Design, Do and LEAN it– Experimental development as a tool of strenghten the collaboration with work life and educational organization Erasmus Project

Project Title

Design, Do and LEAN it– Experimental development as a tool of strenghten the collaboration with work life and educational organization

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Regional dimension and cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Design Do and Leani it- project developed an experimental development study course with video, tools and guidebook based on education used in Riveria, but modified and developed futher to be suitable for all partners and VET Europe wide. Italian, Finnish, Belgium, Welch and Spanish partners (8), local companies and work life collaborated to improve the quality of work, services and competences needed in the future! The partners, but also to the students and other teachers/workers locally were supported by project manager of Riveria to do experiments and to use lean thinking methods is daily actions. We had 2 project meetings, 5 workshops and local, national and international dissemination events.

There were three goals to achieve:
– The first was to enhance collaboration of the companies/other organizations and VET organization. Tools were developed and tested in practice, also students and teachers have used tools and cases were solved in companies. Collaboration based on sharing the expertise to each other and creating the collaboration culture.
– The second was support learning the Design Doing (experimental development) process, integrate it in VET and learn how to use it in companies. Participants have had experience of sharing the skills in action when working with customers and they got competence and courage to do experiments. The main idea is keep the experiments simple with reasonable costs, use suitable tools and save time, money and get results! Guidebook and video with easy examples are launced in Erasmus+ dissemination platform. There are insturction how to use Experimental development -course and if needed, more help is offered by Katja Väyrynen from Riveria.
– The third goal was to improve the efficiency of work by LEAN thinking and learning simple methods and principles of it in partner organizations. Then adopt these to daily procedures of teachers/entrepreneurs/workers. During the project we tested the LEAN 5S-principles, Lean A3 and Waste-analyze. These are helping to find out challanges needed to develop and also make fluency in the processes.

Main results are: Guidebook of experimental development and instruction video. Language used was English. Original plan was only translate tools in own languages, but when we did a guidebook too, it can be translated easily to different languages, but without intellectual outputs funding, we desided to do only English version..

This experimental development study course created is really suitable in all kind of challanges, in all fields of study and industry. Please try and get rapid results!

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134785 Eur

Project Coordinator

Pohjois-Karjalan koulutuskuntayhtymä, Riveria & Country: FI

Project Partners

• FELIPE DE BORBON
• Vrij Katholiek Onderwijs Opwijk
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA
• ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA PER L’AGRICOLTURA BIOLOGICA
• Angsa Umbria Onlus
• Coleg Gwent
• Aspa Palvelut Oy