Initial situation

Work-integrated learning is one of the most important innovation topics at the beginning of the 21st century. The new function of learning guidance and support for largely self-organised, employee-driven learning is emerging. However, there is a lack of exchange of national good practices, consolidation of learning facilitators' profiles and a suitable European-wide discussion platform for learning facilitators.

Target groups and their benefits

The EUFACINET project is aimed at SMEs that see learning as a (super-)vital element of their business development and therefore also want to use the potential of their employees as an essential resource for this. Particularly addressed are the "internal learning facilitators" as well as external training providers who want to and have to adapt their offer more and more to company and situation-related learning needs.

For this purpose, a self-assessment tool is to be developed for the employees, as self-observation leads to more systematic and sustainable learning and is consequently essential for establishing a new learning culture.

Project goal

The EUFACINET project aims to develop a pool of methods and promote collegial exchange among the growing community of facilitators of work-integrated learning processes in SMEs. The aim is to develop a new learning culture that is particularly suited to the needs of SMEs. 

The EUFACINET project continued the work of the project "Competence development through self-learning processes in the service sector (CompServ)", in which a guideline for accompanying self-learning processes small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was developed and tested.

Role of ISOB

ISOB provided ongoing monitoring, quality assurance and internal evaluation of the project activities. In addition, ISOB supported the development of the method pool and the dissemination of project results.