VINEPAC seeks to improve the adult educator’s image and to consolidate their professional status, and also promotes the compatibility, transferability and transparency of competencies and qualifications at European level. The quality of our attempt is guaranteed by the complementary of the partner institutions, covering in a coherent, functional network of all the authorities supposing to contribute to it: universities, research pedagogical institutes, accreditation bodies and their respective networks of practitioners.

1. MAIN TARGET GROUP of the project:

• teachers,
• trainers,
• tutors,
• counselors,
• curriculum planners and program developers,
• AE/LLL managers,
• evaluators  

2. AIMS of the project:

• The implementation of quality and innovation in field of adult education
• Designing a compatible validation of the psycho-pedagogical knowledge and competencies profile acquired through non-formal and informal settings by adult educators  

3. OBJECTIVES of the project:

• To promote sustainable development and improvement in area of non-formal and informal psycho-pedagogical competences of adult educators;
• To identify the state of the art between the system of initial and continuing education and training for the adult educators and the system of certification in the project partner countries;
• To set up a common psycho-pedagogical competencies profile for teachers and trainers working with adults, compatible at European level;
• To develop a list of standards and indicators for psycho-pedagogical competencies profile of teachers and trainers working in adult education field;
• To design a set of instruments meant for validating the psycho-pedagogical competencies acquired in informal and non-formal learning settings, and a guide for using these instruments;
• To validate and improve a set of instruments by pilot testing and adapted to the new demands and to disseminating the products of the project at national and European level.

4. EXPECTED OUTCOMES of the project:

• Country report
• Survey report
• A common psycho-pedagogical competencies profile for teachers and trainers working with adults
• List of standards and indicators for psycho-pedagogical competency profile of AE adult educators
• Set of instruments meant for validating informal and non-formal acquired psycho-pedagogical competencies
• Project web site
• Leaflets and booklets
• Summary - resource package

5. Work-packages of VINEPAC project

• WP 1 – Project management – IREA (RO), main responsible
• WP 2 – Survey report elaboration – CREA (ES) - main responsible
• WP 3 – Development of the competency profile – UB (RO) - main responsible
• WP 4 – Elaboration of the standards and indicators – ENESAD (FR) - main responsible
• WP 5 – Elaboration of the instruments for validating the non-formal and informal psycho-pedagogical competencies – DIE (DE) - main responsible
• WP 6 – Testing and validating the instruments previously developed – GWU (MT) - main responsible
• WP 7 – Dissemination and exploitation (valorisation) – CNFPA (RO) - main responsible