Moda Training on Practice Erasmus Project

Project Title

Moda Training on Practice

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: Recognition, transparency, certification; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

An essential need is found nowadays regarding the connection between the VET systems and the labour market in view of the high unemployment rates, especially affecting youngsters. In many EU countries different policies have been recently enforced to support practical experiences in companies, as part of the vocational training systems. Most of these initiatives have a regional scope and a pilot purpose, or they are still at their initial stages of implementation requiring to fine-tune different elements. This causes a significant fragmentation of the models not only at European level, but also a national level, which makes difficult comparative analyses and to evaluate the impact of the different policies.This diagnosis led four partners in a previous EU transfer of innovation project in the fashion and textile sector to set up this proposal in order to benchmark existing resources and build tools based on the most effective ones, aiming to contribute to the solution of this situation. The partnership has been extended to another five partners, which have cooperate together for the first time in Modatop project. The participating countries include Spain, Italy, Portugal and Czech Republic, where textile industry is a pillar of their economies. The partnership has included VET practitioners, sectoral bodies representing the textile industry and educative institutions with public regulatory and policy-making roles at regional or national level. The project has built on the VET educational frames in the participating countries that incorporate practical training sessions in companies. It has reached the goal to benchmark resources and methods used in the VET schools and in the companies in the textile sector, which assist the training efforts of teachers and tutors in the practical training sessions. Modatop envisaged two tools, which have been produced to complement the already existing resources for teachers and tutors in the fashion and textile sector, including: (i) Guide of Recommendations for teachers and tutors; (ii) Online tool to enable recognising the learning outcomes accomplished in the practical phase of the training, in cooperation with the VET schools.The project has overly reached the target to involve directly some 150 stakeholders to get access to the intellectual outputs of the project. Most of them in the testing and validation phases of the outputs production. The promotion of the results through dissemination events and multipliers events carried out during project lifetime reached as well directly some 2.500 representatives from the three target groups: teachers and students from VET schools participating in dual systems in the textile and fashion sector, companies hosting and interested to host stages for VET students in this sector, policy-makers and institutions in charge of designing and implementing VET systems which incorporate practices in companies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 228730 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asocación de Empresas de Confección y Moda de la Comunidad de Madrid & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACAO TEXTIL E VESTUARIO DE PORTUGAL
• FORMACION Y EDUCACION INTEGRAL
• COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
• Textilni zkusebni ustav
• ASOCIACE TEXTILNIHO-ODEVNIHO KOZEDELNEHO PRUMYSLU
• MADE IN VICENZA
• Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confeção e Lanifícios