WORK-BASED LEARNING EXPERIENCES ABROAD FOR VET LEARNERS

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.

Within ENNE, the WBL experiences abroad for VET learners shall allow the learners to develop their professional and soft skills, such as communication, problem-solving, critical thinking and teamwork.

ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED:

• Connectief
• TSM Mechelen
• VDAB
• Diagnose Car
• Educam
• Audi Vorst

PROGRAMME FOR 10-DAYS WBL EXPERIENCE FOR VET LEARNERS

• DAY 1
  Learning Outcomes:
  – Getting to know each other: communication skills, international skills
  – Getting to know Belgium/Flanders: Cultural characteristics, history
  – Getting to know Mechelen (the city where the students stay)
  

TIMETABLE:
9.00 – 10.30 Different methods for teambuilding, with Connectief, (location: TSM Mechelen)
10.30 – 12.00 Getting to know Belgium/Flanders, with Connectief (location: TSM Mechelen)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 Getting to know Mechelen with Guide Connectief (location: City Center Mechelen)
18.00 Dinner (location: Mechelen)

• DAY 2
  Learning Outcomes:
  – Understanding the safety needs (for the working area) to work on a hydrogen car
  – Understand the general operating principles of electric and hybrid electric vehicles
  – Being able to identify electric and hybrid electric vehicles and know the associated risks
  – Being able to handle electric and hybrid electric vehicles (daily use: starting and driving)
  – Being able to correctly assess the risks, knowing and being able to apply the correct procedures when dealing with electric and hybrid electric vehicles
  – To be able to estimate the risks of working on damaged vehicles

TIMETABLE:
8.30 – 9.00 Setting up a workshop for work on hydrogen vehicles with Educam (Location: Educam Lokeren)
9.00 – 16.30 Basic safety HEV training with Educam (Location: Educam Lokeren)

• DAY 3
  Learning Outcomes:
  – Assembly and disassembly skills
  – Welding, schematic reading
  – Applying knowledge about the operation of electrical systems
  – Increasing understanding of applied automobile electricity
  – Getting to know a local dish
  – Being able to work together

TIMETABLE:
9.00 – 12.00 Startup Greenpower 
13.30 – 16.00 Individual work on green power cart (2 groups) 
18.00 Cooking with the guidance of Belgian Chef Connectief (location: House where students stay)

• DAY 4
  Learning Outcomes:
  – Being able to make a diagnose when a vehicle has a simple problem
  – Being able to work with a scope
  – Being able to work with a multimeter
  – Being able to operate a Hololens (MS).
  – Being able to practice the discharging of an electric vehicle via a Hololens (MS) application EV’nAR

TIMETABLE:
8.30 – 12.00
Group 1: working on technical failures on a plugin hybrid. with TSM Mechelen (location: TSM Mechelen)
Group 2: Using EV’nAR, hololens Application in AR for recharging an electric vehicle with Diagnose Car (location: TSM Mechelen)
13.00 – 16.30
Group 2: working on technical failures on a plugin hybrid. with TSM Mechelen (location: TSM Mechelen)
Group 1: Using EV’nAR, hololens Application in AR for recharging an electric vehicle, with Diagnose Car (location: TSM Mechelen)

• DAY 5
  Learning Outcomes:
  – Assembly and disassembly skills
  – Welding, schematic reading
  – Applying knowledge about the operation of electrical systems,
  – Increasing understanding of applied automobile electricity

TIMETABLE:
9.00 – 16.30 Individual work on green power cart (2 groups)

• DAY 6

TIMETABLE:
9.00 – 20.00 Visit Antwerp with Connectief (Location: Antwerp)

• DAY 7

TIMETABLE:
Free time for students

• DAY 8
  Learning Outcomes:
  – Assembly and disassembly skills
  – Welding, schematic reading
  – Applying knowledge about the operation of electrical systems
  – Increasing understanding of applied automobile electricity

TIMETABLE:
9.00 – 16.30 Individual work on green power cart (2 groups) 

• DAY 9

TIMETABLE:
9.00 – 20.00 Visit of Brussels with Connectief 

• DAY 10
  Learning Outcomes:
  – Knowledge of the different parts and assembly of an electric vehicle
  – Knowledge about the making of a battery pack
  – Comprehension of the automated process for the manufacturing of electric cars
  – Being able to assess the + and – of the self-made cart
  – Being able to steer the self-made cart
  

TIMETABLE:
9.00 – 12.00 Visit factory Audi Vorst – the making of the Audi e-tron with Diagnose Car (location: Audi Vorst)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Race with Greenpower karts