Rozvoj duálneho vzdelávania v malých a stredných podnikoch (Enhancing the dual education system in small and medium size enterprises) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Rozvoj duálneho vzdelávania v malých a stredných podnikoch (Enhancing the dual education system in small and medium size enterprises)

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Project was implemented since September 2015 till the end of February 2018 and was implemented by all project partners.
Aim of the project was to help to bridge the disparity between basic and cross-cutting skills in the fields of electrical engineering and energy, to propose measures for improvement quality of institutions involved in the system of dual education and to develop a methodology for instructors working in companies who are preparing pupils in VET. Another objective was to update 6 text books for secondary vocational schools (SVS). All project goals were met in full. We see the impact of our project already at present, as our outputs are of particular interest to the professional public.
All 3 planned project outputs were created:
O1 – Proposed concept for the development of a system of dual system for small and medium-sized enterprises. The methodology of O1 creation consisted of qualitative and quantitative surveys (questionnaires and personal interviews) in SMEs, employers, professional associations of electro-technical and energy industries in SK, AT & CZ. The intention was to propose concrete measures and constructive proposals to amend the existing VET Act of 2015. Many of our proposals were accepted by the Ministry of Education SR during the commenting process to this Act.
O2 – Updating of six secondary technically-oriented textbooks in terms of content and form in the form of e-books. EkoFond, together with the CZ partners and ŠIOV, successfully managed the update 6 textbooks for SVS students in the electrical engineering and energy fields. The following textbooks were created: Technology 1, 2, 3, 4, and Energy Resources and Equipment 2 and 3.
O3 – Creation and testing of the methodology for instructors working with pupils in VET in companies – 20 methodologies & 84 working sheets were prepared in SK & CZ languages to be used by instructors in companies.
The target groups were primarily SMEs in energy and electrical engineering fields, their professional organizations, as well as SVS, which together play a decisive role in efficient functioning of the system of dual education. The target group did not change during the project and we managed to address it through activities and implementation of intellectual outputs.
The project and budget management was executed by the main partner-EkoFond. All project partners managed their parts of the project, including budgets. During the project, various managerial and organisational activities were implemented, including 6 transnational meetings as well as meetings with experts to implement individual outputs.
All project partners involved experts proposed in the application form. Project management was performed by experienced managers. Mainly internal staff of the partners worked on the individual project outputs. EkoFond, ŠIOV and SEES involved in O2 output – updating and creation of learning texts – many teachers from SVS and expert for examination of the texts. The reason was the need to combine practical experience of teachers and practitioners.
Project dissemination: EkoFond has prepared a dissemination plan. A project website in SK and EN was created www.edes.ekofond.sk, which provides all information about the project, its partners and the project outputs. The section “Documents” lists all internal documents – minutes from all transnational meetings together with invitations, programs, photos, presentations and attendance lists, as well as invitation, program, lectures, attendance list from the final project conference. This part can only be accessed via: login: ecofond, password: Ekof2016.
As part of project sustainability, partners will continue to use all project outputs:
O1 – In SK there is currently running a commentary to amendment of Act No. 61/2015 Coll. on VET. Recommendations to the key partners and comments on the proposal for the amendment of the above Act were made in a joint opinion with the AZZZ at the Ministry of Education SR.
O2 – one of the target groups of the project were secondary vocational technical schools, which will use the created e-textbooks for teaching. E-textbooks will make an important contribution to improving the quality of education, as many textbooks for these fields of study have been absent for many years. We plan to initiate a launch for a competition at the Ministry of Education SR for these textbooks to obtain the status of the national textbook approved by the Ministry – “the approval clause of the Ministry”, thus becoming available for each school in SR. Availability of created materials will be secured through the created project website.
O3 – developed 20 methodologies and 84 worksheets will be used by the target groups also after the end of the project. The community of professionals involved will be able to update their content, which will lead to the creation of quality educational materials in line with the current knowledge and practice and will improve the employability of graduates.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 212510,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

EkoFond, n.f. & Country: SK

Project Partners

• ECODESIGN COMPANY ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY GMBH
• Inovacni a podnikatelska platforma, spolek
• Stredni skola elektrotechnicka a energeticka Sokolnice, prispevkova organizace
• STATNY INSTITUT ODBORNEHO VZDELAVANIA