Awards for VET Excellence
The third edition of the European Vocational Skills Week will take place from 5 to 9 November 2018 in Vienna, Austria. As in 2016 and 2017, the award-giving will be one of the major highlights of Week.The awards will highlight examples of excellence in four categories: Companies and learners, VET innovators, European funding for excellence, and European Agencies […]
Austrian Presidency: Education priorities
The Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union will start their six months Presidency as from the 1st of July 2018 until the 30 December 2018. This Presidency is part of the trio of: Estonia (in the second half of 2017) and Bulgaria (in the first half of 2018). Here is a joint programme for the entire […]
Mainstreaming Student Entrepreneurship International Launch
The Mainstreaming Student Entrepreneurship International Launch & Multiplier Event took place in Brussels on 12th June 2018. Padraic Murphy-Programmes Manager with Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council in Northern Ireland opened the event with a brief introduction of the MASTER project and the real impact of MASTER. Padraic presented the Student Entrepreneurship Toolkit and Position Papers […]
Tracking of VET graduates
The EU-funded project “Advancing Graduate Tracking and Alumni Relations in VET Schools – TRACKTION” focuses on strengthening the capacity of graduate tracking and fostering alumni relations in VET institutions. Cometa Formazione (Italy) The final report “Mapping of VET graduate tracking measures in EU Member States” by the European Commission (EC; 2017), points out that “the […]
Discovering the secrets of Italian & French cusines
Imagine an innovative learning path allowing VET students and apprentices to discover the secrets of Italian and French cuisines. This is IMPACT, the new Alcotra project of APRO Formazione and Faculté des Métiers – École Hôtelière of Cannes. Attending a binational learning path designed for both Italian and French future cooks. In this way, we can […]
Discovering the secrets of Italian & French cusines
Imagine an innovative learning path allowing VET students and apprentices to discover the secrets of Italian and French cuisines. This is IMPACT, the new Alcotra project of APRO Formazione and Faculté des Métiers – École Hôtelière of Cannes. Attending a binational learning path designed for both Italian and French future cooks. In this way, we can […]
Professional Development Opportunities for VET Staff in Edinburgh
The Placement Factory is an international career development specialist offering bespoke training opportunities to graduates and undergraduates, field research programmes for professionals and development program partnerships with international educational organisations. The Placement Factory (UK) In partnership with Edinburgh College, The Placement Factory is now offering professional development opportunities specifically designed for vocational teaching staff. This […]
E-commerce project: PEAL
The PEAL project was born in the Spring 2016. It came from an idea, that Tradium Business Department (EfVET Member) as a school needed to get up to speed concerning e-commerce. We realized, that the web shops around the country needed skilled employees, who understood all the differences between physical shops and web shops. Tradium […]
You Can Change Your World
The project You Can Change Your World – YCCYW, nº 2017-1-PT01-KA116-035506 was born in the framework of our European Club activities due to our need to strengthen our combat against early school leaving, school failure and demotivation, to improve language and technological skills of our trainees, trainers, teachers and technical staff. EsproMinho – Escola Profissional […]
EURspace: A project to facilitate transparency in VET
One of the most difficult aspects when you manage mobility projects is to be sure of what results it will bring for your students. What they will learn? What competences will be developed? In which extent? How will their competences be assessed? And recognised? Hetel (Spain) With the EURspace project we aim to contribute to […]