European Trainers’ Training for Excellence Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Trainers’ Training for Excellence

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The ET 2020 report “New priorities for European cooperation in education and training” affirms that significant and high quality learning requires “strong support for teachers, trainers, school leaders and staff who have a key role in ensuring the educational success of learners and in the implementation of educational policies “, together with the need to facilitate learning mobility at all levels. VET institutions need to ensure that their trainers and operators can benefit of a qualitative and sustainable training system to guarantee the excellence in training provision.

In the last years, EVTA has been focusing on promoting high quality and excellence in VET provision, working with training centres belonging to member organisations of its network to increase the engagement of trainers, professionals and staff by offering them a systematic framework for their qualitative continous professional development. This strategy led to:
– the development of the idea of VET Centres of Excellence (VCEs) (http://www.evtaql.eu/), a place where professionally effective, socially relevant, methodologically advanced VET services take place systematically;
– the creation of a Network of VET Centres of Excellence (http://www.evtaql.eu/centres-of-excellence-2/), made up of training centres identified within the EVTA and EVBB networks and selected through specific activities;
– the publication of a Catalogue of VET Centres of Excellence, an online tool including study visit programmes for VET trainers and operators proposed by VCEs with a structure of seminars, in-company visits, discovery of the excellences in the territory (http://www.evtaql.eu/catalogue/), developed following the idea of CEDEFOP study visit programmes and Go&Learn initiative (http://www.goandlearn.eu/goandlearn/).

The project “European Trainers’ Training for Excellence” intends to reach VET trainers and staff to increase quality and innovation in VET based on the propagation of the VCEs model and the quality and excellence principles all over Europe. The project will pursue the following specific objectives:
1. Promoting professional development of VET trainers and operators through the participation to joint staff training events aimed to discover the VCEs and to pilot their training programmes;
2. Promoting the exchange of good practices between VCEs to foster transnational partnerships;
3. Consolidating and enlarging the VCEs network including new centres and training proposals.

The activities will be carried out around the development of Joint Staff Training events, aimed to pilot training circuits proposed by VET institutions and published in the online VCEs Catalogue (http://www.evtaql.eu/catalogue/). During transnational meetings (TMs), the partners will choose 4 training circuits to be visited and tested during joint staff training events (JSTs). Feedback from participants will allow to draft an advice report including an overall evaluation of the initiative as well as suggestions for further improvements to the training circuits already included in the Catalogue and a sample for new circuits from new organisations.

Participants to the project are VET practitioners at all level belonging to member organisations of the EVTA network. The consortium counts on 9 partners from 6 EU countries, which are public organisations, private companies, no-profit association and social partners working in the field of VET at different level. The Steering Committee group will be composed by one training coordinator for each partner and responsible for the implementation of the activities, especially for the organization of TMs, JSTs and related preliminary activities. Piloting trainings will be attended by a group of 55 participants among VET trainers and staff of each partner, carefully selected by each partner according to the coherence between their profiles and the proposed training, and to linguistic competences.

The project will result in a strengthened relationship between the training centers coordinators of organizations involved in the VCEs network and in its enlargement to new members. Moreover, thanks to the development of pilotings, a first group of VET practitioners will be trained on Quality and Excellence in VET and training circuits in the Catalogue will be generally improved thanks to the results of the feedback analysis.

The project will have an impact not only on the organisations and their employees directly involved in the activities, but also on their colleagues in their training centres and of organisations outside the VCEs networks, thanks to the multiplier effect played by the partners. The link between the project aims and the mission of the partner organisation, as well as the enlargement of the VCEs network to new member will ensure the sustainability of the project. Moreover, the training offer promoted through the VCEs Catalogue will be always guaranteed as excellent, being quality at the core of this project.

Project Website

https://www.evta.eu/highlights/ette/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160471,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE & Country: BE

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION NATIONALE POUR LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE DES ADULTES
• CEFOCHIM
• Technifutur
• ENAIP NET IMPRESA SOCIALE SOCIETA CONSORTILE SRL
• LE FOREM
• Endurance Partners in Hospitality
• INSTITOUTO MIKRON EPICHIRISEON GENIKIS SYNOMOSPONDIAS EPAGGELMATION BIOTECHNON EMPORON ELLADOS IMEGSEBEE