Ressources produced by the REVEAL project
What is REVEAL and what are the ressources produced by the project?
The REVEAL project aims to promote the recognition of learning that takes place within informal and formal networks, and to explore the potential of coupling informal recognition and formal validation to remove current barriers to recognition.
The project consists of five Intellectual Outputs (IOs), which include LRN modelling, iREVEAL design, iREVEAL piloting, REVEAL Exploitation Pack, and REVEAL White Paper. The project outcomes involve analysis, co-design iterative development, and testing to provide guidelines for action.
The IO1 LRN Modelling output aims to identify and recognise existing Local Recognition Networks (LRN) to formalise their practices, which has informed the development of the IO2 iREVEAL environment. The IO3 REVEAL Piloting output aims to activate a number of LRNs to contribute to the co-design of IO2 through specification, testing, and feedback, primarily focused on practices. The IO4 REVEAL Exploitation Pack provides a range of resources to support the emergence and operation of LRNs, and the IO5REVEAL White Paper aims to share the lessons learned in the project to encourage institutions of further and higher education, public authorities, and employers to open their policies to informal recognition practices.
Table of Contents
Local Recognition Networks Modelling
Piloting
REVEAL Green Paper
ORCA PODS
ŽELVA— RiC Novo Mesto
Želva is a company for training and employment of people with disabilities, founded by Sožitje – the Association of Associations for Assistance to Persons with Mental Disabilities of Slovenia in 1991 on the proposal of the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia. Its primary mission is to train and employ people with disabilities (mainly intellectual disabilities) and other people who are less employable, and to find new and new employment opportunities for them. The Želva Community is for everyone who is a service user and their mentors, who works at Želva. The aim of the programme is to offer the individuals involved a suitable form of employment, where the hours and pace of work are adapted to their health and mental condition, and enable them to maintain or increase their adaptive capacity. Within the company Želva d.o.o. works on a Social inclusion programe, which is intended for invalids who have working reduced abilities and they couldn’t qualify for work, and have a declaration of unemployment. In this programe, we offer adjusted time and speed of work for each person. The goals of this program are: preserving abilities, caring for yourself, satisfying basic social and emotional needs, preserving working power, self-affirmation, and integration into a narrower and wider environment.
GROW
As the EU crisis is also affecting nutritional security, especially for adults with fewer opportunities, the main aim of this community is to build the first foundations for fostering the development of a new job profile called “Motivator for self-sufficiency”. New job will be performed by adults who work as volunteers in different sectors and have interest to motivate other adults to start with self-sufficiency in food (unemployed, passive, from urban/rural areas who lack knowledge from this field). The mission of this community is to bring members even closer together, to enable them to learn the skills needed for the effective functioning of the community and to enable individual members to build on these skills. To promote the community and attract new members – to expand the community. To raise awareness regarding self-sufficiency and to empower adult volunteers to start-up with self-sufficiency through gaining practical skills based on their active participation in the community.
Savoir-faire Comportementaux
NS4-SFC
The NS4-SFC project aims to design tools to develop and recognise the mastery of behavioural skills (SFCs) for people who are far from employment, jobseekers and adults in continuing vocational training.
The implicit idea when the project was drawn up was that the Open Badges would cover each of the 27 SFCs identified in a shopping list, an informal repository of behavioural skills. It turned out differently, and the creation of that Pod is a testimony to that transformation.
Open Recognition Netherlands—ORNL
Open Recognition Nederland is a group passionate about celebrating learning and achievements with Open Badges. What we stand for: Highlighting the amazing things people learn, not just in class but everywhere. Finding ways to make it easier for everyone to get the recognition they deserve, whether it’s a compliment or an official certificate.
Moltivolti—PRISM
Moltivolti is a social enterprise in the historical city centre of Palermo, located in Ballarò, one of the popular markets in Palermo, a multicultural neighbourhood where many ethnicities cohabit.
Moltivolti is a restaurant, a co-working space, a guesthouse, a bar and an ice cream shop. All these activities are gathered under the Moltivolti concept of “wherever I lay my feet, that’s my home”, employing people with migrant background, asylum seekers, refugees and people with fewer opportunities is a company for training and employment of people with disabilities. Its primary mission is to promote the concept of multi culturality, inter religious dialogue, diversity and tolerance. Moltivolti trains and employs people with migrant background and other people who are less employable, and to find new and new employment opportunities for them.
The mission of this community is to foster dialogue among different cultures, promoting the importance of diversity as a richness for hosting and migrant communities. The members of Moltivolti community are strongly connected and share the same vision of the world: a planet made by different faces (moltivolti means “many faces” in Italian), different cultures which must live and work together because biodiversity in nature is essential to enrich the environment where living species are interacting and cooperate. The members of Moltivolti community share the following soft skills and competences: ability to work in a multicultural environment, teamwork, adaptability, responsibility, group spirit, motivation, tolerance, sense of responsibility.
Joueurs et compétents—EMF
“joueurs et compétents” is a community working on the link between gaming and the development/mobilisation of soft skills. Regular players, dedicated or Sunday gamers, the members of this community are aware and convinced that gaming is a favourable context for the development of many skills.
The aim of this pod is to bring players together, and gradually convey the idea that playing games is a context conducive to the development of soft skills.
As the creation of the pod is recent we start with 6 members and 4 badges.
- Discovery: This badge recognizes the desire for discovery and interest in play as a context for developing and mobilising skills.
- Insider: This badge recognizes experimentation in the use of games as a context for skills development. The owner has identified one or more specific skills in the practice of a game.
- Expert: This badge recognizes experimentation in the use of games as a context for skills development. The wearer has identified one or more specific skills in the practice of a game
- Game changer: This badge recognizes experimentation in the use of games as a context for skills development. The wearer has identified one or more specific skills in the practice of a game
The use of badges is to show the scope for progress in the practice of reflexivity of skills acquired during a gaming experience. They will gradually allow members to organise the community according to the level of their membership.
We plan to use this pod to recognize people that will experience gaming situations in our brand-new third place : “la boîte à” https://www.laboite-a.fr/. Even if we don’t have much hindsight we observed that users didn’t have any difficulties claiming badges. We are now eagerly awaiting the opportunity to generalise the use of the pod in our network and territories.
Balanitès—EMF
This space is open to the actors contributing to the Great Green Wall..
The Great Green Wall is a pan-African project launched in 2008. This vegetation barrier is planned to stretch from Saint-Louis in Senegal to Djibouti. Initiated by the Sahel countries, the Great Green Wall is a reforestation programme run by the eleven countries involved under the aegis of the Pan-African Agency for the Great Green Wall.
Acteurs de la culture scientifique et technique—EMF
This space is open to “Actors in Scientific and Technical Culture”, natural and legal persons engaged in the dissemination, mediation and promotion of scientific and technical knowledge to the general public or specific audiences.
Our role is not limited simply to transmitting information, but also encompasses establishing a dialogue between science and society, aimed at demystifying complex concepts and encouraging a deeper understanding of the associated issues.
The ultimate aim is to increase scientific and technical literacy, promote critical thinking and foster informed civic engagement on scientific and technological issues that have an impact on society. In doing so, we contribute to building an environment where science and technology are better understood, appreciated and used responsibly.
REVEAL project partners
REVEAL is the Community of Practice (CoP) of the practitioners involved in the informal, non-formal and formal recognition (validation) of experience, achievements and learning. It is the outcome of the REVEAL an Erasmus+ project dedicated to: * providing support to existing informal and formal networks to become active Learning Recognition Networks, i.e. recognising the learning that takes place within in a way that makes it visible beyond * exploring the potential of loosely coupling (informal) ‘recognition’ and (formal) ‘validation’ as a means to remove current barriers to recognition
The only members of that CoP are the REVEALproject partners
Plans for the future
The REVEAL pod will be used to bring together the practitioners working on the development of LRNs, an idea for which there is a growing interest and could become a special “branch” of the Open Recognition community
Following the REVEAL project, a new project in Region Normandie on the creation of “lieux de la reconnaissance” will start in November 2023 the “LRN of LRNs”. RIC Novo Mesto will continue to be an active member of the REVEAL LRN (it already created two LRMs, c.f. above).
Project coordinator
Espace Mendès France – 1, place de la Cathédrale – 86000 Poitiers (France)
Contact us
serge.ravet@openrecognition.org