Promoting knowledge-sharing culture in Learning organisations

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The KNOWLO partnership wants to develop a brand-new framework for SMART learning organizations! This innovative new methodology will help teachers, trainers, and management staff step by step to become a learning organization and use their current potential to the fullest. The comprehensive Self-evaluation tool for VET schools/educational organizations will guide users in learning from each other, sharing best practices, and constantly improving. The project is implemented on the belief that this powerful solution will create a much more robust and valuable effect. The project aims to achieve easy access to personal & organizational progress by developing a SMART Learning Organization self-evaluation tool! This self-evaluation tool will be designed to provide a way for VET schools and educational organizations to assess their performance and effectiveness in their journey toward transformation from a traditional learning organization to a Smart Learning organization. The tool will help implement the project model of SMART Learning organization and the assessment is done on two levels – personal and organizational. It aims to achieve a culture of knowledge sharing through its implementation and make knowledge transfer easy.

There have been various activities that were implemented under the Project management and Implementation category. These activities were recurring and continued throughout the Project. The sustainable implementation aims to continue impacting and delivering results in the future post-project finalization. It comprises the following aspects that cover management, quality assurance, coordination, financial monitoring, and communication. The activities are further divided into the following three sections: A1. Project Management & Implementation: This section covers the category of various tasks and activities for Project monitoring to make sure the project is on the right track and monitor the development of the Project, in regard to results as well as financial matters. The project coordinator Marika Gederte from ICC duly assigned respective project tasks to the Knowlo project partners during the kick-off meeting of the Knowlo project. To ensure the Project's milestones were achieved in time and without divergence from the budget grant. Activities that have been carried out by the International College of Cosmetology •Management of the Project under the Grant Agreement. •Appropriate monitoring of the Project grant, and proper allocation of resources to achieve maximum output for the successful accomplishment of the project. •Overviewing of project tasks and ascertaining that the tasks & activities were carried out as per the defined work plan. •Project Financial Monitoring, such as grants disbursement and monitoring that project grants were utilized appropriately by each member of the consortium to develop Project Results & other activities. •Objectives and milestones: Centralizing all management aspects of the Project for correct reporting to the National Agency. Such as documenting hard and soft copies. •Risk Management: Management of various issues related to project risks, management of ethical aspects of gender, equality, ethical and social issues arising from the Project. •Complying: Ensuring that the consortium partners comply with their financial and contractual obligations •Development and maintenance of KNOWLO Framework website http://www.KNOWLOframework.com/ •KNOWLO Project LOGO designing, and development as well as dissemination •Participation in conferences to learn from various Projects, and new methodologies for Smart Learning organizations, and disseminate KNOWLO Project amongst stakeholders. •Publication of Project Progress & Methodologies Related Articles in International Educational Conference •Setting up communications channels, online conferences, social media, emails, etc. •Leading the development of the assigned results and tasks • Organizing and hosting Transnational Project Meetings, Multiplier Events, Learning Teaching Training Activities as well as Project Finalization Conference. A2. Dissemination and Exploitation: This was the second section of project management, but a crucial & important category for the Project Results. The developed results, activities, tasks, and meetings during the ongoing KNOWLO project were continuously Disseminated, via various platforms, electronic, print & word of mouth. For the KNOWLO project it was important to disseminate information about the goals and activities carried out during the life cycle of the Project and the developed results during and after its completion. For this the Consortium partner. Mr Benavente from (Euroreso) has worked as a Dissemination manager, he was leading this activity, and was responsible for coordinating all activities under this category, such as: - • Implementation and updating of the Dissemination and Exploitation Plan. • Participation in general meetings, and conferences. • Participation in meetings etc. • Preparation of promotional materials (brochures, posters, newsletters, etc.). • Social media management. • Manage & prepare the Dissemination summary for the Project • Involve as many stakeholders as possible and people from certain target groups, as far as possible, to obtain good results for the Project, ensure sustainability, and expand the image and knowledge of the KNOWLO Project. • To provide training to KNOWLO partners on various Dissemination platforms. Such as EPALE A3. Quality and risk management: In This section of Project management, it was ensured that all the activities & tasks that were carried out by the consortium should adhere to the quality standards. It was also ensured that the good quality of project results was achieved and any overlapping or possible risks were avoided. For this Quality Assurance expert, Ms Novoksonova (EFO IT), was leading this activity and was responsible for all the activities performed under this category such as: - • Implementation and updating of the Quality Assurance Plan. For all the Results (R1-R5) Managing project risks. Continuous Monitoring and evaluation of the quality of activities and results of the project, by taking into account the basic principles and recommendations of EQAVET. • Training on EFQM European Foundation for Quality Management to maintain KNOWLO project quality standards • Development of project calculation tables and progress meter tools • Development and designing of project quality assurance tools • Development of a Learning and sharing platform with SMART TOOLKIT R3 • Development of Learning and sharing resource database R4 • Development of Guidelines for the SMART Learning organizations R5 Apart from the above mentioned activities under project management, there were 5 transnational project meetings, 2 Learning Teaching & Training (LTTA) activities, 7 Multiplier Events, 19 plus online meetings, training on EFQM quality standards, and Knowlo framework methodologies were carried out. There were 6 Newsletters published and disseminated during the entire course of the project.

Result 1 (R1) final product is the KNOWLO Framework, set of 7 criteria and 19 subcriteria describing the principles of-SMART' Learning Organizations. This framework is a result of qualitative research focusing on comparison with various models and framework as well as the qualitative research among 265 respondents. Report was developed in English and translated into Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Italian. KNOWLO framework covers principles of EFQM, ULCA framework and Learn&Lead. KNOWLO framework was implemented in in English, Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Italian. For further details, visit: http://www.knowloframework.com/knowlo-platform/params/post/4454666/ Result 2 (R2) focused on the development of a Self-evaluation tool for the VET schools and other educational organizations that can perform their self-assessment against KNOWLO framework. Self-evaluation is designed on two levels – personal and organizational. Individual level self assessment tool was implemented in English, Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Italian. Tool is integrated into R3 and available on https://knowlo.eu/ . Amount of testing self-assessments is 471, while 85 self-assessments were fully completed (full set of questions) and 386 partially completed. Result 3 (R3) is a central product which integrates the results of R3, R2, R4, R5 and follows the theoretical framework of R1. R3 is a Platform with a SMART TOOLKIT (integrated products of R2-self-assessment tool, R3 -benchmarking functionality, R4 -Good practice database, R5 - eLearning).Platform was implemented in English, Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Italian. During pilot testing there were registered 381 individual users and 84 organisational users, in total 465 users representing 19 different countries from Europe and Africa. For more information, visit: https://knowlo.eu/. Result 4 (R4) represents 2 main products - Good practice database (Benchlearning database) and Resource database. Good practice database is an online tool with various sorting / filtering functionality and it’ s integrated under R3 – https://knowlo.eu/ . In good practice database there are around 50 Good practice (criterion 1), around 60 (criterion 2), around 60 (criterion 3), around 35 (criterion 4), around 19 (criterion 5), around 20 (criterion 6), around 20 (criterion 7). In total more than 264 Good practices under organizational user level in English. In Good practice database under individual user level in English language is situation following: around 60 (criterion 1),around 35 (criterion 2), around 60 (criterion 3), around 25 (criterion4), around 25 (criterion 5), around 25(criterion 6) and around 15 (criterion 7). That represents at least 245 Good practices under Individual level in English.In Latvian, Czech, Slovak and Italian language versions are the amount of good practices lower depending on amount of active users. Resource database represents a list of additional of methodologies, tools etc. as examples of application SMART Learning Organisation concept. Resource database is an pdf file available on http://www.knowloframework.com/knowlo-platform/params/post/4454678/ There are in total 90 resources available. Resource database was implemented in in English, Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Italian. Result 5 (R5) are Guidelines for the SMART Learning organizations – the practical and valuable guideline leads the organizations step by step on their way to becoming a SMART Learning organization and performing learning/sharing activities. KNOWLO application methodology is called '7 Steps of Transformation'. For more information, visit: http://www.knowloframework.com/knowlo-platform/params/post/4454683/ As a specific smaller result under R5, there were developed 2 eLearning modules representing: 1. Application of KNOWLO system 2. Practical guide for knowlo.eu platform usage. eLearning is integrated under R3 and available on https://knowlo.eu/. Guidelines and eLearning modules were in English, Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Italian. During the project lifetime there were organized 2 LTTA activities – in Ruzomberok, Slovakia (24 participants) and Riga, Latvia (19 participants). Both activities successly complemented to product development. In addition there were organized 6 multiplier events – 4 national level workshops/seminars. 1 international webinar and 1 final conference. On management level there were 5 TPMs, and 19 online meetings during the project lifetime. In dissemination: there was Presented 1 dissemination plan, Engaged 15 target groups with around 6000 participants from these target groups such as Universities Elementary schools VET professionals Pedagogy students Local educational stakeholders Educational experts Private companies NGOs General public. Published 6 newsletters, Partners participated in 10+ local & 10+ international meetings Delivered over 100 social media posts The project product was transferred to 19 countries in Europe and Africa. Around 1400 Direct involvement of participants