Cooperative and Work Integrated Curriculum Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cooperative and Work Integrated Curriculum

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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Assurance; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Nowadays Europe face a problem of high unemployment of young people. VET systems where student are more involved in practical training in companies are believed to be more successful when it comes to transition from school to labour market or employment. This project focused on the implementation and quality of practical training in companies taking into consideration both content and length of practical training in companies.
The goal of the project was to establish conditions and new cooperative method of practical training; improvement of the response of vocational education and training to the changing demands on the labor market; supporting employability (from the selected quality indicators) and improvement of quality assurance system within the vocational education.
In this project partnership exploited in practice new method of practical training in companies – cooperative education and training, where much more cooperation in implementation of education content and training content between teachers and mentors is envisaged and tested. New methods of curriculum planning and implementation were be tested in accordance with quality assurance methodology, new curricula and methodology was produced for later use. Based on evaluation some tools how to implement cooperative education and training were produced to be used by schools and companies.
Benefits for target groups are: for students, participants these are: motivation, professional vision, greater employability and professional maturity; for employers: flexibility of the manpower, employment and holding of trained workers, bigger entrance into teaching plans, permanent mentors and evaluation of future employees; for educational institutions: assurance and preservation of permanent communication and cooperation for the needs of industry, real education and education of high quality for the needs of industry and environment: long lasting synergy between education and economy.
Within partnership, which consists out of VET schools, university and company from Austria, Macedonia, Slovenia and Spain, there are piloting partners and advisory partners with some experience in execution of cooperative education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 221541 Eur

Project Coordinator

Solski center Velenje & Country: SI

Project Partners

• FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH
• CENTER REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE ZA POKLICNO IZOBRAZEVANJE
• Solski center Slovenske Konjice-Zrece
• UNIOR d.d.
• ASUC Boro Petrushevski
• FUNDACION PARA LA FORMACION TECNICA EN MAQUINA-HERRAMIENTA