As Policy & Project Officer, Susana Nogueira participates in the formulation of EfVET policy and strategy with respect to relevant topics for VET, whilst networking with EfVET Thematic Teams’ groups to contribute to EU decision-making in relevant fields. Moreover, Susana manages some of the Erasmus+ funded projects in which EfVET is involved focused on topics […]
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Ami Toikka is a pedagogical professional from Helsinki, Finland. She is currently working at Helsinki Vocational College as a team leader of the international affairs team. She has been working within education for more than 15 years in international and Finnish context, from teaching to career guidance and project management. Before teaching career, she was
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Apro Formazione coordinated the international annual meeting on tourism education From 6th to 8th March 2023, Apro Formazione organized the Tourism GLocal conference, in Alba. The annual event of the EfVET Tourism Thematic Team (TTT), involved 27 international organizations, coming from 14 different countries, with the presence of 12 managers, 8 teachers, 5 students and 35 international coordinators. Established in 2021 and coordinated by Apro
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Today, EfVET, EARLALL – European Association of Regional & Local Authorities for Lifelong Learning and European Association for the Education of Adults – EAEA held the second Gender Equality Task Force (GE TF) informal online meeting. The GE TF is a joint initiative implemented by these organisations with the purpose of advocating for EU policies and strategies that support a
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TOURing Pact for Tourism Skills – Towards a greener and a more digital Tourism Era Tourism is one the largest and fastest growing sectors of the global economy. This sector plays an important role in the EU because of its economic and employment potential, as well as its social and environmental implications.1 According to the
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VET TO VET – Capacity building in Albania (V2V_AL) V2V-AL is an Albania country-specific project that aims to increase VET attractiveness and performance through internationalisation and mobility, increased responsiveness to labour market needs and skills development, both in IVET and CVET. Despite the key role that VET can play in economic transition, in Albania it
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LOST2 – Definition of competences at European level for the recognition of the qualification LOST2 is a further development of a previous KA2 project entitled “LOST – Learning Opportunities, inStruments and Investigation Techniques to fight the growing phenomenon of Missing People in Europe”, which was considered in 2017 as best practice among Strategic Partnership Erasmus+ funded
Make it Happen Make it Happen, an Erasmus+ KA2 funded project, is based on the need to address the lack of information about existing opportunities for Vocational Education and Training (VET) learners with disabilities to participate in mobility activities, as well as on the need to address the lack of human and material resources
Tourism Education of the Future Summary According to the EU Commission Pact for Skills on Tourism policy document and the OECD global figures, the European tourism industry was severely impacted by COVID crisis. The near collapse of global tourism during the COVID pandemic (loss of 80% in 2020) affected around two-thirds of direct tourism jobs,
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I-RESTART Inclusive REskilling and UPskilling Toward competitive Agrifood and veterinary sector: European agenda Strategy Summary The Pact for Skill roundtable raised several issues the Agrifood sector is facing and identified potential ways of overcoming them: upskilling and reskilling workers; intersectoral skill transfers; increased attractiveness of the sector to youth; digital transition; partnerships between learning institutions
Cyanotypes Strategic Skills for Creative Futures Summary The CYANOTYPES project brings together a wide variety of organisations, stakeholders, and European networks to address the needs and skills gaps in the Cultural & Creative Industries. Based on innovative multidisciplinary approaches, CYANOTYPES tackles the sector’s potential for innovation and competitiveness, which deals as well with challenges presented
No one is left behind Summary The Covid-19 pandemic caused a major disruption in education systems around the world and most of the work with an impact on education shows that student learning losses, particularly in those coming from the most disadvantaged families, were very significant. However, learning difficulties and losses are not evident only
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Nikos Moraitis is the Technical Director of Certification Division and a Coordinator in the European Funded and Corporate Social Responsibility projects department of IVEPE SEV (Institute of Industrial and Business Education & Training – Hellenic Federation of Enterprises) and has been the National representative in the Board of EfVET for Greece since October 2024. IVEPE
First results of the B-Wise project Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) Scuola Centrale Formazione is a partner of B-WISE project. A 4-year project co-financed by the Erasmus + Programme, bringing together 30 partners across EU member states which aims to develop a European strategy to address the skills needs, in particular regarding soft and digital
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Training VET Teachers and Lecturers for Industry 4.0 The use of digital tools gives VET institutions new opportunities for realistic training The use of digital tools is an important part of everyday life in all businesses. This means that there are also constantly new requirements for up-to-date competence in a number of subject areas
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Chronicles of VET Internationalisation in Western Balkans After success of the INTERVET WB project, a new capacity building project has just started! Three years ago INTERVET WB, the first pilot project for the internationalisation of VET systems in Western Balkans, was launched. Since then, many VET students and staff have experienced international learning mobility and
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PRALINE works on the influence of the SDGs in the French VET system The Association of Vocational Training Centres FPEmpresa has participated in the sixth PLA (Peer Learning Activity) of the European project PRALINE (Promoting Adult Learning in Networks), held on 30 and 31 January in La Rochelle (France). The meeting was organised by the
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FPEmpresa celebrates 500 associated centres to continue promoting vocational training Since the Association was set up in 2012, it has been committed to giving a leading role to VET in the education system and strengthening relations between the centres and their environment, helping to generate a greater public presence of these in society. Furthermore,
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VET to VET – Capacity building in Albania #V2VAL EfVET attended the online Kick-off meeting or the new Vet to Vet Capacity building in ALBANIA! This project is led by Apro Formazione and gathers two Albanian VET centres, KAMZA and HOTELERI, Albanian Skills – National Association for Skills Competitions, EfVET, SEPR and Build Green Group NGO. V2V-AL project will develop customised
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Compendium of good practices for socio-emotional education in VET The last period was very intense for the 3H partners but also very successful. The first output has been released and it’s a very interesting volume. After the project partners’ training meeting, done at the beginning of February, dedicated to the analysis of the “Compendium
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Human Rights and Global Citizenship The story of humanity itself The term right refers to things that it is permissible to do, be or have. Many people know something about some rights but not about others, and when people are not familiar with human rights, discrimination, intolerance, injustice and oppression emerge. Global Citizenship supports
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METAVERSO Augmented and Virtual Reality The course designed by the Università Popolare LUCE is a professional training course that allows you to learn the skills necessary to transform your products and services into virtual reality or augmented reality and then offer them in innovative markets and in new and authoritative commercial sectors. The course
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EfVET held a Multiplier Event to promote the results of the Digital Balance project. The Multiplier event was held on February 22nd, 2023 in the headquarters of EfVET in Brussels (BE) and more than 30 people attended, namely stakeholders, VET provider and policy makers. EfVET presented the Analysis Report, Empowerment Programme and shared good practices,
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Completion of the TELEGROW project The last partners’ meeting took place on February 7 The TELEGROW project, focused on the creation of training tools to improve teleworking in middle-aged workers, held last February 7th at the facilities of Florida Universitària (Catarroja, Valencia-Spain) the last Transnational Project Meeting prior to the end of the project,
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Integrate2EU Developing Innovative Approaches for the Social Integration of Female Migrants Integrate2EU (Developing Innovative Approaches for the Social Integration of Female Migrants) project aims to improve the social inclusion of immigrant women through the development and improvement of their competences (social, cultural, values, organizational, educational, etc.). Our project To increase the social integration of
The SMACITE initiative will define an educational curriculum to train smart city experts The SMACITE project will define the educational curriculum to train and certify technicians and engineers specialised in smart cities. It will run until mid-2025 under the coordination of the University of Patras (Greece) with a budget of 1.34 million euros linked to the
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What the hack?! Project Creating more opportunities for young people in safe cyber space Closely related to the need to make cybersecurity a top priority in Europe, a growing challenge is the shortage of cyber security professionals. Increasing cybersecurity talent is an atypical area of activity. It comprises a strong autodidactic and rebellious (hackers) community
Last transnational partner meeting for the PR.E.S.T.O. project in Bordeaux, France On the 15th of February, all the partners of the PR.E.S.T.O. project met for the last time to review ongoing activities and upcoming deadlines. The meeting was conducted on February 15th, 2023, at the headquarters of the French partner Cap Ulysse along with the
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In the scope of the KA2 INNOVET project which aimes to promote innovative teaching methods and improve the internationalisation strategies of training centres, the last 5th INNOVET Transnational Meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium from 7-8 February, and was hosted by EfVET. During the meeting, our partners Ylä-Savo College (Finland), SEPR (France), TEC (Denmark), UNISER (Italy), Incoma
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On Thursday 2 February 2023, REWIRE partner EfVET – the European Forum of Vocational Education and Training – attended the final event of Interreg Europe CYBER project that took place in Brussels at the European Committee of the Regions representing REWIRE project and its vision in cybersecurity. The main purpose of the event was to show not only the
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On 31 January, REWIRE’s partners European Vocational Training Association (EVTA) and the European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (EfVET), organised an online event “REWIRE Cybersecurity Blueprint: The Future of Cybersecurity Education in Europe”. The event aimed to promote REWIRE’s Cybersecurity Blueprint which focuses on providing a global synthetic vision of all elements
The Smooth Hybrid and Online Working for VET-project is to increase teachers’ competence on implementation of blended and distance teaching. EfVET staff was attended the first mentor training seminar in Barcelona from 24 to 26 January 2023. During the mentor seminar we share our knowledge, skills with teachers, mapped the best practices, implementing a new
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Like every January, these first days of the year call us to reflect on the goals we want to achieve for the new period that is opening up before us. In many cases, we propose numbers that would be unattainable if we did not carry out a deep analysis that allows us to understand the
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This project was developed with the objective of preventing the students’ dropping off in VETs schools. In order to achieve this aim, eight partners (from different countries and backgrounds) are cooperating for creating methodological strategies that enhance motivation and well-being of students. From 15th to 17th November 2022, members of 3H project gathered in UFIL
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Over the next three years, companies will need 90,000 professionals with expertise in data and Artificial Intelligence in order to be more efficient and able to compete internationally. In addition, new technologies and, therefore, the skills that employees need to have will evolve at such a rapid pace that they will have to continuously update
The 6th call for Ayudas Dualiza from CaixaBank Dualiza and FPEmpresa selects the 30 most innovative VET projects in the country The 6th edition of the call for Ayudas Dualiza from CaixaBank Dualiza and the Association of Vocational Training Centres FPEmpresa has selected the 30 most innovative collaboration projects in the country promoted by 47
Gender Task Force On 24 January 2023, the European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (EfVET) the European Association for Regional and Local Authorities for Lifelong Learning (EARLALL), and the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) jointly launched the work of dynamic Gender Equality Task Force. The Task Force is an
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FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR The FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR project aims to empower women, especially those in disadvantaged groups, who aspire to become or are already established, entrepreneurs. Specifically, the project will create a variety of tools and outputs in order to enhance women’s knowledge regarding the cultural and creative industries and businesses. The main goal of the project
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The Tourism Education of the Future kick-off meeting took place on the 18th and 19th of January 2022 in Zwolle (Netherlands). This is a KA2 Erasmus+ project which gathers 7 partners from different European countries (Italy, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Belgium). APRO, the project coordinator opened the meeting and introduced the partners, project, state of the art, masterclass, main
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The internationalisation at home approach ‘makes it possible for students to gain international competences.’ But how do you facilitate this, structurally? Anouk Vermeulen, project leader at Nuffic, explains how it’s done: “The main thing is that the whole set-up is coherent: it’s not about separate international activities but about connecting these with things like learning
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The “Public:START” Erasmus+ project CSA is proud to present the members of the EfVET network with its latest project in the field of VET. Launched in 2021, public:START is a cooperation partnership financed by the Erasmus+ programme under Key Action 2, bringing together researchers and VET professionals from Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Italy, in
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The school year of 22/23 started in a big way at Escola de Formação Profissional do Minho – Esprominho – in what concerns international projects, for the trainees of the Youth Courses, the Adult Education and also for the Staff! From September to November Esprominho still had no rest when it comes to international mobilities. After all
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The school year of 22/23 started in a big way at Escola de Formação Profissional do Minho – Esprominho – in what concerns international projects, for the trainees of the Youth Courses, the Adult Education and also for the Staff! From September to November Esprominho still had no rest when it comes to international mobilities. After all
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My journey at EfVET I started a 6-month internship at EfVET in January 2022. I had no expectations but to learn as much as possible and work in a comfortable environment. I am glad to say that those expectations were greatly achieved. Working in a small but close-knit team allowed me to feel not only
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REWIRE Fiches The REWIRE Fiches aim to underpin and illustrate the REWIRE strategy by identifying, documenting, and promoting concrete best and good practices at national and regional level with the objective of addressing skills shortages and mismatches as well as fostering multi-stakeholder partnerships in the field of cybersecurity. The REWIRE Fiches will be made up
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The OASIS project is about facilitating the adoption of OS technologies in education through practical applications, training and mentoring activities for managing real educational & labor oriented problems with a view to increase openness and not closed intellectual property. OASIS aims to provide several well designed actions that boost students’ appreciation of Open Science entrepreneurship
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No One Stays Behind NSB is a two-year project (2022 – 2024), coordinated by Escola Profissional Amar Terra Verde (PT), that aims to increase the motivation of learners with disadvantaged backgrounds to learn and to continue being engaged in Vocational Education and Training (VET). To achieve this purpose, NSB will develop innovative digital tools of
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EfVET Secretary General for many years she has been involved in European projects and tenders. She specialised in vocational education and training, adult education, relationship with European Commission and European Parliament, networking, and coordination of transnational partnerships. Responsible of supporting in the management of European projects, as well as for the development and promotion of
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Dr. Stylianos Mavromoustakos is a PhD holder in Chemistry since 1991. He has worked for 11 years as a Chemistry teacher and as the Head Teacher of Pascal English School. In 2003 he became the Director of the Training and Development Unit of Intercollege. Since then he has been involved both as a partner and coordinator in numerous European projects
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Santiago García was the Spanish National Representative from 2014 to 2016 and EfVET President from September 2016 to August 2018. Those two years were full of great experiences and hard work in his memories: “It was the time when, in collaboration with the European Commission, the platform of VET providers, VET4EU2, gave birth to the
I was introduced to EfVET by my colleagues and friends from Denmark while participating in one of the EU projects in 2005 and became National representative for Lithuania in 2006. In 2008 EfVET SC and ET colleagues and friends showed trust in me and we organised the EfVET annual conference in Vilnius, after which I
Twenty years ago, in 2000, it was the first time I sat in the EFVET conference. Conference facilities were in CEDEFOP head-quarters in Thessaloniki, Greece. On that time I was in charge of the international activities of my college and I took my job seriously. During the conference, I asked an Irish fellow sitting beside me
Born 1951 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK. Graduated with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies from Hatfield Polytechnic in 1973 and a Post Graduate Diploma in National and Regional Economic Planning followed by a short period in Social Development with a UK New Town Development Corporation before entering the world of Vocational Education and Training as a Senior Manager and subsequently Vice Principal of a
I have had the honour to be member of EfVET, almost since I started to be working in CECE: It supposed a great personal challenge, because I needed to improve my English, to deal with a bit different way of thinking and working, to reach agreements, open my mind to an intercultural learning, improve my
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Louise Rosthøj was a senior manager at a technical college in southern Copenhagen, Denmark with international relations as a major area of work. She was a member of the Steering Committee from 2002 until her retirement in 2009. Louise managed several projects involving student and/or teacher exchange, mostly under the Comenius programme. EfVET proved to
Liisa Metsola has been the treasurer of EfVET from 2016 to 2020 for two mandates. She holds a Master’s degree in English Philology from Jyväskylä University; special needs teacher degree from Häme University of Applied Sciences, and an MBA in Educational Leadership from Jyväskylä University. She works as a development director at Invalidisäätiö (Vocational College Live) in
Developer of resources for Computer Assisted Language Learning since 1982. He was awarded the “European Label” in 1999 for a CLIL project named the “Web Page Task”. Kent has authored/co-authored and coordinated twelve successful EC co-funded project applications, most of them having EfVET as the dissemination partner. One project, POOLS, was awarded the European Silver
Born and grown up in the Netherlands JWH spent his whole working life in the field of education: as teacher, as principal of a college for technical and vocational education and training, as governor and as ceo of the national association of college-trustees (ABB). The last 15 years of his working life JWH was, national
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Hans van Aalst was President of EFVET during the period 2000-2006. His main interest was focused on the process of knowledge management and development and how to reflect the results in traditional study material to make it approachable for students. His membership of the Dutch National Advisory Committee for Innovation of Secondary Education enabled him
Frans Schneider was Treasurer of EFVET during the period 1993-2009. As principle of the Randstedelijk Opleidingen Centrum Amsterdam, he joined EFVET in the year 1992. He already hold the function as a treasure of EVET in this early stadium. This function made him a member of the executive team. He also acted as chairman of
David Parkes has worked in and across all education sectors, from basic to higher, with a principal focus on vocational education and training (VET) and labour market issues. He has combined the management of large scale Europe wide projects and consultancy with reflection and review, for example regular editorship/contributions of and to the European Journal
Birgitta was a member of the EfVET Steering Committee from 2001 until her retirement in 2008. She was the International Coordinator of the Department of Education in Malmö, southern Sweden, where her responsibilities included the promotion of international relations for students and staff in secondary schools and adult education. She initiated, developed, and promoted European
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In 1997 Frans Schneider was, as chairman of the Dutch National Body, the Dutch representative in the Steering Committee and also Member of the Executive Team as Treasurer of EfVET. Because of this dual function he asked Adriaan Vrienten to take over the chairmanship of the Dutch National Body and the representation in the Steering
Carlos is the Spanish representative of EfVET, coordinating the National Board composed of 27 members from VET organisations, regional and national school associations. Carlos de Olagüe Smithson studied Telecommunications Engineering (UPM) and a Master in Power Electronics (FernUni Hagen). His Doctorate in Education (UAM) was a research about Erasmus funding in VET. Carlos is responsible
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Jon Harding is the UK national representative in the Board of EfVET. His education consists of a degree in Education and Training. He works as an International & Education Projects Manager at Bridgwater College. The College has an excellent reputation both regionally and nationally as a highly successful provider of education and training. He has over
Luis Costa is the Executive Director of ANESPO – National Association of Professional Schools (Portugal), a member of the board of the Setubal Professional School and a member of the Board of EfVET. Since 2007 he is the Portuguese Focal Point for the European Globalization Adjustment Found (EGF). He is member of the Pedagogical Committee of ETUI
Jussi Kajander is the Education Director of Luovi Vocational College that offers vocational special needs education and training for young people and adults. He has a master’s degree in Education from the University of Helsinki. His majors were adults and special education and social science. His main areas of expertise include vocational education and training,
Tibor Dőri is the director of Euro-Contact Business School (higher VET provider offering professional qualifications and MBA), the formal sole partner of OUBS UK since 1989. He was a tutor of OUBS UK in Hungary at HR, marketing, change and strategy management. He has taught senior and top managers for 25 years using ICT supported distance teaching.
Paulius Čepas is the director of Kaunas technical vocational education centre and a scholar awarded the PhD in social sciences. Studied psychology (B.A., 2001 and M.A., 2003) and education at Vytautas Magnus University where he earned his PhD degree by successfully defending the dissertation “Modelling of the development of the employability competency in vocational education and training”
Giorgos Giorgakis is the founder and Managing Director of Eurosuccess Consulting. He has graduated from the European University of Cyprus, with a Master Degree (MBA) in Business Administration in July 2008. He has developed, managed and implemented more than 85 EU and National (FP, LLP, JUSTICE, ERASMUS+ etc.) projects since 2006. He has also developed various
Stefan Frese serves as the head of the Vocational Training Schools in Verden, Lower Saxony, Germany. With a robust background in education spanning two decades, he boasts a decade of leadership experience in both school management and educational authorities. In his capacity as a school leader, Frese has spearheaded key initiatives in school development. These
Graduated with full marks in Economics from the University of Perugia, in 1989, Sylvia began working early in 1990 for a private training services company, as Project Designer and had the opportunity to be trained at the Business School of Administration of Bocconi University in Milan as a Trainer of Trainers. After 6 years of
Javier Serrano Castilla has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Granada, and an MBA from the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid. Since 2004 I have been a Business Administration teacher at a Vocational Training School, carrying out my teaching activity in the town of Motril (Granada, Andalusia). Along with teaching, I
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EfVET DK has a board of 7 members, who are representing different VET sectors. The board meets regularly in f2f or online meetings; annually the AGM is set up in connection to a national conference, hosted by the Danish Erasmus Agency. The board supports the Danish VET school members and provides info and room for
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Arja Flinkman currently works as the CEO of South Savo Education Ltd., which runs the South Savo Vocational College. Previously she has been the CFO of Mikkeli City consortium, directing the strategy of the whole consortium, financial services, ICT – services, and procurement and the CFO/CIO and Vice President in South Savo Education Ltd. She
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Stefano graduated in educational sciences at University of Florence, where he worked for 3 years as researcher, while attending a post-graduate course in Human Resources Management, at Middlesex University in London. From 1995 till 2016 Stefano directed a vocational training centre in Tuscany implementing IVET, apprenticeships, CVET, vocational guidance, entrepreneurial support. Since 1995, Stefano has
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Professor James Calleja has been involved in vocational education and training since 2001. Before his appointment as Principal and CEO of the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology in June 2018, Mr Calleja was Director of European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) from 2013 to 2018. Before joining Cedefop, he served
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On November 22nd, the 4-year project entitled CYANOTYPES was publicly launched in the scope of its first Experts Workshop on Skills Mapping (an event carried out in Helsinki (FI) with more than 60 online and offline participants, focused on discussing alternative models and mapping methodologies and begin to develop scenarios to identify the required skillsets
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Minecraft World Beta Testing Review. On the 26th of September 2022, as part of the CarCraft project, an LTTA was organised in Cyprus by the partner INTERCOLLEGE. In this activity, we showcased the CarCraft game to the partners, some of the VET teachers and students of INTERCOLLEGE. During the play-testing of the game, we took
Plymouth College of Further Education. The Pegasus project aimed to explore the use of new technology to deliver information and eventually training to smaller businesses. Project from Odense Tekniske Skole with EFVET and the Danish Ministry Of Education as partners North Lincolnshire College is contributing to a Leonardo pilot project (INTERLOG) designed to support the
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E-Learning based Initiative for European Educational Community Madrid, 2nd October 2003. The project MEMOIMAG is an innovative and collaborative e-learning based initiative, aimed at the creation of a network of schools to ensure young people to have the opportunity to access, analyse, produce and evaluate the new media culture, specially by the use of ICTs
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The LENTEC (Learning English for Technical Purposes) Project, is a Project Based Learning in Virtual Mobility where many partners have cooperated in developing methods for language learning of students in vocational technical education. Countries involved in the project are: Sweden, Holland, Slovenia, France, Estonia, Denmark. The results of the project have been published in ‘The LENTEC
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Curriculum development and learning resources. Project contractor – CECE of Espana with partners: Norton Radstock College (UK) BBS T 1 (D) and Europartners2002 Foundation (Bulgaria). The EPCD-Net project involves the creation of an European Curriculum Development Design to target the transverse contents of the curriculum, through setting up an European Virtual School , with innovative
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Curriculum development and learning resources. Project contractor – CECE of Espana with partners: Norton Radstock College (UK) BBS T 1 (D) and Europartners2002 Foundation (Bulgaria). The EPCD-Net project involves the creation of an European Curriculum Development Design to target the transverse contents of the curriculum, through setting up an European Virtual School , with innovative
COACHBOT Project – Aims and Objectives The project aims at designing a new model of adult distance education, addressed to home health care professionals, based on an e-learning methodology that combines the Conversational Agent Technology (chatbot) with an adhoc designed modular learning path. A new on-line professional, the “Virtual Coach” supports participants individually inside the
The Gender-IT project is a two-year initiative co-funded by the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme, under the Leonardo da Vinci Action. It is implemented by seven partners from Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The Gender-IT project aims to contribute to innovative and attractive VET practices in the ICT sector. Its specific objective is to build a
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Coordinator: Jos Paulusse Email: jpa@planet.nl Founding Agency: Lifelong Learning program of the EC Starting / Ending Date: 1-10-2010 Summary: Colleges, students, authorities and many other involved persons, organisations and research confirm that a practical period in another country has a great influence on life, experience and behaviour of students. Many students in Dutch agriculture have spent
Website: www.inthemc-project.eu Coordinator: Landstede Group Contact Details: project coordinator Margrieta Kroese Starting / Ending Date: 01-11-2010 / 31-10-2012 Summary: INtheMC Eight partners from seven countries collaborate in this two year long project. Transfer of the outcomes of a Finnish National research project about internationalisation is the basis for a new Leonardo da Vinci project, entitled INternationalisation and
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Website: http://sites.google.com/site/eucareerlearning/ Coordinator: Theo van Geffen Contact Details: Landstede, PO Box 1, 8000 AA, The Netherlands Starting / Ending Date: 1-11-2010 / 31-10-2012 Summary: Personal agency is the key to success is an idea that has been the basis of projects in schools, as well as experiments with concepts such as portfolios and personal development plans. However,
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Contact: CCI Project Company Puschkinstr.12b 15236 Frankfurt (Oder) Coordinator: CCI Project Company East Brandenburg Web: www.mobilityexcellence.eu Start/End: 01/10/2010-30/09/2012 Summary: “MobilityExcellence” is an initiative of five European partners from Northern Ireland, France, Malta and Germany dedicated to facilitate recognition of competences acquired during mobility experiences within Initial Vocational Training. The result will be to give added value
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Website: Coordinator: Margriet Nieuwenkamp Contact Details: mnieuwenkamp@landstede.nl Starting / Ending Date: 01-11-2011 / 31-10-2013 Summary: Within the European educational field the Maria Montessori method is well known, but untill today it is used with the target group of 4-16 year olds. FROJOL wants to use the basic principles of this method with a new target group,
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Website: www.weblogtrade.eu www.wiki.weblogtrade.eu Coordinator: TuV Rheinland Contact Details: Dr.carmen giese; TuV Rheinland Academie. Starting / Ending Date: 1 oktober 2009- 24 sept. 2011 Summary: The Web Log Trade Project is aimed at logistic and wholesale education in and outside VET and companies. Information and course work is being gathered from VET Schools and companies and is placed
Website: http://www.iqwbl.eu Coordinator: Mats Löf Contact Details: Kokkolan kauppaopisto, Vingenk. 18, 67100 Kokkola, Finland Starting / Ending Date: 09/2010 – 08/2012 Summary: Objectives The starting-point is the so-called \”Majakka\” (\”Lighthouse\”) project – a website with links to documents used when sending students abroad for a period of work-based learning. The objective of IQWBL is to implement
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Website: http://heppyportal.fadgradenigo.it Coordinator: Gradenigo Hospital Contact Details: Marian de Villanueva Starting / Ending Date: 1/11/2011 to 31/10/2013 Summary: In defining the strategies for taking care of people affected by chronic pathologies, it is assuming a growing importance the choice of combining the medical assistance provided to the patient in Hospital and the assistance at home, according to
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Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/estep/home_en.html Coordinator: Gower College Swansea (not lead partner) Contact Details: 01792890762 Starting / Ending Date: 2011-2013 Summary: The project will develop e-learning education. Our project aims to reach disadvantaged women in Kayseri region who cannot have a chance to go out from their home because of their handicaps. They have to look after their baby
Aquap: development of a smart interface and through this interface colleges (in special those in the green sector) can upload their excel file with placement companies in the own country or else. The original owner remains owner of this data file and must maintain the presented information. Students can go to the website and select
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Description: The Resilience project explores how to help individuals develop their ability to ‘bounce back’ from life’s challenges such as unemployment by using internal and external resources.An online toolbox including positive health promotion approaches and guidelines for identifying students at risk will be developed. Research has been conducted with training and education institutions, local authorities
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Freestyle Montessori On the Job Learning (FROJOL)enters its final stage. FROJOL is carried out by six partners from six different European countries which are Austria, France, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands and Spain. The partners had their 4th meeting in Bordeaux last month, May 2013. At this meeting the board discussed the several outcomes of the
Website:http://www.resilience-project.eu/ This project examines how to help individuals develop their resilience. Research shows that through resilience training, people can develop important skills like stress management, resource-seeking, flexibility and the ability to face the future in a positive way. Partners are building on research findings to produce resources for teachers including guidelines for introducing resilience into
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The project INT-SME is meant for SME’s, but the training material can be very effectively used for teachers in the classroom as a good ready-made tool to develop students’ entrepreneurial spirit. Containing the newest information on strategies of development and support schemes, full of case studies and success stories from real life, presented in an
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The ADEPTT partnership is composed of 13 institutional partners from 8 EU countries (Spain, Iceland, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Wales, Portugal and Norway) and the project will provide a more focused, hands-on training model that contributes to supporting and improving entrepreneurial teaching practice. The pilot courses are in progress (some have completed) and all will complete
Website: www.qual4t-project.org Coordinator: Landstede Group, NL Contact Details: Margrieta Kroese, coordinator Starting / Ending Date: 1-11-2013 / 31-10-2015 Summary: Are you the teacher that wants to improve quality of education for better results for your students? Or are you the quality staff member wanting to improve quality culture in your team or school? Follow our project!
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Website: www.invet-project.eu Coordinator: INOVAFOR Presenter: Marta Pinto Starting / Ending Date: October 2014 – October 2016 Summary: In-VET: Preventing initial VET dropouts and fostering trainees’s inclusion, is a European project developed in the framework of Leonardo da Vinci initiative under the Lifelong Learning Programme – Transfer of Innovation. In-VET was born from the concept approached by two
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Website: http://languages.dk/clil4u/index.html Coordinator: Kent Andersen Contact Details: SDE College (Syddansk Erhvervsskole Odense-Vejle) Starting / Ending Date: January 2014 – June 2016 Summary: The Clil4U (CLIL implementation with pools of resources for teachers, students, and pupils) project will assist implementation of CLIL in primary schools and in vocational colleges through: – 6 promotional videos showing CLIL used
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Website: www.necvet.eu Coordinator: Mr Taner AŞÇI Çubuk District Directorate for National Education Details: CECE, CONFEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE CENTROS DE ENSEÑANZA Starting / Ending Date: sep 2013, sep 2016 Summary: The NECVET project is part of the Erasmus+ program, based on the strategic cooperation between VET institutions across Europe to improve the career prospects of students
Website: http://schoolsuccess.edufor.eu Coordinator: Edufor / Agrupamento de Escolas de Mangualde – Portuga Contact Details: Marian de Villanueva Starting / Ending Date: SEP 2015- SEP 2018 Summary: The project is organized around this objectives: 1 – Know and share school management experiences in different European contexts with different actors and distribution of responsibilities; 2 Identify experiences developed
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Website: http://gaintime.eu/ Coordinator: CECE Contact details: Spanish Confederation of Education and Training Centers Starting/ending date: From 10/2014 to 10/2016 Summary: In the framework of a flipped classroom methodology, we provide teachers the tools to combine higher levels of excellence and attractiveness with increased opportunities for all the students. Plus, our main objectives are the following ones: -To develop, test and
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Corrected email in Survey on “learner feedback” As you may well know EFVET is conducting a survey on “learner feedback”. Some months ago we send you a questionaire in PDF format, which can also be found on our website, www.efvet.org, had to be filled in by hand and faxed to John Berkeley, who is in charge
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This research project aims to support original research carried out from a transnational perspective on the impact evaluation of major policies or strategies carried out by Member States in the context of their National Action Plans against poverty and social exclusion. It is also expected to identify good practice and provide expert advice as to
ntercultural Communication in Europe PICTURE, a Socrates project which finishes in 2007, develops a language teaching module on intercultural communication which can be used – be it in different versions – in any kind of foreign language course in the EU, at any level, from age 16 onwards. The core item is a personal interview
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The project City Guides aims at developing and designing practical training for the profession of city guide, to increase the attention for knowledge, skills, quality of presentation, local history, building styles, religion, local fortifications, attitude, etc. Many city councils and tourist organisations have already done a lot of work to establish a high quality level.
Euracademy Newsletter 2 – November 2006 Download the Euracademy Newsletter 2 – November 2006 Euracademy Newsletter 1 This is the first of 5 newsletters, which will be published throughout the Euracademy Observatory project . Download the Newsletter The Euracademy Observatory The Euracademy Observatory pro-ject started in 2005 and will run until the end of September 2007. The
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The good School – the journey from good to excellent Leonardo da Vinci – Transfer of Innovation 2007 – 2009 Background In all member states the quality of education and training is considered to be a concern of the highest political priority. High levels of knowledge, competencies and skills are considered to be the very
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The project Studentstarter aims to stimulate and to support European schools, colleges and students to start a business during the enrollment and to continue this business after graduation. The Leonardo da Vinci program of the European Commission has granted this project for 2 years. Students, in the end phase of their study, establish a mini-company
Dropout an international problem Youth not completing an education programme is a substantial problem also in other EU member countries. Translational initiatives to increase the quality of education programmes within vocational colleges are important components in the effort to improve teacher competencies and increase motivation, thus increasing best practice regarding the dropout issue as well
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The purpose of the project is to develop the skills of apprentices, Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) or the equivalent, in organisations such as educational establishments. They will be trainees or employed to offer support to young people who experience difficulties (e.g., physical / sensory difficulties; learning difficulties; emotional / behavioural difficulties), and who aspire to
Adapting, Improving and Disseminating an INnovation Management Training package through Blended Learning Innovation is vital to both enterprises and countriesthat need to transform new ideas rapidly into technical and commercialsuccesses in order to maintain growth, competitiveness and jobs. Nevertheless,innovation is probably the least understood and controlled of any company’smain processes. Due to this, businesses require
EfVET has been invited to launch a consultation among EfVET members about mobility because the European Commission and the European Parliament wish to seek the view of VET practitioners on this key subject. Within the framework of the process for implementing ECVET, the EC has commissioned three main studies: • ECVET connexion: to study the
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The IOA-project aims at • identifying the intercultural competence (IC) areas of those vocational teachers who are responsible for the international activities of their respective vocational institutes • designing criteria and tools for assessing this intercultural competence • and developing/transferring this competence into the competence of an International Operation Agent by designing and piloting an
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Transfer of Innovation project – Trans-Rural (Sustainable Rural Development) Trans-Rural, another new project with EfVET as a key partner, has just been launched. Read the first minutes from the project here Trans-Rural, another new project with EfVET as a key partner, has just been launched. Like Trans-Rural, you can use EfVET as dissemination partner and
2004-07: Leonardo Pilot project ”Skills demonstration abroad” (SKILLDA). The theme ”skills demonstrations” or ”competence based qualifications” has been a main theme for European countries in the past few years. However, the educational systems, practices, and traditions in different countries vary quiet a lot. Students are encouraged to do part of their on-the-job-learning abroad and to
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VIRTEX: Foreign language use in hotel and catering EfVET contact: – Cor Koster email:koster@rrbv.nl Organisation – Horizon College, NL VIRTEX (Virtual Experiences: preparing students for foreign language use in hotel and catering) is a project which develops material to allow hotel and catering students undertaking work placements abroad to gain advance experience in using English and
Transnational Pilot project – European Rural Tourism Development Project What is ERTD ERTD is a collaborative partnership between 13 training institutions and public/private agencies drawn from 5 countries across Europe. The project is supported by the European Union through the Leonardo da Vinci programme, aimed at improving the vocational education systems of Europe. ERTD is
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EMMT2F 2004-06: Leonardo Pilot: “Strengthening and dissemination middle management training in the European training sector” (EMMT2). The project is based on “EMMT” (European Middle Management Training) and targeting a new audience. The project will organise a systematic dissemination of the innovative concept, and strengthen the integration of the European dimension into management training. There are
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES – IBS Cebanc – Cdea – Contractor Leonardo Pilot Project Objective: Develop a training programme using the new information and communication technologies employed in International Trade. The programme aims to contribute to the training of professionals capable of meeting the demands of the sector in Spain, Holland, Denmark, Germany and The United
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Website: www.life-keyskills.info/ Coordinator: Norton Radstock College, UK Contact Details: South Hill Park, Radstock, BA3 3RW, UK Starting / Ending Date: October 2008 – September 2010 Summary: The LIFE project aims to develop a train the trainer programme to provide vocational teachers with the necessary skills to integrate key competences in life skills into their vocational areas.This builds on the EUCIS
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Coordinator: CDEA Contact Details: C/Paseo de Berio, 50, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain Starting / Ending Date: October 2008 – September 2010 Summary: The project addresses the needs of people with functional diversity to promote universal accessibility within the tourism sector. It builds on the experience in San Sebastian of creating an accessible city. It aims to ensure training and
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Website: www.idolearn.net Coordinator: Liisa Lofman Contact Details: Pyhäjärvenkatu 5A, 33200 Tampere, Finland Starting / Ending Date: Oct 08/Sept 10 Summary: The project aims to find a solution to the changing role of teachers and trainers through recognition and accreditation of non-formal and informal learning by creating an integrated European system of identifying, assessing and recognizing vocational competence-based qualifications of International
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Website: www.gomovet.eu Coordinator: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Dr. Markus Mueller Contact Details: Lehrstuhl fuer Paedagogik, Lothstr. 17, 80335 Muenchen Starting / Ending Date: october 2008 – september 2010 MOVET – Modules of Vocational Education and Training for Competences in Europe Summary: Lehrstuhl fuer Paedagogik Technische Universitaet Muenchen The Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) covers a large spectrum of fundamental and applied research
POOLS arranges a joint language teacher conference Invitation to participate in a joint language teaching projects conference If you are a project coordinator (or have some interesting language teaching ideas to present) then please consider presenting at a language teaching projects results conference in September 2007. Many projects have planned a final conference (some even
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Website: www.languages.dk Coordinator: Kent Andersen Contact Details: Syddansk Erhvervsskole (previously Odense Tekniske Skole) Starting / Ending Date: 01/10/08 to 31/09/2010 Summary: Pools-t (Producing Open Online Learning System – Tools) has been approved for an EU grant in the period 2008-2010. POOLS-T is coordinated by “Syddansk Erhvervsskole Odense-Vejle”, the development teams come from Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, and Scotland. EfVET has
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Website: www.languages.dk/#Pools-2 Coordinator: CECE Founding Agency: National Agency Summary: The POOLS project (2005-2007). POOLS was in 2009 awarded the Leonardo da Vinci silver medal for innovation and creativity. POOLS resulted in: – a digital library with videos for nine languages, each video is transcribed and graded to match students according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
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Website: http://moodle.txorierri.net/moodle/ Coordinator: Politeknika Ikastegia Txorierri, S. Coop. Ltda. Contact Details: ES/09/LLP-LdV/TOI/149075 Starting / Ending Date: It starts on 01.10.2009 and ends on 30.09.2011. CATEL: Cultural Awareness in Vocational Training through E-Learning Summary: Demographic changes and lower birth rates pose challenges for future labour market requirements in Europe. The need for qualified workers will increase, and more companies will require
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Preparing students for foreign language use in work placements in the hotel and catering industry. Based on the original and prize-winning VIRTEX project, Virtex4All is going more in detail in order to make it easier for teachers to use the material. The original Virtex project developed language learning CD-Roms in English and German with film
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Website: www.entre-coach.eu Coordinator: Norton Radstock College Contact Details: Marny Thompson Starting / Ending Date: October 2010 – September 2012 Coaching skills for teachers to foster Entrepreneurship Innovative entrepreneurship is vital to both enterprises and countries that need to transform new ideas rapidly into commercial success in order to maintain growth, competitiveness and jobs. Small businesses account for 99% of
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Website: www.business-transfer.nl Coordinator: Jos Paulusse Starting / Ending Date: 1-10-2009 / 30-9-2011 Summary: Business transfer in small and medium sized enterprises (BT in SME) concerns the transfer from parents to child or children or outside the family to employees or to strangers. Vocational education has no part in this process while the elements of this process are important study
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Website: www.europe.nortcoll.ac.uk/wert/index.html Coordinator: Rosaleen Courtney Contact Details: 00 44 1761 438 502 Starting / Ending Date: 10/2010 – 09/2012 Summary: The \’Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Tourism\’ project, or WERT for short, is a collaborative partnership between eight training institutions and networks from six countries across Europe. The project is supported by the European Union through the Leonardo da Vinci programme,
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Website: www.luontoyrittaja.fi/428.html Coordinator: Anne Matilainen Contact Details: University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute Starting / Ending Date: 1-10-2009 / 30-9-2011 Summary: Objectives The overall objective of the project is to increase the quality and attractiveness of VET by strengthening the cooperation between VET and micro enterprises and providing practical tools for it. ENVOLWE will focus on transferring and further developing
Website: www.emerald-forest.eu Coordinator: Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences Contact Details: Liga Tuca Starting / Ending Date: 01.10.2010. – 30.09.2012. Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation Project “Teacher Training to Improve Attractiveness and Quality of Management Education through the Simulation Tool ” Emerald Forest” Summary: MST-EF project aims at transferring and adapting the management simulation tool “Emerald Forest” to the project
Electrical engineers vocational education transparency (ELEVET) is a European project coordinated by the Association of Polish Electricians (SEP). SEP is the largest Polish creative organization of a scientific and technical kind uniting electrical engineers of all specialties and people whose professional activity is connected with vastly understood electrical engineering from electronics to power engineering. The
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Website: www.tafcity.eu Coordinator: CDEA Contact Details: Maria Jose Irastorza, CDEA, Paseo de Berio 50, 20018 San Sebastian Starting / Ending Date: October 2011 – September 2013 Summary: What is TAFCIty project all about? By 2050, 22% of the global population will be aged 60 and over. By then, there will be more older people than children, for the first
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Ent-teach – summary The Ent-teach project addresses entrepreneurship in Senior Secondary Vocational Education institutes. Lead partner BDF, manager of an incubation centre where VET and University students can start up their company or fulfil their internships, experiences low awareness of starting your own company as a job option at VET students or former VET students.
Website: www.life-2.eu Coordinator: Norton Radstock College UK Contact Details: Peter Hodgson, Corporate Director Starting / Ending Date: November 2011 – October 2013 Summary: The ‘key competences in life skills’ project, or LIFE 2 for short, is all about helping young people to develop the skills and confidence needed in the workplace during their vocational training. A specialist team from vocational
Website: www.entangleforvet.eu Coordinator: Fundación Maimona Centro “Diego Hidalgo” de Empresas e Innovación Founding Agency: WP1-R1-Template-V1-15102012 Duration: 1.10.2012- 30.09.2014 ENTANGLE – Entrepeneurship Trainers for VET: A Novel Generation Learning approach Summary: Financed by the Leonardo da Vinci Life Long Learning Programme, the project finds its origin in day-to-day practical experience with and within VET institutes. Additional national and international research showed
Website: www.foundationsforwork.eu/en Coordinator of the Project: DiversityWorks (UK) Contact Details: Mr James Mage Duration: 01.10.2012 – 30.09.2014 The aim of Foundation for Work is to increase the basic competences of young immigrants in order to allow them to improve their job prospects and benefit from mainstream training in their host country. To do so, the project’s consortium will: •
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C-TEST aims to contribute to the knowledge of employees and vocational education students to secure sustainable growth of companies. The project educates former students, the employees of today, on new topics as clean technologies and sustainability. On the other hand, it trains current students, the future employees, on how to use this knowledge in practice
The SUPREME project addresses student drop-out issues in VET institutes by setting up a mentoring program and ensuring intensive and continuous cooperation between VETs and SMEs. It’s a practical interpretation of several EU and national priorities. The project has an innovative approach to drop-out prevention in VETs, based on the successful Dutch mentoring program MentorProgramma
Website: www.europemobility.eu Coordinator: CSCS – Centro Studi ‘Cultura Sviluppo’ Project starts: on the 01.10.2011 – 30.09.2014 Europemobility – Raising Quantity and Quality of Work Placements in Europe Summary: Since their introduction in 1987, European mobility programmes supporting work placements abroad have registered a constant but modest increase in the number of beneficiaries. Still a low percentage of
EMPLOY (2012-2014) is a European project funded by the Lifelong Learning LEONARDO programme and developed by 8 key partners from Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the UK. The present economic situation and increased competition for jobs makes preparation more relevant than ever. The EMPLOY project is an imperative for students to EMPLOY
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Website: www.rainova.euproject.org Coordinator: Jose Luis Fernández. Maure TKNIKA AND IKASLAN Regional Approach to Innovation for VET and learning communities Vocational Training centres and, in general, most small and medium sized companies do not have tools or systems that let them manage innovation properly. Their management systems are more geared towards tackling the tasks that are their
Website: www.poolscx.eu Coordinator: Mihai BRASLASU Contact Details:UNIVERSITATEA DIN PITESTI Facultatea de Ştiinţe ale Educaţiei, Pitesti, RO Starting / Ending Date: 02/2011 – 12/2012 Summary of the Project POOLS CX is a Leonardo supported TOI (Transfer of Innovation) project based on the POOLS project (2005-2007). The project translates and adapts the POOLS project core results: Course Book on CALL (Computer
Website: www.capacitybuilding.eu Coordinator: Centro Studi “Cultura Sviluppo”- CSCS Duration: 01.11.2012-31.10.2014 Under the key activity of dissemination and exploitation of results, CB4LLP aims at incorporating LLP into EU local and institutional development strategies, creating and promoting new Capacity Building methodologies and practical tools for EU stakeholders. CB4LLP contributes to promoting, among relevant stakeholders, with special reference to public administrators,
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Website: www.bestvet.eu Coordinator: Engineers Ireland Contact: Simon Purdue, CPD Co-ordinator, Engineers Ireland Start/End: 01/10/2012 – 30/09/2014 New competences for VET Professionals to shift to using learning outcome contracts and online learning management systems Summary: This project will look to implement a set of development best-practices in each partner organisation, enabling them in turn, to document and report on the
Website: www.languages.dk/pools-3/index.html Coordinator: Sabhal Mor Ostaig, UK POOLS-3: Producing Open Online Learning Systems POOLS-3 is a Transfer of Innovation (TOI) project which will exploit the results from the original Pools project and Pools-2, which developed materials for language teaching and learning as well as teacher training courses. Pools-3 will transfer the core outputs of Pools and
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Coordinate: Mairie de Morne-à-l’Eau, FRANCE, FR The project website is: www.languages.dk/methods Methods is a Leonardo supported ToI (Transfer of Innovation) project based on the BP-BLTM project, which delivered manuals with descriptions of five communicative language teaching methods complete with teaching materials ready to use in classes. The manuals Methods complemented with videos demonstrating the five methods.
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Co-coordinator: University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, FI The project website is: http://www.luontoyrittaja.fi/connect-vet/ Duration: 1.10.2013 – 30.09.2015 Connect-VET project focuses on transferring and further developing organisational innovations in VET sector. The existing good practices for rural SME-Vocational education and training-Higher Education and Research co-operation will be collected together, complemented by the models/tools developed by previous initiatives and selected developed
Website: www.storyshop-llp.eu Coordinator of the Project: Aarhus Socialog Sundhedsskole DK Duration: 01.12.2013 – 30.11.2015 The StorySHOP project addresses the education and training needs of health care students and employees in Europe. The project aims at producing a training curriculum and a set of materials and tools helping to prevent drop-out during education as well as to reduce
Summary EBBD+ is a diploma, which was developed within our previous Comenius project in 2010-2013. This kind of diploma was born because of the objective in many EU Countries, that the whole generation should get upper secondary education either in vocational education and training or in general upper secondary school. In VET this policy has
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Website: www.secondchanceeducation.eu Coordinator: Weiterbildungskolleg Mönchengladbach Contact Details: Berthold Pelzer Starting / Ending Date: 1.09.2014 – 31.08.2016 Summary: DISCO focusses on quality improvement of second chance education. The development of an online knowledge and quality centre is positioned centrally. In this centre digital assessment tools, good practices and training are available. The developed tools (online grading system for good practices; self-and
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Website: www.mewebeinvet.blogspot.fi Coordinator: Keskuspuisto Vocational College Contact Details: Satu Suihkonen Starting / Ending Date: 01.09.2014 – 31.08.2016 Summary: Psychological distress and mental health problems are the leading cause for work absenteeism in the EU as well as a growing source of productivity loss in many EU countries. This trend can already be observed in children and teenagers. Dropping out
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Website: www.transnationalbusinessgroups.eu/tbg Coordinator: INSIGNARE – Associacao de Ensino e Formacao Contact Details: Sérgio Fernandes Starting / Ending Date: 01.09.2014 – 30.08.2016 Summary: Transnational Business Group (TBG) project approach between school and the world of work is certainly represented by the new dimension of the simulated activities consistent with the most recent policies implemented by the EU. TBG project main objectives
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Summary A 3-year project, commencing September 2014, which will deliver a ‘Training Mentors’ course and a ‘Mentoring Entrepreneurs’ pilot, which will run for 6 months. Also created will be an e-learning course, aimed at entrepreneurs and creating the mindset; it will also cover business start-up – it is NOT just how to create a business
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“The cost-effectiveness of apprenticeship schemes: Making the business case for apprenticeships” Background: The involvement of companies and employers organisations in apprenticeship schemes is seen as an effective way of identifying and meeting skills needs on the labour markets. The main reason employers in some countries may be reluctant to engage is the high costs derived
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Coordinator: Ylä-Savo Municipal Federation of Education/Ylä-Savo Vocational College /YSAO. Contact Details: Sanna Pukarinen Starting /Ending Date: 1.9.2014-31.8.2016 Summary: During this project there will be innovated a frame for module to educate Green Care- knowledgeable work force within vocational education in the fields of natural resources, social- and healthcare together. As Green Care method is used as a form of
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Summary MODERN Tooklit project aim of the Dissemination Plan is to create the conditions for the successful dissemination of the project results both during the project and once the project finishes. Many digital and mobile resources are ideally suited for use in higher vocational education since them: – have been proven to generate a significant
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Summary The E-MOTIVE project aims to promote cooperation and mobility among higher VET centres to contribute to the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme and the EU2020 Strategy. More specifically, E-MOTIVE pursues the following objectives: – Enhance European mobility of higher VET students, both virtual and physical in order to increase their employability and their future
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Summary The European Union needs competences, innovation, and balanced and integrated territory development in order to boost its growth. Indeed, innovation is not only a linear process, a result of R&D activities. On the opposite, more and more innovation sprouts in broad, multi-sectoral socio-economic contexts, strongly application-oriented, and through complex processes, integrating top-down (based on
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Life on –line: Developing life and employability competences through mobility Summary The Life On-line project aims to develop a new E-Learning programme on employability and entrepreneurship to include design curricula and learning materials built upon existing good practice. This programme will be piloted with a target GPS of teachers, trainers and young people. E-learning as
Job Placement App Summary Recent European studies and partners experience have shown a shortage of soft skills among the students entering the labour market. The current Labour market needs new approaches and methods to get the necessary qualified work force. The aim of the project is to reinforce these skills through the direct application of
Summary Since 2008, the EU economy has experienced the deepest, longest and most broad-based recession in its history since the 1930s (European Commission 2009). The crisis prevented the European Union from reaching the target of having 70% of the working age population in employment by 2010.Youth unemployment levels are alarming, the average youth unemployment rate
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Summary The number of work related accidents in EU differ a lot according to the standardised incident rates of fatal injury at work, excluding road traffic accidents and accidents on board transport in the course of work for 2012. In some countries must pass test on safety or must receive Electro technical safety instructions once
Supporting secondary education students in overcoming the negative effects of social exclusion after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic Supporting secondary education students in building resilience and overcoming the negative effects of social exclusion after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, this is the objective of the Erasmus+ project “Well be” (Project No. 2020-1-UK01-KA201-079148). The
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Measuring Return on Investment from EU VET Industry Summary ET2020 Strategic framework declare that mobility is “the ultimate element of lifelong learning and important means to enhance flexibility and employability”. ROI-MOB came out the idea of partners, committed in VET mobility, to: Improve quality of their offer Have adequate tools to make traineeships abroad more
Partnership for more effective WBL in VET Summary One of the main EU challenges regarding reducing youth unemployment is to ensure that the developed skills of the future workforce meet the needs of the workplace. Work-based learning uses the workplace as a powerful learning environment that highly contributes to this aim.The overall aim of the
Capacity Building for Intermediary Organisations through e-learning Summary In many countries of the Southern and Eastern Europe, current legislative reform is moving the apprenticeship system from a 100% school-based system towards a company based system. However, neither the intermediary organisations nor the companies are ready in order to cope with this change. The E-APPREN project
Assessing and recognising the prior learning of migrants Summary The overall aim of the LikeHome project is to foster the inclusion of newly arrived migrants and refugees to the host country education and training system, to the local economy and to the society in general. The general call objective addressed by LikeHome is “Fostering
Support for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in apprenticeships: Regional Apprenticeship Alliances for SMEs Summary Persistently high unemployment and the education-employment skills mismatch have spurred governments to undertake VET reform to increase the quantity and quality of dual system apprenticeships. This has generated an excess supply of apprenticeships seekers over employer demand due to
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Development of curricula on Accessible Tourism for VET Tourism Courses Summary Tourism is an economic activity with a broadly positive impact on economic growth and employment in EU. As it is reported in the EC Communication 2010 “Europe, the world’s Nº1 tourist destination” a new political framework for tourism in EU – “The tourism industry
Summary Europe needs more entrepreneurial citizens: creative, confident individuals who innovate to solve problems and convert ideas into value across enterprises, organizations and the public sector. Recent years have seen substantial growth in the number of VET institutions offering entrepreneurship education, but engagement levels are very low and programmes still focus on the how to
Growing the Market in Accessible TourismThis communication (website) reflects the views only of the author and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. (Proj.no: 2016-1-ES01-KA202-024934) Summary Currently, more than a million citizens in the European Union are aged between 55 and 80 years, representing about
Summary TECHSenior Populations around the world are rapidly ageing. Economic development, improved lifestyles, advances in healthcare and medicine, including reduced infant mortality, have resulted in a continuous increase in life expectancy across Europe during the last century. This process has been going on for longer in Europe than in most other parts of the world,
Healthy Social Media for Digital Empowerment Summary HOME project is to empower young people to critically assess social media and interact more responsibly online, in a way that safeguards their own wellbeing as well as actively contributing to that of others and society in general. Young people lead a digital life, using the internet and especially
Summary Although it has decreased the youth unemployment rate is still very high in the EU. There is a necessity to rekindle workers and young people to a dynamic and positive attitude towards the possibilities of enterprising behaviour, networking skills and pro-active attitude. Educating students to take initiative and investigate the opportunities of their networks
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ICARO: Innovative Curriculum for Adult Learners on soft skills Summary EU labour force survey (EU LFS) states that around 75% of adults in Europe have completed at least upper secondary education. This means that adults with educational attainment below the upper secondary level represent around a quarter of the European adult population. About the
EMPOWER: Empowering Digital Citizenship Through Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Summary Young people today use the internet to explore, connect, create and learn in ways never imagined. However, digital communications present a paradox: Too low levels of digital competence accentuate disadvantage and exclusion in the labour market and society. Too much, uncontrolled, use of
DC4WORK: Work Based Learning in a digital age – Promoting digital competences for better employability and innovation Summary The EU requests member states to equip their citizens with the necessary digital competences to strengthen their employability and competitiveness in general. Statistics suggest that 37 % of the EU workforce have insufficient digital skills and13 %
Summary Let’s play VET will contribute in rethinking the teaching paradigm though an innovative VET methodology that will put young VET students at the centre of the learning process in a pro-active way. The innovative methodology will be inspired by the concept of ͞learning playlists͟, meaning a training module constituted by a set of learning
Learning Opportunities, inStruments and Investigation Techniques to fight the growing phenomenon of missing people in Europe Summary The issue of missing people and children in particular (whereas these people are potential victims of human trafficking), is increasing in Europe: in 2016, according to the EU’s criminal intelligence agency, at least 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees have
Guiding tools for Professional Skills development in VET Summary Soft skills are recognized to be the success factor enabling individuals’ well-being, self-confidence, autonomy and responsibility, the fulfilment of education/social and professional lives, career development and higher income. However, the set of soft skills is often referred to be as non-measurable skills by conventional tests or
Development and Research on Innovative Vocational Education Skills Summary Technological progress and globalisation are revolutionising the way we live, learn, work and do business. Digital and other key technologies are reshaping the foundations of industry and the wider global economy. This offers tremendous opportunities for innovation, growth and jobs, but it also requires skilled and
Professional Development of VET Tutors & Trainers to enhance social inclusion in WBL Summary The promotion of inclusive education and lifelong learning for students and learners with disabilities and special needs is one of the priority areas set up by the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020. Moreover, in the Bruges Communiqué the EC suggests increasing the
Summary VET systems need a radical renovation to be competitive. In fact, it is clear that: -Young people need to acquire specific competences to be successful in the world of work; -It is necessary to address and prevent the Early School Leaving (ESL) problem, as well as the lack of key competences among young people.
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Summary The project develops a new qualification for one of Europe’s and World’s highest growing sectors, Tourism. This qualification mixes both Tourism and IT skills, meeting the market new trends of consumer choices, mostly online and through peer reviews. It targets to youth people – 15/16 to 18/19 years old students –, preparing them to
Innovation in Vocational Education Summary The project named “Schools 4.0 – Innovation in Vocational Education” was born from a set of 5 vocational schools belonging to the Network of Schools with Vocational Education guided by researchers from the department of CEDH – Center for Human Development Studies that, informally, organised reflection meetings on the paradigm
Summary One of the main issues throughout Europe is to ensure and develop the system of quality in VET education. Development of initial as well as further (vocational) education and its quality improvement may be supported by various tools. The National Qualification Framework (NQF) in each country represents the most important national ones, the European
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Summary The SENSE project (Vocation and Sexual Sensitivity – Sexual Diversity in Social Domain Vocational Training) aims to integrate sexual diversity sensitivity (a welcoming attitude to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender clients and clients with an intersex condition; LGBTI) in VET studies in the social domain. Such a welcoming attitude is part of a wider complex
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Summary The Vocational Education and Training frameworks are so numerous and different in the EU member states and regions that the definition of common development agendas and objectives is really a challenge for decision-makers. The intermediation and mediation between the aims, needs, expectations of VET centres, VET teachers and trainers, local civil society organisations and
Dementia: Respect and Respite Summary Populations around the world are rapidly ageing. However, during the last 50 years in Europe, there has been an increase in diseases linked to ageing, such as dementia. It is estimated that by 2050 there will be approximately 18.66 million Europeans with dementia disease. People who are affected by dementia
Summary Pilot PoVE Water is a transnational project that draws on existing and emerging vocational competences and skills needs in the water sector, translating them into an approach of vocational excellence. This ensures upward convergence of VET with (EU) knowledge triangles and a strong engagement with the regional economic and social ecosystems. The project intends
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The M4A project held the second transnational project meeting on November 24th and 25th in Matera (Italy), which was hosted by Consorzio Materahub – Industrie Culturali e Creative. During the first day of the meeting, partners started by reviewing the first project result, consisting of a report compiling the previous phases undertaken within this task, such as
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Training Teachers and Trainers for the 4.0 paradigm Summary Industry 4.0 digital revolution, smart manufacturing and services, global interconnection are the keywords to describe the current development in the world of work. Professional training can become the “first choice” to experience this transformation, but at present only a few training centres in Europe have the
Addressing the current and Future skIll needs for sustainability, digitalization, and the bio-Economy in AgricuLture: European skills agenDa and Strategy Sector Skills Alliance Summary The purpose of the project is to answer those challenges through the skills prism. Indeed, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) analysis of the factors which affect productivity identifies ‘People’
GIGGIN? The term ‘Giggin’ is also known as ‘Freelancer. In this form of working, self-employed people do not sign a permanent employment contract, their work is carried out from assignment to assignment, from gig to gig. A form of entrepreneurship suited to the rapidly changing labour market and one that appeals to many young people.
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Internationalisation of VET systems in Western Balkans Summary This project aims to improve the culture of learning mobility in the field of VET by better informing VET teachers and headmasters about resources and opportunities in learning mobility – thereby increasing their competences in planning and managing mobility projects. The project will implement activities at two
Supporting Alliance for African Mobility Summary Utilising an already-existing network of professional training centres, non-formal training organisations, NGOs and European umbrella organisations, SAAM aims to support the mobility of VET teachers across a range of disciplines. This alliance targets the development of new curricula, methodologies, technologies and management, as well as supports training job-shadowing and
Promoting pEople with disability Transnational mObility Summary Awareness on social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities has been increasing thanks to measures and actions adopted at both National and European levels. The EU promotes the active inclusion and full participation of disabled people in society. Giving them the opportunity to do an internship abroad can
Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transition within VET, leading to a steep rise in online/remote teaching. Despite the many positive aspects of this catalytic change towards digitalisation, the speed of the transformation has left little time to address the risks involved. Teachers in particular face a higher risk of digital overload or
Summary The strong partnership behind the VET for Western Balkans project consists of 11 partners: six partners from five different EU countries (Denmark, Spain, Slovenia, The Netherlands and Cyprus), four partners from four different Western Balkans countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo) and an international NGO. The main objective of the VET for
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Capacity Building in Western Balkans – V2V-WB Summary The partnership intends to improve the planning and development of internationalisation strategies of VET providers in order to improve their innovation, modernisation and internationalisation. The Enlargement Policies, the Torino Process Country reports, and the South East Europe 2020 Strategy stressed out the need the of intervention in
Social Inclusion, Entrepreneurship and Technology Enabled Learning Summary Preparation of highly skilled, motivated and digitally competent teachers continues to be one of the main priorities in Europe. According to several EU issued documents such as Riga conclusions (2015) and the recent opinion of Advisory Committee on Vocational Training (2018), VET teachers need to be supported
Fostering INNOvation in VET through the exchange of good practices Summary INNOVET is an initiative launched by EfVET with the main purpose of tackling some issues highlighted by VET providers related to: 1) lack of transnational conferences (not related to Erasmus+ projects) where VET schools from different countries can interact with each other and exchange
Cybersecurity Skills Alliance A new Vision for Europe Summary REWIRE is the Alliance formed from the four winning pilot projects of the 2018 Horizon 2020 cybersecurity call “establishing and operating a pilot for a European Cybersecurity Competence Network and developing a common European Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap”: CONCORDIA, ECHO, SPARTA and CyberSec4Europe. Thus, the REWIRE Alliance represents more
Governance for Inclusive Vocational Excellence Summary The project GIVE aims at designing and developing a European Platform of Centre of Excellence devoted to innovating VET sector for the social inclusion of individuals belonging to disadvantaged group. The project aims at consolidating the activities and practices developed at local level by the partners in terms of
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Integrated Training & Teaching for Learning further aiming Knowledge Sharing Across Generations Summary In the EU, while almost three quarters of the population has at least an upper secondary qualification, basic literacy and numeracy skills cannot be taken for granted. In 2017, around 61 million adults aged 25 to 64 had stopped their formal education
European Partnership in Hydroponics Summary Our society faces one of the biggest challenges in history. We are currently being affected by climate changes that greatly impact our lives. Pollution, temperature increase, melting ices in the Arctics and deforestation are just some of the inflictions. We aim to address some of these challenges in our project,
Mastering job-Oriented Skills in Arts & crafts thanks to Inclusive Centres of vocational excellence Summary The European Arts and Crafts field is a colourful mosaic of passion, heritage, culture and skills. It represents a substantial challenge for the economy as well as international and European competitiveness, and requires an effective training system adapted to its
There is seldom one single reason to the learner drop out of school. It is a process shaped by many factors that interact in ways that are both complex and dynamic. These factors can relate not only to individual characteristics or circumstances, but also to factors at school, community, and safe environment. This time by
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Four VET schools working together in giving our students the best possible competences in Robotics. Keuda in Finland, Egibide in Spain, Kuben in Norway and Roskilde Tekniske Skole in Denmark have been working together since 2018 on the RoboCup project. Roskilde Tekniske Skole is lead partner, and the project runs until december 2023. The partners
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Embedding and Empowering SELFIE WBL Culture Summary The Digital transformation is one of the two main strategic priorities in EU for the period 2020 – 2027. The Digital Education Action Plan has two strategic priorities: 1. Fostering the development of a high-performing digital education ecosystem requiring: – infrastructure, connectivity, and digital equipment – effective digital
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ReferNet is a network of institutions created by Cedefop in 2002 to provide information on national vocational education and training (VET) systems and policies in the EU Member States, Iceland and Norway. Each national partner is a key organization involved in VET in the country it represents. Therefore, all partners are particularly well- placed to
Transnational cooperation in the ESF helps develop better and effective employment and social policies and improve the delivery of reforms, essentially by enabling people to learn from experience and good practice in other countries. The ESF provides support to enterprises, systems and structures with a view to facilitating their adaption to new challenges and promoting good governance
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The EQAVET is a community of practice bringing together the Member States, social Partners and the European Commission to promote European collaboration in developing and improving quality assurance in VET by using the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework. The scientific advisors and CEDEFOP support EQAVET and the European Commission in their work contributing to the formulation of
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The EQF Advisory Group has been set up by the Commission to support the implementation of the recommendation of the European Parliament and Council on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning in 2008. The Council Recommendation on the validation of non-formal and formal learning 2012 delegates the follow-up of the implementation
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The ECVET is a European initiative, allowing for the accumulation and transfer of credits gained through the recognition of learning outcomes in vocational education and training achievements in vocational education and training, informal, informal and non-formal learning. The ECVET was established by the initiative of the EU member states in cooperation with the European Commission. Every qualification
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The European Alliance for Apprenticeship (EAfA) is a platform which brings together governments and key stakeholders, like chambers, vocational education and training (VET) providers, regions, youth representatives, think tanks and social partners. The common goal is to strengthen the quality, supply and image of apprenticeship in Europe. EfVET is a part of the stakeholder EAfA
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INTERVET Western Balkans | 4th Transnational Partners Meeting in Tirana, Albania INTERVET WB partners met for the 4th Transnational Partners’ Meeting (TMP) in Tirana, Albania. Held between November 15th and 16th, this meeting was hosted by Albanian Skills and gathered all project partners around the state of play of the project, the presentation of best practices
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ET2020 work programme was adopted in May 2009. The ET2020 growth strategy was built on the previous work programme ET2010 and defines the long-term strategic objectives of EU education and training policies: making lifelong learning and mobility a reality; improving the quality and efficiency of education and training; promoting equity, social cohesion and active citizenship; enhancing
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The four European Associations of VET providers (EFVET, EUproVET, EVTA and EVBB) and two associations of Higher Education (EURASHE and EUCEN) work together under the banner of VET4EU2. The European Commission responded enthusiastically to the formation of VET4EU2. In the year 2014, the organisation has acquired the status of permanent interlocutor for the European Commission.
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Exchange of good practices and key success factors Dual ECOsystems – EU Alliances for ICT” project is promoted by a consortium of 7 partners from 4 different EU countries. The project partners, within the regional/statal Dual System in which they operate, have more or less informally created virtuous local “ecosystems” in the ICT sector to
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More than 650 teachers analyse the future of VET at the 8th FPEmpresa and CaixaBank Dualiza Congress. More than 650 teachers had analysed the future of VET and educational centres at the 8th VET Congress organised by the Association of Vocational Training Centres FPEmpresa and CaixaBank Dualiza, in collaboration with the Basque Government and the
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What is it? The E(U) Leaders aims to foster the competitiveness and productivity of businesses and organizations through the development of strategic e-leadership skills, necessary for entrepreneur leaders and employers, as well as VET trainers, educators and mentors, to manage their teams effectively and efficiently within virtual working environments. Who it concerns? Two main target
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Smooth Hybrid and Online Working for VET Summary VET providers have faced a big challenge due to COVID-19. The need to provide online and distance learning possibilities at VET institutions has increased, but at the same time all teachers do not have the competence and skills to deliver quality online lessons. Teachers need training and
Training on Building Information Models Integrated with Geographical Information Summary Both in the public and private sectors, the construction and geospatial (mapping) industry is demanding new approaches for urban planning, asset design and management. In order to reduce costs, environmental impact and carbon footprints, one of the fundamental approaches in this developments is to bring
Summary “Marketing for Artists” is a KA2 VET project that aims to analyse the art school curricula in order to integrate some marketing teaching-units into the art subjects with the final aim to allow art students to acquire the needed marketing skills. Marketing 4 Artists is addressed to work on issues that undermine the attractiveness
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Summary Water is life. It is a precondition for human, animal, and plant life as well as an indispensable resource for the economy and fundamental in climate regulation. The new PoVE Water Scale-up facilitates the further development of PoVE Water into a world-class reference point for vocational training in the Water sector. It brings together
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Open science technologies Acceleration for a new generation of Student entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainable development Summary Open science technologies Acceleration for a new generation of Student entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainable development (OASIS) is an initiative of 4x HEIs, 1xResearch Center, 1xpan-EU Network of Institutions and 2x Enterprises. The project aims to develop and share support
PRALINE goes to Dublin to address Language Learning for Migrant Learners FPEmpresa Vet Schools Association has participated in the fourth Peer Learning Activity (PLA) of the European project PRALINE (Promoting Adult Learning in Networks) that has taken place in Dublin the 10th and 11th of May. During the meetings, Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)
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