Learning Initiatives in Civic Environments Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning Initiatives in Civic Environments

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Learning Initiatives in Civic Environments (LINCE) is an initiative presented by organisations in Spain, Italy and Poland. It gathers vocational training centres, organisations involved in vocational oriented programmes, regional development bodies and universities cooperating with training programmes in favour of regional cultural initiatives. Several of these partners provide services or advocate for the interests of civil society institutions.

The main aim of the project is to contribute to develop VET business partnerships aimed at promoting work-based learning by implementing a project-based method in the VET courses where the partners are involved. Two intellectual outputs were foreseen as main outcome of the project. The first one was materialised in tangible products created by VET students following the LINCE project-based method in cooperation with cultural civil society institutions involved in the project through collaboration schemes with the partnership. The students were trained and coached by the partners and they put in practice the competences required to acquire the learning outcomes envisaged by the VET courses.

The second intellectual output illustrates practically the methodology with the purpose to enable transferring it to the Educational Programmes of VET centres. The tangible products of both intellectual outputs had an audiovisual format and are being disseminated as open resources at European level.

The methodology brought the students to closer realities in local/ regional contexts of cultural value. Through the process of working on real projects in fields related with new technologies the partnership has achieved using learning outcomes for employment purposes, including initiatives for self-employment. The coaching strategy has been modular and, besides technical matters, it has included entrepreneurial skills and marketing through the presentation by the students themselves of their products to broad audiences.

The project has cooperated with additional VET centres based on existing regional partnerships and has involved directly some 30 VET teachers and 400 VET students, including an experimental phase in year 1 and a full implementation phase in year 2.

Through the dissemination strategy it has attracted the interest of more than the 1.500 stakeholders initially planned using channels like multipliers events, local and regional info sessions, newsletters, international events and the publicity of the initiative in the project website and social networks. Target groups of the dissemination strategy are VET centres, teachers and students; local/ regional education authorities, curriculum designers and civil society institutions willing to establish cooperation with VET programmes.

The initiative guarantees self-sustainability once the project has come to the end, owing to on-going initiatiatives like mobilities inside the partnership with a project-based approach, the publication of scientific papers and the adoption of the methodology by education centres in all participating countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144005 Eur

Project Coordinator

FORMACION Y EDUCACION INTEGRAL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO
• ARACOVE
• AKADEMIA POMORSKA W SLUPSKU
• CONFORM-CONSULENZA FORMAZIONE E MANAGEMENT SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA
• FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS OF SCIENTIFICALLY TECHNICAL NOTES COUNCIL OF THE ZACHODNIOPOMORSKI REGION IN SZCZECIN