automotive on a Y-junction;hands on today education for tomorrow Erasmus Project

Project Title

automotive on a Y-junction;hands on today education for 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

Professionalization by exchanging good practices

Context
Teachers and students are able to deal with automotive on a Y-junction. (see attachment 3).In this project we will work together and experience how the different partners contribute to the following theme:
How to prepare on the future and how to stay hands-on today
All participants will get new ideas and insights how to adjust education and make it futureproof, regarding topics, skills, competences, didactics, coaching students and teaching materials. The project will spark the sense of urgency that development of education is needed to be prepared for the future. It will help to start the consultation and cooperation with the professional field about the garage, the mechanic of the future and the changes in the branch. Up till now this is hard to discuss, also by fear of the impact of new technology on business management and revenue model; fear because of the unknown and uncertainty about the right to exist, especially for smaller, independant universal garages.

The main aim of the project is sharing experience and knowledge :
– what vision do the partners have on educational development against the background of the exponential growth of technology
– how do schools and the professional field in different European countries cooperate to prepare for the future.

By sharing good practices we can:
– professionalize
– work on sustainable technical education
– deepen the stuctural cooperation (grounded by a partnership that exists for 10 years) in order to inspire and help each other in working on qualitative, futureproof education in the longer term with other stakeholders, in this case mainly garages.

Objectives of the project are tools for
– More awareness and involvement by all the teachers and stakeholders
– Input and adaption of the curriculum
– Qualifying teachers to enhance better teaching
– Share good practices
– Develop future proof education

Number and profile participants:

The project will be done by 9 partners.This is a mix of 4 partners out of an already existing partnership plus 1 new VET school (Germany), plus university of applied science (HAN), plus 2 garage (Netherlands ), plus foundation for cooperation school-business automotive (NexTechnician)

Activities:
In every country there will be a transnational meeting with all the partners involved in this project. Every partner will show their good practices to the partners. Part of the programme will be also visititing companies and garages. In the attachment included there is a schedule about the subject matters.
Which actions do you have to take?
workshops
excursions to Volvo and NexTechnician
roundtable discussions
sharing all the new information, experiences and reflections on the innovation hub

results:
By sharing good practices we can:
– professionalize
– work on sustainable technical education; cooperation between schools and other stakeholders
– deepen the stuctural cooperation (grounded by a partnership that exists for 10 years) in order to inspire and help each other in working on qualitative, future-proof education in the longer term. Maybe after this project we can develop a KA2 with inteletual ouputs.
– to enhance the experience from the already existing partnership with the added expertise from the new partners i.e. university of applied science (HAN) and technical school Steinfurt and garages
– all the results will be presented on the website of the involved partners and at the Innotecs and EFVET conference.

Impact
What fundamental change do we want to contribute to?
Partly because of our project/application we will contribute to a better future proof and sustainable education in the automotive.
We will contribute to the preconditions for this, namely better cooperation and connection between business and education in the automotive.

What is our contribution to that change? In cooperation between schools and the businessfield we contribute:
– to a sense of urgency to adapt education to new technologies in automotive
– more sensibility and an open mind for teachers and employees in the automotive branche sustainability in different aspects: flexibility and an open
attitude to the uncertain future in the automotive industry
– to a better cooperation between schools and garages and industry, and better fine-tuning between VET schools and higher education.

Graafschap Collega asked for exceptional costs: it is for the kick of meeting. They will invite a famous key-note speaker for the automotive industry

Project Website

https://yjunction.weebly.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59123 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stichting BVE Oost-Gelderland & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Centro San Viator
• Savon koulutuskuntayhtymä
• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN ARNHEM ENNIJMEGEN HAN
• Harrie Arendsen Doetinchem BV
• Technische Schulen des Kreises Steinfurt
• Stichting NexTechnician
• mboRijnland