VISIBLE: “Validation Issues Induct a Basis for Learning Evaluation” (479 249 EUR), 2007-2009: is aimed to develop a validation methodology for non-formal learning process in order to allow the European Development Agencies and the Local Development Actors to recognize organizational positions and related competences. The project involves partner organisations from: Italy (Sviluppo Marche S.p.A. EC Società Unipersonale and G.A.L. Ogliastra), Bulgaria (BARDA), Hungary (DEKUT Research and Innovation Non-profit Organisation), Belgium (European Consortium for the Learning Organisation), France (FIVAL - Interprofessional Federation of horsing sports, leisure horsing and work horses), Norway (NAAL - The Norwegian Association for Adult Learning), Romania (South-East Regional Development Agency) and Slovakia (Regional Development Agency Senec - Pezinok).

In particular, each partner organization involved identifies clearly the positions of his colleagues, their competencies and their responsibilities. The focus of the project is on the position of Project Manager (PM), a key role in RDAs, in order to facilitate the transition from rhapsodic common projects to models of permanent mutual co-operation between RDAs. They need to reduce organizational barriers by exploiting the potential of staff exchange and even European job mobility. A common horizon of vocational training, where not only the settings and practices of learning are shared, but also the key references and standards, is a crucial precondition for this process to start.
Besides technical background PM need to have more crucial competences, the horizontal ones, such as, for example, Organizing, Networking and Communication to continuously improve through a non-formal learning process that the Project identifies in the “Case Histories”.

Visible’s purpose is to transform these case histories into a non-formal learning patrimony for the whole sector of European DAs and more advanced, to establish Visible as a common methodology of validation of non-formal learning for horizontal competencies.

More information could be found at: http://www.visibleproject.eu