Visible Project “Validation IssueS Induct Basis for Learning Evaluation” has been approved under the Lifelong Learning Programme – Leonardo da Vinci- Development of Innovation, by the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, in September 2007. 

Visible Project is aimed to develop a validation methodology for non-formal learning process in order to allow the European Development Agencies and the Local Development Actors to recognize organizational positions and related competences.
In particular, each members of the organization involved should be able to clearly identify what are the positions of his colleagues, their competencies and  their responsibilities. 
The focus of the project is on the position of Project Manager (PM), a key role in RDAs,  in order to facilitate the passage from rhapsodic common projects to models of permanent mutual co-operation between RDAs. They need indeed to reduce organizational barriers by exploiting the potential of staff exchange and even European job mobility. A common horizon of vocational training, where not only the settings and practices of learning are shared but also the key references and standards, is a crucial precondition for this process to start.
Besides technical background PM need to have more crucial competences, the horizontal ones, such as, for example, Organizing, Networking and Communication to continuously improve through a non-formal learning process that the Project identifies in the “Case Histories”.

Visible’s purpose is to transform these case histories into a non-formal learning patrimony for the whole sector of European DAs and more advanced, to establish Visible as a common methodology of validation of non-formal learning for horizontal competencies.