TRIALOG Erasmus Project

Project Title

TRIALOG

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The TRIALOG project partnership has been very committed for supporting innovative cooperation between VET educational sector and the employers. Our reached objective was to develop and put in place an easy to use and efficient tool, empowering the teachers from schools, tutors from companies and students to better cooperate in a work-based context.
The Trialog mobile app, through its two components is supporting both the LEARNING and the TEACHING processes within a work-based internship.
A more pleasant and efficient LEARNING process provide the better matching between the graduates skills and the employers needs.
The TEACHING component supports the teachers and their partners from companies, the tutors to correlate the educational standards, and the real requirements of the workplaces (as compensating the gap between the training programs and the real world new challenges)
The developments have been built on the concept of SMALL FEEDBACK CYCLES, meaning that the student receive a daily feedback for its demonstrated competencies, including soft skills, and the teachers and tutors are supported to plan the internship as being possible this kind of daily feedback.
This is the aim and the main function of the LEARNING component: the students has in „his hand„, through the Trialog mobile app, the option to
(1) register him/herself in an internship already defined by the tutor & teacher;
(2) to visualise the elements of the internship -competencies, location, tutor and teacher, the daily task for each single day etc.( visible by teacher-tutor and student;
(3) the student can easily inform the tutor, if, because of various reasons he/she will not attend the planned activities;
(4) at the end of the day each student is invited to upload its own self-evaluation, concerning the concrete tasks accomplished;
(5) and the students will receive the feedback from the tutor, in real time, for the demonstrated-validated technical skills and the list of soft-skills relevant for the tasks of the day;
The daily feedbacks will provide the final competence profile of the students, recognized implicitly by the tutors, and the students has the option to upload in the system some photos, video etc., relevant for the accomplished tasks and associated competencies.

The main activities of the project implementation are related to the development of the mobile app:
– the definition of the envisaged functions together with the technical experts and the final beneficiaries;
– the development of the web-interface, providing to the teachers and tutors to store the structured information about the planned internship;
– the pilot phase of the proposed internship, during a whole cycle, in 7 schools, with 45 students and their teachers and tutors.

The staff from the partners benefit from a C1 short term joint staff training, preparing them for the piloting phase of the Trialog app, and later 20 students demonstrated their competencies within the C2 student mobility sessions, both organized in Germany.

Each partner organized local, regional or national multiplier events, which together with the six type of dissemination events created the best context for promoting the three finalized intellectual outputs.
O.1. – the Work Based TEACHING tool, which support the induction of the new teachers and tutors entering the work based teaching world.
O2 – the Work Based LEARNING tool, is the component designed to support the recognition of the DEMONSTRATED competencies of the students, a mutual recognition issued by the employers and the teachers.
O3 – the Guidebook to assess and monitor the WBL and projects that include WBL is intended to support the real sustainability of the project results, within an extended partnership at regional and European level.

The result of the project have been disseminated at local, regional and international level; the project have been selected for the national valorization event organized by the Romanian Erasmus+ National Agency, „INVATA SI DA MAI DEPARTE” (1-2 November 2018) .
The project and its next developed versions are considered relevant for the European Priority of INNOVATION & DIGITALIZATION, and the results and the whole process will be at the center of coming European events (February, March 2019) hosted by Romania, holding the EU rotative presidency in 2019.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 190084,99 Eur

Project Coordinator

AsociatiaCRIOVest & Country: RO

Project Partners

• GO! scholengroep Meetjesland
• Associazione Studio L&P (Learning & Progress)
• SCHOLENGROEP 1 ANTWERPEN
• Solaris Foerderzentrum fuer Jugend und Umwelt gGmbH Sachsen