Erasmus project SMART&STEAM VET

ERASMUS PROJECT SMART&STEAM VET

Guidance strategies in the Digital Era – Serious gaming for SMART educational choices for life

APPLICANT: Colegiul Tehnic “Cibinium”

Partners: OEIBF, Austria, CIFP Valle de Elda, Spain, ZEPSOL School, Poland, Melazeta Srl, Centoform Srl, Italy.

DURATION 24 MONTHS, FROM 01-11-2019 TO 31-10-2021

Final program of the online training session planned on the 9th of November (2.45 pm), devoted to teachers/trainers of partner organizations and open to external stakeholders (teachers, trainers, in-company trainers, career guidance counsellors, public administrators in charge for innovation in educational policies, etc.). The session will be implemented online by CISCO WEBEX PLATFORM, accessing HERE.

PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT

SMART & STEAM VET project is a KA2 Strategic Partnerships project on Innovation. It is a cross-sectoral project between VET and School Education. Its actions and outputs will focus on key target issues connected to VET attractiveness in the digital era, professional development and social inclusion in 5 European countries: Romania, Austria, Italy, Poland and Spain. The improvement focus will be regional and local but benefiting from a transnational dimension working on innovation of ICT tools via Gamification and training programmes for professionals involved in guidance activities for students and parents during transition periods in educational cycles. Serious gaming for guidance is the methodology chosen.

Our Strategic Partnership points to create a more systematic engagement of lower secondary and upper secondary schools, VET providers and companies and inspire sustainable policy reforms on education and employment with a focus on gender issues connected to S.T.E.A.M. subjects and technical culture in training and job market. In details activities will tackle the following issues related to E+2019 VET priorities:

– Continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors with effective capacity building actions through two transnational joint staff trainings and five multiplying events at local level. Professional development will focus on digital skills, quality assurance, evaluation and monitoring processes of learning outcomes and impacts of guidance activities on learners, companies, VET providers and general education providers. – Open Education in a digital era connected to update of VET and school system to innovation and digitalization of learning processes.

– Early school leaving caused by a wrong choice at early age leading to social exclusion and low skilled jobs. A mix of complementary transnational partners, 3 VET providers, 1 research institute on VET, 1 gamification private company will work on a 26 months basis for creating 2 new digital IOs and deliver massive awareness raising campaigns exploiting two European Skills Week framework. We will drive positive and concrete messages to students, parents, external schools and policy makers. The motivation of partners to participate in the project is strongly connected to the observation of local needs and the acknowledgement about the necessity to try to cover the gap between skills’ qualifications and job market demand, especially in a far future with 4.0 revolution and IoT. We point at strengthening a SMART choice from early age, investing in innovation of guidance practices in VET providers and positively influencing parents mind-set especially connected to gender stereotypes on STEAM subjects and job profiles, indeed required by the job market. The OVERALL OBJECTIVE of the project is to create a transferable Serious Learning Game and its training assets and webinars for the upgrade of professional competences of education and VET practitioners, teachers and mentors daily involved in guidance activities pointing on qualitative growth of high quality skills and competences. On the other hand we intend to investigate and develop new strategies for effective VET-business cooperation structures involving complementary stakeholders, mutually responsible for effective education and employment local and European policies for learners.

Addressed needs:

Lack of attractiveness of VET as first choice during transition moments for students and families

Lack of innovation in guidance tools owned by schools addressing students and families

Lack of digitally skilled professionals in VET and education fields

Skills mismatch in national markets and EU job market

Lack of effective pairing strategies involving schools and companies

Lack of quality and monitoring strategies owned by teachers for detecting effective guidance and pairing strategies

Gender gap and stereotypes related to STEAM subjects, technical job profiles

Lack of effective partnerships between education and business in creating effective guidance strategies

Early school leaving due to wrong choice and leading to social exclusion and low skilled jobs

Direct Beneficiaries:

Students aged 12-14 years old and their families, teachers and mentors from lower and upper secondary schools and VET schools. Indirect beneficiaries: Companies, local bodies responsible for policy making processes, job market actors. Expected number of overall beneficiaries involved: At least 2.500 with outreach activities. Long term effects:

– Smart policies connecting education to real job market and skills needs

– Sustainable cooperation policies on education, employment, reduction of drop out and social exclusion

– Benefits to educational system for impacting on learners for life through innovation and its new positioning

– Structured cooperation strategies between VET-education-local policy makers-companies with smart guidance services for students and families during transition phases.

KEY WORDS: Career Guidance, Placement, Employability, Gamification, Gender, STEAM, Early School leaving, skill mismatch, policy recommendations.

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Diagnosis

European project: “DIAGNOSIS Innovating a crucial profession in building and construction sector”

Diagnosis is financed by the Erasmus + program of the European Commission – Erasmus Plus/Key Action 2/Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training – and has a duration of two years (November 2017 – October 2019).

The project general aim is to deepen knowledge about existing up-to-date technological tools for building assessment through the collaboration among international partners, and consequently to upgrade existing training tools and professional qualifications curricula in order to create a renewed professional profile in building and construction sector.

One important need of this sector is related to the lack of a specific professional profile: a DIAGNOSTIC EXPERT, an expert who can dialogue with owners of existing buildings or their representatives (administrador/amministratori di condominio/building managers/administrator kondominium) and at the same time with building and construction professionals, being the one who can use up-to-date technologies to analyze the building, detect and explain the needed interventions (i.e. for earthquakes prevention, for improving energy, structural and environmental comfort etc).

This expert could – with specific socio-psychological and technical competences – inform and guide owners and building managers in planning interventions through a really aware and informed decision based on real data on their specific building.

The desired professional profile includes competences in: the use of up-to-date diagnostic tools, cross-disciplinary instrumental techniques and communication. Specifically, ICT applied to construction: Structural, Energy and Environmental diagnosis tools, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Geomatics and remote sensing, 3D models production.

The Project consortium partners are 7 organizations dealing with the construction sector in Spain, Italy, Great Britain and Poland: Asociación RehabiMed (ES), UPC Univesitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ES), PSMB Polskie Stowarzyszenie Menedzerów Budownictwa / Polish Association of Building Managers (PL), Politechnika Warszawska (PL), AEEBC Association of European Building & Construction Experts (UK), Centoform Srl (IT), Università di Ferrara, Dept. of Architecture (IT).

Asociación RehabiMed (ES) leads the project and assumes the projection of the results both between the Euro-Mediterranean university world and the entire sector involved, with the objective of consolidating this profile of expert among the specialties related to the rehabilitation of local heritage.

Project n. 2017-1-ES01-KA203-038254

SHVET

Smart Development of HVET for Highly Skilled and Mobile Workforce

Obiettivi

Il progetto si pone l’obiettivo di contribuire allo sviluppo di un profilo professionale altamente qualificato libero di muoversi in Croazia, Slovenia e Italia contribuendo all’occupazione e riducendo i gap di competenze in aziende del settore elettro/tecnico/edile grazie alla definizione di una qualifica di Istruzione e Formazione Tecnica Superiore (IFTS – HVET).

L’obiettivo specifico è quello di definire una nuova qualifica congiunta di esperto in automazione degli edifici che sia allineato alle esigenze attuali e future dei datori di lavoro, utilizzando un approccio di work based learning (WBL) e che preveda l’integrazione della mobilità di studenti e lavoratori.

Livello 5 dell’EQF

Il livello 5 dell’EQF (Quadro Europeo delle Qualifiche) è un ponte tra istruzione e lavoro e consente di migliorare il proprio profilo sia educativo che professionale. La nuova qualifica risponderà quindi alla richiesta di competenze tecniche avanzate in automazione degli edifici unita a competenze manageriali così da consentire ai lavoratori di migliorare le proprie prospettive professionali. Le qualifiche di livello 5 dell’EQF sono considerate rilevanti dai datori di lavoro dal momento che prevedono l’apprendimento sul luogo di lavoro (WBL) e offrono una specializzazione anche a coloro che hanno qualifiche dello stesso livello o superiori.

Abilità e competenze rilevanti

Il focus nella definizione della qualifica congiunta emergerà dalle aspettative dei datori di lavoro che saranno coinvolti durante l’intero processo – attraverso questionari, focus group, gruppi di lavoro – per l’identificazione delle competenze e dei risultati di apprendimento. Le conoscenze pregresse degli allievi saranno riconosciute sulla base di linee guida e standard di valutazione. Quanto appreso consentirà agli allievi e ai lavoratori di muoversi liberamente tra i tre paesi economicamente connessi. L’approccio WBL sarà determinante per garantire competenze rilevanti e concretamente applicabili.

Il Network SmartApp

Il nuovo curriculum e la nuova qualifica saranno validati da docenti, formatori e esperti IFTS/ITS grazie ad un evento di “Formazione formatori”. I partner di progetto attiveranno il network SmartApp firmando un Memorandum d’intesa tra le organizzazioni di supporto degli istituti IFTS/ITS e dei datori di lavoro. Il Memorandum è la base per la rete di PMI disposte a partecipare allo scambio di lavoratori e studenti.

Gruppi target

  • Datori di lavoro
  • Enti ed Allievi del sistema di Istruzione e Formazione Tecnica
  • Superiore (Corsi IFTS ed ITS)

Obiettivi

  • contribuire alla formazione di forza lavoro altamente qualificata e libera di muoversi

  • ridurre gap di competenze nel settore elettrotecnico e delle costruzioni

  • definire una nuova qualifica congiunta IFTS/ITS di esperto in automazione degli edifici

  • supportare lo sviluppo e la promozione di alta formazione professionale

Edifici smart

Gli edifici smart sono l’estensione digitale degli effetti dello sviluppo tecnologico in architettura e ingegneria. Dal momento che la società è permeata di tecnologia, gli edifici stanno adattandosi al contesto offrendo servizi digitalizzati adeguati a coloro che ci vivono. In tal modo diventeranno uno dei pilastri per la riduzione del consumo di energia sia in contesti rurali che urbani, contribuendo a colmare il divario digitale nonché a sviluppare il potenziale offerto dalla connettività e dalla digitalizzazione nelle aree rurali.

Documenti

The Erasmus+ KA3 project Smart Development of HVET for Highly Skilled and Mobile Workforce (SHVET) brings together VET and HVET providers, research institutions, national agencies for VET and representatives of SMEs in order to deliver a new joint qualification between Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.

The project’s overall objective is to support the development of highly skilled, qualified and mobile workforce between HR, SI and IT with the contribution to employability and closing skills shortages in companies in the electro-technical/construction sector by high quality HVET qualification delivery.

The specific objective is to deliver a new joint HVET qualification of the Expert in building automation which is in line with employers’ present and future needs, based on work based learning (WBL) and integrating mobility of learners and workers.

The new joint qualification will have its foundations in extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis based on an inclusive process of dialogue and consultation with representatives of HVET, research, employers and policy makers. These will encompass questionnaires and focus groups of employers and analysis of educational, sectorial and strategic background. Employers will take part in workshop about key tasks of the new qualification. This will ensure that the qualification responds to labour market current and future needs. The new qualification profile will be standardised, offer transparency, reliability and quality assurance.

With the joint work of (H)VET, research and qualification authorities in expert working groups, a new joint curriculum will be delivered as the main guidance and manual for implementation of the qualification. The curriculum will have a strong WBL basis with minimum of 30% of practical training. Partners will create e-learning teaching and training materials. Recognition of prior formal, non-formal and informal knowledge will be defined in a designed Guidebook.

The European Commission support for the production does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 

Erasmus Start Up Bio

Da oltre 10 anni il settore dell’agricoltura biologica è in continua crescita a livello mondiale. Entro il 2020, saranno 13,5 milioni gli ettari di terreno coltivato con sistemi organici in Europa (Fonte: IFOAM).

E’ in questo quadro che si colloca il progetto START UP BIO, che si pone l’obiettivo primario, nell’arco dei suoi 24 mesi di durata, di favorire la transizione dall’agricoltura tradizionale all’agricoltura biologica e di supportare dunque i conseguenti processi di innovazione delle aziende agricole, attraverso la formazione qualificata ed innovativa di “nuovi giovani agricoltori” interessati a valutare percorsi di start up di aziende agricole bio e di imprenditori agricoli già attivi, che intendano convertire i propri sistemi di produzione dall’agricoltura convenzionale all’agricoltura biologica. Il progetto prevede di sviluppare e testare strumenti formativi innovativi ICT-based per supportare i tali processi di qualificazione degli operatori del settore primario.La creazione di nuova occupazione attraverso l’agricoltura organica sarà dunque il fil rouge del progetto, che avrà un focus speciale sui giovani, affinché possano identificare nei sistemi di produzione organica una prospettiva forte per il ritorno alla terra e per il ricambio generazionale nel settore primario.

Gli aspiranti giovani start upper e gli imprenditori che intendano convertirsi al biologico verranno coinvolti nelle attività formative pilota, fulcro del progetto. La formazione ad essi dedicata sarà essenzialmente incentrata su risorse interattive digitali (video, self tutorial) e percorsi in e-learning, per garantire flessibilità dell’offerta, conciliazione dei tempi di apprendimento con i tempi peculiari al ciclo delle culture e dei lavori agricoli. La formazione digitale consentirà una maggiore accessibilità delle risorse ed una maggiore fruibilità delle opportunità formative per i gruppi target che per lo più si concentreranno in aree periferiche e rurali, che spesso presentano maggiori criticità dal punto di vista logistico e dei collegamenti viari. In ottica di complementarietà ed integrazione dei servizi formativi e di accompagnamento allo start up, i target potranno avvalersi dei servizi “su misura” offerti dall’Incubatore Europeo per l’Agricoltura Biologica di nuova implementazione. In ciascun paese, la partnership si attende di formare n. 80 “nuovi agricoltori bio”, per un totale di n. 320 operatori. Per ottenere tali risultati , in fase di selezione, ciascun partner si attende di colloquiare circa n. 100 potenziali partecipanti/paese , per un totale di n. 400 e di effettuare screening dei curricula per n. 150/paese , per un totale di n. 600. Per il reclutamento dell’utenza e la selezione, al M12 la partnership diffonderà un’Open Call Europea.In esito all’implementazione del progetto, la partnership si attende di aver supportato almeno l’avvio di n. 10 nuove imprese bio e di aver cogestito con gli imprenditori almeno n. 100 conversioni d’impresa agricola convenzionale a biologica.

Gli Output intellettuali che verranno realizzati grazie alla cooperazione della partnership, saranno i seguenti:

  1. MATERIALI DIDATTICI DIGITALI PER IL VIRAL TRAINING IN BIOAGRICOLTURA;
  2. PERCORSI DI FORMAZIONE DIGITALE PER NUOVI AGRICOLTORI BIO;
  3. INCUBATORE VIRTUALE EUROPEO PER LA CREAZIONE DI NUOVE IMPRESE BIO.

Gli impatti attesi dall’implementazione di START UP BIO saranno forti sia sui target prioritari, sul partenariato, sugli stakeholder, così come a livello locale, nazionale ed internazionale in termini di:

  • Rafforzamento delle partnership business-education per l’ideazione ed erogazione di servizi formativi e di accompagnamento allo start up nella filiera agricola biologica;
  • Attuazione di iniziative di qualificazione/riconversione professionale che favoriscano la creazione di nuova occupazione per i giovani aspiranti neo-agricoltori bio ed il mantenimento della professione e della redditività dell’impresa agricola, sempre più in sofferenza, se tradizionale.
  • Diffusione di conoscenze e di tecniche di coltivazione e produzione biologiche, in un’ottica di ampliamento e consolidamento della comunità di pratica dei produttori agricoli dei territori;
  • Sostegno alla diffusione della cultura del biologico allo scopo di favorire l’implementazione di “corretti” processi di conversione e di avvio di nuova impresa;
  • Innovazione delle opportunità e delle metodologie formative nel settore agricoltura, grazie alla valorizzazione di ambienti virtuali e risorse interattive per l’apprendimento;
  • Attivazione di reti locali multistakeholder a supporto dello sviluppo di progettualità locali e di politiche volte a sostenere lo sviluppo locale, l’innovazione del settore primario;
  • Rafforzamento dell’identità rurale dei paesi dell’Area Mediterranea attraverso la diffusione della bioagricoltura.

InnoTraiN

progetto Innotrain

InnoTraiN project is an Eramsus+ KA2 innovation project in the area of VET and Work Based Learning.

InnoTrain actions and outputs will focus on key target issues in VET-Business partnerships’ promotion acting on weak elements of the work-based learning cycle in 5 European regions in Austria, Italy, Germany, Spain and Greece. The improvement focus will be regional and local, benefitting from a transnational dimension working on effective practices leading to innovation of training programmes and tools for professionals involved in WBL development. Our Strategic Partnership points to create a more systematic engagement of VET providers and businesses with the proposal to investigate, design and implement new synergies among local key stakeholders involved in cooperation structures for WBL promotion and inspire sustainable policy reforms on education and employment.

In details activities will tackle the following issues related to E+2018 VET priorities:

Continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors in both school and WBL settings, representatives of social partners and public authorities with effective capacity building actions through joint staff trainings and multiplying training actions at local level. According to professionals’ skills needs analyses performed in the four regions during preparation activities a specific focus will be on Quality Assurance, Evaluation and Monitoring processes of learning outcomes and impacts of WBL either on learners, companies, VET providers and general education providers.

We will stress on integrated design of effective WBL experiences investing on professionalization of VET/school teachers and in-company trainers and tutors, bridging the gap between education and business, with a clear and more intense participation of social partners and public authorities in fostering WBL in all its forms.

A mix of complementary transnational partners (consisting of 9 partners of five EU-countries) will work on a 30 months basis for creating new VET-Business cooperation structures (Italy, Spain, Greece) and revise existing ones (Germany, Austria).

The motivation of partners to participate in the project is strongly connected to the observation of local needs and the acknowledgement about the necessity to try to cover the gap between skills’ qualifications levels and the requirements from job market, starting from strengthening quality and quantity of WBL in education and investing on innovation for practitioners.

The OVERALL OBJECTIVE of the project is to create transferable outputs (4 IOs) for the upgrade of professional competences of practitioners daily involved in VET-business relationships and delivery of WBL programmes pointing on qualitative growth of high quality skills and competences. On the other hand we intend to investigate and develop new strategies for effective VET-business cooperation structures involving complementary local stakeholders, but with an outlook at exploitation in other EU regions.

NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED

  •  To bridge the gap between the worlds of education and business
  • To give new impetus to VET-Business engagement in mature regions through continuous training for practitioners
  • To contribute to reduce youth unemployment rate and skills mismatch strengthening WBL element in VET (all regions)
  • Lack of active and continuous participation of social partners in the process of design, delivery and monitoring of WBL (all regions)

TARGET GROUPS: Professionals in VET/general education/business/social partners/local bodies/youth associations.

Implementation will try to tackle skills challenges and needs at regional and local level in five European representative local contexts in Austria, Italy, Germany, Spain and Greece with an Action Research methodology focused on three main issues:

  1.  Understand and innovate VET-Business Partnerships
  2. Design new training programmes and training methodologies based on WBL for skills upgrade of key practitioners
  3. Suggest for more effective cooperation structures between a wide audience of stakeholders.

The schedule of research for action applied to all three above mentioned issues will have the following backbone:

    1.  Integration of Comparative research in the 5 EU regions on WBL weaknesses and skills’ needs for professionals’ upgrade.
    2. Capacity building process through joint staff trainings for direct key actors through cross-transfer of recognized European excellent practices on WBL, Quality Assurance, Monitoring and Integrated Monitoring Processes
    3. Intellectual Outputs creation addressed to VET teachers, tutors, VET designers, in-company trainers, social bodies, public administrations.
    4. Training activities through local Short term joint staff training events for partners, associated partners and external professionals on final outputs related to Design, Quality, Monitoring in WBL development. This will be a testing phase before validation and delivery of final Outputs.
    5. Dissemination at regional, national, European level for exploitation purposes and policy reforms inspiration.

The European Commission support for the production does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.