WP4: Deployment and evaluation

This work package will deploy and evaluate the concept and prototypes that have been previously developed in the WP2, WP3 and WP4. The aim is that the partners that have been involved in the task forces will deploy the developed prototypes in their surroundings and use them to support the various user groups, including immigrants and their integration to society through more informed skills formation structures. Besides prototypes deployment in different countries and partners, Finland aims to deploy all developed prototypes, the ecosystem concept, to measure the effectiveness, usability, and/or feasibility of the technology and concept.

The focus of the Work Package 4 is on the implementation and deployment of the framework architecture and the developed prototypes including analytics. Deployment will take place in at least Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and possibly some other EU-countries through networks that are already available among the partners, i.e. InnoVET via Gradia.

The solutions and services of the project are deployed in stages during 2019. The deployment is based on the fundamentals of distributed deployment, meaning that the CompLeap associate partner institutions will deploy the service in accordance to their own timetables during a set period in months M18 - 23.

Finland aims to deploy all the developed prototypes to measure the effectiveness, usability, and feasibility of the technology and concept as well as the perceived beneficiality of the concept on all levels concerned. Associate partners involved in the deployment in Finland will deploy the developed prototype in their surroundings in order to include the target user groups including immigrants and NEETs (youth not in employment, education or training).

In other countries the aim is more to deploy the functionality of the framework and the concept so that the suitability across Europe is shown. This work is done via case studies where the CompLeap framework architecture is mapped onto existing national and regional educational architecture, and the suitability of CompLeap solutions is evaluated. Even though the focus is on these case studies, workshops on this evaluation as well as the possibilities of piloting the Learner plan prototype are held accordingly. This work begins in mid-May (M18) as a part of the deployment of the architecture (see section 5).

Piloting the deployment is divided into the following three concepts in accordance to the project plan:

1. Pilot deployment of the architecture – Dependencies between CompLeap and other services (most central being the different national study record databases, e.g. KOSKI in Finland), links between modules and concepts.

2. Pilot deployment of the analytics prototype - How and what information is being used in the background of the services in order to enhance the user experience.

3. Pilot deployment of the learner plan prototype – Modular parts supporting personal competence mapping and development.