The week between September 9th and 13th 2024 will forever be imprinted in MOSAIC partners’ memory (including EfVET’s), as one of the most challenging but also one of the most rewarding happenings in the history of the project: the week of MOSAIC International Skills Performance (ISP), of the project’s Transnational Project Meeting (TPM), and MOSAIC presence at the Forum of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs Forum) in Lyon, France, in parallel with the 47th WorldSkills Competition (organised by one of MOSAIC Associated Partners, WorldSkills France)!
All MOSAIC partners and the participants of the ISP met at SEPR on Monday morning to kick-start this amazing week, under an energetic environment filled with expectations and excitement.
MOSAIC TPM
After the welcoming words from Oriane Reynaud (General Director of SEPR), from Claire Challande (Director of SEPR International Department), and from Cécile Aillerie (MOSAIC Coordinator), MOSAIC partners went to Emile Cohl college (www.cohl.fr/ecole/) for the project’s Transnational Project Meeting, which lasted two days and provided partners the opportunity to discuss MOSAIC progress and to participate in multiple workshops that allowed them to set the course for the next steps towards the European Arts and Crafts Observatory, for MOSAIC Training Modules and Moodle platform aimed at VET teachers and students (an open call will be launched soon to invite students and teachers to pilot them) and for the sustainability of MOSAIC.
The Teachers’ Internationalisation Course was also addressed during the TPM, considering the collection of best practices conducted in the project about tools for organising and implementing mobility activities and that will be part of this course, and the study visit to Canada (hosted by CÉGEP) was also addressed in preparation for this trip that will take MOSAIC partners to Victoriaville and to Montreal on the last week of October to get to know the school and to network with Canadian companies from the Arts and Crafts.
At the end, this TPM allowed partners to agree on the following MOSAIC activities to be carried out, and on when and how they will be implemented. Access to https://mosaiceuproject.eu/ and follow the project on social media to be kept informed about these activities and how to participate.
MOSAIC International Skills Performance: “From Waste to Wow!”
The MOSAIC ISP was a groundbreaking event designed to inspire and elevate VET students in the Arts and Crafts, with a clear goal: to make Arts and Crafts professions more attractive to VET students, while celebrating and promoting Vocational Excellence.
During one week, all 34 students from MOSAIC VET partners coming from Armenia, Canada, Bulgaria, France, Finland and Italy worked together in multicultural and multidisciplinary teams in this hackathon event co-organised by EfVET, SEPR, Wooden Oy and Materahub.
The students were supported by 8 Accompanying Persons and guided by 7 Experts/Mentors working in Arts and Crafts fields such as Woodworking, Shoemaking, Jewellery Making and Graphic Design (the same fields as the participating students), who provided invaluable insights and helped students bring their visions to life, and to achieve one purpose: to turn recycled materials into an object that can be used to store things that we love. Hence the title of the ISP – From Waste to Wow!
At the end of a challenging but yet fruitful week of work, full of workshops and other activities that allowed students to collaborate to produce their objects, all students had the chance to publicly showcase their objects at the WorldSkills Villa, at the main square of Lyon city, as a way to provide more visibility to the fruits of their labour.
Here is the picture of all of those involved in the ISP: Students, Accompanying Persons and Experts/Mentors, which shows their happiness and sense of achievement (a picture that speaks louder than words, for sure):
The CoVEs Forum
This major event where all the Centres of Vocational Excellence initiatives are highlighted took place at Eurexpo, in Lyon, at the same venue as the WorldSkills Lyon final competition, allowing to address Vocational Excellence while seeing, in person, the ones behind such Excellence: the students who were competing in the different vocational training areas!
MOSAIC was represented in a space dedicated to it during the CoVEs Forum, where visitors could play a game that consisted in identifying which were the pieces produced by hand and those produced by a machine, based on wooden objects created by OMNIA students and by Wooden Oy. This, and the fact that MOSAIC is still the only CoVEs initiative that focuses on Arts and Crafts, were the motto to present MOSAIC and what will be achieved in the project.
The CoVEs Forum
This major event where all the Centres of Vocational Excellence initiatives are highlighted took place at Eurexpo, in Lyon, at the same venue as the WorldSkills Lyon final competition, allowing to address Vocational Excellence while seeing, in person, the ones behind such Excellence: the students who were competing in the different vocational training areas!
MOSAIC was represented in a space dedicated to it during the CoVEs Forum, where visitors could play a game that consisted in identifying which were the pieces produced by hand and those produced by a machine, based on wooden objects created by OMNIA students and by Wooden Oy. This, and the fact that MOSAIC is still the only CoVEs initiative that focuses on Arts and Crafts, were the motto to present MOSAIC and what will be achieved in the project.
A week to remember, indeed!
