The VET pupils of the GO! atheneum of Maldegem, Eeklo and Zelzate went on a two-week Erasmus placement to France, Italy, Germany and Portugal. The pupils were given a warm welcome in the fraternity town of Zelzate.
The pupils were immersed in the foreign work field. The students worked hard on their subject-related and language skills, all thanks to the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.
On April 8, 2022, EGInA organised the ENNE Project Multiplier Event in Foligno with the participation of national schools from all over Italy.
Altheo Valentini, the coordinator and General Manager at EGInA, presented the benefits of the project and opportunities in the field of Vocational Education and Training in Europe.
4 schools from the ENNE Network attended the event:
Technical Technological Institute “Leonardo Da Vinci” Foligno
About 100 students participated in the laboratories and working groups. All activities were planned for schools to create new connections and promote the project.
In 2022, Connectief was able to launch the KA2 project LOGIPRO with the COFEP project. It aims to develop a work-based programme that prepares European students in VET for advanced logistics training in higher education or for a job within the logistics sector.
With the methodology of the virtual company in logistics education programmes, this project aims to increase the inflow into higher education and the labour market.
Website: logipro-project.com
Michelangelo Capodimonio from Foligno, Italy was a guest lecturer at PGEE, Galabovo in the period from 21.03.2022 to 25.03.2022. His visit was part of the activities of ENNE – European National Networks for the Enhancement of VET project, No. 608964-EPP-1-2019-1-IT-EPPKA3-VET-NETPAR for welcoming mobility of “Job shadowing” for teachers within the international network ENNE. The Italian colleague is an engineer with a degree in “Electronics” with three years of teaching experience and at IPSIA ,,Beato Simone Fidati”- city of. He has also been trained at the University of Cascia (Cascia).
ENNE is an Erasmus+ project which aims to enhance the quality and attractiveness of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in five partner countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Portugal and Belgium) with a specific focus on mobility opportunities.
The last phase of the ENNE project is being implemented, which is mainly focused on organising transnational mobility activities for both VET staff and students and has the following objectives:
– improving cooperation between VET providers at national and European level;
– sharing good practices;
– promoting mutual learning methodologies among VET staff;
– promoting the acquisition of soft skills for VET learners;
Observation as a method of working represents a very effective method of achieving these objectives as it provides an opportunity to visit another (host) and observe the work for an agreed period of time.
ENNE job shadowing is based on good practice identified within national networks and these aim to:
– enable teachers to observe and learn best practices developed in other EU countries;
– inspire new ideas for teaching in VET;
– enable the hosting organisation to interact with a teacher coming from another country and discuss today’s educational challenges and opportunities;
– create/strengthen relationships between teachers and potential partners to provide expertise and resources for their classrooms and schools.
The project team revised and developed a set of tools (e.g. instruments, protocols, …) for coping with diversity matching the Common frame of reference on diversity.
Each partner developed activities in local schools around the project’s theme. The project team designed international training. Based on all experiences the project website provides a blueprint and roadmap that before use has to be contextualized/adapted by the user.
Website: www.udel21.eu
School: Catholic Education Flanders
Since January 1, 2022, ITKAM – Italian Chamber of Commerce for Germany is the coordinator of the DIGIT project (DIGItal Transformation of Internationalization process), funded by the German National Erasmus+ Agency NABIBB.
DIGIT has emerged as a response to the COVID -19 pandemic situation, which has required SMEs in the agrifood sector in particular to rapidly strengthen digital skills in the sales and marketing process. These companies have had to adapt to digital marketing strategies and develop and implement new online or hybrid events within a few weeks.
DIGIT aims to develop three OERs training materials (Open Electronic Resources) for internationalization experts (e.g. employees of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Chambers of Commerce Abroad) and for internationalization trainers (e.g. teachers at vocational schools for foreign trade or trainers at Chambers of Commerce and Industry).
THE 1ST TRAINING MATERIAL: TOOLKIT#1
The first of the three OERs training materials is Toolkit #1. This toolkit will provide a guide for experts and educators in the internationalization field and will address content including:
TESTER – RECRUITMENT FOR TOOLKIT#1:
ITKAM is looking for testers with the following profiles for Toolkit#1:
Internationalisation experts will implement the Toolkit#1 at SMEs they serve as clients. Teachers will deliver the Toolkit#1 content to their learners. Selected testers can benefit from all three OERs training materials in advance and free of charge.
Toolkit#1 is an online course with approximately 10 hours of learning time. Testing will take place in September/October 2022. The available places for testing from Toolkit#1 are:
– 35 trainers/educators as well as teachers in vocational education and training.
– 35 places for export managers/event planners and trade experts
Apply as a tester for Toolkit #1 until June 30, 2022 at this link: https://www.f6s.com/digit-expression-of-interest/apply
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Ms. Raffaella Saviori (rsaviori@itkam.org; +49 (0) 69 971452 42)
Ms. Sonia Barani (sbarani@itkam.org; +49 (0) 341 98972513)
All over Europe there is a need for innovative ways to include young people in difficulty into education and training. Internships abroad offer great opportunities for learners as they have a positive effect on learning performance and motivation, support the further development of personality and significantly improve the chances on the labour market.
The Erasmus+ project InMobVET therefore developed the following resources to facilitate the inclusion through mobility:
On our website (vet.eu-mobility.eu) you can find both resources as open educational resources.
The PTI of Kortrijk started a collaboration with Pertersime (world’s largest producer of incubators) for the construction of a real chicken house as a test lab in the school.
VET students and teachers breed every 6 weeks 500 chickens from 50g to +/- 3kg under different but standardized conditions. They feed and do the 2 weekly weighing of the animals. The data generated here is the basis for studies on feed conversion.
PHOTO Credits: by Sten Rademaker on Unsplash
After the considerable losses last year in the wake of the Corona pandemic and its combating, the current situation on the training market only eased slightly in 2021. With a total of 473,100 newly concluded contracts for vocational training, 52,000 fewer contracts were concluded than in 2019, before the Corona pandemic.
The number of training places on offer in 2021 was 536,200, more than 40,000 fewer than in 2019, before the Corona pandemic (578,200).
The number of young people seeking dual vocational training fell again by 4,800 (-0.9%) to 540,900 compared to the previous year. The demand for training places thus reached a new low since 1992, when the data for the reunified Germany were first available.
In contrast, the number of unfilled training places continued to rise and reached a new record level. 63,200 training places remained unfilled in 2021. The number of unfilled training places had already steadily increased in previous years (2019: 53,100, 2020: 59,900).
BIBB President Friedrich Hubert Esser said the Corona pandemic also had a firm grip on the training market in 2021. Dual training continues to be a central component for qualifying the skilled workers of tomorrow. Nevertheless, the uncertainty caused by the ongoing pandemic is palpable among companies and young people. An increasing problem is a steadily decreasing demand for training places by youths and young adults. Because “where there is a lack of trainees today, there will be a lack of skilled workers tomorrow,” said Esser.
Therefore, finding and qualifying enough skilled workers will be one of the greatest challenges of the current decade. An attractive and robust vocational education and training system is needed to meet this challenge.
Thanks to the ENNE project, where Connectief and EGInA are partners. Last November, they were able to develop work placement activities for 10 Belgian students in Italy with the Erasdu mobility project. EGInA supported Connectief to research the best companies to host the learners.
The 10 students came from different sectors in the fields: “Care”, “Administration”, “Tourism”, “HORECA” and “Automechanics” of GOTalent (Dendermonde), Petrus en Paulus (Oostende), ZAVO (Zaventem), Atheneum Brakel, Atheneum Mortsel and HTISA (Gent).
The experience lasted 15 days and each student was able to work in companies in the area of Foligno (Umbria). They all expressed a positive opinion and underlined the importance of gaining experience abroad to grow professionally and personally.
Thanks to the companies that hosted the 10 students:
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Numero di accordo: Nr 608964-EPP-1-2019-1-IT-EPPKA3-VET-NETPAR