G.E.M. NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE

As the European Community funding for the G.E.M. project winds down, the emphasis of the project shifts from development and testing of the infrastructure and tools associated with the DCV System to their diffusion throughout the labour marketplace. The vehicle chosen for this diffusion process is the Network of Excellence (NoE), which is a partnership composed of many types of institutions which perceive an interest in supporting the project. The NoE is intended to include some of the leading European business schools and many important end-users, both public and private, who act at national, European, and global scale. Members of the NoE might include universities, agencies, international, national, regional, and local government agencies, private recruiting firms and employment agencies, multi-national organisations, etc. The first six members of the Network of Excellence are the six partners in the G.E.M. project, but they are eager to welcome new partners to the NoE.
Prof. Richard Ennals from Kingston Business School has been appointed as the first President of the NoE.

The NoE will leverage on the development and testing work done with the help of past European Community funding in order to establish itself, to define and formalise its management and operational procedures, to achieve a first set of relevant, usable and exploitable results and to create an initial critical mass of users Europe-wide.

The objectives of the Network of Excellence (NoE) are:

To create an international community of users of the DCV software and the CVBase system (both job seekers and Companies);
To create and maintain a European Database of DCV documents and make it available to the NoE members for scientific and other research purpose;
To give visibility to the Companies, the Business Schools, the Universities, the Public Bodies, the Associations and the service providers participating into the G.E.M. project.
To diffuse knowledge of the availability (via a free download) of the DCV software for the preparation and the transmission via internet of the digital curriculum.
To diffuse the software (via a free download) for the consultation of the Electronic Dictionaries for research purposes.
To normalise and integrate those dictionary items (study titles, occupational titles, economic sectors, organisational units, etc.) which the job candidates did not find in the dictionaries arranged in the DCV software during the compilation of a digital curriculum. In this way, as a community of job candidates gain daily experience using the DCV software, the dictionaries will become more complete and significant.
To publish the results obtained by the participants through the use of the DCV software and the CVBase system. This publication of results is intended to serve as a means of communication between labour demand and labour supply and as an instrument for the creation and the management of databases of candidates and employees.