BIKE EXPERTS EUROPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

BIKE EXPERTS EUROPE

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: Recognition, transparency, certification; Quality Assurance; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The aim of the project was to create professional profiles of graduates (including both primary and lifelong education graduates) in the field of bicycles and motorcycles. Profiles are going to be created with application of the European mechanisms commonly used in vocational education. Created profiles will be the basis for uniting educational content and learning outcomes at both levels.
Systems, content and conditions of education in cooperating countries were compared and examples of good practice will be used across the whole Europe.
All project activities took in account the rapid development of alternative drive systems, which are currently expected to grow in number in the production of new two-wheelers. It is therefore necessary to create professional profiles for primary and lifelong education to match the anticipated development of new technologies. These profiles would serve as a basis for updates and unification of educational programmes.
Activities of the project were provided within two parallel ways:
1. Primary education
– comparison of educational systems, educational contents and conditions (minimum equipment)
– comparison and unification of content of final examinations
– creating a professional profile
– comparison of the results of education through international competition between participating countries, preparation of documentation for the competition (rules, test questions, practical tasks)
– implementation of the topic of alternative drive systems with an emphasis on environmental protection and sustainable development.
2. Lifelong education
– analysis of forms and types of lifelong learning in different countries, legislative framework of lifelong education, conditions (minimum equipment)
– comparison and unification of the content of professional examinations; determining the content and conditions of the master examination in those countries where the master examination is not yet implemented
– creating a professional profile
– implementation of the topic of alternative drive systems with an emphasis on environmental protection and sustainable development.
To achieve the objectives of the project the following resources were used:
– project meetings (development of professional profiles, outline proposal for the content of final examinations)
– ongoing communication via e-mails and phones
– preparation and creation of documents
– practical comparison of outcomes of education through international competition.
Within the implementation of project activities, participants were encouraged by exchanges of experiences related to education, by comparing teaching methods and by sharing examples of good practice that can be applied in the classroom. It will provide support for participating organizations by improving the quality of education, thereby increasing the attractiveness of their educational programmes. It will also provide support for the possibility of applying the gained outputs (professional profiles, the contents of final exams) in education and comparing the results of education in an international competition.
In addition to the planned activities of the project, there was a bilateral exchange of students and teachers between a Czech and Swiss partner in spring 2019, which we organised without any entitlement to an increase in the grant using allocated funds.
Indirectly supported target group of the project consists of pupils in initial education (about 3150 people), who had the chance to attend a practical comparison of the results of education. There were school rounds and national rounds of those comparisons. This has a significant motivating impact on education. In addition, this target group will benefit from innovative educational programmes. Their adjustment will be based on implementation and outputs of the project with regard to the development of new technologies, particularly alternative fuel vehicles. This will increase their opportunities on the labour market and given the international scope of the project it will also increase their mobility. Except for international comparison, the same support will be applied for lifelong education participants (about 1500 people).
Employers were supported by increased quality of graduates and by possibility of lifelong education of their current employees. Offered lifelong education corresponds to the current technical developments in the field of two-wheelers. It will ultimately increase their competitiveness of which will also benefit the end customer.
We can’t estimate the number of employers accurately, but based on the number of small and medium-sized enterprises involved in this field in partner countries, there is an order of thousands of organisations.
All the above-mentioned positive impacts of the project have a long-term nature of European-wide usability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71400 Eur

Project Coordinator

INTEGROVANA STREDNI SKOLA AUTOMOBILNI BRNO, PRISPEVKOVA ORGANIZACE & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Berufsschule für Kraftfahrzeugtechnik
• 2rad Schweiz
• Handwerkskammer Frankfurt-Rhein-Main