Equaly different – Quali4all Erasmus Project

Project Title

Equaly different – Quali4all

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Despite overall European efforts to get more students in VET, to decrease the drop out rate in VET, to raise image of VET, we haven´t found the turning point that is really successful.
This goes for almost all the countries, educations and colleges within VET in Europe.
Despite clear agendas from national governments we still face a lack of students and graduated workers in many fields. We all want to, and have an interest in, changing this fact. We want to raise image of VET, get more students in VET, get better teaching and happier students.
This project will share good practices and attack this issue from a quality perspective.
The partners have chosen five actions that we will combine, complement and learn from throughout and after the project period. The overall goal is to learn from each other, share knowledge and actions and complement own findings with the findings of partners and increase our competences and be able to transform the data from quality reviews, research and action findings into the classroom. Be a better teacher, to “make” better students and better organisations. This benefits society as well.

The five actions are:
-Student’s selfevaluation and combined student-teacher’s evaluation
-Meeting between student and teacher. Research of motivation in the classroom
-Student’s evaluation of education
-EQUAVET as a tool for improving quality in education through student’s voice
-Teacher’s preparation for class focused, in team and in mind map/fixed scheme & evaluation of teaching.

We expect that this new approach and combination of looking into quality from different angles and perspectives, will provide us with new tools and complement the objectives of the project.
Objectives of project:
-Qualifying teachers to enhance better teaching
-Share and test tools
-Translate quality data to better teaching
-Involving students in teaching and learning
-Having happy, motivated students

To do this we’ll work with our chosen actions at our respective colleges. We will have two learning/teaching/training activities together. Participants are two steering group members from each college and two teachers.
Between our meetings and at the activity meetings we work first with own issue/action at the first training activity meeting. Following this meeting we work in home college, and secondly we work with new actions from partner college.
In this way we share our experiences, learn new ways of dealing with subjects, learn on own body new actions that will strenghten our quality work.
Activities are teaching in class, interviewing students, perform evaluations with and between students, make observations in classroom and more.

Participants are, a part from the steering group, two teachers from each participating college. The teachers will work in student classes with the given actions. They will work with the actions they know from own college, and they will work with an action from partner college. These activities take place at activity-meetings and between meetings.
Our key target is students, but teachers are the target group in the methodology.
The project will use socalled Action Theory to get an overview of our actions and objectives.
We will work with:
1. A context analysis; characteristics of the students in the different countries;
2. Presentation of quality management system. Choose a methodology to investigate the quality of the best practices. Describe indicators of quality.
3. Identifying best practices within own college
4. Exchanging best practices with teachers from all countries adopting each other’s best practice
5. Evaluate the applied best practices with students and teachers
6. Recommendations published, making presentation for participants to use. Create an online platform with all best practices and tools and a webinar.
7. Hosting a work shop and webinar

We expect the following impact
Students: More active in class, more motivated for education, increased fulfillment rate, happier students, better student-teacher relation.
Teachers/participants:Transformation of quality data into better classroom teaching, better teaching competences, increased intercultural competences, better perception’s competences, extended personal competences in a professionel frame
Organisations: Enhanced quality level, better image, look at, and talk about quality in a new way

Longer term benefits:
Increased quality in education
Increased number of happy, motivated student
Increased number of students, that full fill their education

Other findings will be:
Better knowledge , skills and competence regarding inter/transcultural performances, both professionally and individual and for the benefit of the organisation and VET education overall.
The project will, at it’s best, give us tools to change the way we teach, the way student’s learn and the way we organize our colleges.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 62592 Eur

Project Coordinator

SOSU H & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Stichting BVE Oost-Gelderland
• ENSINUS – Estudos Técnicos e Profissionais SA
• STICHTING LANDSTEDE
• Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality