| Track | Working title of presentation | Confirmed Speakers | Country |
| I. Organisational arrangements | |||
| Building bridges between VPL providers |
Deirde Goggin Cork Institute of Technology | Ireland | |
| VPL in the Austrian VET sector: “Du kannst was!” |
Christian Eichbauer Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich | Austria | |
| Implementing VPL across Jurisdictions: The case of Canada |
Christine Wihak PLAR at Thomson Rivers University | Canada | |
| The value of cross border cooperation for validation providers, and what is needed to set up a transnational network of validation providers. |
Erik Kaemingk ErikKaemingk CV | Netherlands | |
| Filled with skills – enhancing the validation of prior learning by NGOs |
Lotta Pakanen Sivis Study centre | Finland | |
| II. Financing | |||
| A detailed breakdown of the costs of VPL |
An de Coen IDEA CONSULT | Belgium | |
| Financing VPL in France – low financial entry barriers for VAE |
Yolande Fermon Direction générale de l’enseignement supérieur et de l’insertion professionnelle | France | |
| Financing VPL in Iceland |
Sveinn Adalsteinsson ETCS Iceland | Iceland | |
| Return on invest for validation |
Diederick Stoel profitwise | Netherlands | |
| III. Procedures and instruments | |||
| Development of approaches for better participation of migrants and refugees in the labour market |
Michael van der
Cammen Bundesagentur für Arbeit | Germany | |
| Mapping Pathways to Employment |
Ulrich Scharf Skilllab | Netherlands | |
| Labour market integration of migrants using Competence and Career Cards as well as the website my-professional-experience.org |
Helge Wilters Job Center Plön Ramona López ZBBS e.V. | Germany | |
| Can a quality model enhance performance of VPL and is benchmark of national VPL arrangements possible? |
Per Andersson Linköping University Pär Sellberg Myndigheten för Yrkeshögskolan | Sweden | |
| How to adapt the validation process to challenging target groups? How can the third sector play an important role in giving individuals access to validation? |
Göran Hellmalm Studieförbunden | Sweden | |
| IV. Support structures | |||
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Information and awareness
raising on validation This first session on support structures will present practices and possible ways of providing information to the public and raising awareness on validation practices to build trust on them. |
Ludovic Collin Cités des Métiers | France | |
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Bringing people into
the validation process This session will focus on the process of outreach to individuals giving them the possibility to enter a validation process. Special emphasis will be placed in reaching out to disadvantage individuals such as those unemployed, or at risk of unemployment, low qualified and migrants |
Ndeshimona Afunde NAMCOL | Namibia | |
| Validation and guidance in Switzerland |
Deli Salini Istituto universitario federale per la formazione professionale IUFFP | Switzerland | |
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Coordination of
validation and guidance In this session participants will hear of preliminary results of a Cedefop study that examines in what way validation and guidance can be better integrated and coordinated. The study features 10 case studies of different practices across Europe. |
Mariya Dzhengozova 3S | Austria | |
| V. Post-validation pathways | |||
| Journey of an RPL practitioner from analogue to digital |
Karen Deller Chartall Business College | Republic of South Africa | |
| Linkage of VPL with personalised learning as a post-VPL-pathway |
James Rickabaugh Institute for Personalised Learning | USA | |
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Raymond Steenkamp Libereaux | Netherlands | ||
| VI. Legal foundations | |||
| Preparation and implementation of a legal system for Validation of Prior Learning (VPL) in the Faroe Islands |
John Dalsgard Ministry of Education, Research and Culture | Faroe Islands | |