Europäischer Trialog: Vielfältigkeit in der Ausbildung Erasmus Project

Project Title

Europäischer Trialog: Vielfältigkeit in der Ausbildung

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

While working in the field of vocational education and training (VET), three organizations from Germany, Netherland and Austria saw that their participants and apprentices are cultural very differently. This diversity puts a strain on the educational professionals. The individual level, the motivation, and cultural and social background is completely different. In 2015 and 2016 there arrived a lot of young refugees this three countries. It is probable that younger refugees will soon begin to take part in VET. This will increase dramatically the cultural diversity in VET. BTZ offers initial vocational education and training to younger people with learning or social difficulties in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Education center Gaming is a school for rural business- and housekeeping-management. It offers initial vocational education in Gaming, that is in Austria. Alfa College offers a wide range of initial vocational education in the north east of the Netherlands. These three organizations build the „European trialog: Diversity in vocational education“. In three years they want to settle appreciation for cultural diversity in their organizations and also in their education. Thus they enhance the international dimension of vocational education. Their strategy is to interlock development of educational staff and organizational development with a strategic partnership. From each organization there will one or two managers and also three to four persons from educational staff. Important activities are two trainings for the educational staff and at all six transnational project meetings. Between these activities there are work packages to develop. Their results are used in the next meeting and vice versa. The first main theme of the project regards the cultural diversity of all people and cultural awareness. Educational staff learns to teach this to their colleagues and enable them with guidelines and teaching material to foster cultural awareness among their participants and apprentices. The second main project theme is about competences and knowledge learned in an informal way. The educational staff will experience how much they have learnt in an informal way, how much more they are able to do because of this kind of learning. After this amazing experience they learn to help younger people to find what they have learnt without school or lessons. It helps to develop learning competences as a key competence for lifelong learning. Then they teach again their colleagues to do this. The third project theme is organizational development. The managers take part in two of six transnational project meetings. In each organization there is an Internationalization team. It works with the management to develop processes and structures after setting up an analysis. The results of the analysis will be used in the project meeting to develop ideas. Part of the organizational development are also the teaching of multipliers and developing teaching materials and guidelines. Thus the appreciation of cultural diversity and awareness of informal learned competencies are strongly settled in the organization. And also this themes will be made visible, for visitors, participants and staff. In all three organizations there will be organized a public event by participants and educational staff, in which all the results will be shown. Participants will be engaged to show what they have learned about cultural diversity and awareness. This can take place in various and creative forms. Also the stakeholders and international project partners will be invited. The final meeting prizes all the results. There will be defined targets for the next two years because likely the partnership will have a future. Two meetings are scheduled for 2020/2021. The project results at the end of the project are a changed organization with processes and structures enhancing the appreciation of cultural diversity and enhancing learning. The special results to be expected regard to the intercultural abilities and the informal competencies of personnel. Another result to be expected is the fostering of the internalization of the educational organization by giving a high mobilization to management and personnel. Remarkable is the influence to the young participants and apprentices. Especially young people with disadvantages and migrants will profit from learning key competencies and learning competencies. Thus the project contributes to the inclusion in vocational education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 17875 Eur

Project Coordinator

BTZ des Handwerks GmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Stichting Christelijk Regionaal Opleidingen Centrum Noord- en Oost Nederland
• Bildungszentrum Gaming