Improvement of the Staff Qualification for Survey, Evaluation and Prognosis of Employer’s Qualification Requirements and Requirements of Whole Regions

The project called “Improvement of the Staff
Qualification for Survey, Evaluation and Prognosis of Employer’s Qualification
Requirements and Requirements of Whole Regions” is presented by BCEO (Czech
Republic) as the coordinator and implemented together with partners from Slovak
Republic (UPSVR Bratislava), Austria (L&R Social Research) and Hungary
(ZMKH). The main objective of the project was to increase the level of vocational
education of the participants by using experiences, information and knowledge
in the complex area of monitoring, evaluation and prognostication of the
qualification needs of employers and whole regions. The basic aim of this
Partnership was to transfer information, knowledge and experiences mainly in
the field of monitoring labour market and solving very difficult problems of
generalization and evaluation data about the employment structure. The task of
the Partnership was to find ways of efficient implementation of research
surveys in EU countries with a fully compatible structure with the statistic
selection researches performed by Eurostat (Labour Force Survey). The other
task of the Partnership was to define methods which would help to generate the
researched data and define general qualification needs of regions. Current
issues and tasks were discussed and solved together within the specialized
seminars, which were organized involving all partners. The project was realized
in 24 months – 9 planned collective four-sided meetings were arranged, where we
discussed the differences of each country’s culture and speciality. Within the project a common questionnaire in
order to identify the qualification needs of employers regarding the partner
countries (resp. in each EU country) was conducted. The very extensive research
survey in the four partner countries resulted with several thousands of
respondents (December 2010 there were already 3,292 respondents with 182,7
thousands of employees and in December 2011 there were even 4,598 respondents
with 272,0 thousands of employees). From analytical point of view these huge
numbers enabled a quality process of extracted results. The structure of the
questionnaire bears international valid statistical classifications which help
Eurostat to observe and evaluate working potential. Regarding that fact the
questionnaire is usable in every EU country. Within the framework of this
project and the research survey a method for data analysis was proposed and
therefore the possibilities for a forecast of qualification needs of regions
could be defined. Thanks to this project the qualifications and the know-how of
the skilled workers could be improved, which became noticeable in every partner
organization. Highly qualified skilled workers joined the project with the
objective of mutual learning, exchanging experiences, knowledge, skills and
information. The number of staff who have worked on this project and
participated on the working meetings was necessarily limited (total number of
the participants of each seminar was about 20 persons). Other people’s
participation was necessary during the project period in order to realize the
implementation of the project objectives. Approximately 90 – 100 people –
employed by the project partners – gained extra professional know-how during
the present project, and eventually their skills were raised. All partners made efforts for the distribution
of the project results. The results were published on the web pages of the
partners. It was presented to the public in different ways (press, TV, radio,
brochure, conference). The project results were presented to the social
partners on the regional level (local and regional self-government, labour
unions, major employers and training institutions) and on international forums
like the CENTROPE project, the Austrian – Czech and Austrian – Slovakian Expert
Academies, EURES programmes. Every employee of participating organizations was
informed about the Partnership outputs. The most important information regarding
the project was published in the Czech professional press ‘ANDRAGOGIKA’. The newly created model of the project was tested
several times in 4 EU countries. We examined the general necessity of this new
model regarding the detection of the qualification needs. Having executed of
the pilot researches the partnership awarded the conception as a useful and
following one. We will offer the project results to European Committee as a
verified Best Practice for the distribution on European level.