Digital Innovation in Vocational Education and Training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Innovation in Vocational Education and Training

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In the project “Digital InVitation”, a total of 10 VET institutions from 8 European countries meet in total 6 times to discuss digitalisation in social work in the field of VET and to present each other with best practice models. All workshops follow the same pattern. Thus, implementation models and / or current developments are presented from all institutions. Following this, an intensive discussion with common conclusions and a so-called SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) -analysis by the participants will be given, recorded and objectifies the respective project dimension. There is a documentation for each workshop, which will also be designed according to a fixed structure. At the end of the project, all documentation and results will be made available to interested parties. For each institution participate max. 3 persons, of which one person is the so-called project coordinator. He/she should participate in all meetings, ensuring continuity in preparation,researches, working, discussion and networking. The other two persons consist of the respective technical expertise necessary for the respective workshop. The topics of the workshops have already been defined:

1. Digital communication (messenger, video chat, etc.)
2. Hardware and regulations
3. Learning platforms, online platforms, online learning
4. Gamification, apps, app rules
5. Health- and generation management
6. Conclusion, results, vision and, if necessary, project development for follow-up

The coordinators are responsible for carrying out the research in their own facility and their region, carefully selecting the project participants of their own institution and preparing accordingly.

Goals of the project are:
1. Exchange of knowledge and best practice models
2. The project develops the positive use of digital tools in VET
3. Legal certainty: by dealing with regulations and data protection
4. The project develops knowledge management in the institutions.
5. In the project the participants learn from and with each other.
6. Consideration of generation management
7. Internationalization and European attitude
8. Quality improvement in VET
9. Integration of health management and health and safety

In addition to the planned project meetings, there will be further online meetings, in which the participating organizations will vote on important milestones and developments and thus experience directly with different media.

We expect significant effects from the project for Vocational Education and the well-founded further development of digitization in VET in the social field. Institutions and organizations can develop themselves, based on the experiences of others and implement positive impulses in their structures. This makes training in social areas more attractive and involves the group of disadvantaged target groups (trainees with disabilities). The project makes an important contribution to accessibility and access to vocational training for all. The project takes up current discussions in the field of Vocational Education in social work and seeks to make a significant contribution to the empowerment of education.

The workshops and project sections are documented on the basis of a given system and the best practice models are available to a broad public. All institutions are involved in local, regional, national and international networks and will report and share key results.

An important effect of the project will also be the development of a common European identity. Through the cooperation and the structured exchange one gets to know the respective way of working and view of the others. This inevitably leads to discussion about attitudes, values ​​and basic assumptions, which promotes and supports the development of a common European perspective. When planning and finding a partner, it was important to map Europe geographically and to bring the strengths and resources of the different vocational training systems and prerequisites into the project.

The project can serve as a basis for developing more intensive cooperation and the results should be available in a variety of ways to interested institutions across Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 161310 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mariaberg e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ASTANGU KUTSEREHABILITATSIOONI KESKUS
• FUNDACION INTRAS
• Josefsheim gGmbH
• FNADEPA
• Fundação afid Diferença
• HELSINGIN DIAKONISSALAITOKSEN SAATIO SR
• UNIVERZITETNI REHABILITACIJSKI INSTITUT REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE-SOCA