European Voice of Tomorrow Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Voice of Tomorrow

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

European Voice of Tomorrow (EVT) is a project that wats to respond to a lack of global economic growth. Through the EVT project, we want to increase young students’ awareness about International Trade with viewpoint of sustainability as one of the strongest points of the project. Based on earlier good experiences of a similar kind of project European Voice of Sales (EVS), the project partners’ states that traditional ways of teaching and learning in a classroom is not the most efficient way to acquire knowledge of vocational studies and lifelong learning. The participants of this project will gain benefits learning by doing using innovative learning environments and methods. This project enhances to take initiative and risk, innovate and engage in further learning.
In the future training a student will be less focused on teaching the actual job and more about being able to make transfers, see possibilities and be competent to do them. Key competences of lifelong learning are becoming crucial. The main purpose is to activate the students into learning to learn in a more informal settings, in the EVT weeks and during those weeks we organized 4 semi-finals and a final event and before EVT weeks organized pre-selection phases in each partner organization. Each of the five project partner (Raisio Regional Education and Training Consortium FI, Ole Vig upper secondary school NO, Cometa Formazione IT, Escola de Comércio de Lisboa POR, Breidholt College IS) will pre-select and engaged altogether 20 students in this project. One of the pre-selected students / each EVT-week / country will be a student with economic or social obstacles. Each partner will select and engage 2 teacher per EVT event. Beside those students and teachers, there are students and teachers that can participate and gain key competencies at their own institute when organizing EVT event.

A local company or entrepreneurs will give the themes of exported product or service at the EVT event. The participants will look at the future though their inputs and enhance the lifelong learning skills through the whole learning process. The EVT concept based on valuable experiences of the EVS-project. In our previous project, the main idea was to enhance various students’ skills, knowledge and appreciation about sales. Through this project we will exchange best practices to context of International trade stressing out the importance of export and sustainable development.

Based on the good experiences of working with our EVS-partner group, EVT will be implemented with same trusted partners. Raisio Regional Education and Training Consortium was a coordinator in EVS, and so it will be in this one.
Prior to each EVT week there will be a pre-selection phase at all partner organizations where they will select the participant for the next EVT week. This pre-selection phase is open for all and there is no study field boundaries. The students have to “earn” their place into the semi-finals by presenting their own motivation speeches to participate in the EVT-week in a video based self presentation or in front of the classroom. Students learning process is facilitated by the coach/teacher. Participation also gives teachers a chance to get familiar with the innovative learning environment and test one’s ability to guide the students on the path of learning to learn.

This project allows students to develop their skills and knowledge in a range of the subject, not only their professional field. Participation in the project and methodologies used will give students the right to wonder, ask and understand. The project will enhance its participants’ self-esteem and -reliance and teach them skills to regulate their learning path, take responsibility and be flexible and aware.

The learning outcomes will differ from student to student and teacher to teacher, dependent on their individual needs and abilities. The recognition of the learning outcomes will follow the procedures of each participating organization. The project-based learning puts the emphasis on what was learned and what competencies were acquired.
Teachers involved in this project will benefit, they will be working with their international counterparts, get knowledge about this type of training and will improve their coaching skills. The success will be assessed within a survey among all participants at the end of each EVT week. There will be separate one for the teachers and students as the impact of the participation varies.
The findings and the EVT design are shared by each of the participating organisations in their EU-national agencies forums to share the knowledge on the chosen learning methods. The model used in the planning of the activities can be reused and easily adjusted to be used in a national or international setting with student of any age or background. The methodologies can be implemented to other projects and supports the skills on recognition of learning outcome

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 141300 Eur

Project Coordinator

Raision seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Aula de Comércio – Estudos Técnicos e Profissionais, Lda
• Ole Vig videregående skole
• Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti
• COMETA FORMAZIONE SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE