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VPL Biennale in Reykjavik, Iceland or online
May 19-20, 2022
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The main question to be addressed during the conference is:
How can validation processes become an integral part of policies and services to support lifelong learning?
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The main themes of the 4th VPL Biennale are:
- Validation and working life
- Validation and education/training
- Validation and social sustainability
- Validation and personal development
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Theme 1: Validation and working life
The main focus of this theme is to look at the importance of VPL as a tool for making the existing skills of workers visible and giving them value. Shedding light on competence requirements within occupations can assist in connecting them with future skills needs for specific jobs and sectors.
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Another aspect is that bringing transparency to the skills that an employee/individual possesses from various working contexts can motivate people towards identifying ways to develop their skills at their current jobs. In return, these aspects are connected to the aim of a globally competitive working life. Hence, VPL can connect processes in Human Resource Management and well-being, addressing the interests of both companies and employees.
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Theme 2: Validation and education/training
Increasing diversity in the way people learn is challenging the traditional mode of assessing prior learning, as well as didactic practice. Structured education and training pathways need to be equipped to take prior learning into account and support learners appropriately in their competence development.
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Mainstreaming VPL and various modes of learning (with regards to context, content, length etc.) can be a motivational factor for the learner, and as such a crucial element in real access. The way these modes of learning are recognized also needs clarification – the concept of ubique learning.
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Theme 3: Social sustainability
Validation has a role in widening participation in learning, active citizenship and democratization. Outreach is needed for vulnerable groups with a focus on information, guidance and support.
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The different spheres of learning, such as community and service-learning and voluntary work, can provide opportunities for validation processes. That will call for a learning outcome-based approach that improves access to educational pathways, thus enhancing inclusion.
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Theme 4: Validation and personal development
Awareness of one’s competencies through documentation supports positive self-esteem and motivates further personal development. Transversal and transferrable skills (soft skills) can play a key role in identifying opportunities for learning and work.
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Identifying methods and tools for making all types of skills visible can benefit personal development and career learning. Career Management Skills (CMS) are tacitly embedded in the validation process, but can CMS be used in a more goal-oriented way with specialized guidance?
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The 4th VPL Biennale will follow the tradition from Berlin and introduce a research track.
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The track will present the newest international research on validation of prior learning.
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In case of COVID restrictions
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We are following the COVID 19 related recommendations of the Icelandic authorities.
In case entering Iceland becomes restricted, the 4th VPL Biennale will become an online conference.
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