The objective of Europortfolio is to establish a European Cooperation Network of experts and practitioners from four sectors in the field of ePortfolios:
- Further and Higher Education
- Vocational Education and Training
- Employment — human resources management, career counselors, etc.
- Lifelong Learning — all the actors of non-formal and informal learning
The target groups are ePortfolio experts & practitioners, Policy makers and global ePortfolio community.
Europortfolio will:
- Undertake inventory of ePortfolio and ePortfolio-related practices and models in Europe to present key findings and evidence on the state of-the-art;
- synthesise learning from the Inventory to promote strategies of effective practice, sustainable implementation and consistent management;
- highlight the evidence for the efficacy of such approaches and the reasons for this efficacy, e.g. success factors;
- develop ePortfolio capacity of the four target groups within the four sectors while bridging sectors and groups around a common ePortfolio framework.
This will be achieved by:
- Defining a framework for the integration of ePortfolios in educational institutions, the world of work at institutional, regional, national and international levels
- Transfering crucial knowledge from early adopters of ePortfolio initiatives to new ePortfolio initiatives and by such contributing to a transnational and transversal knowledge exchange related to ePortfolios, both at policy and institutional levels
- Contributing to the definition and implementation of ePortfolio policies, based upon evidence-informed practice, and a shared European perspective
- Raising awareness among educators, end-users and employers/enterprises to promote technological innovation in education as well as practices of reflective learning
- Developing an agenda for further action, in particular encourage the emergence of new ePortfolio initiatives to contribute to innovative learning practices, transparency and quality assurance of educational systems, formal and informal;
- Developing further the Europortfolio Learning Community Portal as a sustainable European ePortfolio information platform and social community of actors with live stream of current practices
- Enhancing the dialogue with international research networks, policy makers and educational leaders with the creation of an international network of experts and practitioners.
Main outcomes of the project are:
- A wide network of committed stakeholders across nations and sectors, including ePortfolio experts, researchers, practitioners, educational institutions and leaders, employers, policy experts and policy makers as well as interested communities such as school networks, in particular:
- Europortfolio that will contribute to the building of:
- A web based Inventory of ePortfolio Practices and Models that will be the foundation for:
- a series of National and Thematic Executive Reports eliciting the readiness of policies, people, organisations and technologies.
- the production of a series of Open Educational Resources and Europortfolio Learning Community Portal supporting:
- professionals willing to implement ePortfolios in their institution
- individuals willing to create and exploit their own ePortfolio
- a series of ePortfolio Implementation Guides that will compile good practice, policies and implementation strategies
- an ePortfolio maturity matrix model that will be the basis for an online self-assessment tool used by institutions to benchmark the maturity of theif ePortfolio initiatives and plan further development (increase maturity)
- at least one Green Paper and one White paper to stimulate debate and inform policies.
- an evidence-based ePortfolio framework that contributes to the recognition and accreditation of competencies within EU-27 countries as well as to a shared ePortfolio perspective
- eventually, the generation of new ePortfolio projects, initiatives and (formal and/or informal) networks.
