Euro i-VET- Enhancing the quality of I-VET provision for young people in urban, multicultural settings Erasmus Project

Project Title

Euro i-VET- Enhancing the quality of I-VET provision for young people in urban, multicultural settings

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

This project built on two previous Leonardo TOI projects; the Big Bang, which examined the impact of culture clash between Young People from disadvantaged backgrounds and opportunities in the world of work and education; and Euro-ARCO, which identified that Young People from BME and migrant communities in partner countries were far more likely to be long term NEET. Big Bang identified the close links between this marginalization and social and civic unrest among these communities. Preventative approaches, which link with these young people’s lifestyles and cultural values while delivering high quality VET provision, are vital to ensuring that they are able to engage effectively in the workforce and take advantage of the wide range of Work Based Learning opportunities available including apprenticeships and traineeships. EU2020 highlights the importance of Europe delivering inclusive growth that –“fosters a high employment economy that delivers economic, social and territorial cohesion and provides better integration of migrants into the workforce particularly those aged between 20-64.” This is important to promote equity, social cohesion and active citizenship among young people from diverse backgrounds.
This project, therefore, has worked toward the following key objectives:
1.) To enhance the quality, performance and efficiency of I-VET and VET provision available to young people from BME, disadvantaged and migrant communities by developing and delivering innovative professional development opportunities or trainers, teachers and other professionals involved in delivering VET to young people in diverse, urban areas in partner countries. This objective falls in line with Strategic Objective 2 of the ET2020 Objectives and with the ‘Youth on the Move’ Agenda for New Skills and Jobs Flagships Initiatives set out in Europe2020.
2.) To enable VET professionals across schools, employers and social organizations to deliver i-VET and C-Vet that is attractive and inclusive and easily accessible and career orienting in line with the objectives set out in the Global Vision for VET 2020 set out in the Bruges Communiqué. The Euro i-VET curriculum, available as a downloadable PowerPoint presentation as well as online, has been designed to be relevant across EU countries. The curriculum is sympathetic to the already existing knowledge and skills of practitioners and is flexible to their requirements; participants can choose modules and workshops that are most relevant to their role, and assessment is self-reflective.
3. Utilizing the Open Method Co-ordination approach to develop, test and implement a partnership framework and curricula for active peer learning and exchange of good practice between VET professionals, schools and employers in line with SO3 of ET2020. In the spirit of the Open Method Co-ordination approach, the Euro-iVET project has included the exchange of good practice in order to produce a curriculum and toolkit to be shared across the EU. This approach has allowed us to benefit from shared knowledge and experiences in order to produce a curriculum that is accessible and relevant to our target practitioner.
4. To develop an accredited Euro-VET qualification framework for VET professionals which will enable the transfer and accumulation of learning outcomes that facilitate transnational mobility and transnational learning, enhancing and improving VET practice and provision in line with the Bruges Communiqué and Europe2020. This will link with Euro pass and ECVET.
5. To develop sustainable partnerships between VET professionals and organisations working in education, training and work, including social partners who engage with marginalized young people across the EU. This is to increase the shared understanding of the labour market, and to promote a collective responsibility towards utilising robust VET to combat poverty and social exclusion among young people from marginalized communities in line with EU2020 Flagship Initiative on promoting a new agenda for skills and jobs. VET professionals and organisations from across Europe have supported the research and development of Euro-iVET throughout the lifetime of the project; namely thought development meetings, multiplier events, and testing workshops. The Final Conference, which took place on 12th July 2018 in London, saw attendees from across the UK’s capital as well as Europe, which was a real celebration of the project’s successes. This event has also given way to potential avenues for future implementation of the project results. As a result of these meetings, workshops, and events, the project has established a network of practitioners from across Europe, who will remain involved in the project beyond its’ end date.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 392235,67 Eur

Project Coordinator

15billion & Country: UK

Project Partners

• RINOVA LIMITED
• STIFTELSEN KURSVERKSAMHETEN VID U-AUNIVERSITET
• METROPOLISNET-EUROPEAN METROPOLIS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK EWIV
• EUROCIRCLE ASSOCIATION
• BALLYMUN JOB CENTRE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED