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How to Use this Toolkit

Quick Introduction

Begin with the sections on Resources and Audience for the toolkit.  It is best to consider your own needs first and where you are looking to establish new means of working and new outputs/actions.

When to use this toolkit

The toolkit has been designed to be a guide for policymakers looking to build a new or different LMI offer and for practitioners to act both as a tool for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and as a resource that they can turn to when they need support in doing something new or different for a new audience, region or sector.

Your needs

There are many hundreds of pages of materials here (particularly in the Good Practices and longer case Studies) that you can explore, so being focused on your own needs is an ideal start.

You need to identify ‘audience’ – i.e. if you are a practitioner or a policymaker (user of LMI). Once this is clear, you should consider what you need from the toolkit. This is likely to be:

  1. Compare your practices with elsewhere
  2. Establish a new product or output
  3. Work with a new audience
  4. Work in new field/sector or at a new geography
  5. Design a new offer
  6. Better tailor your work to a different political priority
  7. Boost your awareness of existing LMI
  8. Researching LMI approaches

Selecting resources

Within the Introduction to the toolkit section you will find details concerning each of the resources (tools) here and this should help select where to find the most appropriate tools for you. Similarly there are a huge number of good practices and case studies that are included in the tool and these have been summarised and placed within themes that you should explore to find the most appropriate one(s) for you and your circumstances.

If in doubt

The toolkit lead authors are The University of Exeter’s Marchmont Observatory and the resources are hosted on the University of Frankfurt, Goethe’s IWAK website. Feel free to contact either institution (Marchmont or IWAK) for further guidance on how to use this tool.


Dr Andrew Dean

Senior Impact and Partnership Development Manager

Marchmont observatory, IIB

University of Exeter

a.dean@exeter.ac.uk  


This Toolkit was made possible through the support of the European Commission’s ERASMUS+ Programme. All views and opinions expressed are those of the VET-EDS Partners and not of the European Commission.

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