language training.
After strong measurements are made in parallel with all these initiatives, it will be ensured that the workforce has a quality circulation. After the quality circulation of the workforce, which is one of the most important pillars of European Social Rights, the desired quality of workforce circulation will be possible.
Erasmus+ is the EU's program to support education, training, youth, and sport in Europe.
Therefore, meeting the observation and evaluation criteria for the mobility of individuals aiming at the mobility of individuals, which is one of the key actions of the Erasmus+ program, will in a way make it possible to provide quality mobility.
A mobility project will consist of the following stages:
Planning (including defining the learning outcomes, activity formats, development of work program, schedule of activities)
Preparation (including practical arrangements, selection of participants, set up of agreements with partners and participants, linguistic/intercultural/learning- and task-related preparation of participants before departure);
Implementation of the mobility activities;
Follow-up (including the evaluation of the activities, the validation and formal recognition - where applicable - of the learning outcomes of participants during the activity, as well as the dissemination and use of the project's outcomes).
A third important element of innovation and quality of mobility activities is that Erasmus+ participating organizations have the possibility to organise mobility activities within a broader strategic framework and in the medium term. Through a single grant application, the coordinator of a mobility project will be able to organise several mobility activities, allowing many individuals to go abroad to different countries. As a consequence, under Erasmus+ the applicant organisations will be able to conceive their project in line with the needs of participants, but also according to their internal plans for internationalisation, capacity building and modernisation.
As a result, the most important element of a quality mobility depends on the monitoring and evaluation studies to be carried out at all stages of the process.
Actions in the fields of education, training and youth carried out in projects with the KA1 code, which include projects for mobility.
All of these Actions are organized within a framework based on the three Key Actions and provide solutions to mobility needs at different education levels. The most important of the reporting tools that check whether the desired success has been achieved with these tools presented under Various Actions, is the Mobility Tool that we use in VET mobility projects.
This Programme Guide is a tool for anybody who would like to have a thorough knowledge of what the Erasmus+ Programme is about. This document is mainly addressed to those who wish to be:
participating organisations: meaning those organisations, institutions, bodies organising activities supported by the Programme;
participants: meaning those individuals (students, trainees, apprentices, pupils, adult learners, young people, volunteers, or professors, teachers, trainers, youth workers, professionals in the field of education, training, youth and sport, etc.) involved in activities organised by the participating organisations.