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The Institut d'Études Sociales develops studies on issues relating to skills and the validation of acquired knowledge and experience of trade union activists.

In particular, IES was project leader for two studies carried out as part of pilot projects under the Leonardo Da Vinci program, financed by the European Community, from 2001 to 2006.

Between 2007 and 2016, IES carried out an operation to develop skills validation for union executives and vulnerable managers, with a view to facilitating their professional development or retraining. 

In this context, IES has set up the VAIFOR (Validation des Acquis Informels et Formation) system within Grenoble's Faculty of Economics.

Funded by Rhône-Alpes Regional CouncilAs part of a "Professionnalisation des actifs" agreement, VAIFOR aims to support jobseekers in their skills development and retraining projects.
  PECS is a skills assessment tool for atypical audiences, and more specifically for trade union leaders. 

It's a document format enabling users to take stock of their skills (knowledge, aptitudes, training courses, achievements) with a view to personal projects or professional development.

It is the culmination of two years' work by a partnership of trade union representatives and university researchers from five other European countries.

The trade union confederations directly involved in producing this CD-Rom are CCOO (Spain), CGTP (Portugal) and MSZOSZ (Hungary). 

The universities and organizations involved are IES, SFR (Italy) and WLRI (UK).

The passport is filled in by the user, using the tools provided in the appendix. 

It allows you to track your training and skills development throughout your life. 

PECS is part of an operational phase of validation of prior learning and experience.
  Valsyndic is a study led by IES from 1998 - 2001 and involving six other countries: Spain, Portugal, Scotland, England, Italy and Hungary. 

Each country has carried out a study on the validation of trade union activists' prior learning, based on surveys of trade union and university officials.

The aim of this study is to set up a Europe-wide training program designed to develop the validation of trade union activists' prior learning with a view to their inclusion in university training courses. 

The main results of the Valsyndic program are :

• The need for methods to identify the skills acquired through militancy, adapted to profiles characterized by the importance of their informal skills (assessment of skills acquired through a variety of investigative methods: declarative, tests, role-playing, group orals).
• The feasibility and appropriateness of a VAE, insofar as it is complemented by a continuing vocational training scheme (a VAP with a formative tendency).

  Study on the validation of trade union activists' prior learning was carried out in 1995 on behalf of the Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Higher Education and Research. 

It was based on a survey of CGT and CFDT trade union activists, focusing on prior learning, and of university officials for validation.

As part of a retraining or university training project, union activists are often asked to apply for validation of their experience at university. Although provided for by law, experience shows that validation procedures for this group are rare and uncertain in their outcome.

The aim of this study is to verify the existence of knowledge, know-how and behavioural skills, and to assess their degree of compatibility with the validation criteria adopted by universities. Lastly, it enables us to propose assessment procedures adapted to the specific characteristics of the militants.

Publications

• Michel Le Berre, Michel Rocca, Le salaire minimum : un outil à vocation sociale et aux implications managériales incertaines, In Encyclopédie des Ressources Humaines, 3rd edition, José Allouche (coord.) Vuibert, 2012
• Hervé Charmettant, Georges Sebastien, Guillaume Vallet, Jérôme Gautier, Comprendre l'économie. Questions économiques contemporaines, 1st edition, De Boeck, Collection LMD Economie + EAD, 2017
• Michel Rocca, Crises, intervention publique et ordre économique: une lecture normative de l'expérience américaine de 1993, in Diemer A. (Dir), La crise trois ans après, quels enseignements? L'Harmattan, 2010.
• Michel Rocca, Le management de la performance. Happiness of rules and tyranny of valuesCollection L'Esprit Economique, Série Economie et Innovation, L'Harmattan, 2009.
• Marie-Laure Attal-Fougier, Michel Rocca, Georges Sébastien, Progresser en communication, Presses universitaires de Grenoble, les Outils Malins, 2007.
• IES, Passeport Européen de Compétences Syndicales (PECS), interactive self-assessment CD-Rom translated into 5 languages, Commission of the European Communities, 2006.
• Michel Rocca, Pierre Berthaud, La mondialisation, le travail salarié et la question de la compensation, in Berthaud P. and Kebabdjian G. (dir.), La question politique en économie internationale, La Découverte, Collection Recherches, 2006.
• Michel Rocca, Marc Bartoli, Gestion par objectifs et réquisition des compétences : vers de nouvelles sources d'intensification du travail ? In Organisation et intensité du travail, Askenazy, P. , Carton, D. , Conick F. de, Collac M. (Ed.) 2006.
• Marie-Laure Attal-Fougier, Georges Sébastien, Michel Rocca, Animer et Concevoir une session de formation, published by IES with the support of the European Commission, 2005.
• Marie-Laure Attal-Fougier, Georges Sébastien, Michel Rocca, Progresser en communication à l'écrit, à l'oral, avec les médias, published by IES with the support of the European Commission, 2005.
• Michel Rocca , Pierre Berthaud, Firmes globales et normes sociales, in Annuaire français des relations internationales 2004, volume V, Centre Thucydide, Analyse et Recherche en Relations Internationales (Ed.), 2004.
• Michel Rocca (ed.) Acteurs syndicaux et sciences sociales du travail : objets, méthodes et enjeux d'une coopération, Editions Octares, 2001, Preface by H. Bartoli.
• Michel Rocca, Régulation sociale et relations professionnelles européennes: étapes et incertitudes d'une relation, in Les régulations de l'emploi, B. Lamotte, L'harmattan, 1998.
• Gabriel Mermillod-Blardet ; Michel Rocca, Le mouvement syndical et la construction d'une solidarité, in Les Solidarités, fondements et défis, Alain and Chantal Euzeby, 1996

 

• Michel Rocca, Le salarié, acteur de ses évolutions professionnelles : storytelling sur fond dégradé, Cahiers de l'IRT, n°18, March 2010.
• Michel Rocca, De la place de l'apriorisme. Réflexion critique sur l'ouvrage de G. Brucy, P. Caillaud, E. Quenson et L. Tanguy, Savoirs, n°19, May 2009.
• Michel Rocca, Sarah Veyron, Les trajectoires professionnelles des bénéficiaires de VAE : réflexions à partir d'études de cas en Rhône-AlpesCEREQ, Coll. RELIEF, n° 24, 2008.
• M. Rocca, C. Sachs Durand, T. Grumbach, J. Barreau, L'engagement des universitaires pour la formation syndicale : le réseau des Instituts du Travail, Revue Education Permanente, n°154, 2003.
• Michel Rocca, Union Training and Validation of Acquired Experience: An Analysis of Recognition PracticesRevue Education Permanente, n° 154, 2003.
• Michel Rocca, La validation des acquis de l'expérience. Réforme de la formation et nouvelles régulations du diplôme, in Maggi-Germain N. and Pelage A. Les évolutions de la formation professionnelle : regards croisés, Cahiers Travail et Emploi, La Documentation Française. Preface by A. Supiot, 2003.
• Pierre Berthaud, Michel Rocca, Firmes globales et normes sociales, Annuaire français des Relations Internationales, Brussels, Editions Bruylant, 2003.
• Michel Rocca, La réforme des instances représentatives du personnel : quels impacts sur les coûts de la représentation et sur le dialogue social, Revue Travail et Emploi, 1997