InnoTraiN

Programme: Erasmus+ KA2 – Progetto di Innovazione VET
Duration: 30 months
Countries: Austria, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece
Partners: 9 organisations across 5 EU countries
Methodology: Action Research on VET-Business partnerships and WBL

Project Overview

InnoTraiN is an Erasmus+ KA2 innovation project in the area of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Work-Based Learning (WBL). The project focuses on key issues in VET-Business partnership promotion, tackling the weak elements of the work-based learning cycle in five representative European regions. InnoTraiN aims to create a more systematic engagement of VET providers and businesses, investigating, designing and implementing new synergies among local key stakeholders for WBL promotion. The project seeks to inspire sustainable policy reforms on education and employment while reducing youth unemployment and skills mismatch.

Objectives

• Bridge the gap between the worlds of education and business through strengthened VET-Business partnerships
• Give new impetus to VET-Business engagement through continuous training for practitioners in five EU regions
• Contribute to reducing youth unemployment and skills mismatch by strengthening the WBL component in VET
• Drive active and continuous participation of social partners in the design, delivery and monitoring of WBL

Implementation

InnoTraiN uses an Action Research methodology focused on three main issues: understanding and innovating VET-Business partnerships; designing new training programmes and methodologies for skills upgrade of key practitioners; and suggesting more effective cooperation structures for a wide audience of stakeholders. The research backbone integrates comparative analysis across five EU regions, joint staff training events for cross-transfer of European best practices, and creation of four intellectual outputs for VET teachers, tutors, designers, in-company trainers, social bodies and public administrations.

Expected Results

• Four transferable Intellectual Outputs for VET-Business cooperation and WBL quality
• New and revised VET-Business cooperation structures in Italy, Spain and Greece; updated models in Germany and Austria
• Strengthened quality assurance, evaluation and monitoring processes for WBL outcomes
• Policy reform recommendations for more effective education-employment cooperation at regional and European level

InnoTraiN creates lasting structures for VET-Business cooperation that reduce skills mismatch and open new pathways for youth employability across Europe.