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Completed project · 2013–2015

Governance and financing of apprenticeship

The Cedefop study deals with the structures of political-administrative governance and financing of apprenticeship and other forms of dual vocational training in five European countries, addressing the question of how these systemic structures can be further developed in order to expand dual vocational training. The project follows the action research approach and involves experts and practitioners in the evaluation of the structures and the development of recommendations for action.

The project, jointly coordinated by the research group I:BB at the University of Bremen and the ITB, runs for a total of 20 months and pursues the following core objectives: (a) definition of appropriate governance structures and financing mechanisms for apprenticeship training, (b) evaluation of the existing structures in different countries on the basis of this model and (c) development of strategies and recommendations for action for the further development of governance structures and financing mechanisms with a view to expanding apprenticeship training. The governance model developed in the initial phase of the project describes the structures of steering and financing of dual vocational training on the basis of seven main criteria or dimensions, which serve as an analytical grid for literature and document analyses and as the basis of an evaluation tool for group discussions. The evaluation of the existing structures takes place essentially through stakeholder workshops, in which experts from research, administration and employers’ and employees’ organisations assess and discuss the situation of the country concerned on the basis of the seven criteria mentioned. In this way, the strengths and weaknesses of the existing structures as well as the respective development potential are identified, on the basis of which recommendations for action are developed in a further series of stakeholder workshops, coordinated with the respective practitioners and decision-makers.

In addition to the University of Bremen (I:BB and ITB), the partners 3s Unternehmensberatung GmbH (Austria), Gruppo CLAS S.p.A. (Italy), Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia (Latvia), SPI (Portugal), Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) and NOTUS Applied Social Research (Spain) are involved in the project. The evaluation workshops of the first phase were completed in September 2014; the phase of evaluation and the subsequent development of development strategies and recommendations for action extends until spring 2015.

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