From AlmaLaurea to EAL-NETFrom AlmaLaurea to EAL-NET

prof. Andrea Cammelliprof. Andrea CammelliUniversity of Bologna University of Bologna

AlmaLaurea Director AlmaLaurea Director

ConferenceConferenceBudapest, 2006Budapest, 2006

www.eal-www.eal-net.orgnet.org

Why AlmaLaurea has been Why AlmaLaurea has been established?established?

• To respond to requirements:

– To verify the effectiveness and the quality of the university careers

– To overwhelm gaps in official statistics

– To facilitate the access of graduates in the job market

– To consolidate relations between Universities and Companies

– To increase in value the Italian University system

Why AlmaLaurea has been Why AlmaLaurea has been established??established??

• Objectives:

– To provide the University Authorities with complete, punctual and reliable documentation

– To put at companies disposal a tool to search high qualified human resources

– To promote the widest and better placement of graduates on the Italian and foreign job market

AlmaLaurea storyAlmaLaurea story

• 1988

– First pioneering study on the foreign graduates of the University of Bologna. In the framework of the celebrations for IX centenarian of the University of Bologna

• The social origin, the secondary education programmes, the university studies performance, the social and professional position was inquired.

• It turned out that the subject of the research should be extended to all people who had studied in Bologna

AlmaLaurea storyAlmaLaurea story

• 1993– The Statistical Observatory of the University of Bologna

set up AlmaLaurea Project• A questionnaire to be fill in by the graduating students• A questionnaire is provided to the secretariats before

leaving the University• Integration with administrative data

• 1994 – The data base of the University of Bologna was set up

• Year of ‘birth’ of Monster in USA

• 1996

– Extension of the Project at national level

• The entrance of all Universities of the Region and the University of Florence

– Ministry of Education, University and Research gave its support to the Project

AlmaLaurea storyAlmaLaurea story

AlmaLaurea storyAlmaLaurea story

• 1997– The data base available on line

• AlmaLaurea among Internet Pioneers in Italy

• 2001– Establishment of Interuniversity Consortium

AlmaLaurea– With a partecipation of 21 universities that have joined

the Project

AlmaLaurea Consortium todayAlmaLaurea Consortium today

• 2006– 49 Universities in Italy – 790.000 CV in Data Base– 66% out of all Italian graduates yearly– 4.000 companies have used the offered services

– 35 employees – 4,5 Million Euro of turnover – Financing channels:

• 40% associated universities• 25% Ministry of University• 35% customer Companies

Siena

Viterbo

Bari

Firenze

Trento

Venezia IUAV

Udine

Ferrara

Modena e Reggio E.

Parma

Piemonte Orientale

Catanzaro

Cassino

Genova

Calabria

MI-IULM

Roma LUMSA

Padova

Verona

Perugia

SalernoSassari

Basilicata

Bolzano

Foggia

Reggio Calabria

Roma III

VE-Ca’ FoscariTorino PolitecnicoUniversità di Torino

Bologna

Trieste

Chieti Molise

Catania

Messina

Lecce

Perugia Stranieri

Roma La Sapienza

Cagliari

Camerino

MI – San Raffaele

L’Aquila

Roma Campus Bio-Medico

Napoli SUN.

Teramo

Roma IUSM

Aosta - Valle d’Aosta

Castellanza - LIUC

Graduates

Universities

Companies

From AlmaLaurea to From AlmaLaurea to EuroAlmaLaureaEuroAlmaLaurea

• As a response to challenges:

– Internationalization of the labour markets

– Integration of European Higher Education Systems (Bologna Process)

– Comparability of statistics at European level

Coherence with the dictation of the Coherence with the dictation of the Bologna DeclarationBologna Declaration

• EuroAlmaLaurea aims:

– to facilitate “the attainment of a major compatibility and comparability of the higher education systems […] supporting concrete measures that will allow to realize tangible progress”

– “to favor the occupability of the European citizens and the international competitiveness of the European Higher Education System”

A response: EAL-NET Project. A response: EAL-NET Project.

• Objectives of the Project:

– To realize a prototype of the European Graduates Data Base

– To merge CV of graduates from Project’s Partner Universities and those Italian consortiated in AlmaLaurea

– To test the prototype in collaboration with Universities and Companies

– To create a multi languages tool for the publication of CVs and their search

The Project’s Consortium

AlmaLaurea (I)Coordinator

AlmaLaurea (I)Coordinator

INTRASOFT (B)IT Company

INTRASOFT (B)IT Company

TARKI RT (H)Research Centre

TARKI RT (H)Research Centre

U. Varsavia

(PL)

U. Varsavia

(PL)

ELTE U. Budapest (H)

ELTE U. Budapest (H)

U. Maastricht (NL)

U. Maastricht (NL)

U. Marne-la-Vallée (F)

U. Marne-la-Vallée (F)

CINECA (I)

IT Company

CINECA (I)

IT Company

EAL-NET ProjectEAL-NET Project

• Duration: 20 months (July 2005 – February 2007)

• European Commission, eTEN Programme

• Financing: 810.000 €

EAL-NET ProjectEAL-NET Project

• Aims achieved:

– Common format of curriculum vitae

– Multi languages functionalities of the portal

– Compatibility of the Privacy Laws of each country

– Searching the database according to type of degree and field of study

– Inclusion of CVs in data base to TEST the system

– Identification of the user group that is testing the system

EAL-NET ProjectEAL-NET Project

• Prospectives

– Start up of the entire data base at the beginning of 2007

– Extension of the Project to other Universities

– Establishment of a University Consortium (alike AlmaLaurea) in each country

– To awaken the University Authorities

– The entrance into the Project of other Universities, European and not