Quality+ Erasmus Project

Project Title

Quality+

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: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

A high percentage of learners in IVET are disadvantaged and often lack the soft skills that would be taken for granted by a potential employer. A work-based learning abroad offers invaluable and challenging learning opportunity for disadvantaged vocational learners. A traineeship abroad for a young person faced with disadvantages, could prove to be a life changing learning opportunity, that can lift them up on a level field with their peers in a competitive labour market. A work-based learning mobility can offer young people not only vocation related competence, but can also significantly raise of their aspirations, confidence and motivation.
However, when it comes to host companies, the partners have identified a lack of capacity of their staff to offer high quality work-based learning for disadvantaged students. On the other hand, many of the companies and their staff lack understanding upon the EU vision with VET mobilities. Furthermore, the standard documents already developed for VET mobilities do not meet the needs of disadvantaged students.
All of these challenges and needs were addressed by the project “Quality+” that aimed at strengthening the quality of work-based learning of VET traineeships, in particular, undertaken by disadvantaged students enrolled in Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET).

The project developed two intellectual outputs that strengthen the quality of work-based learning mobilities and enhance their value towards the sending institutions, students, host companies, as well the donor: 1) Project Management Standards, including 10 standards; 2) Stakeholder Engagement Kit, including 7 instruments.
The intellectual outputs were developed based on 7 factors that create value in donor-funded projects and aim at tackling the gaps of the existing project management standards and tools developed for VET mobilities.

During the project 292 VET stakeholders were reached through research and quality control activities, 267 VET stakeholders were reached through physical and online multiplier events and least 5468 VET stakeholders were reached through dissemination activities.

At least 64 VET schools across Europe showed engagement to use the intellectual outputs developed through the project. Depending on the development of the Covid-19 pandemic, the partners plan to use the intellectual outputs in at least 614 mobilities of VET learners in 2022.

Project Website

http://www.qualityvet.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149561 Eur

Project Coordinator

INTER COLLEGE APS & Country: DK

Project Partners

• KOCAELI IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• InterCollege (UK) Ltd
• InterBildung e.V.
• ASOCIATIA DE DEZVOLTARE A EUROPEI PRIN TINERI – ADEPT
• EUROPEAN FORUM OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• ASSOCIACAO NACIONAL DE ESCOLAS PROFISSIONAIS
• C4G – CONSULTING AND TRAINING NETWORK, LDA