VACIDE – vocational action competence in digital environments Erasmus Project

Project Title

VACIDE – vocational action competence in digital environments

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project “VACIDE – vocational action competence in digital enviroments” is implemented by 4 partners from Slovenia, Italy and Germany, who are supported by various associated partners.
The digital transformation of work and production processes places new demands on the skills of specialists. Problem solving, self-learning skills or dealing with complexity as well as process understanding are skills that are required in addition to the technical knowledge and skills to master the challenges.
The EU has made recommendations and action plans such as the action plan for digital education (SWD (2018) 12 final) outlined strategies for action in order to use vocational approaches to master the above-mentioned challenges.
In all three partner regions and among the partners themselves, there is a need for vocational pedagogical approaches that enable and support the necessary process and action orientation. Learning tasks are required that make the provision of company services a subject of learning and enable the learners to acquire the knowledge required for competent task management. Digital sequences are desirable for the acquisition of digital skills (COM (2018) 22 final), also in order to provide the learning tasks at all participating learning locations.
In this context, the partnership “VACIDE” decided to classify the project in the educational area-specific priority “developing partnerships aimed at promoting work based learning in all its forms”.
To promote work based learning
• Developed and tested inter-company learning projects for the acquisition of vocational skills for trainees in a digitalized world of work,
• supports teachers in creating digital content and using it appropriately for didactic purposes,
• Strengthen learning location cooperation between companies and vocational training institutions by exchanging tried and tested instruments using digital media.
On the basis of the instructional design model, teachers at different learning locations are enabled to use process-oriented methods to promote the ability of learners to act in the digitalized world of work. The basic idea of the learning projects enables joint learning based on a business process.
The aim of the project is to reach 60 teachers and 75 apprentices in the metal and electrical fields as well as in commercial and administrative professions.
The results should include be applicable for the following apprenticeships:
• Electrical engineer (SLO / I) or electronics engineer in FR industrial engineering (D)
• Mechatronics technician (SLO / D) or mechanical engineer (I)
• Tool mechanic (D) or toolmaker (I)
• Secretarial, administrative and tourism specialist (I), industrial clerk (D) and commercial specialist (SLO)
After the end of the project, the tried and tested learning projects are expected to be used by the network partners and in their networks, at the level of use in training processes and in the development of additional learning projects based on the pedagogical skills acquired by the trainers.
For the partners, an increased process orientation in their own teaching and learning processes is expected due to the experience they have experienced in developing the IO’s based on the division of labor. Along with this, increased flexibility in the educational processes is expected, which is a requirement of the digital transformation for those involved in vocational training. Expressing this new flexibility can be the rapid provision of work-related learning projects or the independent development of explanatory video sequences that are developed and made available in accordance with the “VACIDE blueprint”.
Furthermore, the strengthening of workplace-oriented learning through the successful completion of project tasks and the available products is expected. The effect is triggered by the processing of a (constructed) customer order, from which workplace-oriented learning projects and digital sequences are derived and made usable for learning location cooperation.
The intellectual outputs resulting from the strategic partnership VACIDE can represent a “blueprint” at all levels, which enables actors in vocational training to develop and implement learning projects themselves. This is associated with the expectation that the measures proposed by the EU Commission in its recommendations and action plans, such as Support the promotion of innovation and digital skills in all educational institutions. This also applies to the implementation of the national measures proposed in the context of Economy 4.0, such as process orientation, labor market relevance or cooperation between learning venues in vocational training.

Project Website

http://www.vacide.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 351715 Eur

Project Coordinator

VHS-Bildungswerk GmbH, Zweigniederlassung Thüringen & Country: DE

Project Partners

• GEBIFO Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Bildungsforschung und Qualifizierung mbH
• Solski center Skofja Loka
• Eurocultura