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European Employment Initiative

Horizon Project GOAL

Give Opportunities to Achieve a Long-Term employment

The 'Employment and developement of human resources' initiative is a new community programme that focuses on groups with specific employment problems. The main objective is to develop people's skills in the community and to improve the working of the labour market.

Employment sub-initiative HORIZON is aimed at promoting the oppportunities of integrated education, training and employment for the underprivileged and the handicapped.

GOAL is a transnational project that completely fits in with the HORIZON employment initiative.
GOAL is mainly aimed at developping an educational model and method to organize a professional training.
This model is being developed to improve the standards of professional trainings ( through open or traditional learning), and in that way, to improve and preserve the professional integration of the handicapped in the open labour market.
The model to be developed should meet the following criteria:

• it should be oriented towards individuals;
• it should meet the labour market requirements;
• it should also be open to those who are excluded from existing training opportunities;
• it should also be of use for the in-service training of people who are about to lose their jobs.

To make the multiplier effect as great as possible and to increase the chances of succes, it is of the utmost importance that the most significant authorities in the fields of training, careers guidance and systems to stimulate job opportunities for the target group, get involved in various phases of development of this project.
These authorities are: national, regional and local authorities, non-governmental organisations for the handicapped, centres for returning to work and training, specific advisory bodies, local development companies, universities and other educational establishments.

GOAL Project

is managed by the following organisations:

Table of contents

	Innovatory nature of the project
	Transnational activities
	Project activities
	Management of the transnational aspects
	Monitoring/evaluation
	Dissemination

The innovation of the project lies in the combined and synergetic use of New Technologies and a different educational approach. The concrete innovative effects will be:

Flexibility (ability to fit the needs of the employers)

Teletraining (capability to train people without limits: at the workplace; at home; etc.)

Personalization (ability to fit the learning capabilities of the trainees)

Job-coaching (tutoring with specialists to match trainees with employers till the complete integration of the disable people and the complete satisfaction of the employer).

• Sessions of exchanging information and experience.
• Joint development of a training model.
• Joint search and implementation of technical aids.
• Joint production of training systems and products.
• Transnational management and co-ordination of the actions.
• Monitoring and Final Evaluation.
• Dissemination of the results.

Project phases

Phase 1 Environment analysis.

It is very important that each team member is introduced to each other, to refine the organization structure, specify the responsibilities, detail project planning and decide the tools, methods and platforms that shall be used in the project.

Phase 2 Development of the Jobcoaching System.

One of the most important activities of the system is Jobcoaching. The knowledge of the work world and of its trends will help lead the students to a right vocational path, with a special view to their own skills.

Phase 3 Development of the Labour-market Follow-up system (LFS).

The search aims to determine the real needs of employers by means of a system of continuous survey on an industrial sector which is rapidly changing.

Phase 4 Development of the Didactical Support System.

The software and the corresponding learning systems are continuously updated by the manufacturers. For this reason it has been decided not to develop teaching material for the exclusive use of disabled people, but to use commercial material, adapting it with methodologies to facilitate access by people with particular disabilities.

Phase 5 Development of a Planning and Follow-up System for Training.

The system should be able to monitor the students at any moment, from their initial state to completion through employment/integration.

Phase 6 Definition of the Model of Teletraining.

The best teletraining systems shall be evaluated by the criteria of the best learning results and accessibility.

Phase 7 Conclusion of the project.

Dissemination of results.

The organisation structure in appendix has been agreed by all the partners. The co-ordination of the transnational part of the project has been assigned to ASPHI, which shall devote a person to this task. This person shall work full-time in encouraging the partners to implement project planning and the assigned responsibilities. There will be specific activities planned like :

• staff exchange meetings to define criteria of evaluation of the system
• joint participation visits to examine the best teaching materials and application
• joint development of part of the system
• joint dissemination and evaluation seminars

Concerning the overall management and evaluation external, bodies will be involved. For example, The University of Ghent will design an evaluation model containing quality criteria for the training model. These quality criteria will be used for internal controlling of the project results.

Monitoring of the project.

The methodology is borrowed from Systems Analysis and shall make use of the Structured Walk-through instrument, as well as Co-operative Meetings of Problem Solving. Walk-Through means a methodology of organising and running meetings, which goes for the determination of the critical aspects, due to lacks or mistakes, of the different products of each phase or activity. The structured Walk-through is made up of a number of fixed-term meetings, during which qualified people, internal or external to the project, verify the validity and the completeness of each phase/activity rather than each step of it.

Evaluation of the project

The strategy for the dissemination of the results of the GOAL project starts very early in the total project-planning. The global descriptions of the system will be disseminated to similar training centers in the member states of the GOAL-partners, but also in other member-states. These centres will be consulted for their interest in the model that will be developed by GOAL, and will be asked to co-operate in the evaluation and the testing of the model and the different parts of the system. The objective for the end of the project is to enlarge the number of training centres that will use the system or parts of the system, the evaluation criteria in order to have similar quality levels of training all over the European Union.
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Last update: 13 March 1996