The third IT-Shape meeting, attended by representatives of the 10 project partners, took place on 24th and 25th October 2014 at the Irish Computer Society in Dublin. The Dublin meeting followed the Italian meeting which took place in April in Pontedera. The meetings occur regularly to evaluate, discuss and set new activities to be carried out by the project group.

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Welcome to Ireland
23rd – 24th October, 2014
Demand for e-skills has been growing steadily
during the last years all over the world. According
to the study published in the frame of European e-
Skills Forum: “e-Skills shortages will result in an
excess demand of 384.000 ICT practitioners in
2015.” (Körte, W. B., Hüsing T.: Evaluation of the
Implementation of the EC's Communication on "e-
Skills for the 21st Century", Empirica, Bonn). An
important conclusion of related studies was, that
European companies "were increasingly struggling
to hire people who were competent in both
information technology and business
management. Companies need so called "T-
Shaped" professionals who enter the workforce
with a strong business understanding, ‘soft’ skills
and knowledge of leading-edge technology.”
(Fonstad, N., Lanivyn, B.: European e-Competence
Curricula development guidelines, Final Reports,
European Commission, European e-Skills Forum,
2010).
EUCIP Core - at European level recognized IT
qualification - is an answer exactly to this demand
as its competence framework strongly focuses on
the business skills related to the fundamental e-
skills. The certificate was established by CEPIS
(Council of European Professional Informatics
Societies) and has been used with success already
in seven European countries.
IT-Shape project aims to adapt EUCIP Core
certificate in the Hungarian Vocational Education.
The main impact of the project are the increased
chances of Hungarian (young and adult) people
getting their placement at enterprises, by offering
them internationally recognized, true pan-
European IT qualification.
Contents
Welcome to Ireland ...............................................................1
The Dublin I-T Shape Meeting................................................2
Meeting Day 1:..................................................................2
Introduction .................................................................2
EUCIP System in the World ..........................................2
Planning Sustainability of the Results...........................3
Localisation of EUCIP Core Certification in Hungary.....3
Reports of Expert Groups.............................................4
Meeting Day 2...................................................................5
Welcome ......................................................................5
eLearning in Ireland......................................................5
CLIL (Content and Language Integration Learning) ......6
Decisions Planning Future Actions ...............................7
Activities ................................................................................8
Group Dinner, Thursday Night ..........................................8
Cultural Event, Friday Afternoon..................................9
News ...............................................................................10
Irish news stories on the topic of VET ........................10
Events..............................................................................10
European e-skills 2014 Conference............................10
Project basics .......................................................................11
Partnership ..........................................................................11
Target groups.......................................................................11
Objectives ............................................................................11
1.4 Work-packages...............................................................11
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Editor: David Cleary
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The Dublin I-T Shape Meeting
Meeting Day 1:
Introduction
The third IT-Shape meeting, attended by
representatives of the 10 project partners, took place
on 24th
and 25th October 2014 at the Irish Computer
Society in Dublin. The Dublin meeting followed the
Italian meeting which took place in April in Pontedera.
The meetings occur regularly to evaluate, discuss and
set new activities to be carried out by the project
group.
Jim Friars (CEO of the Irish Computer Society and
Chairman of the EDCL Foundation) formally
welcomed Mária Hartyányi (iTStudy Hungary Ltd)
and the Hungarian and Italian delegation to Ireland.
He said he was delighted that EUCIP Certification was
being introduced into Hungary, and he hoped it would make a positive contribution to the Vocational
Education and Training sector.
The meeting opened with Mária Hartyányi: (Project Coordinator, ITStudy Hungary Ltd), presenting an activity
progress report, where she announced that the project results planned for the first year were completed and
satisfactory.
Mária emphasised the value of EUCIP Core, where she showed how it defines the “T”-Shaped profession
concept of IT specialisation extended to include business knowledge and skills.
EUCIP System in the World
Pierfranco Ravotto (AICA) provided a presentation on the recognition of the
EUCIP Core system in Europe and in the World. He said that the EUCIP Core
qualification is at the beginning, in its infancy stage. In Italy there are
approximately 1000 exams taken each year but year on year this number is
steadily growing. He demonstrated how EUCIP currently aligns to e-CF (the
common European eCompetence Framework supported by the European
commission). He predicts that in the next few years, CEPIS (the representative
body of national informatics associations), whose main aim is to promote the
development of the information society in Europe, will be working to better
align EUCIP to e-CF.

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Planning Sustainability of the Results
Mihály Kocza presented the results of a Hungarian survey involving the owners of
SME’s. The main question being asked was “Are company owners interested in
employing IT staff with EUCIP Core qualifications?”. This was a significant survey with
700 companies being asked to take part. 57 organisations responded. He reported
that the result was very positive from the respondents, with 38% having IT employees
without any certification or formal qualification. He concluded that this group would
be a suitable target group.
Dr Imre Balogh (University of West Hungary), carried out an interesting study on
matching the EUCIP Core syllabus to that of the Business IT curricula (BSc level) course
currently being run at his university. The purpose was to see how closely they aligned
to each other and to identify any gaps. He was satisfied to report that between 70 –
90% of the EUCIP Core syllabus is covered by the students taking the Business IT
course. In his opinion, students studying Business IT could be prepared for taking
EUCIP exams with some extra hours of training. Another interesting finding was that
when asked, the students were in favour of adding a European recognized certificate
to their qualifications. They believed it would add value alongside their degree.
Localisation of EUCIP Core Certification in Hungary
EUCIP core is divided into three modules, PLAN, BUILD, OPERATE.
Three Expert Groups were setup to review each of these modules
for suitability for the Hungarian VET sector. Each module group
was to:
1. Evaluate the syllabus and mapping to the content in the three
English course books.
2. Consider on how practice orientated are the modules
3. Review the QTB (question test base) in terms of its currency and
level of difficulty.
4. Compare the content to current courses being offered to
Hungarian business IT students.

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Reports of Expert Groups
Group 1 - Plan
Mária Hartyáni ( iTStudy Hungary Ltd), who is a member of the PLAN
expert group, reported on well the module aligns to the HNRQ
(Hungarian National Registry of Qualification). She said that the Plan
module is not a typical business module nor a typical IT module, but more
a hybrid course. She explained that this will mean teachers from both
fields will need to collaborate to produce optimum resources when
preparing students.
Barna Éles (business teacher of OJSZIGK), the leader of the PLAN expert
group estimated the Plan module would take 144 hours to teach (4
hours/week). He explained that students would find the technical terms
and abbreviations used in the English course text their main difficulty,
but the group agreed that as English is the universal language used in the
IT industry, the English abbreviations ought to be retained.
Group 2 – Build
Erika Manyhárt the leader of the BUILD expert group said 100 hours
training would be required to prepare students for the Build module but
much of the content could be integrated into subjects currently being
taught to IT Students. She felt that the test itself was based on theory with
no practical questions and that she would have liked to have a mix between
practical and theoretical assessment. She also said that some of the content
refers to older technology and practices and would need to be updated. It
was agreed to compile a list to forward to the ECDL Foundation for review
and possible updating.

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Group 3 - Operate
Dr Ildikó Balassa (SZÁMALK) is the leader of the OPERATE expert
group. She said that the content was about 90% current and
provided the students with enough knowledge to answer every
question in the test. Again, as with the previous presenter, she
reported that some of the content needed to be changed to bring
it up to date and that she would compile a list to submit to the ECDL
Foundation to review. She was pleased to report that the Hungarian
IT System Administrator training currently covers the OPERATE
syllabus to between 80 -90%. She said that the EUCIP OPERATE
could be offered to students undertaking the IT Administrator
course who would like to have a recognized European qualification.
Meeting Day 2
Welcome
Maria welcomed the project team to the second day of the meeting, and said she hoped everyone enjoyed
the group dinner in the Trocadero Restaurant the previous evening.
eLearning in Ireland
David Cleary (ICS) started the day 2 proceedings with a short
demonstration of the online learning system employed by the Irish
Computer Society. He followed up with a suggestion for a multilingual
solution where the students can switch between English and Hungarian
while attempting to answer questions in the practice test. He suggested
that by using this method, students will become familiar with terms and
expressions and question structures.

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CLIL (Content and Language Integration Learning)
Judith Gyulavári (NJSZKI) presented on CLIL (Content and Language
Integration Learning). She began her presentation with an introduction
to CLIL, and she explained that in Hungary it is run as an intensive
language year, and that the question of who should teach this course is
often asked, IT teachers or Language teachers or both? She said that
content that is geared towards the specialist subject of the student is
more interesting for them. This led to an engaging discussion in the
group.
Adriana Fasulo (ISP), gave some details about using CLIL methodology at
her school and that it was currently being run as an experiment or pilot.
She also told the group that all EUCIP students at her school take the core
module exams through English.
Iidikó contributed to this discussion, saying that her school had developed e-learning materials for teachers
to teach English to IT students and she offered to make them freely available for this project.
In conclusion, it was agreed that the Hungarian partners would develop support materials for VET teachers
on how to use CLIL in preparing students for the EUCIP core exams.

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Decisions Planning Future Actions
The rest of the day 2 working session was spent making important decisions and planning next steps.
Decisions
1. Exams
The deadline for EUCIP Core exams in Hungary was set to the period between Feb – Apr 2015. The agreed
plan is to test 60 students through English and 80 students through Hungarian.
2. Certificates Mary Cleary (ICS) suggested that to be able to receive a certificate
for each module completed would be a great benefit. She said that she asked
the Foundation to consider and was now delighted to report that this will
be possible as the Foundation have agreed to having individual module
certificates for the purpose of this project only. This means that a student is
eligible for a Certificate for each of the Core exams passed as well as ITAF.
3. Localisation of EUCIP Core Syllabus and tests - The ECDL Foundation has
agreed to review the syllabus and test items and to update as appropriate.
4. Localisation of EUCIP Core Textbooks - It was agreed to produce three separate text books for PLAN, BUILD
and OPERATE.
5. EUCIP Core Structure Review - The group was concerned that the EUCIP Core structure may be modified
over the next year. Mary said that the probability for this happening is not high, but that the Hungarian
partners should take into consideration is the concept of e-CF during adaptation and localization.

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Activities
Group Dinner, Thursday Night
Dinner on Thursday night in the Trocadero restaurant in the centre of Dublin.

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Cultural Event, Friday Afternoon
A cultural event was organized on the evening of Friday 24th
. This consisted of a walk through Trinity College
and a guided tour of Dublin Castle.

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News
Irish news stories on the topic of VET
http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/skills-shortage-will-delay-recovery-290019.html
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/apprenticeships-shortage-germany-system-ireland-1683823-Sep2014/
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/it-conversion-courses-not-all-employers-are-converts-
1.1990810
Events
European e-skills 2014 Conference
http://eskills2014conference.eu/

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Project basics
Acronym: I-T Shape
Title: I-T Shape – Shape European Level Competitive IT Certification for the Hungarian Vocational Education
Duration: 1.October 2013 – 30 September 2015
Action type: Transfer of Innovation
Program: Leonardo da Vinci – LLL Subprogram
Participating countries: Hungary, Italy, Ireland
Website: http://it-shape.hu
Contact: Mária Hartyányi, iTStudy Hungary Educational and Researching Centre, Hungary
E-mail: maria.hartyanyi@itstudy.hu, skype: hmaria718
Partnership
ITSTUDY- iTStudy Hungary Ltd. HU
AICA - Association of Italian Information Technology IT
ISF - S Fermi in Pontedera IT
ICS The Irish Computer Society IE
SZÁMALK-Szalézi Vocational Highschool HU
Öveges József Vocational and Grammar School HU
Neumann János Vocational School for Information Technology HU
Makó – Galamb József Agricultural Vocational School HU
University of West Hungary HU
Enterprise Development Foundation of Pest Country HU
Target groups
Primary target group: Hungarian VET students, career changers, non-qualified IT practitioners, job-seekers
looking to break into the industry, secondary target group: VET teachers and trainers, managers and
employees of SMEs
Objectives
Adaptation and localization of EUCIP Core in Hungary included its three Knowledge Areas (Plan, Build and
Operate)
Elaborate the detailed syllabuses and the Hungarian EUCIP Core Program
Validating the results: piloting the first module by involving Hungarian teachers, 50-60 participants from
vocational/university and adult educational institutes
Accrediting EUCIP Core under the Hungarian Program Accreditation System.
1.4 Work-packages
WP1 Project Management
WP2 Analysis and Design
WP3 EUCIP Core Adaptation
WP4 EUCIP Core Localization
WP5 Pilot trainings
WP6 Evaluation
WP7 Valorization
WP8 Dissemination