1. VOYAGE PROJECT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ART EDUCATION Dorel MANITIU
No EPP IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP - ERASMUS+ CBHE
“Opportunities for the young and graduates employability in Vietnam”
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ART EDUCATION
Hanoi, Vietnam, October 23-27, 2017
Dorel MANITIU
International Relations Office
Inter-University Consortium ALMALAUREA

2. Voyage Project: Consortium
Donor: The Education, Culture and Audiovisual Executive Agency (EACEA) – EUROPEAN COMMISION
Total budget: ,00€
Implementation period: 15/10/2015 – 14/10/2018
Consortium (8 partners):
AlmaLaurea (coordinator)
University of Hanoi (Vietnam)
Post and Telecommunication Institute of Technology (Vietnam)
National University of Art Education (Vietnam)
Hanoi Industrial Park – Center for Enterprise Support and Services (Vietnam)
University of Barcelona (Spain)
University of Minho (Portugal)
University of Padua (Italy)

3. Voyage Project: Consortium
The start-up consortium
Starting with 2017
4 associate partners:
(without budget)
1.General Council of Catalan Chambers of Commerce, Spain
2.Industrial Association of Minhno, Portugal
3.Braga Chamber of Commerce, Portugal
4.Unioncamere Emilia Romagna, Italy

4. Voyage Project: Objectives
The Voyage project will support Vietnamese Universities by establishing an integrated demand supply matching model based on the graduates’ database (on the model developed in Italy by AlmaLaurea) designed for:
collect and analyze data on university and graduates performances (providing reliable, continuous and updated documentation for assessing the HE system at support of the ongoing reform process)
facilitate the university-enterprise cooperation (IT based online services are developed and made available to both graduates, and university staff and firms)
facilitate the placement of graduates in the labour market (ensuring a better match between education and employment)
develop monitoring tools for university-enterprise cooperation
improve internal and external efficiency of the Higher Education system

5. Voyage Project: Objectives
The Voyage project envisage the following Specific Objectives:
Implement the Vietnamese database of university graduates (dynamic DB with different sources of information stored in it: questionnaire data by the graduands for the assessment of the university experience, administrative data by the university for certify academic career and CVs continuously updated by the also beyond their academic experience).
Monitoring graduates academic career and Quality Assurance
Produce the first Vietnamese Graduates Profile Survey (partner university)
Design of the first Vietnamese Graduates Employment Situation Survey (one year after graduation)
Employability of Graduates
Set up a qualified System of Vietnamese Graduates Placement
Produce the Best Practice guidelines & common learning for internship promotion and skill needs’ monitoring
Baseline for Consortium of the Vietnamese Universities’ creation (feasibility study for consortium creation and newcomers entrance)
Competence provision and capacity transfer to university staff
(administrative, IT and researchers)

6. Voyage Project: Work PackagesWP
Title
Leader
Starting Month
Ending Month 1
WP.1.Prototype model Implementation-online Database AL
Oct. 2015)
March 2017 2
WP.2. Training and Capacity Building
PTIT
Feb. 2015
Feb. 2018 3
WP3. Platform Trials and Evaluation
HANU-Youth Union
July 2017
April 2018, but… 4
WP4 - Develop Monitoring tools for Quality Assurance – Pilot Graduate Profile Survey
NUAE
Jan 2016
March 2018 5
WP5- Develop monitoring tools for Universities-enterprises partnerships and employability
CES-Hanoi Park
May 2017
July 2018 6
Dissemination UB
Oct
Sep. 2018 7
Sustainability
HANU
Sep. 2016 8
Management and Quality Control
Oct. 2015
topic of our meeting at NUAE
topic of our meeting at NUAE
topic of our meeting at NUAE
today

7. The VOYAGE PLATFORM mechanism
Students are invited to register on the Voyage Platform:
…..fill the on line questionnaire (6 sections):
= Evaluation of university experience and future prospectives
(Personal information, Competencies, i.e., language and IT skills,
academic experience and satisfaction, work experience and future career prospect, etc.)
questionnaire
Authomatic generation of the CV
Available for companies

8. VOYAGE Platform (IT) Development
Platform ready for company registration (November 2016)* *before March 2017 due date
Platform ready for student registration (June 2016)
STARTING WITH
19 SEPTEMBER 2017:
THE PLATFORM WAS TRANSFERRED IN VIETNAM!

9. Data for the Voyage system
Necessary data for the Voyage system:
1. University archive
2. The Voyage questionnaire
University archive
Administrative data (personal data and degree title)
Course database (programs offered at each universities)
Decoding table (geographical entities, etc.)
The Voyage questionnaire
Personal information
Competencies (i.e., language and IT skills)
Academic experience and satisfaction
Work experience and future career prospect

10. Data for quality assurance Student questionnaire
The Voyage system
University archive
CVs for businesses,
HR agencies
The VOYAGE system
Data for quality assurance
Student questionnaire

11. VOYAGE: Information collection methods
Voyage Graduates’ Questionnaire
Certified CVs availabales to companies
Voyage Universities’ Administrative Data
Voyage Graduates Profile Survey
Statistics for QA

12. Voyage Project: Work Package 2
WP.2. Training and Capacity Building
Research Training
25-27 May – University of Barcelona (UB)
Students’ secretariats staff training
IT Staff Training
7-11 November 2016 – PTIT, Hanoi
IT Sustainability Training
22-26 May 2017 – AlmaLaurea (AL), Bologna
Research Training follow up: Guidelines on methodology to run the Pilot Vietnamese Graduands\Graduates Profile (2016), Pilot Profiles Assessment and Quality Control.
11-15 December AlmaLaurea, Bologna

13. Voyage Questionnaire delivered
WP.4. Developing Monitoring Tools for Quality Assurance-Graduate Profile Survey
Voyage Questionnaire delivered
Release the Pilot Survey on 2016 Bologna training for «Voyage Platform Sustainability and Transfer» ;provided the tools to run match administrative data with questionnaire data for Survey Release.

14. VOYAGE SYSTEM HANU data services
VOYAGE, like AlmaLaurea, it is now, a centralized web application that collects data from students and Universities and provides services to all the stakeholders
VOYAGE SYSTEM
currently hosted at
HANU
data
Students
Graduates
Researchers
Companies
Agencies
services

15. System Architecture: main web application
web services
student/graduate
companies
staff
help desk
search CV
job offer
user managemt
registration
certification
questionnaire
Stage offer CV
Job offer

16. WP.1. VOYAGE Platform: Pilot Registration Numbers
June 2016
September 2016
Inserire numeri registrazione pilota giugno e settembre e numero cvs in bancadati
19 September 2017

17. VOYAGE PLATFORM NOW
What happened after the platform transfer?? THE SITUATION TODAY

18. VOYAGE PLATFORM IN FUTURE
What the consortium should do together with the other stakeholders?
continuity regarding new students/graduates and enterprises registration on the platfrom
invite new universities to joint the Voyage system
the platform assessment questionnaires (students and enterprises) should be available on line and a continous activity for platform improvements
5 important project deliverables :
draft the report Pilot Profile survey on graduands and graduates of the three Vietnamese universities part of the Voyage consortium
draft the report on the platform assessment by students and enterprises
draft the report on enterprises skill needs
draft the report on best practice for internship
draft the sustainability plan of the Voyage Project

19. VOYAGE PROJECT EVALUATION BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION

20. VOYAGE PROJECT EVALUATION BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION

21. Thank you for your attention and… Hello to Luisa and Alessandro!!!
Dorel MANITIU
AlmaLaurea International Relations & Projects