INCLUSION AND EMPLOYABILITY THROUGH ELECTRIC VEHICLES TECHNOLOGY Erasmus Project

Project Title

INCLUSION AND EMPLOYABILITY THROUGH ELECTRIC VEHICLES TECHNOLOGY

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

As teachers in public Secondary and Vocational Schools we have noticed the urgent need to pay attention to our younger students with special needs to learn efficiently, as they are constantly kicked off from the oficial educational system, just because of their special requirements. They are usually sent to Initial VET programmes, but although our laws mention “inclusion”, these programmes are not really inclusive. They are not useful, as they do not offer our students the possibility of a real learning, to remain for longer periods within the system. Unfortunately, they are neither prepared to access our current labour market.

From our teaching perspective, the curricular materials we have for these students do not fit their needs. They are usually motivated to minpulative activities , but not really for passive, rote learning. However, the publishing companies provide schools with useless books which are not useful with these students within the classroom. This situation causes frustration and continuous worries for teachers. Some of them have recently shared this feeling with other teaching professionals from different European countries during KA1 mobility projects. Moreover, from companies perspective, having agreements with our schools for internship programmes, they are really worried about the fact that our curricular materiales are not updated to allow our students to get the required abilities to work at their companies. Once again, these books do not fulfill the companies requirements for qualified workers.

For all these reasons, we consider ourselves ready to take action and try to change this situation. We suggest designing and manufacture inclusive curricular materials for these students. They have to be as simple, interactive and attractive as possible, so they can contribute to cause the required motivation for them to finish their Inicial VET programmes. At the same time, they help their teachers to get motivated aswell.

Among teachers, we usually share some individual activities which are successful within the classroom with these students. Now we propose to gather all of them, coming up from different schools and different countries, as our main objective is to help the development of high quality skills and competences for our teachers and students. Moreover, We want to offer them all to the rest of the society, where there are some professional groups clearly not updated to fulfill their jobs, and not ready to start a traditional training. We want to offer our inclusive materials to them in an open learning format (SPOOC) .

On the basis of this common need, shared with hundreds of teachers from our association, we have chosen to make a proporsal for a first try of designing inclusive materials focusing on the Automotive branch of Car Maintenance.

We detail here our open learning format proposal, which has to be plural, inclusive and offering constant updating, by means of ICT, manufacturing inclusive materials on a digital basis, designing a digital book (including 3D patterns, and models to be printed on 3D to favour “learning by doing”)

We assume that the option of ICT complements the topic itself: the electric vehicle.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 192820 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociación de profesores Técnicos y de Enseñanza Secundaria de Automoción de Galicia & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ENSINUS – Estudos Técnicos e Profissionais SA
• Fevziye Tezcan Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Centro Formativo Provinciale G. Zanardelli
• LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC AUREL VLAICU LUGOJ
• Elektrostrojarska obrtnicka skola
• Kauno technikos profesinio mokymo centras