Education and Enterprise HUB – Space of Collective Intelligence Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education and Enterprise HUB – Space of Collective Intelligence

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The collaboration between education institutions at all levels and industry is not a new priority in the European debate and policies, but the scenario of collaboration is not homogeneous in Europe, the good practices of some countries and regions in fields like apprenticeship, work-based learning and dual learning at all educational levels contrast with the limited experience of others and, even in the most “virtuous contexts”, an image of fragmentation, overlapping and –most important- serious gaps results from the analysis. The recently concluded COKLEECO Project, that was focusing on the school and VET sections of education systems in six EU Regions (of five MS) has allowed partners and stakeholders to reflect, in each of the regions, on what works and what is missing in order to improve and systematise the collaboration framework.

The ED-EN HUB project is aimed to improve the quality of education (focusing but not limiting itself to VET) through the consolidation and systematisation of the education-enterprise relationship in a long term perspective. Dual learning and work-based learning in their different forms (to be defined and classified also through the help of existing glossaries and a renewed mapping/classification exercise) will be a significant part of the scope of the project, but other ways to cooperate (co-design of new qualifications, tracking employment results of former students, proving input to guidance and career services, developing entrepreneurship competences, maintain the existing set of qualifications) will also be covered, coherently with the review of good practices conducted by COKLEECO. In particular, the project will have the following operational objectives:
1. To develop a methodology for the joint (education-enterprise) development of innovative complex competences resulting from the emerging needs of the labour market and active citizenship;
2. To create the conditions, in the partner regions, to make joint training of teachers/trainers/tutors from VET and trainers from industry an easily accessible opportunity;
3. To support the development of regional ED-EN HUB, as visible and institutionally supported Centres of Excellence for Education-Enterprise collaboration;
4. To co-create, test and diffuse collaborative education-enterprise approaches for the professional guidance and individual support of young and adult learners searching (re)qualification and employment perspectives;
5. To link the activities of the ED-EN Hub Network to Regional Development policies and maximise their impact at the regional, national and EU level.

In order to achieve the above mentioned objectives, the project will develop the following Intellectual Outputs:
IO1 – A Toolkit for the joint development of transversal and transferable competences
IO2 – A European platform and model for ED-EN HUB structures, to be proposed to other EU regions, as an impact multiplier of the project.
IO3 –Guidelines and learning resources for Joint Training the Trainers, including instruments for joint design of collaboration activities between education and Industry
IO4 – Guidelines for cooperative guidance and support to individual learners searching qualification and employment perspectives, following the principle of Learner’s agency (autonomy and intentionality);
IO5 – Policy Recommendations to support education-enterprise collaboration through the integration of private and public funding (structural funds, Erasmus + and local resources).

The project is expected to produce a significant increase in the level of collaboration and synergies among existing initiatives in the partner regions, and to inspire similar developments in other EU regions in the later phases of its development. It will allow an in-depth analysis of collaboration approaches and the broad diffusion of methodological know how within and beyond the partner regions. At least 100 teachers and trainers will be directly involved in the validation of the joint training-the-trainers model, while at least 10 organisations per partner region will be involved as active stakeholders in the development of the ED-EN Hub structures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 439514 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2 & Country: FR

Project Partners

• THE MAYOR AND COMMONALTY AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF LONDON
• Fondation pour l’Enseignement
• ASSOCIATION TROUVER CREER
• Rectorat de Lyon
• UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
• FONDATION DES REGIONS EUROPEENNES POUR LA RECHERCHE EN EDUCATION ET ENFORMATION
• CIS SCUOLA PER LA GESTIONE D’IMPRESA SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA