EMOLL - Efficiency Measurement of Lifelong Learning, using of Balanced Scorecard Concept

Wide range of companies and organizations needs to improve their competitiveness and efficiency through training of staff. Lot of money invested to this target is wasted due to lack of tools for measurement of efficiency of trainings, especially with accent on link between organization performance, strategy and trainings of individual employees. Plus it results from our experience that a lot of organizations use various partial and often “home-made” methods, what cannot bring the complex and relevant results.
This project will respond to this gap in no-existence of clear methodology for educational efficiency measurement applicable for organization and companies standing out formal and non-formal life-long educational system, i.e. organizations with primary orientation to the industry, services, administration etc. Therefore the project will develop and verify the efficient methodology that is able to solve this problem found. This innovative methodology will be based on Balance scorecard (BSC), which is well known in the strategy management and used by efficient and competitive companies.
It is important for the complexity (and long-term sustainability) of the project to actively involve the representative samples from various organization contexts and to cooperate together to create the final product.
Evaluation of the efficiency is a crucial issue for the whole stakeholders of vocational training and lifelong learning across Europe. This project can actually help the organisations both in each country and on a European level.

Why does the consortium wish to undertake this project?

During last about 10 years connected with the endeavor of EU to enforce the life-long learning concept within its educational policy we have advanced to very concrete questions of its realization on the various levels. We observe the considerable success in the field of in-service VET within organizations and companies: their interest and participation grows. But the real and successful implementation is Europe-wide observed only in part, mostly at medium size and large companies, namely from various organizational as well as economical reasons. The employer takes on himself the care of the HR development and education in the roles of initiator, educator, evaluator and investor.
Organizations providing the in-service training, sooner or later identically faces the problem of efficiency in education and therefore of invested sources. Because the role of organizations here is irreplaceable, and the declared interest of European educational policy is to encourage and support them by their educational initiative, it is significant to solve this challenge systematically and contribute to enhance of participation to VET as well as in particular to enhance of quality and efficiency of VET and its attraction for “investors” on the other hand.
In-service VET as a direct part of organizational strategy shall contribute to improve it to the learning-organization. Therefore it is appropriate to base the development of methodology for evaluation and measurement of educational efficiency on by organizations generally known and used models of strategy management. There is an applicable tool called The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) here. The BSC is a strategic planning and management system used to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization and monitor organizational performance against strategic goals. It used metrics, measurable indicators from various fields of organization-life.
 

Organizations providing own in-service training sooner or later identically faces the problem of efficiency in education and therefore of invested sources. This project will respond to this gap in no-existence of clear methodology for educational efficiency measurement applicable for organizations, i.e. institutions and companies out of educational school system. Therefore the aim is to modify BSC concept specifically for effectiveness of trainings and lifelong learning.
Objectives:
1. To analyze the existing approaches and tools for measurement of efficiency of in-service VET. (There are reports about initial/school education efficiency published, but no relevant publications about the further in-service education available.)
2. To develop the methodology for measurement of efficiency in-service VET applicable for a wide range of organizations (from not-for-profit organizations, over commercial companies to state/regional administration and governmental institutions). Following our experience with strategy and HR management in organizations we decided to use the concept of BSC as a known, useful and widely used approach and to modify it to the field of HR development and in-service educational systems. It will be enriched and completed with the other aspects from the results of the analysis, particular to create the structure of measureable indicators and benchmarks.
In particular:
2.1. Development of methodology
2.2. Defining of appropriate metrics: indicators must be clear, enough concrete and together applicable to various organizations
2.3. Development of computer-based simulation model
3. To train the target users in the innovative EMOLL methodology and exploit the results into praxis in various organizations. The methodology will be implemented in 12 pilot projects, i.e. in 2 organizations per partner country.
4. To promote the results and contribute to sharing of the European education area endeavor to improve of the competitiveness and employment.

Partners  / Ortaklar:

	CZ - Czech Republic
	IT - Italy
	PL - Poland
	FR - France
	BG - Bulgaria
	TR - Turkey
	CZ - Czech Republic
EMOLL HOME PAGE:    http://emoll.eu/