After one week of intense work hosted by the Solski Centre in Nova Gorica (Slovenia), the first Winter Camp on Vocational Excellence promoted by ETF in collaboration with EfVET, EVBB and EVTA came to an end.
It has been an incredible pioneer experience of capacity building for more than 40 VET experts and practitioners, coming from 22 countries, under the guidance of three experienced CoVEs: Greenovet – PoVE Water – TalentJourney.
These colleagues organized inspiring peer learning and engaging workshops on the 3 main areas of vocational excellence:
- Teaching and Learning, with a specific focus also on Inclusion and Wellbeing.
- Partnership and Cooperation, discovering new tools for CoVEs business plans.
- Governance and Funding, pointing out the crucial dimension of sustainability for the future of each CoVE.
Main take-aways:
- Mindset revolution: developing a CoVE means engaging in a changemaking initiative at ecosystemic level, not just a temporary project partnership. Vision, Value proposition, Business Plan and Stakeholder engagement are key elements to be addressed.
- The CoVE initiative, also thanks to the great support by ETF and its team, as well as the CoP Cove, is already reshaping the European VET ecosystem enlarging cooperation, canalizing knowledge and expertise, inspiring policies and research. A renovated and strong commitment on the CoVE program is then expected by the European Commission, and namely the EVP, Roxana Minzatu, in line with her commitment to a Union Of Skills and a new Agenda for VET. CoVE will be pivotal.
- The interinstitutional collaboration between ETF, CoVEs, EfVET EVBB and EVTA determines a real empowerment via sharing competences, tools and ideas. This collaborative approach sets the pace for a successful pathway towards the growth of VET and contributes to the achievements of the social and economic goals, as suggested by the Draghi Agenda.
EfVET keeps investing in the CoVE program: this is the way for Excellence in VET. Our involvement in projects such as MOSAIC, PoVE and GIVE is showing us and our community the power of this initiative.
