MetLexSupport – Methodological and Legal Support for Tracking Mobile Graduates in EU. Internationally Comparable Indicators and the Legal Framework for the Data Flow in the European Graduate Tracking System.

ABSTRACT

The first objective of the Poland-Czechia-Slovakia proposal is to develop and test a set of internationally comparable indicators on the labour market position of graduates. The indicators should be universally relevant within the EU, regardless of the state economy. Therefore, they will be tested in three participating countries that differ in size and the used currencies. The indicators should be computable both with administrative data and with the survey results. They should also have easily understandable and clear interpretations. The indicators tested for these criteria in the project can become a part of the set of commonly agreed core indicators. The previous cooperation between the participating countries has already proven these features for the Relative Indicator of Wages. This experience indicates the achievability of the goal and effective cooperation between participants in the process. The second objective is to support the efforts for creating a European system for tracking mobile graduates with administrative data by conducting a set of legal analyses regarding the possibility of the data flow and processing proposed in the European Network of Graduate Tracking. The analyses will be conducted in a common pattern separately for each participating country but in a coordinated way. They will take into account the data flow, the data protection solutions, and the state legal systems. They will be an input for creating a road map for the development of the prospective European system for tracking mobile graduates. The common pattern and the results of the pilot legal analyses in the participating countries can be used by other EU states to conduct similar analyses as well. The results of the project will be shared with the European Higher Education Sector Observatory. They can be used to enrich the coordinated European information system for graduate outcomes data with new core indicators and the results from the register-based approach.