The underlying project ideas

The full title of the project was "Improving Quality of Informal Learning through Tools and Instruments for Workplace Learning Partnerships". Thus, the project sought to develop tools and instruments that help to promote workplace learning and partnership cooperation. The project also sought to link the development of sectoral partnerships and networks to broader contexts of social innovation.

The work of the WLP project

The WLP project was carried out in six countries - Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. The project activities consisted of coutry studies, field studies, tool development, regional workshops and European workshops. Alongside these activities the WLP project promoted the development of Web-based tools and communication facilities - both for local piloing and for Europe-wide knowledge sharing.

Workplace learning, Partnerships and Piloting in different countries

The WLP project and had to adjust its work to the different country-specific preconditions for promoting workplace learning and partnership-based cooperation. Therefore, some of the partners were primarily focusing on initial vocational education and training (VET), whilst some other partners were focusing on industrial learning communities and measures to promote staff development. Also, the partners had different possibilities to link the national fieldwork to preparatory studies, to actual piloting activities and to transfer-promoting measures (after an active pilot phase).

The results of the WLP project

The WLP project has gone through a collective learning process regarding the different preconditions for piloting activities (and regarding the use of Web-based tools and facilities as support for piloting). From this perspective the project has to some extent modified the set of final products with which it has been working:

• The WLP Manual has been produced as a light-weight manual that introduces the main ideas, working issues and results of the WLP project.
• The WLP Course has been produced as an easily accessible web-based learning environment that links the work of the WLP project to four learning areas and to supporting learning resources.
• The WLP Tools (Learning Potential Analysis, Learning Acievement Review, Workshop tools, Tutorial tools) have been linked to the WLP course and to dynemic process of developing partnership cooperation.
• The idea of WLP Web has been transformed from its original context (Learning Management System for rotation-based learning arrangements) to meet better the different needs of country-specific pilot activities. Therefore, the development of the WLP took a course towards an interactive resource environment with diferent support facilities (the blogging system, the wiki facility and the multimedia content area).

In order to support the dissemination activities the reshaped website seeks to bring forward the Country content and the Partners' Areas alongside the above mentioned main products and the concluding WLP Reports.

Key Messages from partners...

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Key messages from the WLP partners

The work of the WLP project has been characterised by different contexts for enhancing workplace learning and for promoting partnership development. This is reflected in the following Key messages that emerge from the activities of the WLP partners.