FORTRAINERS Erasmus Project

Project Title

FORTRAINERS

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Faced with changes driven by health, environmental constraints and the omnipresence of digital technology, vocational training must be able to adapt and constantly innovate to remain attractive, qualitative and effective. This pedagogical transformation is taking place in part with new modalities of teaching and learning.
In this perpetual modernization, teachers and trainers are essential actors, their professional development deserves special attention.

OBJECTIVES
Thus, the FORTRAINERS project is part of a dual approach: the pedagogical innovation rooted in the digital area and the professional development of teachers-trainers on these new approaches..
Its main objective was to design and develop an online training – like a SPOC, intended for the trainers, on the appropriation of new innovative and exemplary pedagogical practices .

The project was structured around four operational objectives:
1- Identify and propose new innovative pedagogical practices, rooted in the digital area to improve the learning efficiency
2- Identify and develop teaching strategies for an integrative dual training (school/company relationship) and support teachers in their implementation
3- Highlight the learning assets of physical and virtual mobility and support teachers towards the integration and exploitation of these European experiences
4- Set up the online training and support the teachers / trainers in the pedagogical and digital transformation

PRODUCTIONS/ACTIVITIES
To meet these four objectives, three vocational training organizations, a regional institution, an association and a company, from five European countries, Germany, Belgium, France, Slovenia and Turkey worked collaboratively during the three years of the project.
They brought their expertise and experience to produce four intellectual productions to achieve the objectives of the project.
o 1- A training module on innovative practices rooted in the digital area for a more efficient learning,
o 2- A training module on innovative practices to enhance the relation School/Company/Apprentice
o 3- A training module on innovative practices to increase the European mobility and the virtual mobility
o 4- a training and support system – the SPOC FORTRAINERS – integrating the three previous modules as well as spaces for sharing and discussion between the participants.

RESULTS/IMPACTS
At the end of the SPOC experiment with 15 external participants, seven results were measured. They concern :
1. improving the digital, pedagogical and linguistic skills of teachers
2. the improvement of educational engineering skills
3. the adoption of new open and innovative teaching practices rooted in the digital age
4. the adoption / development of a work-study pedagogy including work situations
5. increased sensitivity and European openness
6.the strengthening of international cooperation and cooperation between teachers / trainers, and with companies
7. increased motivation, self-confidence and creativity

In addition to the impacts on the public teachers / trainers and their training organizations, FORTRAINERS project has promoted, through the implementation of these new pedagogical practices, the reinforcement of key skills for apprentices: in particular digital skills and personal qualities such as proactivity, communication, initiative, autonomy, etc.

Overall, the project impacted:
– 15 trainers, from different European countries, who have experienced SPOC Fortrainers for more than 3 months,
– 20 trainers trained internally on strategies to promote effective learning,
– 7 trainers and 40 learners who participated in the experiments of innovative practices thus allowing the recording of the videos available on the Fortrainers channel.
– More than 70 actors of vocational training via the multiplier events
– And thousands of people thanks to the 150 communication actions carried out during the project and the Fortrainers video channel which has nearly 7,200 views.

Project Website

https://www.fortrainers.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 301511,13 Eur

Project Coordinator

Association Régionale de Formation aux métiers de la Santé et des Sciences de la Vie & Country: FR

Project Partners

• SOLSKI CENTER VELENJE
• ISTANBUL AVRUPA ARASTIRMALARI DERNEGI
• BEZIRKSREGIERUNG KOELN
• CENTRE IFAPME LIEGE HUY VERVIERS ASBL
• SARL LUCELINE