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, […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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: •

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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