Real Challenges for VET students Erasmus Project

Project Title

Real Challenges for VET students

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The main goal of ‘Real Challenges for VET students’ (RC4VETs) project is to create realistic challenges based on a real problem/situation for the students and facilitate their transition into the labour market. These challenges will be designed by real companies based on their needs and will be worked by one or more teams of Vocational Training students from different countries. One of the main characteristics of the challenges should be: multidisciplinarity. It means that it should be worked with students from different study programmes.

RC4VETs aims to eliminate the GAP that exists between the theoretical and practical knowledge received during the training and studies, to create practical challenges for the students in a competitive environment, which dominates in the professional world and to integrate these challenges into the work of our teachers and educational centers.

The target groups of RC4VETs will be the students of six vocational training providers from: Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. The partnership offers studies, among others, for IT: Commerce, Business, Administration and Tourism studies of ISCED 3 and 4 levels.

The idea is that every partner finds a local company that could be able to design a challenge and mentor it. Students and teachers with profiles needed to solve the challenge are going to be grouped in multidisciplinary and international teams. They are going to solve the challenges proposed by companies during five months. During the process, students will be supported by employers and teachers.

The main result will be a report on the resolution of each challenge. This report will be prepared in a collaborative and transnational manner by all participants. In addition to this The resolution of the challenges will produce documentation such as presentations and reports, all these results are an indispensable part of the project itself. All these materials will be open and available. The main idea of the project could work or be exported to other Erasmus+ programmes.

RC4VETs will contribute to reducing skill shortages and gaps, reduce youth unemployment, increase entrepreneurship and innovation and finally will have the potential to foster social inclusion. It will add value to the EU as it will encourage to improve soft skills and to develop open-minded, entrepreneurial and qualified European professionals who acquired international experience and who can add significant value to the labour market as well as to the wider society in general.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 161130 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro Integrado de Formación Profesional César Manrique & Country: ES

Project Partners

• PROANDI CONSULTORES ASSOCIADOS LDA
• Associazione “Submeet – incontrarsi per crescere”
• PUBLIC VOCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE OF GLYFADA
• BULGARIAN-ROMANIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
• PCO – Poklicni center Obala