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COMPAT.eGov is a European LLP research project financed through the Lifelong Learning Programme of the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...
. The project consortium is composed of eight partners from four countries. The general objective of the COMPAT.eGov project is to improve the efficiency of European
professional education Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending conferences, and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive ...
in the governmental sector. The project is based on the supposed need for initiatives which focus on the competence assessment and relevant training frameworks in this sector and others, which has been identified as a priority by the EU. The EU has also indicated this through initiatives such as "2010 – A European Information Society for growth and employment".


Overview of COMPAT.eGov

According to information publicized by the project, COMPAT.eGov focuses on aspects such as: *enhancing professional training of public authorities in the incorporation of online services *identifying alternative ways for governmental agencies and public authorities to serve the citizens efficiently in areas/cases where the deployment of physical services and personnel is costly or not possible. *establishing an assessment framework that to elaborate on the competence identification of civil servants, in relation to the eGov paradigm *providing correspondence with the European Qualification Framework, so that the civil servants’ competencies are better understood and the qualification levels of different countries and different education and training systems can be better compared.


COMPAT.eGov Main Objectives

The COMPAT.eGov project claims to work towards the following objectives:Taken from the ADAM Database entry on COMPAT.eGov: http://www.adam-europe.eu/adam/project/view.htm?prj=6988&projLang=en # to broaden the analysis of the needs regarding eGov services support that has been done in countries participating in the consortium and examine additional countries with different degrees of eGov services deployment and adoption # to review the status of existing eGov services in the participating countries # to provision for alignment between the competence assessment framework to be used within the project and the EQF # to adapt existing training scenarios, content and curriculum, already developed in previous initiatives, promoting the combination of ICT-based learning with traditional forms of learning (such as seminars and learning groups), while their aim will be to train civil servants in understanding and reaping the benefits from eGov services. # to provision for alignment between this training approach and ECVET recommendations # to deploy a multilingual online environment (COMPAT.eGov portal) in which users will be able to access content (in the form of Digital Training Objects / DTO's and Digital Competence Models / DCMs) related to the project's approach in the area of eGov competence assessment and training # to carry out a set of pilot sessions with a number of representative user groups (civil servants from the participating public authorities) and to evaluate the proposed approach. # finally, to formulate a set of policy recommendations to policy makers and regional authorities about ways they can use the outcomes of the project in order to support the eGov competence assessment and training


Results on which the Project is Based

The transfer of innovation and the relevant outcomes / results to be exploited within COMPAT.eGov are based on a series of previous projects: * Rural Inclusion ICT PSP Project * WACOM LdV Project * eCOTOOL LdV Project * Rural eGov LdV Project


See also

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Seventh Framework Programme The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europe ...
* Semantic web *
European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientif ...
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Directorate-General for Research (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, located in Brussels, and responsible for the European Union's research and innovation policy and coordination of research and innovati ...
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European Institute of Innovation and Technology The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established in 2008 intended to strengthen Europe's ability to innovate. The EIT is an integral part of Horizon ...
* AGRICOM Project


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COMPAT.eGov at the LdV ADAM DatabaseCOMPAT.eGov on the home page of partner UDE
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110719073627/http://www.qed-info.de/docs/PAS_1093_Competence_Modelling_HRD_final.pdf European Competence Modelling Quality Standardbr>Rural Inclusion ICT PSP ProjectWACOM LdV ProjecteCOTOOL LdV ProjectRural eGov LdV Project
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