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setup news training Support for European Trade Union Projects nr 7 – November 2013
Training in project work and project management Getting involved in projects, both national and European, can offer great benefits to unions in Europe – not just financial ones, although in times of economic restraint project funding can make an important contribution to allowing unions to address important strategic objectives. The acquisition of project management skills can lead to more effective and efficient achievement of trade union work more generally – in planning, communication, teamwork and task delivery. ETUI, together with ETUC and a core group of affiliates, tutors and experts, is now offering a certified and accredited three-level training programme designed to address trade union project work needs at regional, national and European levels.
Setup News - Training is designed to keep trade union trainers and educators informed on these innovative ETUI Education developments that will enable unions to maximise opportunities for using project management methods as part of their day-to- day working.
First Intermediate Level Course in Project Management – Edinburgh, April 2014 The first edition of ETUI’s Project Management for Trade Union Representatives– intermediate level course will take place in April 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland After three editions of the Trainers Course on Project Work (held in Bologna, Sofia, and Ljubljana) and various editions of the Introductory level course delivered by national affiliates, it’s now time to deliver the first edition of the Intermediate level course – Project Management for Trade Union Representatives. The course will take place in April 2014 in Edinburgh, with TUC Scotland acting as host organisation. The training will provide participants who have successfully completed the Introductory Course at national level
with an opportunity to further their knowledge of effective project management and to learn something about the benefits and challenges of project work at a European level. An official invitation to participate will be sent by ETUI in the coming weeks. A second edition of the Intermediate Course is planned for October 2014.
Accreditation Alongside the development of this innovative suite of training opportunities to support union project activities, ETUI Education has also piloted a model of accrediting training. The model uses assessment techniques that are supportive of existing trade union training methods. It has already enabled 71 ETUI course participants to achieve qualifications in project work and project management that are mapped to the European Qualifications Framework. More details on this can be obtained from Silvana Pennella,
[email protected].
TTUPO Sponsors Already supporting this new initiative in training for project work are the following ETUI affiliates: TUC LO-S CGIL-FILCAMS CGIL-FILT CCOO STTK FTTUB
ÖGB ICTU ELA CGT-F ZSSS CISL IBOA
SEK CITUB CGT- P UGT-P GWU SSM PSEU
Why not join us?
What’s new? National courses at Introductory Level: latest news National trainers workshop On 3 December 2013 the first workshop for trainers in project work from national organisations will be held in Brussels. The meeting will review the experiences of delivering the Introductory Course in different national contexts and will consider the results of a questionnaire survey conducted with national trainers. The aims of the workshop are: ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒
To share what has been done at national level; To identify opportunities for further collaboration; To identify areas where further support could be helpful; To share an ETUI update on “where we all are”.
We will be reporting on the workshop in our next issue.
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Planned courses After the summer break, other national courses at Introductory Level on project work are on the agenda: in Portugal, CGT plans to deliver courses by the end of the year, while in Spain CC.OO. is ready for its first course to take place in Barcelona on 13-15 November. A further national course will also be organized in Slovenia by ZSSS by Spring 2014.
ETUI Education Conference, Madrid The current state of the training initiative on project work and project management will be presented during the next ETUI Education Conference in Madrid on 20-22 November. Reports on the activities undertaken so far, together with plans for future developments in this field, will be presented to participants. Materials and training tools, both off-line and on-line, will be demonstrated and shared. In addition, there will be an opportunity for participants to get more involved in the initiative and to discuss help in organising Introductory Level courses on project work at national level.
Materials The complete toolkit Trade Union Training for Project Work is available to download, in both English and French from:
http://www.etui.org/Publications2/Guides/Toolkit-Trade-Union-Training-for-Project-Work It contains the following materials: ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒
Project work for Trade Union Representatives - Course Book Project work for Trade Union Representatives - Tutor notes Trainers course - Course Materials Trainers course - Support pack
On the same web page, you can now find the toolkit translated into several other European languages: Bulgarian, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Swedish. ETUI affiliated organisations can apply to ETUI for financial support of up to 50% of the overall costs of translating the material into their respective languages. This support is helping facilitate a speedy roll-out of the Introductory Level course in many European countries.
ETUInet – a platform for advising, supporting, networking trade union officers on project work and project management training activities ETUI Education has a new web-based communications platform and online learning environment – ETUInet. One of its main uses is to support the courses on project work and project management. As well as housing course materials, ETUInet also provides forums on different aspects of project work and is a core resource for the courses themselves, as well as for the network of trainers involved in developing and delivering the new courses.
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You can find ETUInet at www.etuinet.org . Access to some of the forums and other pages is restricted to course participants.
Project work: the video This short video produced by TTUPO team explaining the importance of project work for trade unions has already been seen by more than 180 web-users. The TTUPO team is very pleased with this positive result and invites SETUP Newsletter readers to watch the video and to share it with colleagues and trainees. To view, just click here: www.etui.org/Services/Support-for-European-Trade-Union-Projects-SETUP/Training
For more information You can subscribe to SETUP News via the SETUP News web page. We will provide subscribers with regular feedback on progress with ETUI training for project activity. We also look forward to hearing any suggestions that our affiliates may have on this theme. To send us your suggestions or to request more detailed information on any point, please contact Silvana Pennella at ETUI (e-mail:
[email protected]/tel +32.2.224.0539) or go to the dedicated ETUI web page. ____ We welcome any suggestions you may have to help us improve this newsletter. European Trade Union Institute Education Department Bd du Roi Albert II, 5 1210 Brussels Tel.: +32 2 224 05 39 Fax: +32 2 224 05 20
[email protected] www.etui.org
____ ©ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2013. All rights reserved. The ETUI is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. The ETUI is financially supported by the European Union. The European Union is not responsible for any use made of the information contained in this publication.
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