Lifelong Outcome oriented Vocational Education and training through new teaching and learning culture Erasmus Project

Project Title

Lifelong Outcome oriented Vocational Education and training through new teaching and learning culture

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Due to the globalization, the exponential growth of knowledge and a fast technical development the challenges for skilled workers constantly increase on all levels and in all fields of work. In VET, despite the buildup of expert professional knowledge, the development social competences as well as competences in decision-making and responsibility are tasks of the future. It is expected that skilled workers possess a high command concerning reflexive competences in there job routine to be able to master there work processes efficiently and independently. Many EU countries face a high number of breakups during VET or during the transition from VET onto a respective professional occupation. Often employers complain about a lack of competences among young professionals. It is also obvious that all players in the process of VET have to improve their own competences.
There is an urgent need for a much tighter cooperation between all the players in VET. The target of an altered structure in VET is to take trainees from “dependency to independency”. Learning is understood as a self controlled and self-organized process that changes the understanding of role in the processes of learning and teaching in a way that the learner takes on responsibility for his own success in learning. Teachers and trainers act as tutors or coaches.
The project “Lifelong Outcome orientated Vocational education and Training through new teaching and learning culture (LOVE VET)“ starts exactly there:
-To achieve a change of perspective in the learning process of trainees it first takes the development and testing of a trainingprogram for teachers/trainers in a sense of an altered teaching and learning culture (cooperative and self-directed learning). Vocational schools and companies act cooperatively aiming at a “change of perspective” in the learning process of trainees.
– The development and testing of an easy-to-handle instrument for the visualization and recording of training competences (= outcome orientation) gives all players a quick overview of which competences are achieved already and which are still needed to successfully finish the VET.
The project participants
– Oskar-von-Miller Schule Kassel (D)
– IHK Kassel-Marburg (D)
– IZ Cool as a friends`association of the Impulszentrum für co-operatives offenes Lernen (A)
– GTN GmbH / Andreas Riepl (A)
– Quarter Mediation (NL)
– Lapland Vocational College (FI)
– Effective Webdesign (NL)
used their large knowledge and experience from their current activities in the LOVE VET project. They partners developed and tested the following products to realize a new teaching and learning cultur:
– modules for the training of teachers/trainers (LOVE train)
– Competence grid (LOVE-Grid) for selected training programs / courses with associated learning tasks
– eTools for the visualization of competence rasters and tasks(eLOVE)
– European Transfer Concept (LOVE trans) for the demonstration of the possibilities to transfer project results to VET systems of other EC-countries

Project results show, that partner, due to the implementation of project outcomes, achieved a considerable change in attitudes and roles of all players within their networks and that a new learning and teaching culture is made possible. Learners participating directly in the program are closely guided through that process by their trainers and teachers and take on responsibility for their learning and their personal development. It is expected that, in the long run, this will lead to an improvement of training results as well to a better satisfaction of the needs of companies.
It takes a close cooperation of all players within the educational process and in a while, this will be achieved. A key role-plays the self- organisation of companies (chambers) on a regional as well as on a national level, since within one single company there are often not enough (staff) resources to cope with the respective tasks. The project results will be made available for many players in vocational training
Via the “Bildungsserver” (or similar platforms); the project partners plan to develop further vocational training courses within national and international frameworks. Via the already developed and tested transfer concept (LoveTrans) project results can be adopted to national needs of partners and serve as a start into a new learning and teaching culture within national systems on a European level. Project results gathered so far lead to the cnclusion that this will be achieved in a longer process of organizational development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 296957 Eur

Project Coordinator

Oskar-von-Miller-Schule Kassel, rechtlich selbstständige Berufliche Schule der Stadt Kassel, rechtsfähige Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechtes & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IHK Kassel-Marburg
• Effective Webdesign
• Rovaniemen koulutuskuntayhtymä
• Andreas Riepl
• COOL-Förderverein
• QUARTER MEDIATION