Dual VET Partners in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Dual VET Partners in 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: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Our Project “DualVet partners in Europe” arose due to the detected need to adapt the Vocational Training Systems in Italy and Spain to greater “work-based learning”. For that purpose, we counted on the experience of our German partners who are adapting for years the vocational training to the needs of the labor market. Indeed, the apprentices benefit of a training combining the school and the company.

The Project has had a high institutional draft. We knew that to achieve the objectives of our Good Practice Exchange Project, we had to involve local and regional Public Administrations. They are the biggest and best not only multipliers, but also decision-makers to improve and adapt the vocational training system in Italy and Spain.

The actions, activities and meetings carried out have made it possible to achieve the following objectives:

1. Cooperation between all vocational training providers has been encouraged. This has been achieved through the training and learning activities where we have managed to connect business representatives with schools and public education administrations. Transnational meetings have also served to involve.

2. Companies have been encouraged to become more involved in training. This has been done not only with the partner companies of the Project but also with others who have participated in the training and apprenticeship activities. They have been trained in how to incorporate new forms of monitoring and evaluation for apprentices. This has been explained by experts in the field who have been or are tutors in German companies.

3. In order to realize a real duality of learning, companies and schools have been taught how to design Training Programmes in a coordinated way. They have also been informed how teachers update their knowledge through the collaboration of companies.

4. The training of apprentices in companies and schools has been carried out by informing about the requirements and regulations that the Hannover Chamber of Commerce in Germany applies in the training and accreditation of tutors and the training companies.

For the diffusion of all the actions carried out during the Project,
We have had important media at the regional level, dedicating even television and radio programs to our Project, in addition to appearing on important web pages in the field of vocational training in the three partner countries of the project, which has allowed the scope to be greater than that foreseen in the Project Application.

All this training that the partners have received has been applied in the design of Training Plans concerning the Dual Vocational Training in Italy and Spain. These Plans have been designed so that they can be implemented and we have presented them in Italy to the Department for Training and Equal Opportunities in Campania, in order to obtain the five-year technical diploma in Mechanics, Mechatronics and Energy plus the Certificate of skills of the Mechanical Operator (EQF 4).

In Spain it has been presented the possibility of carrying out a Pilot Experience with the Design of a Training Plan of three years with contracts of training and learning of the specialty of “Logistics and Transport” to the current Andalusian Government, in particular the Directorate-General for Vocational Training of the Ministry of Education. This Experience would be supported and advised by German experts in both the business and educational fields.

The training plans of “Logistics and Transport” and ” Mechanics ” have been tested and have therefore been modified by professional training agents of Germany, Italy and Spain who have participated and have been involved in learning, teaching and training activities and transnational meetings held during the 24 months of the Project.

The impact that has been achieved is as important as the beginning of the first steps so that in a region like Andalusia there will be the will to reach an agreement with Ministries of Lower Saxony in Germany and thus implement the necessary steps to receive advice and make the necessary adaptations in the current Vocational Training in Andalusia.

This project will therefore be continued by the joint actions that will continue to be carried out safely between Andalusia and Lower Saxony and possible between the region of Campania and Lower Saxony, and also because a new Erasmus+ KA202 Project has been approved, led and coordinated by a Public Vocational Training School in Andalusia, where tools to measure quality in the Dual Vocational Training in Spain and Italy are to be designed and analyzed.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91095 Eur

Project Coordinator

Escuela de idiomas Carlos V, S.L. & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Bildungswerk der Niedersächsischen Wirtschaft gemeinn. GmbH
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II.
• IIS Assteas
• “MECCANICA B.M.R” dei fratelli Coglianese – s.r.l
• Region Hannover Wirtschaftsförderung
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Cristóbal de Monroy
• FEDERACIÓN ANDALUZA DE TRANSPORTES