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Section 2: Work Package reports

2.4 Work Package 4 (Quality Assurance and national policy, research and practice in
and Evidence Base) relevant sectors;
• ensure linkages are made to relevant develop-
Participating countries: BE, DE, DK, EE, EL, HU, IE, ments in other ELGPN Work Packages (and
IR, IS, LT, LU, NL, PT, SE, SI, UK with appropriate outside agencies) in order to
Lead country: HU achieve greater coherence and synergy of ideas
Consultant: Dr Deirdre Hughes and outcomes;
• contribute to the ELGPN Resource Kit to be
produced in 2012 and to upload relevant mate-
2.4.1 Activities rials on to the ELGPN website;
• learn from each other by disseminating good
A key objective of the ELGPN is to develop opera- and interesting policies and practices using the
tional tools to support concrete policy implementa- ELGPN website.
tion. In 2011–12, WP4 activities involved reviewing
quality-assurance systems and processes in member Four meetings were held:
countries and examining their relationship to an ear-
lier published Quality Assurance Framework . From • The theme of the first peer-learning event in
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this, key topics for development activities included: Copenhagen, Denmark, involved a sub-group
new strategies for policy-makers and others to working on data-collection methods and
develop and apply new methods for data collection the design of a small set of indicators that
and to design and implement a Quality Assurance were measurable and could be applied in EU
and Evidence-base (QAE) Framework (2011–12). and national policy contexts. Parallel to this, WP4
The goals for 2011–12 were to: a second sub-group developed a new ‘pilot
instrument’ designed to capture learning out-
• build upon the existing Quality Assurance comes from differing types of career support
(QA) framework and focus on refining, design- interventions.
ing and developing a small set of indicators • The theme of the fieldwork event in Tallinn,
that are measurable and can be applied in EU Estonia, involved presentations on key find-
and national policy contexts; ings and presenting issues. From this, national
• design and develop the structure and content of and cross-sectoral policy issues were identi-
a pilot project on learning outcomes measure- fied, including an assessment of the efficacy
ment, covering at least five EU countries, with a of existing approaches. Members agreed the
number of selected service providers and users implementation plan for piloting the two new
of career support services willing to participate, policy tools, and learned more about national
so that lessons can be learned and transferred surveys and EU policy development activities
to a wider audience; designed to strengthen the evidence base for
• strengthen the evidence base for lifelong guid- lifelong guidance in relevant sectors.
ance through inputs to national surveys, where • The theme of the fieldwork visit in Luxem-
appropriate, and establish strong links to EU bourg involved reviewing preliminary findings
from the application of the first draft of the
QAE Framework across member countries. A
detailed synthesis report highlighted similar-
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