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Francisco de Holanda, has a relevant component of its educational offer centred on VET

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Post date 31 May 2021
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Francisco de Holanda Secondary School has a relevant component of its educational offer centred on Vocational Education and Training (VET), in compliance with its Educational Project that defines two very concrete and clear axes: 1) Educating for Knowledge and 2) Educating in Citizenship.

It has invested and fostered interdisciplinary and differentiating projects, evolving teachers, students, and local community. Two examples are the Sexual Education Project andThe Rhetoric Tournament.
In the Sexual Education Project, students are invited to attend or participate actively in different activities, such as Art Exhibitions, Thematic Debates, Article Presentations, Theatre Performances, Literary Exhibitions and Tertulia, and Cinema Cycles. Among the integrating themes, we can find “Gender Equality”, “Gender Construction and Identity”, “Violence and Gender Differences”, “Sexual Order Pathologies”, and Gender Violence and Dating Violence.
The activities always take place during class time, but outside the classroom. Students are invited and welcomed in places associated with Arts and Culture in Guimarães, such as Associação Artística Vimaranense, Sociedade Martins Sarmento, Municipal Library, Centro Internacional das Artes José Guimarães (CIAJG). Over the years, it has involved experts from different fields, such as psychiatric and sexologist Pedro Morgado, from the University of Minho; human rights activists, such as João Paulo from Portugal Gay; feminist associations like UMAR; Republic Assembly Deputies, such as Joana Mortágua or Alexandra Vieira. In these new pandemic times, the project adapted to the contingencies and adopted the Open Classes and Webinars formats and Facebook Livestreams.

The other project that integrates and promotes social integration and citizenship, as well as democratic and responsible civic participation, is the Rhetoric Tournament. It is organized with the support of Associação Artística Vimaranense, an artistic and social association based in Guimarães. In this project, students are challenged to prepare and discuss fracturing social themes such as euthanasia, creation or legalization of mixed bathrooms in school and compete with each other until the big finale. All of the students, teachers and the local community are invited to attend the open sessions of the tournament.
These projects have proved to be both differentiators and facilitators of interaction among classes and among different disciplines curricula. Additionally, they promote common European values, foster social integration; enhance intercultural understanding and the creation of a common identity based on social, historical and cultural European and human values. Finally, but most important, these cross-curricular projects prevent radicalisation and lack of tolerance and human values.

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Construction traineeships in the south of France

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Post date 31 May 2021
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In January 2022, Don Bosco Sint-Denijs-Westrem is sending four students of the 7th year of construction and planning techniques on an internship to Perpignan in the south of France.

They will work a few weeks in local construction companies and thus further improve their skills in site supervision and calculation.

In addition, their fluency in the French language will undoubtedly be sharpened. They are looking forward to an internship that will be a great asset to their future CV.

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SCOOPCONSS, Sustainable Cooperative Ideas: from business idea to start up

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Post date 4 May 2021
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EGina – European Grants International Academy – a training agency operating in Foligno has promoted an interesting Erasmus+ project “SCoopConSS” (Sustainable Cooperative Ideas) for several high schools in the Umbria region.

The Istituto Tecnico Economico “Feliciano Scarpellini” joined the project with enthusiasm and acquiring its educational value in improving entrepreneurial skills in students, skills that are very much in line with the course of study and difficult to develop in a formal context and which constitute fundamental elements of the transversal competences for orientation pathway. Despite the fact that the meetings were held online, considering all the difficulties, the students of classes IV E and IVF of the Institute made a real effort to carry out this project, thanks to the constant and motivating work of tutors Prof Leonardo Rosignoli and Giovanna Rosaria Contu.
The project is also partnered by Next -Nuova Economia per tutti- an association based in Rome, which is committed to promoting and implementing a new economy: civil, more inclusive, participatory and sustainable, as opposed to the traditional profit-oriented economy that does not take into account the negative effects on the environment and people.
The aim is to develop, through the use of the Canvas Model, an innovative idea on which to create a business necessarily inspired by the objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda. The students were divided into three groups that during the initial briefing shared the guidelines of the project and, through a brainstorming activity, developed several business ideas. One idea per group was selected and the best idea will be made public in May 2021. The best idea will participate in a national competition together with other Italian schools. The winning school will travel to Colfiorito for 4 days to discuss its business idea with European partners. The Egina coordinator, promoter of the project will offer all participants the opportunity to present their idea at the National Festival of Civil Economy.

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Modular dental 3D CAD software for the High School “Pertini”

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Post date 4 May 2021
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Despite the difficulties related to the contingency of the moment, the epidemiological emergency from COVID-19 has not dampened the desire for activities related to PCTO that the Pertini Institute of Afragola has always focused on and implemented to ensure the full educational success of its students. In particular, with regard to the vocational course “Operatore Socio-Sanitario-articolazione-Odontotecnico”(Health and Social Worker-Dental Technician), the Institute boasts a state-of-the-art laboratory, equipped with a modular CAD 3D Dental Software that allows implementing an active didactics making natural and easy the work on direct experience or mediated by digital technologies.

The Institute has vigorously resisted the difficulties of this difficult year; the continuation of the laboratory activities in presence has been guaranteed for the current school year, but also during the days when the school is closed, by an agreement that the Institute has entered into with a local company, the dental laboratory “Acerra” in synergy with the tutors of the school, respecting in the execution of the teaching service and the characteristics and quality standards of the Institute itself.
Considering, moreover, the ever-increasing importance of the collaboration between School and University, as well as the need to support students in this delicate historical moment, on the occasion of the resumption of teaching activities in presence following the exit from the “red zone”, the Sandro Pertini of Afragola has entered into a further agreement to support the PCTOs with the Multidisciplinary Department of Medical-Surgical and Dental Specialties of the University “Vanvitelli” of Naples through a training project aimed at all students in the fourth and fifth year, providing them with a further opportunity to grow and improve their preparation for greater and more effective inclusion in the increasingly competitive world of work.

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Let’s Explore Our Cultural Heritage with Technology and Art

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Post date 4 May 2021
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The meetings between the pupils of two first years of the secondary school of I.O. Pestalozzi (lead school) and their “colleagues” from four schools in four European countries – Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania and Turkey – participating in the Erasmus Plus Project “Let’s Explore our Cultural Heritage with Technology and Art” have just ended.

This KA2 project foresees four mobilities, which for obvious reasons are currently suspended, of small groups of 6 students, accompanied by 2 teachers, over a period of 24 months.

During these short virtual tours in three of the five countries involved, the first stop was “our beautiful Sicily”. The meeting was coordinated by the Headmaster, prof. ssa Elena Di Blasi, who is making internationalization one of the bulwarks of her management and teaching activities: “I started working on Erasmus Plus, together with the partner schools, in the middle of the Lockdown – says the headmistress – a year ago, despite all the concerns, I took on the coordination of the application for this project. A seed planted in the “middle of winter” is timidly beginning to appear on the fringes of this spring: a small taste of what we all hope will once again become a real journey. Stay tuned!”

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DigiFrame: Teachers’ Framework on Digitalisation & Innovation

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Post date 4 May 2021
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Syntra West and Syntra Limburg started this Erasmus + project in March 2021. With partners from Denmark, Finland and Ireland, we focus on the digital skills of our teachers.

We are developing a 360° Assessment Tool to map digital skills among teachers and a personal learning path to strengthen these skills. We are investigating how to strengthen the innovative climate within our organizations.

Knowledge gained within the project will be shared online and through events in the partner countries.

More information: syntrawest.be

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Pedagogical Restaurant

During this time of pandemic and remote teaching, good practices had to be reinvented.

The distance prevents us from smelling the smells and feel the textures, as well as tasting the flavors of the different dishes produced by the Cookery/Pastry students, which would be more complete with the harmonization of the drinks proposed by the Restaurant-Bar students.

However, thanks to the work done by the Multimedia students, the Escola Secundária de Felgueiras present the Pedagogical Restaurant.

Teachers and students (current and former students) of the Vocational Courses of Cookery/Pastry, Restaurant-Bar and Multimedia are involved in this project.

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FICA Project

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The FICA project (Fight Against Absenteeism / School Dropout) began in September 2019 as way of responding to the goals of the educational project, which aims at reducing the students’ absenteeism and dropout and, consequently, increase the successful completion of the courses attended.

At the moment, FICA consists of a psychologist and four teachers from the Escola Profissional Dr. Francisco Fernandes (www.enneproject.eu/schools/instituto-para-a-qualificacao-ip-ram/) that, together with the course coordinators/mediators and the parents, try to manage deviant or risky behaviors that may compromise school success.

With this team, trainees can find a trusting environment where they can freely share their problems, thus allowing the definition of joint strategies that seek the improvement of their school situation.

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European Strategic Plan Implementation : “Web Marketing Accelerator” training course

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Post date 2 April 2021
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Into the Erasmus+ KA3 Digital Tourism Project, the High School “Scarpellini” (Foligno-Italy) organises a training course on “Web Marketing Accelerator”.

The course will be lead by Valentina la Magna, teacher at the school and expert in Web Marketing. The course is organised in 10 classes totalling 30 hours – 3 hours per lesson. The first part is focused on theorical studies which will be followed by practical exercises to allow the students to achieve the necessary skills to work on the High School’s social editorial plan until the end of the school year.
The tutor and other teachers will monitor all students.

The main mission is to guide all students to develop a web marketing strategy to be used in the tourism sector. They’ll have a work experience in the related enterprises and they’ll acquire skills to be used in the labour market. The first four modules are focused on the web competencies: introduction, communication styles, advertising in 2020 and CRM (Customer Relationship Management – a process in which a business or another organisation administers its interactions with customers, usually using data analysis to study large amounts of information). The course will begin shortly and fourth- and fifth-grade students will get involved. The internationalization plan developed by school allows to include all different activities that will be carried out by the school. The skills the students will acquire within the course on Web Marketing will be immediately applied. When they will conclude their studies at school they will be involved in work experiences abroad – in July and August 2021.
The opportunity is within the European Project KA116 “W.I.I.P. Widenening Inclusion and Internationalization Plan” and allows the fifth-grade students to have a five-week trasnational work experience in specialised enterprises. Fourth-grade students will instead implement what they have learned next year. In the meanwhile, they will go on by updating all school communication channels. In September and October 2021 they will be included within the KA116 UPVET, Carta della mobilità (Mobility Card), and they will have a five-week work experience abroad in specialised enterprises as well.

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Presentation of the National Calls for VET Staff and Learners

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Post date 2 April 2021
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The European Commission states that “education, training, youth work and sport are key to promote common European values, foster social integration, enhance intercultural understanding and a sense of belonging to a community and to prevent radical radicalisation”.

The Erasmus+ programme, besides of enhancing the academic and professional course of its participants, also improves the knowledge of new cultures, new languages, intercultural communication and interaction, and the sense of what it is like to be a European citizen.

The mobility actions for VET learners and staff strengths the employability of its participants, facilitates entrance in the labour market and it also foster their personal development.

The ENNE project has as an objective the enhancement of VET quality and attractiveness, with a specific focus on mobility opportunities. VET staff and learners will be encouraged to take part in VET mobility experiences. Each country will make available mobility grants for learners willing to take part in a WBL experience abroad and for job-shadowing activities for teachers. These mobility experiences aim at the:

Promotion of peer-learning methodologies among VET staff;
Promotion of the acquisition of soft skills for VET learners;
Promotion of WBL (Work Based Learning) and mobility for VET learners and staff.

With this is mind, the project partners will soon launch two national calls: one for VET Staff and one for VET Learners.

Internal call for VET teachers to apply for a Job-shadowing activity abroad; followed by the evaluation, selection and implementation of the Job-shadowing experience:

Most of teachers have little to no experience in careers outside of education and may have difficulty to understanding clearly how students will apply the knowledge and skills acquired during their academic courses. Because of this, activities such as Job-shadowing based on best practices can be of great value for these teachers. The implementation of Job-shadowing abroad aims at:

Give teachers the opportunity to observe and learn the best practices developed in other EU countries;
Inspire new ideas for teaching in VET;
Give hosting organisation the opportunity to interact with a teacher coming from another country and discuss about today’s educational challenges and opportunities;
Create/strengthen connections between teachers and the potential partners capable of providing them with expertise and resources for their classrooms and schools.

Internal call for WBL experiences abroad for VET Learners, followed by the evaluation, selection and implementation of the WBL experiences:

Transnational mobility aimed at acquiring new skills is one of the fundamental ways through which individuals, particularly young people, can strengthen their future employability and foster their personal development. VET enables these young learners to acquire the knowledge, skills and experience they need to succeed in the labour market, whether for a specific job or for a wider range of occupations.

Based on the experience and on the inspiration of role models videos, previously developed and released by the project partners, VET learners will apply for this call, presenting their own Work Based Learning project.

These two national calls will be directed to the associated partners of the 5 National Networks ENNE (Portugal, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, and Belgium). Teachers and learners will have to submit their applications, which will be evaluated by the project partners, and the selected participants will have the opportunity to participate in the mobility activities, offered by the ENNE project.