Golden Nets : promoting the quality of vocational training in crafts jewelry by sharing techniques and learning styles Erasmus Project

Project Title

Golden Nets : promoting the quality of vocational training in crafts jewelry by sharing techniques and learning styles

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

The premise that you must keep in mind in order to understand the logic of the project is that the survival of the gold sector of quality, along with the maintenance of employment opportunities for young people with training in traditional schools, is deeply linked to the ability to achieve synergies between the different techniques and methodologies taught in the schools of the partner countries and with the definition of a quality standard shared involving in addition to production, the processing methods, the training and the skills of those working in the sector. In line with the priorities and objectives mentioned by the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET), the Golden Nets project aims to improve the opportunities for young people who attend the goldsmith schools, to obtain recognition of their skills in all European countries, making it more attractive and European mobility together as possible, offering more guarantees to potential employers about the quality and certification of the training received. To develop a shared approach through the comparison between best practises and didactic methodologies used by the various goldsmith schools, to structure the qualifications in learning outcomes, formulated and organized in ECVET units, operating the Distinction between knowledge, skills and skills accrued. Make cognitive visits and short training courses to know the systems in force in the countries of origin of the partners of the project, allowing the teachers of each school to participate in the evaluation tests and to contribute to the Joint definition of quality standards for learning outcomes obtained in the proposed training pathways.
Among the 60 people who will be involved in the project and participate in some of the planned formative moments, there are entrepreneurs, people who manage small and medium-sized enterprises that produce or market jewels; Their presence is very important as well as to provide opportunities for training and future work, also to offer a direct testimony of the professional activity for which the students are forming. To deepen the knowledge of the territory of each partner and identify potential in view of new joint initiatives to organize related to the dissemination and marketing of products (e.g. festivals, events, fairs, international meetings, etc.), will be involved representatives of local institutions, as tourist promotion agencies, officials of municipal offices, representatives of associations of artisans in jewellery, artists and designers in addition to Representatives of the main local press bodies.
Among the main activities undertaken we can cite the workshops carried out in the laboratories of all the schools involved; The testimonies in the classroom of entrepreneurs and experts in the field, the interventions of local institutions and associations; Visits to museums and places of cultural interest; Visits to Companies
At the end of the project the results obtained relate to each of the categories of direct and indirect recipients involved in the activities carried out, as detailed below:
-Schools can use qualifications designed in units of learning outcomes to define curricula and to compare their programs with those of other entities
-Students can make their learning outcomes more transparent by facilitating the evaluation and recognition process in all EU countries, encouraging their mobility
-Teachers have acquired new teaching methodologies and evaluation procedures by comparing them with colleagues from other schools belonging to the project’s partner countries.
The know-how matured by a graduate student in a goldsmith’s school that has the opportunity to acquire new skills working in contact with other colleagues from other European countries, allows to face the competition with a greater specialization, innovating and By diversiecting the supply of products on the market. To do this we must ensure that young people can find job opportunities and training in all European countries, as already recalled in the European Charter of Quality for mobility, obtaining the recognition of accrued skills and learnings.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66390 Eur

Project Coordinator

FOR.AL SCaRL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ESPOON SEUDUN KOULUTUSKUNTAYHTYMA OMNIA
• KOINOFELHS EPIXEIRHSH KOINONIKHS PROSTASIAS KAI ALLHLEGGYHS-DHMOTIKO INSTITOUTO EPAGGELMATIKHS KATARTISHS DHMOU BOLOU
• PIKC Liepajas Muzikas, makslas un dizaina vidusskola
• SCHOLES TECHNIS MOKUME I.K.E.