Professional Development of Vocation Education Teachers with European Practices Erasmus Project

Project Title

Professional Development of Vocation Education Teachers with European Practices

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Pro-VET will introduce a systematic approach to, and an open platform for, initial and continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors in both school and work-based settings for Serbia and Russia. Pro-VET will address the challenges of the educational quality, relevance, delivery, and management of the VET systems and help to build confidence in the industry on the development of the VET systems. Pro-VET will provide opportunities for pedagogical skill development and increased work-life relevance and collaboration with proven European approaches and methodologies in VET in Serbian and Russian languages.Pro-VET will build and capacitate a VET-Educators’ Training Network (VET-ETN) on the basis of 8 partner insitutions in Serbia and Russia that will strengthen European approaches in systems of VET and HE connected with VET teacher training in their respective countries. The capacity building actions will upgrade the ICT skills and facilities of teacher trainers as well as expose the trainers to European pedagogical practices and policies in VET. VET-ETN will facilitate admittance to these knowledge and skills for Serbian and Russian speaking world via an open access e-learning platform. The key activity of VET-ETN is the provision of in-service training opportunities for VET teachers. VET-ETN is capacitated with a process to develop new courses to target group needs and has MoU agreements with min. of 60 partners of VET providers, qualification agencies and companies. Pro-VET aims to engender policy learning via the introduction of transferable practices in VET policy and approaches that can be adapted to the partner countries’ VET systems. The policy learning consists of policy dialogue with ministries and VET sector, benchmarking and analysis of data from trained VET teachers (450 take part in the in-service training courses). It will result in national roadmaps for VET evolution and a Position Paper presented in National Conferences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 934440 Eur

Project Coordinator

JYVASKYLAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY & Country: FI

Project Partners

• UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU
• UNIVERZITET U BEOGRADU
• VISOKA POSLOVNA SKOLA STRUKOVNIH STUDIJA U NOVOM SADU
• STATE UNIVERSITY RUSSIAN STATE VOCATIONAL PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
• FEDERAL STATE EDUCATIONAL BUDGET INSTITUTION OF HIGHER VOCATIONAL TRAINING MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY
• TVER STATE UNIVERSITY
• FEDERAL STATE BUDGET SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION INSTITUTE OF PEDAGOGY, PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS