Development of TVET Pedagogical Competences and Qualification in Palestinian Universities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Development of TVET Pedagogical Competences and Qualification in Palestinian Universities

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The National Palestinian Authority (NPA) is fully aware of the importance of TVET in responding to the various diverse needs and challenges of the professional sector.Accordingly, the NPA approved “The National TVET Strategy” document in November 2010 (http://www.tvet-pal.org/en/node/12). Taking as reference this document, the two ministries of Education and Labour deployed joint efforts to develop and rationalize the TVET system in Palestine. Currently, within the Palestinian universities, there are departments dedicated to Education Sciences. These departments are issuing diplomas of a rather general character on the sciences of education. This project, will have the following objectives:1. Develop the skills of the teaching staff in specific areas of adult education and vocational training;2. Develop study programs on these themes;3. Enable the Palestinian teachers involved to liaise with the research groups and their counterparts from the three European universities who will be partners of the project;4. Enable the Palestinian academic and technical staff to design and develop training programs skills required by the socio-economic sectors.5. Sharing of skills and inter-university resources, aiming at the emergence of a Palestinian university network of expertise in the field of adult education and vocational training.Sessions and training missions are planned in this project, they will develop objectives 1 and 2.Two types of realization will be planned in this project:- Supervision of student projects on topics related to TVET, by Palestinian teachers with a European co-supervision. It is fort launching experiments to initiate the objective 3.- Realization of projects for the development of vocational training programs, which will have to meet specific professional skills. It is about launching experiences to initiate the objective 4.On the other hand, all the work packages are organized in the form of collaborative work to promote Goal 5.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 599011 Eur

Project Coordinator

PALESTINE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY – KADOORIE (PTUK) & Country: PS

Project Partners

• HOCHSCHULE DER WIRTSCHAFT FUR MANAGEMENT GGMBH
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCES
• AN-NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
• MEDLINK
• ARAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRIVATE STOCK COMPANY
• MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION