GUIDANCE AND ORIENTATION TOWARDS VET PATHS Erasmus Project

Project Title

GUIDANCE AND ORIENTATION TOWARDS VET PATHS

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Migrants’ issues; Quality Assurance

Project Summary

The context
Europe needs greater attention to the orientation of pupils for having stimulated growth and educational choices and of correct Vocational Education and Training, in a way that an intervention model better improves and transversally becomes the first instrument and probably the most important for preventing early school leaving in Europe. Education is the key to shaping the attitudes, skills and culture of young people, so it is essential that guidance is addressed from an early age. However, a conceptual shift from the orientation is needed such as “how to choose my itinerary training path” a “come combined a general set of tools to make students understand the future consequences of their choice”.
In Europe, many guidance practices still tend to be unstructured in an organized system, varying considerably in quantity and quality; the orientation is managed only at the moment of the choice of scholastic and professional paths and is entrusted almost to the teachers’ and families of the boy. Furthermore, the approach to Vocational Training in many countries is perceived as a secondary choice and a second choice, proposed to children who find it difficult to integrate into other school courses.

The objectives
The GO VET project will transfer a guidance methodology developed by the leader in the partner countries, to verify its effectiveness beyond the local context and to distribute tools for an effective orientation that starts from the early age and aims to provide a lot of information on the world of work and professions. The GO Vet methodology is focused on the Vocational Education and Training System (VET), thus providing opportunities to strengthen the visibility of the Vocational Training paths available in the different participating countries and long-term professional opportunities, and to create conscious attitudes and professional visions.
Approval of the model will also contribute to reducing early school leaving, supporting students and their families in the selection phase and providing a methodology that can be used for all native European citizens and migrants, including those who have approached the Europe recently.
Alongside the creation of an organized method that can be applied from an early school age, the project aims to create an educating community that can support young people and their families during the choice phase. In this community, the stakeholders that deal with guidance are included, as well as the companies and professionals that make up the future of the maturation of each young person.
The project focuses on school teachers and trainers of vocational education and training centers in order to encourage and improve their skills when guiding and guiding young people so that specific actions are planned for them to be within of their organizations the real engines of creating a new way of operating.
Number and profile of participating organizations
The organizations that worked on the project are the following
– Cebano Monregalese Professional Training Center scarl – Italy – Vocational Training (tertiary level)
– NMSPoysdorf – Austria General education (secondary level)
– Malpils novada vidusskola – Latvia – General education (secondary level)
– Malpils internatpamatskola – Latvia – General education (secondary level)
– IES TIRANT LO BLANC – Spain – Vocational Training (tertiary level)

The main activities carried out were
1- Implementation of 2 joint training events, in Italy, at the leader’s structures, aimed at describing and showing the GO model to the participants and setting up the experimentation in the various partner countries;
2- Implementation of 2 12-hour course for the overall staff of each partner to extend the impact of the initiative and involve a greater number of teachers and trainers in the implementation phase;
3- Testing of the GO Vet model in each partner country so as to test its effectiveness beyond the borders of the country of origin and measure the results at a medium-term expiry (3 years).

Results and impact achieved
The main result of the project will be to create an orientation method organized in all partner countries supported by an educating community and animated by teachers / counselors who become not only protagonists of the learning process, but also support for the educational growth of young people.
In the long term, a better perception of VET is expected as a response to the attitudes and propensities of young people and the creation of shedding communities that know how to support their young people. A dream, a hope and a hope is that the GO Vet model can contribute to reducing scholastic dispersion.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99840,85 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro Formazione Professionale Cebano Monregalese scarl & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Malpils novada vidusskola
• IES TIRANT LO BLANC
• Malpils internatpamatskola
• NMSPoysdorf