QUALITY QUALIFICATION FOR VET Erasmus Project

Project Title

QUALITY QUALIFICATION FOR VET

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Quality Assurance; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Context/background of the project:
The economic situation affects all European countries, especially the group of young people that sees a growing skills gap in the EU labour market. Experiences abroad such as apprenticeships, traineeships and dual schemes are a very useful opportunity to ameliorate this situation and to offer youngsters soft (entrepreneurship initiative, critical thinking, problem solving, learning to learn) and hard skills needed for a future jobs, as well as to have their first contact with the labour market. So WBL experiences in all forms (apprenticeships, traineeships, dual schemes and jobshadowings) empower VET students with a wide range of skills which opens doors to personal fulfillment and development, social inclusion, active citizenship and employment.

Objectives:
The QQVET project had its bases on this situation explained above, having the objective of improving the cooperation between different stakeholders (VET institutions, teachers, companies and students) in order to provide a market oriented training offer and business driving learning paths to VET students, teachers and trainers to turn the skills mismatch into work opportunities.
More in details the objectives of the QQVET project were:
– to improve the cooperation between VET providers and companies so as to provide a market oriented training offer and business driven learning paths to the VET students, teachers and trainers
– to identify the real impact of WBL experiences on the skills and employability of VET students and teachers in order to motivate enterprises, VET students, teachers and trainers and VET providers to participate in this experiences.
– to offer quality work based learning opportunities to VET teachers at local, regional, national and transnational level and trainers for their continuous professional development
– to improve the attractiveness of the VET training offer and of Work based learning in order to match the needs of the companies and the expectations of the trainees
– to motivate policy makers and social partners in all member states to promote WBL in all it forms

Number and type/profile of participants: different types of stakeholders were involved directly and/or indirectly in the activities organized by the project:
– more than 300 students
– more than 180 teachers
– more than 120 companies
– more than 30 VET directors
– 50 organizations part of the transnational network: VET schools, associations, companies, no profit organizations public bodies, school associations, among others.
Around 600 of the participants have been identified as participants with lower opportunities such as the students participating in the preparation of the IO1 – The Impact study. Some of them are students with educational difficulties or belong to vulnerable social groups. Also part of the attendees of the multiplier events organized in each partner country and dissemination events were coming from vulnerable social groups

Description of undertaken activities:
1. Creation of IO1: Impact study on WBL experiences (apprenticeship, traineeship, dual scheme, job shadowings) at local, regional, national or transnational level.
The project partners produced an impact study that shows the strengths and weakness of WBL experiences and that covers the expectations of all target groups from the 6 European countries.
2. Creation of IO2: A documentary series that shows the different target groups of the project and meet the expectations and needs of VET trainers and students and represent real scenarios.
3. Creation of the project website: in the first months of the project a website has been created and continuously updated and improved during the entire period of the project. The website contains all the material produced during the project, freely available to be downloaded.
4. Creation of a transnational network of VET providers, companies, social partners and public bodies
5. Creation of a recommendation pack for VET students, teachers, trainers, VET providers, enterprises and public bodies – a practical document for stakeholders and beneficiaries
6. Transversal Activities: all partners were involved in carrying out activities related to the effective implementation of the project: coordination, reporting, dissemination, sustainability, evaluation

Results and impact attained:
The project impacted in different ways on all the stakeholders to whom the project addressed through activities organized during the project, as well as thanks to the high potential of transferability of the project’s outputs, helping in this way to improve the implementation of effective quality VET mobility activities to make them acquire more quality and effective experiences to better prepare VET students to enter into the job market.

Long-term benefits: the results of the project are expected to have a long term benefits on the VET sector through a strong cooperation between companies, VET providers, teachers and students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157020 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sistema Practices s.l. & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Aretés s.c.a.r.l
• Italsko-ceska smisena obchodni a prumyslova komora
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vilela
• Alphabet Formation
• Confederatia Sindicala Nationala MERIDIAN