Career Alingment in VET Erasmus Project

Project Title

Career Alingment in VET

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Project’s context and background:
Contemporary education understanding, which aims to give individuals, productive and open qualities to development in the development of countries, gives importance to choosing the most suitable profession where the individual can reveal his potential to the maximum level. Services carried out in this field by the individual in the training process are covered by the “Career Alignment”.
The vocational school teachers who are supposed to support the students in this regard are not well informed. So the teachers and the directors at Vocational School should be well trained about the needs of labour market and they can guide the students effectively to their future career. By helping them they can also help to their countries’ economy. In this context ECS (Early Career Support) is very important both for the educators and the students. They both need to be trained in the field of “Career Alignment in VET”.
Our projects’ initial target groups were Vet students then VET teachers, directors, guidance service teachers and of course the students’ parents.
We had two LTT’s one in Denmark and one in Portugal.
For the first LTT titled “Training of trainers” in Denmark; guidance teachers and VET teachers were chosen. From Denmark 5 participants, from Turkey 5 participants, from Romania and Macedonia 4 participants from each and from Portugal 3 participants attended the LTT. It was a 5 day training course who became the trainers of the teachers, students and parents. These participants gave trainings for VET teachers, VET students and their parents after they go back to their countries. Teachers were informed about the guidance systems in other countries and importance of guiding a student how to decide their job for future. Students were informed about the VET schools and job opportunities in their fields. Parents were informed about the departments at school and job opportunities those their children could have in the future. Till the pandemic situation training were held face to face and at the covid period we had online trainings.
For the second LTT titled “Training of directors” in Portugal; directors, deputy directors and teachers from VET schools who are the decision makes in their schools were chosen. From Denmark 2 participants, from Turkey, Portugal, Romania and Macedonia 3 directors and two staff from Turkey attended the LTT. It was a 5 day training course about the guidance systems and job opportunities. During the LTTs the participants had chance to collaborate for other future projects. After these trainings the parent and student trainings were held in all partner countries.
The LTT activities were really well organized by the host partner and they addressed to the aims and objectives of the project.
Five Transnational meetings were organised in Turkey, Romania, Macedonia and Portugal. 39 staff from the partner institutions attended the meetings. Communication was really good enough not to have any mistakes.
The partners formed PIC Desks-Professional Information and Counselling Desk at participating VET schools to guide the students while choosing their future careers.
Vocational Education systems in partner countries according to Work Based Learning in VETriangle was presented from each partner. Different VET schools were visited during the TPMs and LTTs. It gave the teachers and directors the opportunity to observe the Vocational systems at different countries.
ECS-Early Career Support was applied to VET students to know their interests and expectations from their future.
With the help of CPD-Continuous Professional Development process, the students were informed about labour market.
Career guidance teachers had meetings with students about CPS-Career Planning System which helped the VET students to plan their future careers.
With the help of these activities there will be long term benefits for the VET students who took part in this project.

Project Website

http://caralvet.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 92079 Eur

Project Coordinator

KOCAELI IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ZDRUZENIE NA GRAGANI CENTAR ZA EDUKACIJA I RAZVOJ S.TEARCE,TEARCE
• INTER COLLEGE APS
• ASOCIATIA DE DEZVOLTARE A EUROPEI PRIN TINERI – ADEPT
• C4G – CONSULTING AND TRAINING NETWORK, LDA