Train to Work Erasmus Project

Project Title

Train to Work

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

TRAIN TO WORK (T2W) was a project of five European VET-institutes (Business VET-institutes from Finland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Sweden and Turkey). The group shared the same European wide challenge and a need to adapt a new, work-based-learning approach in VET. In many, if not every, European country the VET as a training system is under a major change.

This project tackled that change and had a positive impact on performance of every participating VET-institute. The project standed for promoting work-based learning where the learner may proceed in studies by individual rails. T2W processed and created tools and development ideas for organizing individual learning pathways at work/practical placements and in simulated environments.

T2W examined and developed practices for individual work-based-learning pathways in business VET-studies. The group developed high quality and flexible work- based training in which the school studies can be integrated to work and for trainees’ individual needs. Our project increased labour market relevance of VET by developing and using innovative transversal methods between world of work and VET-schools. Chosen objectives merged together for the main objective of the project.

Our main output is a Handbook of organizing individual learning pathways in work-based-learning. The Handbook can be tailored to each participant’s needs and it presents innovative practices. T2W conducted first a pilot field research on workplaces to find out the prevailing world of work situation of the partner and future possibilities in work-based-learning. Second it organised a pilot to study the possibilities of work based learning practices and to share experiences. Learners and staff from each partner were engaged essentially to project tasks in their schools and in workshops in four transnational meetings of the project.

Our Handbook, results and project documents are open and available to all without any limitations. Outputs have been delivered and uploaded on-line at T2W Facebook website.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Train2WorkVET/

Erasmus+ Project Results Platform:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/

T2W emphasizes open and wide dissemination.

T2W ‘s direct target groups were teachers, trainers at work and learners of each participating institute which will have a long term impact on their practices and performance. It benefits widely local actors in world-of work, other VET-units, employment and education authorities and other secondary schools. Impact is local, national and in EU-level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84880 Eur

Project Coordinator

Raahen Porvari- ja Kauppakoulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Obchodni akademie Tomase Bati a Vyssi odborná skola ekonomicka Zlin namesti T. G. Masaryka 3669
• Karsiyaka Ilce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu
• Aarhus Business College
• Strömbackaskolan Piteå