1. APL in Juvenile Prison Leonardo da Vinci – Transfer of innovation 01-10-2009 / 01-03-2011

2. Co Middelweerdt Project manager Aventus APL-Centre Cees Bak Manager of Innovation “Movie”>> Introduction “TOI project” P.P. >> APL in Juvenile prison

3. Focus on a very specific target group, youngsters in prison that undergo VET. There experience are interrupted or ad hoc vocations in education leading to a shortage of proved competences which makes it difficult to enter either vocational education or the labor market afterwards. Aim to provide them support in making a portfolio of their learning as well as to recognize the learning activities and link them to formal qualifications though APL. This should give them a better change to continue VET or start working after leaving the prison should prevent fallback into criminal behavior. Based on the instrument ROC Aventus and JPC De Sprengen have used during a pilot: a portfolio and APL. The project will upgrade this instruments based on experiences of others and will pilot the upgraded instrument in all participating countries. The project

4. sharing experiences on VET in prison in an international context; update the Dutch materials for portfolio and APL for this target group; adapt the materials for use in the project other countries pilots with portfolio and APL in the juvenile prisons evaluate experiences and results publish portfolio and APL-tools publish lessons learned This project includes

5. Wim van de Steeg Simone van der Donk (project management) National Agency Leonardo NL ROC Aventus Promotor expertise Zuidema co-ordinator expertise JPC De Sprengen expertise CSCS expertise ISQ expertise Jolanda Botke Joris Rietman (project management) Co Middelweerdt (APL Centre) Marieke Oudshoorn CBAT Cees Bak Jon Dogger Giovanni CrisonaMaria Margarida Segard Day to day project managemen t Pilot APL in Prison (to be transferred) Partners in this project Wim van de Steeg Simone van der Donk (project management)

6. The largest regional VET college in the ‘Stedendriehoek’-area ‘ROC’ stands for ‘regional community college’ Locations in Apeldoorn, Deventer and Zutphen Educational career centre for secondary vocational education and training (VET) and courses on a contract basis Over 200 courses, more than 17,000 students and trainees Large employer in the area: ca. 1,250 employees About ROC Aventus

7. About JPC de Sprengen Juvenile prison JPC de Sprengen Zutphen and Wapenveld (The Netherlands) boys between 12 and 24 years old 150 youngsters All boys <18 receive education boys >18 can choose for education or work The Sprengen is one of the most modern juvenile prisons in the country with a strong desire to innovate its curriculum.

9. 5000 minors in 10 juvenile prisons.

11. APL in this project Different definitions of APL: Accreditation of Prior Learning Assessing Prior Learning APL in the project: includes formal, non formal and informal learning is a tool to serve the youngsters in their professional career (education & work) includes a procedure with portfolio building and some kind of valuing/assessing/certification of learning

12. APL in the Netherlands Information and assignment Intake Collecting evidence Accreditation of competences APL-report

13. Thanks for your attention. Co Middelweerdt c.middelweerdt@aventus.nl c.middelweerdt@aventus.nl Cees Bak cbat@me.com