Student-driven Leadership Skills Development Programme in VET Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Student-driven Leadership Skills Development Programme in VET Schools

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

SLEVET project corresponds to further strengthening key competences in VET and achievement of relevant and high quality skills and competences. It is in line with the individual and community needs, namely by contributing to:
– providing better prepared for inclusion in the labor market students, and better prepared teachers how to properly train them;
– providing employers, labour market, and economy in general on a regional, national and international level with competent and competitive workforce.
SLEVET initiative was aimed to elaborate LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME for developing leadership and entrepreneurship skills, attitudes and mindset of students in VET schools. The innovation elements of this programme: Peer to Peer coaching and Peer to Peer training were applied; teachers were Facilitators; it involved real entrepreneurs; students gained experience as Leaders in real situations.
Our specific objectives were:
– to create, apply, test and disseminate Student-driven Leadership Skills Development Programme in VET Schools;
– to promote the SLEVET approach across professional teachers’ communities in our countries and Europe;
– to develop and launch sustainability plan for SLEVET Training KIT exploitation beyond project lifetime and across Europe by October 2020.
The main target groups of our proposal were teachers and students in VET Schools. Through the implementation of our project we placed our target groups in new roles. Teachers became facilitators, and students from 10-11 grades took an active role of coaches and mentors to their younger schoolmates from 8-9 grades.
The consortium is a combination of representatives of different sectors (public, private and NGO) from 5 countries, which is a positive precondition for:
– exchange and analysis of best practices on the topic;
– scope and impact of activities;
– dissemination of results and their multiplication in various networks and partnerships.

The approach for meeting the aim and objectives for this project is identified within the following key activities: development, training, piloting, dissemination, management and evaluation. These components are more than a list of typical activities. They are logically substantiated, intertwined and mutually influenced. Good implementation of each is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of others.

The consortium expects the following project results:
– Prepared students from higher grades who are on the threshold of the labor market for leaders, entrepreneurs, mentors.
– Improved learning results of younger students; developed social skills and potential to be leaders, entrepreneurs, mentors.
– Prepared teachers for facilitators of extracurricular activities, to be more adequate for the above listed processes.
– Developed guides, programmes and instruments for the implementation of the above and ensuring sustainability by applying the approach after the project`s end.
– Promoting social entrepreneurship as a tool for the modernization of VET.
One of the major advantages of the approach is the option to be reproduced by using internal resources of students themselves and even to be profitable with a view to financial autonomy through the form of a social enterprise.

The CASCADING MENTORING SYSTEM ensures the project’s sustainability beyond the initial pilot group i.e. there is inbuilt sustainability as an integral part of the Leadership programme. Each partner organization is able to spread and scale the Leadership programme and therefore the impact will be sustained through the very delivery and activity of the programme itself.
In relation to financial sustainability during the project we will test the role of social enterprise for long-term maintenance of the approach. Europe considers social enterprise as an important driving force for innovation and growth, and as sector, whose role is key to tackling the economic challenges.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158449,72 Eur

Project Coordinator

Viesoji istaiga Panevezio profesinio rengimo centras & Country: LT

Project Partners

• BRIDGING TO THE FUTURE LTD
• NATSIONALNA SHKOLA PO MENIDZHMANT
• SOLSKI CENTER VELENJE
• KULDIGAS TEHNOLOGIJU UN TURISMA TEHNIKUMS
• NATSIONALNA FINANSOVO-STOPANSKA GIMNAZIYA