Objective
Redundancy support training [RST] is a recent development that opens up new perspectives in developing skills training adapted to the changing needs of the business community. Different agencies and organisations across Europe have launched RST programmes to help redundant workers find jobs, but little information is currently available on the relative effectiveness of these initiatives, on the impact they have on the supply of qualified [re]-trained workers, career orientation, choice of occupation and life-long learning, or on their cost-effectiveness, their legal implications and their relationship to existing professional training provision.
This study, which is the research phase in a project to develop a redundancy support training package, aims to address these issues through a comprehensive analysis of the practices of non-commercial, public organisations in EU member states. This will involve studying the existing literature, compiling information through the partnership network, conducting interviews with experts and key witnesses and describing the organisation, structure and effects of existing programmes in a best practice perspective. The study will also compare existing tools for evaluating the quality of redundancy support procedures and draw up guidelines of best practice. The guidelines and an interim report will be made available on completion of this research phase.
Impact
This project is expected to encourage the development of redundancy support training programmes as an instrument in career choice, career [re]-orientation and [ex]-employee mobility.
Contract number : B/97/2/00457/EA/III.2.a/FPC
Domaine : Continuing vocational training
Contents :
Industrial Change
Access to vocational training
Evaluation of vocational training
Products :
Publication
Methodologies for analysing training needs
Methodologies for forecasting training needs
Public :
Training experts
Vocational training policy makers/ Decision makers
Unemployed
Call for proposal
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CSC - Cost-sharing contractsCoordinator
1030 Brussels
Belgium