The TRANSVAL-EU project addresses the complex issue of validation of transversal skills. On one hand employers place an increasing importance on transversal skills. On the other hand transversal skills are only an implicit part of existing validation and guidance processes.
There is a need to make the validation processes of transversal skills acquired in non-formal and informal settings explicit and to embed the lessons learned in validation and guidance policies.
TRANSVAL-EU intents to examine innovative approaches for the validation of transversal skills acquired through non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL) in five pilot countries – Austria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Belgium.
TRANSVAL-EU addresses the insufficient knowledge and awareness regarding the validation of transversal skills. It enables counsellors and practitioners to make better use of innovative VNFIL methods and transversal skills.
The project aims to build capacity of practitioners and counsellors as well as, if relevant, of other stakeholders in the field of innovative VNFIL and transversal skills and strengthen cross-sector cooperation between practitioners, policy-makers and other stakeholders in order to build coherent VNFIL systems.
TRANSVAL-EU intends to be one of the largest European policy experiments on VNFIL. The project has 16 partners from 7 countries.
