European Community of Practice

OUR RESOURCES ARE CATEGORISED UNDER SEVEN KEY STAGES OR DOMAINS

Defining innovation needs

• identify policy priorities and the short falls in practices (and interventions) that need new solutions in order to respond to the rapidly structural changing of labour markets, with input from diverse and relevant stakeholders.

Promoting and selecting innovation

• adopt regulations, tendering and selection mechanisms and criteria to ensure innovation in operational programmes and projects activities.

Creating learning environments

• create a culture and a practice of continuous learning and to develop new competences and operational skills and expertise propitious to innovation through experiences sharing, training and collaborative work.

Designing and testing practices and tools

• try out new approaches and new practices and design new solutions with the active involvement and input of the relevant actors, partners and beneficiaries.

Validating practices and tools

• advance the improvement and social recognition of the new solutions, on the basis of quality criteria and feed-back and critical analysis by experts, peers, beneficiaries and potential users. Validation is to legitimates the value of innovation.

Mainstreaming

• set up databases of new practices and tools, and disseminate and transfer new solutions to policies and to the practices of other organisations interested in adopting and incorporating them.

Monitoring and evaluating

• assess the impact of new solutions on the skills of individuals (beneficiaries and agents), on the work processes and services of the organisations involved, and on the satisfaction of the beneficiaries, with a view to continuous improvement and sustainability of results