BIRGIT: The final Project meeting was hosted by EfVET, in Brussels
Between November 5th and 6th 2024, all partners of “BIRGIT” gathered in Brussels for the last time to participate in the final meeting of the project, one of its milestones. EfVET hosted Forma.Azione (IT), GISIG (IT), Asociación de la Industria Navarra (ES), University North (HR) and Novogit (SE), under the coordination of […]
Gender Equality as driver of Well-being in Educational Spaces
On 6th November ‘24, the 5th seminar of the “Gender Equality Task Force” (GE TF) took place with more than 20 people attending in presence at the EfVET Office, in Brussels, and online. — After the welcome words by Valentina Chanina, Secretary General of EfVET, and Susana Nogueira, EfVET Policy and Project Officer, […]
“PoVE Water Scale-up” is shaping the next generation of water
Amersfoort, Netherlands – October 23 to 26, 2024 – The 33rd EfVET Annual Conference: “Training Gen Z: New Horizons for VET” aimed at addressing those challenges in order to offer the delegates and the VET ecosystem concrete tools to successfully cope the new emerging challenges in education and training. During the EfVET roundtable sessions, EU […]
Results & Conclusions of the #EfVETConference24: “Training Gen Z: New Horizons for VET”
After Event Press Release – “Gen Z”: creating skills for future leaders. Where do we stand?” The “EfVET 2024 Annual Conference” successfully answered the question at the presence and with the collaboration of international experts, educators and VET professionals. Over 320 training providers from 29 countries participated. — Background Amersfoort, Netherlands […]
Festival of Skills 2024: Empowering the Future of Education
Bratislava, Slovakia – As a continuation of the European Year of Skills 2023, the Festival of Skills 2024, organized by the State Institute of Vocational Education (ŠIOV) in collaboration with the ministry of education and other key partners, took place from September 23rd to 27th across multiple cities in Slovakia. This week-long event provided a […]
The Engineering Academy
Is a cooperative initiative of the Estonian state, educational institutions, companies, and professional associations. Its goal is to raise the quality of education in engineering, ensure the future of engineers, and increase the popularity of the field. To link education and the labour market more closely and to direct young people’s study choices, the Estonian […]
Care about IT: Revolutionizing the healthcare landscape by combining care and IT skills through hackathons
Hackathons are competitions in which teams composed of students with different backgrounds and skills cooperate to formulate a solution to a common task. The methodology undermining hackathons is the design thinking: starting from a needs analysis of the final beneficiaries, teams will collaborate to come up with ideas, and eventually elaborating a final project to […]
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability: Highlights from the VET SDGs Staff Week in Kuressaare
All the SDGs are wicked problems; we will never fully solve them,” said the first speaker, Mihkel Kangur, a scientist and head of teaching and development at Rakvere State Gymnasium. The “wicked problems” related to the SDGs, such as sustainable transport, employment, and living standards, do not have a clear cause or solution. We have […]
GreenCCIrcle – The Role of the Sustainability Facilitator In Creative and Cultural Industries
How the GreenCCircle Project is shaping the Professional Profiles for the Green Transition of Creative and Cultural Industries The GreenCCircle project, a collaboration between prominent European partners such as Materahub, CIKE, CreativeFED, Fondazione Ca’ Foscari, Fundacja ARTeria, Baltic Film & Creative Tech Cluster, Julie’s Bicycle, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk), Estonian Academy […]
New Erasmus + Project: FUTURE-STEM-HUB
Empowering Secondary School STEM Education with AI & ML Training and Resources for Students and Educators Secondary school STEM education currently lacks coverage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) both in curricular and extracurricular activities, largely due to the perception of their complexity, which persists even after students graduate. However, to positively influence […]