Our human resources gather a solid experience and set of competences in the education, training and capacity building sphere, spanning from research and development to applied methodologies: pedagogy and andragogy, instructional engineering, digital transformation processes, EU competences frameworks, work-based learning (apprenticeship), learning outcomes approach, competences recognition, valorisation, validation and certification, assessment methodologies, etc.

IAAD gathers an extended experience and expertise in the education and training (ET) sphere, both in research (data analysis, anticipation) and in practice (teaching, training), and most remarkably in the fields introduced hereafter.

RESEARCH

• Examination of mechanisms between education systems and labour market systems, and in particular, the adaptability readiness of ET graduates to technological and structural changes in the society
• Curriculum design research
• Transition processes from initial ET to further education and/or employment
• Lifelong learning processes and learning ecosystems linking research, ET and the world of work
• Research policy, processes, procedures and guidelines
• ET systems comparative analysis in the perspective of assessment (recognition, validation and certification of competencies)
• Labour market and education outcomes of ET graduates
• generating pre-conditions for the development of ET scenarios for the future
• Vocational effect on employment and education outcomes, and developing standards for registered ETS organisations

PRACTICE

• Knowledge on EU frameworks encompassing EQF, ESCO, EQAVET, ECTS, ECVET and EUROPASS
• Knowledge and practice of combined ECTS, ECVET and EUROPASS instruments applicable to transnational learning (learning mobilities)
• Design of enhanced Learning Outcomes Pedagogical Approach (LOPA) linking with catalogued qualifications at EU level and with a series of national catalogues
• Design of innovative LOPA linking with novel qualifications/occupations generated by the advancement of technologies and underlined by the EU digital skills in the 21st century policy (e.g. “Research for CULT Committee” by DG for Internal Policies of the Union, ref. PE 617.495 - August 2018)
• Practice of digital technology for teaching and training adapted to learners’ needs and to the LOPA
• Design of short and long terms Work-Based Learning (WBL) integrated into ET curriculum
• Joint ET Qualifications developments, ET programmes and training
• Competences-based assessment methodologies
• Strengthening the dialogue/cooperation with labour market actors and the society
• Sectoral and cluster-based approaches towards collaboration and peer learning