Individual Learning Accounts

Annex A. Detailed information on individual learning schemes

Table A A.1. Management of schemes

Schemes	Responsible institution	Services and operations
		Bank, insurance	Public institution	Social partners	Private entity
Bildungskonto, Upper Austria AUT	Department of Education and Society of the Office of the Upper Austrian Government		Department of Education and Society of the Office of the Upper Austrian Government	Chamber of Labour involved until 2005
Opleidingcheques, Flanders BEL	VDAB (Flemish public employment office)		VDAB		Edenred sells and deliver the cheques to the beneficiaries and gives money in exchange to the training organisations
learn$ave CAN	Social and Entreprise Development Innovations (NGO)	RBC Royal Bank mainly			Delivery agencies run by community‑based NGOs
Chèque annuel de formation, Canton de Genève CHE	Office pour l'orientation et la formation continue (Geneva Canton government)		Regional administration
Bildungsprämie DEU	Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung				Information, counselling and distribution of vouchers contracted out to centres certified by the Ministry
Compte Personnel de Formation FRA	DGEFP, Ministère du Travail	Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations for information system until 2019 and for everything except counselling from 2020.	Pôle Emploi and FPSPP for jobseekers until 2019	OPCAs for employed until 2019
Individual Learning/Training Account, Scotland GBR	The Scottish Government		Skills Development Scotland
Individual Learning Accounts GBR,	Department for Education and Skills				Capita Business Services
Carta ILA, Tuscany ITA	Tuscany region and provinces	Yes	Local offices of the Centro per l'Impiego
ã PRT, 2001-to date	IEFP (Portuguese public employment service)		IEFP
SkillsFuture Credit SGP	SkillsFuture Singapore		SkillsFuture Singapore
Individual Training Account USA	State agencies managing WIOA funds and local Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs)		Local WIBs
Lifelong Learning Accounts (LiLAs), various areas, USA	Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), together with DOL in State of Maine	ShoreBank in the first experimentation			CAEL

Source: OECD Secretariat, Euréval (2012), Leckie et al. (2010).