Work & Education
The World Economic Forum, in its 2016 publication “The Future of jobs”, states we are at the beginning of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is not only a technological revolution, as there are also socio-economic, geopolitical and demographic changes influencing the new scenario.
Today’s job markets and in-demand skills are vastly different from the ones of ten or even five years ago, and the pace of change is only set to accelerate. Governments, businesses and individuals alike are increasingly concerned with identifying and forecasting skills that are relevant not just today but that will remain or become so in the future to meet business demands for talent. Skills mismatches are then not only about today, but between today’s skills and future skills requirements. Some studies forecast 65% of children in today’s primary schools will work in jobs not existing yet. So we must look to those skills people will need in order to face a rapidly changing labour market.
aligned to the future
To tackle the future challenges, all stakeholders – governments, companies, education providers and others – have to work closely to develop the 21st century curriculum. It requires new and collaborative approaches – to support individual talent, innovation, and entrepreneurship and to facilitate new incentives and opportunities. The New Skills Agenda, launched in June 2016 by the European Commission, encompasses also a number of actions to ensure that the right training, the right skills and the right support are available to people in the European Union; reskilling and upskilling of our workers is critical too.
According to CEDEFOP’s Director, Mr. James Calleja, one of the priorities for the next years is “to look at the world of work and the world of education and to see how we can align them to build the right workforce for the future”. So what is better other, than to explore in our 26th Conference in Thessaloniki how to bring closer those two worlds to face together this uncertain future?
Reflect, Share, Explore
Around this subject there are many different aspects to reflect on, share experiences and best practices and explore ways of collaboration:
What’s the role of VET providers in the upskilling and reskilling of today’s labour force?
How to make use of the New Skills Agenda and how can it connect VET, the labour market and the digital world?
How could EfVET contribute to future discussions on the issues engaging not only VET schools, but also SME’s and others stakeholders and partners?
How can businesses and the different stakeholders assist each other in defining the skill needs in the short and in the long run?
How will the technological changes and innovations affect teaching and learning?
How to establish bridges between VET and higher education?
Network
Our Conference is highly interactive, providing considerable opportunity to network and find new partnerships. By popular demand, the mobility marketplace is back providing delegates with a forum session to meet prospective new partners in the promotion and implementation of transnational mobility (Erasmus + Key Action 1) and share ideas and partnership (under Erasmus + Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnership).
AGORA
Agora / Workshops
Agora is the greek word for Forum and as such we should name this years workshops by this term. They will include the following topical issues facing VET institutions: Each will consist of small working teams, transnational in nature, to explore key sub topics. Delegates will be encouraged to actively participate in sharing good practice. on Saturday morning the outcomes of each workshop will be presented among all the delegates and after the Conference they will be handed to EU stakeholders. Your opinion matters!
Quality Apprenticeship in Work-Based Learning
Work-based learning, in particular the expansion of apprenticeships, is increasingly recognized as a positive pathway for ensuring that learners develop high quality skills and competences relevant to current and future needs of the labour market. The importance of work based learning in supporting the transition of young people from school to work is extremely high. The different forms of work-based learning (apprenticeships, traineeships, internships and work placements) demand close collaboration between businesses, social partners, VET providers and other stakeholders. This workshop will explore the benefits that arise by the provision of high quality Apprenticeships and WBL drawing on good practices.
Digital learning and how far have we embraced?
Digital revolution and its importance as a tool for learning and the absolute need to promote digital skills in today’s world is highly essential. They remain a vital core skill for life and work and should be treated with the same importance as numeracy and literacy. We, as learning providers, assure we are aware of this reality, but are we? Are we investing enough on our Human capital and resources? Lets explore how far we have moved to meet the challenge.
The upskiling and reskilling of today’s labour force
Ηow will businesses, governments and individuals react to the future changes in work? Reforming education is not enough and it will be too late if we leave this to the education sector only. Businesses should support their workforce re-training, Individuals should take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning and Governments should create an attractive and flexible environment to assist this. In particular, work and education collaboration within industries will create larger pools of skilled talents. How is this implemented in real life? What are the challenges?
How to establish bridges between VET and HE
We all accept education is the privileged way of overcoming the economic crisis. Are we closing the gap between the need for qualifications and skills (in different subsectors) and the existing provision? Are we focused on the learner and on learning outcomes? Should we refocus the correlation between “policy options” and “real life” ones? How might this be achieved? Are there still differences between the quality and quality assurance mechanisms of different levels and forms of education (including between HE and VET) and among EU Member States? How do we avoid “dead ends”?
How to beat early leaving from education and training
Take a leading role to tackle Early Leaving from VET:
Become an AMBASSADOR
Fighting early leaving from education and training (ELET) is a key element of the Europe 2020 strategy, where the positive effects of reducing ELET on employability and the fight against social exclusion are identified. This is because abandoning education prematurely involves high costs and negative consequences both for society and for individuals. Although the percentages of early leaving from education and training are progressively decreased in Europe over the last years, disparities among and within countries remain high. Still in 2016, around four million young people leave education without an upper-secondary qualification.
Countries implement a variety of measures to address early leaving from education and training, many of them inspired by vocational educational training (VET) practices and pedagogies. Along with these measures, there are some new techniques and tools free to use. CEDEFOP will present the new web toolkit for tackling early leaving (www.cedefop.europa.eu/TEL-toolkit) aimed for policy makers and VET practitioners involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of VET policies and practices to tackle early leaving.
The toolkit is based on an extensive evidence of research published recently by Cedefop: Leaving education early: putting vocational education and training centre stage
It provides practical guidance, tips, good practices and tools in three action areas:
- identify learners at risk of early leaving or who have already left education;
- intervene to keep them in or bring them back to the system;
- evaluate the measures implemented.
Moreover a new self-reflection tool for policy-makers and two evaluation plans (one for policy-makers and one for VET providers) can be used to monitor and evaluate the performance of policies and practices.
Workshop participants are invited to register to the toolkit prior to the event to benefit from and get familiar with its resources.
Industry 4.0 are we ready?
Technology is changing the way business exists, in a very rapid pace. We are already at the time of the Industry Revolution 4.0. Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Cyber Physical Systems, Unmanned vehicles are becoming everyday life and “smart factories” are replacing the conventional ones. The world of production will become more and more networked until everything is interlinked with everything else. There are differences between a typical traditional factory and an Industry 4.0 factory. These changes will create a huge need of trained personnel in different skills, even ones not yet formatted. Is the VET Sector aware of the implications? Are we ready for this?
SPEAKERS
João Santos -Deputy Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion
João Santos is Deputy Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion at the European Commission in Brussels. The Unit is responsible for Vocational Training, apprenticeships and Adult education, as well as for the policy orientation of the Erasmus+ programme in these fields.
From 2009 to 2013 he was posted at the EU Delegation to China and Mongolia as a diplomatic Counsellor dealing with bilateral trade and investment issues.
He had previously worked at the Directorate general for Employment and Social Affairs. As the coordinator of a geographical desk, he was involved in the negotiations on the EU structural polices supported by the European Social Fund. His responsibilities included the Employment chapter of the Lisbon Strategy for growth and jobs, and the Strategy on Social Protection and Social Inclusion. In the same DG he worked on international relations covering the employment and social affairs dimension of the EU bilateral cooperation with China, the USA, and Canada, as well as on multilateral cooperation within the United Nations framework, on issues related to the Social Dimension of Globalization and the Decent work Agenda.
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- João Santos
- DG -EMPL
- João Santos
- DG -EMPL
JOACHIM JAMES CALLEJA -Director of CEDEFOP
Mr James Calleja has been involved in vocational training since 2001. Before his appointment as Director of Cedefop in October 2013,he served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Employment (2011-2013) in his native Malta. In 2005 he was entrusted with the setting up of the Malta Qualifications Council where he served as Chief Executive up to December 2010.Mr Calleja is a graduate of the Universities of Malta, Padua (Italy) and Bradford (UK). In the UK he obtained his PhD from the Department of Peace Studies on a thesis on education and international relations in the context of Kant’s political philosophy.
A prolific writer, Mr Calleja has published books and articles and has edited various publications. He is the co-author of the Malta Referencing Report of the Malta Qualifications Framework to the EQF and the QF-EHEA.
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- James Calleja
- CEDEFOP
- James Calleja
- CEDEFOP
SANTIAGO GARCIA -President of EfVET
Santiago García has a Degree in Physics from UCM, Madrid. For 27 years he worked at Tajamar Institute in Madrid, first as VET teacher in Electronics and ICT, and from 1999 to 2015 also as Principal of the VET College inside the Institute. During those years he participated in several European projects related to innovation and guidance in VET, as well as in several EfVET Conferences.
In September 2015 he was appointed as General Secretary of CECE (Spanish Confederation of Schools). He collaborates actively with the regional and national Spanish educational authorities in several working groups for the updating and improvement of VET, including the dual VET Alliance, which is fostering the implementation of this system in Spain.
Since this February Santiago García is representing EfVET and VET4EU2 at the Working Group on VET stablished by the European Commission as part of the European strategy on education and training, ET 2020.
Moreover he was elected as President of EfVET in September 2016!
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- Santiago Garcia
- President of EfVET
- Santiago Garcia
- President of EfVET
Dimitris Baxevanakis -Deputy Minister of Education Research & Religious Affairs
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- Dimitris Baxevanakis
- D. Minister of Education Research & Religious Affairs
- Dimitris Baxevanakis
- D. Minister of Education Research & Religious Affairs
Irene Psifidou -CEDEFOP Expert
Irene Psifidou works for over 15 years as expert on education and training policies at international level. She joined Cedefop in 2004, and currently, she is the main project manager of Cedefop’s thematic activity focused on VET policies for social inclusion and labour market integration. Irene is the creator of the new VET toolkit for tackling early leaving (www.cedefop.europa.eu/TEL-toolkit) that Cedefop launched recently. She is member of high level thematic working groups set up by the European Commission, as well as the European and International Comparative Education Societies.
Before joining Cedefop, she worked as education consultant at the World Bank, Washington DC. At the World Bank, she focused on preparation of its strategy on secondary education and managed education development and research projects in transitional Balkan countries.
Irene holds a PhD in Comparative Education Policy from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) in Spain and two M.Sc. diplomas – International Studies and Developmental Cooperation for the Alleviation of Poverty (University of Barcelona) and Applied Linguistics (UAB). Irene has published widely in peer-reviewed academic journals and international handbooks.
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- Irene Psifidou
- CEDEFOP Expert
- Irene Psifidou
- CEDEFOP Expert
Yiannis Boutaris - Mayor of Thessaloniki
Yiannis Boutaris (Γιάννης Μπουτάρης; born 13 June 1942) is a Greek businessman, politician and current mayor of Thessaloniki. In 2012 he was chosen as ‘the best mayor of the world‘ for the month of October, by the City Mayors Foundation, based in the UK. He is the founder of KIR-YIANNI wine company, based in Giannakochori (bg) and Amyntaio. He is one of the founding members of the Drasi party and Arcturos ecological organization.
Yiannis Boutaris was born in Thessaloniki in 1942, the son of winemaker Stelios Boutaris and Fanny Vlachos. His primary education was at the Experimental elementary school of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, his secondary education at Anatolia College, and he graduated in chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1965 and in oenology from the Wine Institute of Athens in 1967. In his youth he was associated with the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
From 1969 to 1996 he worked for the family wine company Boutari (fr), based in Naoussa. He left the family company to create the Kir-Yianni wine company, based on two estates in Giannakochori (bg) and Amyntaio, in 1998.
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- Yiannis Boutaris
- Mayor of Thessaloniki
- Yiannis Boutaris
- Mayor of Thessaloniki
Panagiotis G. Anastassopoulos -Greek National Representative - European Forum or Vocational Education and Training
Having a degree on Mathematics from University of Patras he possesses good knowledge of IT development especially web2.0 applications. With more than 16 years of experience in innovative business and IT consulting, gained knowledge about both digital sales and advertising and their appliance to the modern business and education environment, using methods offered by new technologies and informatics. Specific experience in IT, through web developing, Application Engineering and Social Media administrating.
He also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (from Hellenic Open University). With considerable experience in managing national and transnational projects from South East Europe to Erasmus+ and NSRF he is as effective as needed. His business and marketing background in management and mentoring specially startups and existing SME’s and unemployed people guarantees their successful first steps in business highways. Financial control management in european co-funding projects in sectors like extraversion of greek SME’s, start-up entrepreneurship and educational development.
He is the National Representative of EfVET in Greece since the end of 2013 and co-founder of ”p-consulting.gr”, a fresh company with modern dynamics.
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- P.G. Anastassopoulos
- Greek EfVET Rep.
- P.G. Anastassopoulos
- Greek EfVET Rep.
Pauline Musset - OECD, Directorate for Education and Skills, Policy Analyst
Pauline Musset is the co-ordinator of Skills beyond School, the OECD reviews of vocational education and training (VET). As part of this exercise she is the lead author of reviews in several countries including Estonia, Austria, England and Peru. She worked on the adult learning and skills project, which draws on the results of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and looks at the challenges countries face in improving foundation skills of their adult population, working on Finland. Before joining the Skills beyond School team, she worked on the OECD review Overcoming School Failure: Policies that Work and is one of the co-authors of the 2012 publication Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Schools and Students.
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- Pauline Musset
- OECD Expert
- Pauline Musset
- OECD Expert
Heracles Sioulis - Development Director, IVEPE-SEV
Heracles Sioulis works as Development Director of IVEPE SEV, which is the educational branch of Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV). He joined IVEPE-SEV 15 years ago and his primary responsibility is the design and management of innovative training programs for industry employees at all levels. He is also involved in the development of specialized educational programs for the unemployed in the framework of companies’ social responsibility actions, as well as in international know-how exchange projects.
Heracles is an Electronics Engineer and holds a Med in Adult Education-Humanities. His field of expertise is educational research and the design, implementation and evaluation of vocational – educational programs. He is also an active trainer in advanced process control and process improvement themes.
His main research concerns the embodiment of collaborative training methods in teaching and the improvement of feedback that people receive during their learning activities in order to acquire critical thinking habits, be able to create transformations through knowledge and become self-depended learners in order to constantly improve themselves and achieve adaptation skills in a rapidly changing environment, experiencing a life-long learning process.
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- Heracles Sioulis
- IVEPE-SEV, Development Director
- Heracles Sioulis
- IVEPE-SEV, Development Director
Anna Mamalaki - TITAN Group Senior HR International / Member of BoD, IVEPE-SEV
Anna Mamalaki has a multi-faceted HR experience of 20 years in all different industries; lately in the heavy industry, while before this in the financial services’ sector, as well as in retail and FMCG industry companies. During her career years she had the chance of a cross cultural experience through being involved in global operations in USA, Europe and Egypt, from different perspectives of her Human Resources Management roles. Her main areas of expertise are linked to leveraging organizational capabilities, designing people development programmes and employee engagement practices, in order to achieve the organizational goals. Her know-how is focused on successful employee engagement, so that an efficient working environment is achieved. She is member of BoD of IVEPE SEV, which is the educational branch of Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), while she holds a senior HR role of Employee Engagement in the division of international HR operations of TITAN Group. She has a passion for technology and strives for converging the business needs of this new evolving era, with the vision of young people for creative work that will give back to the society. She has taken part in European and national projects that are addressing this need. Anna Mamalaki has received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the American College of Greece, Deree college and attained her Master’s degree in Human Resource Management by De Montfort University in the United Kingdom.
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- Anna Mamalaki
- TITAN Group Senior HR International / Member of BoD, IVEPE-SEV
- Anna Mamalaki
- TITAN Group Senior HR International / Member of BoD, IVEPE-SEV
Hans Lehmann - Vice Principal at EUC Syd
Hans Lehmann is Vice Principal at EUC Syd, a regional college, offering upper secondary technical education, International Baccalaureate, vocational education and adult training. Hans Lehmann is responsible for the vocational educational programs, adult training and internationalization and he is CIO for IT Center Syd. He holds a Master’s Degree in English and an MBA from University of Leicester.
One of the main focus areas for development in his jobs is the application of digital learning, and the consequences for teaching and learning. Also the training for a global work force is important, and therefore has a long and wide experience from international projects and networks, EU programs, UNESCO Learning Cities and a strong cooperation with, among others, Chinese and French companies and colleges.
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- Hans Lehmann
- EUC Syd, Vice Principal
- Hans Lehmann
- EUC Syd, Vice Principal
Hans Severinsen - Head of VET Department at Koege Business College
Hans Severinsen is Head of VET Department at Koege Business College, a regional college, offering upper secondary Business education, vocational Business education and adult training. Hans Severinsen is responsible for the Business vocational educational programs, the guidance department and a part of the adult training. He is educated as a teacher in Mathematics and Geographic’s and holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Management.
He has worked more than 25 years with all parts of VET education, both technical and business. For the last 20 years he has been responsible for work based learning e.g. apprenticeships, trainees and internship. He works right now with digitalization of learning methods among other things. He has also experience with international projects and EU programs (Erasmus +).
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- Hans Severinsen
- Koege Business College, Head of VET Department
- Hans Severinsen
- Koege Business College, Head of VET Department
Tina Bertzeletou - Senior VET expert in CEDEFOP
Mrs. Tina Bertzeletou is the leading expert on Quality in VET, having contributed to the set-up of ENQA-VET (2000-08) and acting since then as scientific advisor to EQAVET, the European Network on Quality Assurance in VET, monitored by the EU Commission. Of sociology and sciences of education background, Tina has worked over the recent years on the training needs of SMEs and micro-firms in various sectors, including agriculture, tourism and retail. In relation to quality, she focused her work on the issue of accreditation both as a quality assurance mechanism and as driver for quality culture within VET institutions.
In the past, Tina provided technical and scientific assistance to the European Commission for the implementation of the “FORCE programme” and of the Council Regulation (EEC) No 815/1984 on the Exceptional Financial Aid in favour of Greece to reform its Mental Health and VET sectors.
Currently, Tina is working on creating a Community of VET-practitioners to promote EU VET-related policies at grass root level together with several European Associations of VET-providers and in close cooperation DG Employment of the EU Commission.
Tina works in English, French and Greek and speaks German and Italian. She is the author of a book of poetry and of short stories published in Greek.
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- Tina Bertzeletou
- CEDEFOP, Senior VET Εxpert
- Tina Bertzeletou
- CEDEFOP, Senior VET Εxpert
PROGRAM
15:00 - 20:00 Registration of Participants
18:00 - 19:00
Welcome and information session for new members and the first time participants:
“Introduction to EfVET and the conference”
Mr. Santiago García Gutiérrez, President of EfVET and the Steering Committee members
19.00 – 20.00
Welcome reception at The MET Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece
Mr. George Dimarelos, Deputy Mayor in Education and Athletics and Mr. Spiros Pengas, Deputy Mayor will honor the reception with their presence
20.00
Dinner
The MET Hotel – Restaurant
End of First Day
Welcome to Thessaloniki - Opening the Conference
9.00 – 9.30
Welcome to Thessaloniki and opening of Conference
Panagiotis G. Anastassopoulos EfVET, Greece National Representative
Opening of conference and setting the theme
Mr. Santiago Garcia Gutiérrez, President of EfVET
Message by European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affair, Labour Mobility and Inclusion Ms. Marianne Thyssen (video Message)
9.30 - 10.30
Keynote speakers
1. Mr. Dimitrios Baxevanakis, Deputy Minister of Education, Research & Religious Affairs, Greece
The importance of VET in Greece
2. Mr. João Santos – Deputy Head of Unit European Commission, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
EU initiatives on VET – Empowering people with “skills for life”
3. Mr. Joachim James Calleja, Director CEDEFOP
“How can businesses and the different stakeholders assist each other in defining the skill needs in the short and in the long run? Locally, Regionally and European level”.
10.30 – 11.15
Open Panel Discussion
Moderator – Ms. Despoina Kanakoglou,
An interactive question and answer session – an opportunity to share your thought with the Speakers
Panel: Mr. Dimitrios Baxevanakis, Deputy Minister of Education and Mr. João Santos, European Commission/ Mr. Joachim James Calleja, CEDEFOP/ VET Director, Mr. Heracles Sioulis, IVEPE-SEV Greece
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.15
AGORA: session 1
Quality Apprenticeship in Work-Based LearningWork-based learning, in particular the expansion of apprenticeships, is increasingly recognized as a positive pathway for ensuring that learners develop high quality skills and competences relevant to current and future needs of the labour market. The importance of work based learning in supporting the transition of young people from school to work is extremely high. The different forms of work-based learning (apprenticeships, traineeships, internships and work placements) demand close collaboration between businesses, social partners, VET providers and other stakeholders. This workshop will explore the benefits that arise by the provision of high quality Apprenticeships and WBL drawing on good practices.
Moderator: Mr. Hans Lehmann, EUC Syd and Mr. Hans Severinsen, Køge Business College, Denmark
Rapporteur: Ms. Catarina Esménio, Escola de Comércio de Lisboa, Portugal
How to establish bridges between VET and HEWe all accept education is the privileged way of overcoming the economic crisis. Are we closing the gap between the need for qualifications and skills (in different subsectors) and the existing provision? Are we focused on the learner and on learning outcomes? Should we refocus the correlation between “policy options” and “real life” ones? How might this be achieved? Are there still differences between the quality and quality assurance mechanisms of different levels and forms of education (including between HE and VET) and among EU Member States? How do we avoid “dead ends”?
Moderator: Ms. Stavroula Bibila, CU Coventry, UK and Mr. Stylianos Mavromoustakos, EfVET/Intercollege Nicosia, Cyprus
Rapporteur: Ms. Ute Schmitt, BBS Wirtschaft 1 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Digital learning and how far have we embraced?Digital revolution and its importance as a tool for learning and the absolute need to promote digital skills in today’s world is highly essential. They remain a vital core skill for life and work and should be treated with the same importance as numeracy and literacy. We, as learning providers, assure we are aware of this reality, but are we? Are we investing enough on our Human capital and resources? Lets explore how far we have moved to meet the challenge.
Moderator: Mr. Stefano Tirati, Enegan, Italy and Mr. Norbert Ruepert, ROC Midden Nederland
Rapporteur: Mr. Tibor Dori, Euro-Contact Business School, Hungary
How to beat early leaving from education and trainingCountries implement a variety of measures to address early leaving from education and training, many of them inspired by vocational educational training (VET) practices and pedagogies. Along with these measures, there are some new techniques and tools free to use. CEDEFOP will present the new web toolkit for tackling early leaving (www.cedefop.europa.eu/TEL-toolkit) aimed for policy makers and VET practitioners involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of VET policies and practices to tackle early leaving. The toolkit is based on an extensive evidence of research published recently by Cedefop: Leaving education early: putting vocational education and training centre stage. Workshop participants are invited to register to the toolkit prior to the event to benefit from and get familiar with its resources.
Moderator: Ms. Irene Psifidou, CEDEFOP, Greece
Rapporteur: Mr. Jonathan Harding, Bridgwater and Taunton College, UK
The upskiling and reskilling of today’s labour forceΗow will businesses, governments and individuals react to the future changes in work? Reforming education is not enough and it will be too late if we leave this to the education sector only. Businesses should support their workforce re-training, Individuals should take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning and Governments should create an attractive and flexible environment to assist this. In particular, work and education collaboration within industries will create larger pools of skilled talents. How is this implemented in real life? What are the challenges?
Moderator: Mr. João Santos, European Commission, Deputy of Head Unit, DG-EMPL Unit 3, Belgium
Rapporteur: Mr. Raimo Sivonen, Kainuu Vocational College, Finland
Industry 4.0 are we ready?Technology is changing the way business exists, in a very rapid pace. We are already at the time of the Industry Revolution 4.0. Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Cyber Physical Systems, Unmanned vehicles are becoming everyday life and “smart factories” are replacing the conventional ones. The world of production will become more and more networked until everything is interlinked with everything else. There are differences between a typical traditional factory and an Industry 4.0 factory. These changes will create a huge need of trained personnel in different skills, even ones not yet formatted. Is the VET Sector aware of the implications? Are we ready for this?
Moderator: Mr. Luca Boetti, I.F.O.A, Italy & Mr. Iñigo Araiztegui Arraiz, TKNIKA, Spain
Rapporteur: Ms. Rasa Zygmantaite, EfVET/ Marijampolės Kolegija, Lithuania
13.15 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30
AGORA: session 2
Quality Apprenticeship in Work-Based Learning
Work-based learning, in particular the expansion of apprenticeships, is increasingly recognized as a positive pathway for ensuring that learners develop high quality skills and competences relevant to current and future needs of the labour market. The importance of work based learning in supporting the transition of young people from school to work is extremely high. The different forms of work-based learning (apprenticeships, traineeships, internships and work placements) demand close collaboration between businesses, social partners, VET providers and other stakeholders. This workshop will explore the benefits that arise by the provision of high quality Apprenticeships and WBL drawing on good practices.
Moderator: Mr. Hans Lehmann, EUC Syd & Mr. Hans Severinsen, Køge Business College, Denmark
Rapporteur: Ms. Catarina Esménio, Escola de Comércio de Lisboa, Portugal.
How to establish bridges between VET and HEWe all accept education is the privileged way of overcoming the economic crisis. Are we closing the gap between the need for qualifications and skills (in different subsectors) and the existing provision? Are we focused on the learner and on learning outcomes? Should we refocus the correlation between “policy options” and “real life” ones? How might this be achieved? Are there still differences between the quality and quality assurance mechanisms of different levels and forms of education (including between HE and VET) and among EU Member States? How do we avoid “dead ends”?
Moderator: Ms. Stavroula Bibila, CU Coventry, UK and Mr Stylianos Mavromoustakos, EfVET/Intercollege Nicosia, Cyprus
Rapporteur: Ms. Ute Schmitt, BBS Wirtschaft 1 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Digital learning and how far have we embraced?Digital revolution and its importance as a tool for learning and the absolute need to promote digital skills in today’s world is highly essential. They remain a vital core skill for life and work and should be treated with the same importance as numeracy and literacy. We, as learning providers, assure we are aware of this reality, but are we? Are we investing enough on our Human capital and resources? Lets explore how far we have moved to meet the challenge.
Moderator: Mr. Stefano Tirati, Enegan, Italy and Mr. Norbert Ruepert, ROC Midden Nederland
Rapporteur: Mr. Tibor Dori, Euro-Contact Business School, Hungary
How to beat early leaving from education and trainingCountries implement a variety of measures to address early leaving from education and training, many of them inspired by vocational educational training (VET) practices and pedagogies. Along with these measures, there are some new techniques and tools free to use. CEDEFOP will present the new web toolkit for tackling early leaving (www.cedefop.europa.eu/TEL-toolkit) aimed for policy makers and VET practitioners involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of VET policies and practices to tackle early leaving. Workshop participants are invited to register to the toolkit prior to the event to benefit from and get familiar with its resources.
Moderator: Ms. Irene Psifidou, CEDEFOP, Greece
Rapporteur: Mr. Jonathan Harding, Bridgwater and Taunton College, UK
The upskiling and reskilling of today’s labour forceΗow will businesses, governments and individuals react to the future changes in work? Reforming education is not enough and it will be too late if we leave this to the education sector only. Businesses should support their workforce re-training, Individuals should take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning and Governments should create an attractive and flexible environment to assist this. In particular, work and education collaboration within industries will create larger pools of skilled talents. How is this implemented in real life? What are the challenges?
Moderator: Mr. João Santos, European Commission, Deputy of Head Unit, DG-EMPL Unit 3, Belgium
Rapporteur: Mr. Raimo Sivonen, Kainuu Vocational College, Finland
Industry 4.0 are we ready?Technology is changing the way business exists, in a very rapid pace. We are already at the time of the Industry Revolution 4.0. Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Cyber Physical Systems, Unmanned vehicles are becoming everyday life and “smart factories” are replacing the conventional ones. The world of production will become more and more networked until everything is interlinked with everything else. There are differences between a typical traditional factory and an Industry 4.0 factory. These changes will create a huge need of trained personnel in different skills, even ones not yet formatted. Is the VET Sector aware of the implications? Are we ready for this?
Moderator: Mr. Luca Boetti, I.F.O.A, Italy and Mr. Iñigo Araiztegui Arraiz, TKNIKA, Spain
Rapporteur: Ms. Rasa Zygmantaite, EfVET/ Marijampolės Kolegija, Lithuania
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 16.15
Promoting Quality in VET Delivery – The WAY Ahead
Presentation of the Subgroup 2 “Learning Providers & EU Mobility”
Tina Bertzelatou, Expert, CEDEFOP Rasa Zygmantaite, Secretary, EfVET
The conference delegates will be presented the steps of the initiative, implemented by CEDEFOP together with VET providers group of experts. EfVET is coordinating sub-group 2- mobility.
During the whole mobility market place, a round table will be open, where the delegates will be invited to join the Community of practitioners and register for participation in the network. Their experience and shared good practices can contribute for developing the quality in all types of EU mobility.
16.15 – 18.00
Mobility and Project Marketplace
This self regulated session offers delegates the opportunity to find or meet partners with a view to developing closer collaboration under Erasmus + and their funded initiatives.
Delegates are invited to meet to discuss potential partnerships both for reciprocal transnational mobility and possible partnerships for KA1 Learning Mobility of Individuals and KA2 strategic partnerships
(note: There will be a ‘Notice Board’ available throughout Conference to post your interests and ideas)
Pre conference preparation will be used to bring potential partners together.
Moderator: Mr. Udo Lut, Landstede
16.15 - 18.00
Parallel session for Leaders and Managers
Visit IVEPE-SEV college
6th km Thessalonikis – Thermis
57001 Thessaloniki
Gather at The Met Hotel reception at 16.00pm
Coach leaves 16.15pm
18.30 - 19.30
Reception at The Met Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece
After reception free time to explore Thessaloniki.
End of Second Day
08.45 – 9.45 National Board meetings (non-members are very welcome to join the national meetings)
10.00 – 10.20
Keynote speaker
Ms. Anna Mamalaki, Member of BoD of IVEPE SEV
“How training links to employee engagement and operational efficiency”
10.20 – 10.40
Keynote speaker
Ms. Pauline Musset, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, Policy Analyst
“VET and work-based learning: international lessons from the OECD?”
10.40 - 11.00 Open floor discussion
Moderator – Ms. Despoina Kanakoglou
11.00 - 11.20 Announcement Award for Excellence
11.20 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.00
CEDEFOP Section: Future of Jobs – Future of Skills
Mr. Joachim James Calleja, Director of CEDEFOP and Ms. Irene Psifidou, Expert CEDEFOP
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.30
Policy developments and Action
Moderator: Mr. Stylianos Mavromoustakos, Vice-President of EfVET
14.30 – 15.30
Round tables: Session 1
Conference offers European project partners the opportunity to disseminate progress, results and products of their Transnational Transfer of Innovation; Development of Innovation and other European initiatives – a key to successful valorization of project outcomes and sustainability
Two sessions of 30 minutes each
15.30 - 15.40 Coffee break
15.40 – 16.40
Round tables: Session 2
Conference offers European project partners the opportunity to disseminate progress, results and products of their Transnational Transfer of Innovation; Development of Innovation and other European initiatives – a key to successful valorization of project outcomes and sustainability
Two sessions of 30 minutes each
16.45 – 17.45
Annual General Meeting
20.00
Gala Dinner & Dance
Thessaloniki Concert Hall building M2
Maryiou 25 & Paralia
Thessaloniki 546 46
Gather at The Met Hotel reception at 18.45pm
Coach leaves 19.00-19.15pm
End of Third Day
9.45 – 10.45
Agora/Workshop Feedback
Rapporteurs will be invited to feedback key outcomes from the Agora/Workshops. Evaluation of the workshops via e-vote
Moderator: Mr. Panagiotis G. Anastassopoulos, EfVET, Greece National Representative
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 - 11.40
Conference conclusions
Ms. Despoina Kanakoglou
11.40 – 11.50
Announcement of 27th EfVET Annual International Conference in 2018
11.50 – 12.00
Closing of the conference
Mr. Santiago Garcia Gutiérrez, President of EfVET
13.00 - 19.00
Lunch and Excursion
Gather at the Met Hotel Reception
Coach leaves 12.30
Lunch:
ELIA-VERIA,
Parko Elias, Veria
Excursion:
Archaeological Museum of Vergina
Macedonian Royal Tombs
Vergina, Greece
End of Fourth Day
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Wednesday 25/10/2017
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15:00 - 20:00 Registration of Participants
18:00 - 19:00
Welcome and information session for new members and the first time participants:
“Introduction to EfVET and the conference”
Mr. Santiago García Gutiérrez, President of EfVET and the Steering Committee members
19.00 – 20.00
Welcome reception at The MET Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece
Mr. George Dimarelos, Deputy Mayor in Education and Athletics and Mr. Spiros Pengas, Deputy Mayor will honor the reception with their presence
20.00
Dinner
The MET Hotel – Restaurant
End of First Day -
Thursday 26/10/2017
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Welcome to Thessaloniki - Opening the Conference
9.00 – 9.30
Welcome to Thessaloniki and opening of Conference
Panagiotis G. Anastassopoulos EfVET, Greece National Representative
Opening of conference and setting the theme
Mr. Santiago Garcia Gutiérrez, President of EfVET
Message by European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affair, Labour Mobility and Inclusion Ms. Marianne Thyssen (video Message)
9.30 - 10.30
Keynote speakers
1. Mr. Dimitrios Baxevanakis, Deputy Minister of Education, Research & Religious Affairs, Greece
The importance of VET in Greece
2. Mr. João Santos – Deputy Head of Unit European Commission, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
EU initiatives on VET – Empowering people with “skills for life”3. Mr. Joachim James Calleja, Director CEDEFOP
“How can businesses and the different stakeholders assist each other in defining the skill needs in the short and in the long run? Locally, Regionally and European level”.
10.30 – 11.15
Open Panel Discussion
Moderator – Ms. Despoina Kanakoglou,
An interactive question and answer session – an opportunity to share your thought with the SpeakersPanel: Mr. Dimitrios Baxevanakis, Deputy Minister of Education and Mr. João Santos, European Commission/ Mr. Joachim James Calleja, CEDEFOP/ VET Director, Mr. Heracles Sioulis, IVEPE-SEV Greece
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break11.45 – 13.15
AGORA: session 1
Quality Apprenticeship in Work-Based LearningWork-based learning, in particular the expansion of apprenticeships, is increasingly recognized as a positive pathway for ensuring that learners develop high quality skills and competences relevant to current and future needs of the labour market. The importance of work based learning in supporting the transition of young people from school to work is extremely high. The different forms of work-based learning (apprenticeships, traineeships, internships and work placements) demand close collaboration between businesses, social partners, VET providers and other stakeholders. This workshop will explore the benefits that arise by the provision of high quality Apprenticeships and WBL drawing on good practices.
Moderator: Mr. Hans Lehmann, EUC Syd and Mr. Hans Severinsen, Køge Business College, Denmark
Rapporteur: Ms. Catarina Esménio, Escola de Comércio de Lisboa, Portugal
How to establish bridges between VET and HEWe all accept education is the privileged way of overcoming the economic crisis. Are we closing the gap between the need for qualifications and skills (in different subsectors) and the existing provision? Are we focused on the learner and on learning outcomes? Should we refocus the correlation between “policy options” and “real life” ones? How might this be achieved? Are there still differences between the quality and quality assurance mechanisms of different levels and forms of education (including between HE and VET) and among EU Member States? How do we avoid “dead ends”?
Moderator: Ms. Stavroula Bibila, CU Coventry, UK and Mr. Stylianos Mavromoustakos, EfVET/Intercollege Nicosia, Cyprus
Rapporteur: Ms. Ute Schmitt, BBS Wirtschaft 1 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Digital learning and how far have we embraced?Digital revolution and its importance as a tool for learning and the absolute need to promote digital skills in today’s world is highly essential. They remain a vital core skill for life and work and should be treated with the same importance as numeracy and literacy. We, as learning providers, assure we are aware of this reality, but are we? Are we investing enough on our Human capital and resources? Lets explore how far we have moved to meet the challenge.
Moderator: Mr. Stefano Tirati, Enegan, Italy and Mr. Norbert Ruepert, ROC Midden Nederland
Rapporteur: Mr. Tibor Dori, Euro-Contact Business School, Hungary
How to beat early leaving from education and trainingCountries implement a variety of measures to address early leaving from education and training, many of them inspired by vocational educational training (VET) practices and pedagogies. Along with these measures, there are some new techniques and tools free to use. CEDEFOP will present the new web toolkit for tackling early leaving (www.cedefop.europa.eu/TEL-toolkit) aimed for policy makers and VET practitioners involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of VET policies and practices to tackle early leaving. The toolkit is based on an extensive evidence of research published recently by Cedefop: Leaving education early: putting vocational education and training centre stage. Workshop participants are invited to register to the toolkit prior to the event to benefit from and get familiar with its resources.
Moderator: Ms. Irene Psifidou, CEDEFOP, Greece
Rapporteur: Mr. Jonathan Harding, Bridgwater and Taunton College, UK
The upskiling and reskilling of today’s labour forceΗow will businesses, governments and individuals react to the future changes in work? Reforming education is not enough and it will be too late if we leave this to the education sector only. Businesses should support their workforce re-training, Individuals should take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning and Governments should create an attractive and flexible environment to assist this. In particular, work and education collaboration within industries will create larger pools of skilled talents. How is this implemented in real life? What are the challenges?
Moderator: Mr. João Santos, European Commission, Deputy of Head Unit, DG-EMPL Unit 3, Belgium
Rapporteur: Mr. Raimo Sivonen, Kainuu Vocational College, Finland
Industry 4.0 are we ready?Technology is changing the way business exists, in a very rapid pace. We are already at the time of the Industry Revolution 4.0. Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Cyber Physical Systems, Unmanned vehicles are becoming everyday life and “smart factories” are replacing the conventional ones. The world of production will become more and more networked until everything is interlinked with everything else. There are differences between a typical traditional factory and an Industry 4.0 factory. These changes will create a huge need of trained personnel in different skills, even ones not yet formatted. Is the VET Sector aware of the implications? Are we ready for this?
Moderator: Mr. Luca Boetti, I.F.O.A, Italy & Mr. Iñigo Araiztegui Arraiz, TKNIKA, Spain
Rapporteur: Ms. Rasa Zygmantaite, EfVET/ Marijampolės Kolegija, Lithuania
13.15 - 14.30 Lunch14.30 - 15.30
AGORA: session 2
Quality Apprenticeship in Work-Based Learning
Work-based learning, in particular the expansion of apprenticeships, is increasingly recognized as a positive pathway for ensuring that learners develop high quality skills and competences relevant to current and future needs of the labour market. The importance of work based learning in supporting the transition of young people from school to work is extremely high. The different forms of work-based learning (apprenticeships, traineeships, internships and work placements) demand close collaboration between businesses, social partners, VET providers and other stakeholders. This workshop will explore the benefits that arise by the provision of high quality Apprenticeships and WBL drawing on good practices.
Moderator: Mr. Hans Lehmann, EUC Syd & Mr. Hans Severinsen, Køge Business College, Denmark
Rapporteur: Ms. Catarina Esménio, Escola de Comércio de Lisboa, Portugal.
How to establish bridges between VET and HEWe all accept education is the privileged way of overcoming the economic crisis. Are we closing the gap between the need for qualifications and skills (in different subsectors) and the existing provision? Are we focused on the learner and on learning outcomes? Should we refocus the correlation between “policy options” and “real life” ones? How might this be achieved? Are there still differences between the quality and quality assurance mechanisms of different levels and forms of education (including between HE and VET) and among EU Member States? How do we avoid “dead ends”?
Moderator: Ms. Stavroula Bibila, CU Coventry, UK and Mr Stylianos Mavromoustakos, EfVET/Intercollege Nicosia, Cyprus
Rapporteur: Ms. Ute Schmitt, BBS Wirtschaft 1 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Digital learning and how far have we embraced?Digital revolution and its importance as a tool for learning and the absolute need to promote digital skills in today’s world is highly essential. They remain a vital core skill for life and work and should be treated with the same importance as numeracy and literacy. We, as learning providers, assure we are aware of this reality, but are we? Are we investing enough on our Human capital and resources? Lets explore how far we have moved to meet the challenge.
Moderator: Mr. Stefano Tirati, Enegan, Italy and Mr. Norbert Ruepert, ROC Midden Nederland
Rapporteur: Mr. Tibor Dori, Euro-Contact Business School, Hungary
How to beat early leaving from education and trainingCountries implement a variety of measures to address early leaving from education and training, many of them inspired by vocational educational training (VET) practices and pedagogies. Along with these measures, there are some new techniques and tools free to use. CEDEFOP will present the new web toolkit for tackling early leaving (www.cedefop.europa.eu/TEL-toolkit) aimed for policy makers and VET practitioners involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of VET policies and practices to tackle early leaving. Workshop participants are invited to register to the toolkit prior to the event to benefit from and get familiar with its resources.
Moderator: Ms. Irene Psifidou, CEDEFOP, Greece
Rapporteur: Mr. Jonathan Harding, Bridgwater and Taunton College, UK
The upskiling and reskilling of today’s labour forceΗow will businesses, governments and individuals react to the future changes in work? Reforming education is not enough and it will be too late if we leave this to the education sector only. Businesses should support their workforce re-training, Individuals should take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning and Governments should create an attractive and flexible environment to assist this. In particular, work and education collaboration within industries will create larger pools of skilled talents. How is this implemented in real life? What are the challenges?
Moderator: Mr. João Santos, European Commission, Deputy of Head Unit, DG-EMPL Unit 3, Belgium
Rapporteur: Mr. Raimo Sivonen, Kainuu Vocational College, Finland
Industry 4.0 are we ready?Technology is changing the way business exists, in a very rapid pace. We are already at the time of the Industry Revolution 4.0. Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Cyber Physical Systems, Unmanned vehicles are becoming everyday life and “smart factories” are replacing the conventional ones. The world of production will become more and more networked until everything is interlinked with everything else. There are differences between a typical traditional factory and an Industry 4.0 factory. These changes will create a huge need of trained personnel in different skills, even ones not yet formatted. Is the VET Sector aware of the implications? Are we ready for this?
Moderator: Mr. Luca Boetti, I.F.O.A, Italy and Mr. Iñigo Araiztegui Arraiz, TKNIKA, Spain
Rapporteur: Ms. Rasa Zygmantaite, EfVET/ Marijampolės Kolegija, Lithuania
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break16.00 – 16.15
Promoting Quality in VET Delivery – The WAY Ahead
Presentation of the Subgroup 2 “Learning Providers & EU Mobility”
Tina Bertzelatou, Expert, CEDEFOP Rasa Zygmantaite, Secretary, EfVETThe conference delegates will be presented the steps of the initiative, implemented by CEDEFOP together with VET providers group of experts. EfVET is coordinating sub-group 2- mobility.
During the whole mobility market place, a round table will be open, where the delegates will be invited to join the Community of practitioners and register for participation in the network. Their experience and shared good practices can contribute for developing the quality in all types of EU mobility.
16.15 – 18.00
Mobility and Project Marketplace
This self regulated session offers delegates the opportunity to find or meet partners with a view to developing closer collaboration under Erasmus + and their funded initiatives.
Delegates are invited to meet to discuss potential partnerships both for reciprocal transnational mobility and possible partnerships for KA1 Learning Mobility of Individuals and KA2 strategic partnerships
(note: There will be a ‘Notice Board’ available throughout Conference to post your interests and ideas)Pre conference preparation will be used to bring potential partners together.
Moderator: Mr. Udo Lut, Landstede16.15 - 18.00
Parallel session for Leaders and ManagersVisit IVEPE-SEV college
6th km Thessalonikis – Thermis
57001 Thessaloniki
Gather at The Met Hotel reception at 16.00pm
Coach leaves 16.15pm18.30 - 19.30
Reception at The Met Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece
After reception free time to explore Thessaloniki.
End of Second Day -
Friday 27/10/2017
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08.45 – 9.45 National Board meetings (non-members are very welcome to join the national meetings)
10.00 – 10.20
Keynote speaker
Ms. Anna Mamalaki, Member of BoD of IVEPE SEV
“How training links to employee engagement and operational efficiency”10.20 – 10.40
Keynote speaker
Ms. Pauline Musset, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, Policy Analyst
“VET and work-based learning: international lessons from the OECD?”10.40 - 11.00 Open floor discussion
Moderator – Ms. Despoina Kanakoglou11.00 - 11.20 Announcement Award for Excellence11.20 - 12.00 Coffee break12.00 – 13.00
CEDEFOP Section: Future of Jobs – Future of Skills
Mr. Joachim James Calleja, Director of CEDEFOP and Ms. Irene Psifidou, Expert CEDEFOP
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch14.30 – 15.30
Policy developments and Action
Moderator: Mr. Stylianos Mavromoustakos, Vice-President of EfVET
14.30 – 15.30
Round tables: Session 1
Conference offers European project partners the opportunity to disseminate progress, results and products of their Transnational Transfer of Innovation; Development of Innovation and other European initiatives – a key to successful valorization of project outcomes and sustainability
Two sessions of 30 minutes each15.30 - 15.40 Coffee break15.40 – 16.40
Round tables: Session 2
Conference offers European project partners the opportunity to disseminate progress, results and products of their Transnational Transfer of Innovation; Development of Innovation and other European initiatives – a key to successful valorization of project outcomes and sustainability
Two sessions of 30 minutes each16.45 – 17.45
Annual General Meeting
20.00
Gala Dinner & Dance
Thessaloniki Concert Hall building M2
Maryiou 25 & Paralia
Thessaloniki 546 46
Gather at The Met Hotel reception at 18.45pm
Coach leaves 19.00-19.15pmEnd of Third Day -
Saturday 28/10/2017
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9.45 – 10.45
Agora/Workshop Feedback
Rapporteurs will be invited to feedback key outcomes from the Agora/Workshops. Evaluation of the workshops via e-vote
Moderator: Mr. Panagiotis G. Anastassopoulos, EfVET, Greece National Representative
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break11.15 - 11.40
Conference conclusions
Ms. Despoina Kanakoglou
11.40 – 11.50
Announcement of 27th EfVET Annual International Conference in 2018
11.50 – 12.00
Closing of the conference
Mr. Santiago Garcia Gutiérrez, President of EfVET
13.00 - 19.00
Lunch and Excursion
Gather at the Met Hotel Reception
Coach leaves 12.30Lunch:
ELIA-VERIA,
Parko Elias, Veria
Excursion:
Archaeological Museum of Vergina
Macedonian Royal Tombs
Vergina, GreeceEnd of Fourth Day
LOCATION
CITY
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Warm and generous, Thessaloniki is at the same time historic and avant-garde: the second largest city in Greece, ideal for a city break, a mosaic of cultures and fascinating holiday moments
Located in Macedonia, in Northern Greece, there is a city unlike anywhere else in Greece. Thessaloniki is a sprawling urban centre, a cultural melting pot, where dreams, ideas, visions and trends percolate in an alternative, avant garde scene. Its history is written upon everything you see: the Thermaic Gulf, the White Tower, Nikis Avenue, Aristotelous Square, Mitropoleos Avenue, Tsimiski Avenue, Ladadika, Modiano Market, Bit Bazaar and the Old City.For thousands of years, this northern port-town has been a meeting point for people of different cultures. Impressive attractions, cafes, bars, traditional tavernas, gourmet restaurants, a lively nightlife – you’ll find everything here in Thessaloniki, the beautiful ‘bride of the Thermaic Gulf’.
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Thessaloniki: a multicultural centre
Trace the civilisations and peoples that have left their mark on this great city of Thessaloniki. The Palace, the Triumphal Arch and the impressive Rotunda offer an insight into to the reign of emperor Galerius Maximilianos (early 4th century) and formed the city’s administrative and religious centre in Roman times. Or the Jewish Museum, in an elegant listed building of 1904 on Agiou Mina Street, recreating the life of the Jewish community in pre-War Salonica and its subsequent extermination by the Nazis. Finally, don’t forget to visit the former home of Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey.
Or wander the narrow lanes of Ano Poli, one of the oldest districts of Thessaloniki, above the modern town. There you’ll admire the numerous attractions, most of which are castles and religious monuments: the Trigoniou Tower, with its amazing view and the Eptapyrgio fortifications, Ottoman monuments, the Vlatades monastery and the Byzantine churches of Osios David and Agios Nikolaos Orfanos. This is the most unspoilt district of the old city. And let’s not forget, of course, the iconic 16th century White Tower, by Aristotelous Square in the city centre.
Travel to a fun and vibrant city
The White Tower, Ano Poli, Aristotelous Avenue, shopping on Tsimiski Street, bar hopping on Valaoritou Avenue, the International Film Festival held in the warehouses of the port, live music at Ladadika’s eateries, walks through the vaulted arches and the open air markets, visits to museums and Byzantine monuments… the ideal city-break destination.
In the city centre, the atmosphere is filled with a youthful energy, all day and all night. With every step you’ll discover hidden treasures: historic cafes, cosy bars, as well as, clubs with impressive designs in renovated industrial spaces and music venues in old warehouses, hosting live rock concerts. Nightlife is one of the city’s strengths. Follow the locals to their favourite haunts, and let them guide you through Thessaloniki’s secrets, sure to satisfy all styles and tastes. In this city in Northern Greece, fun is a local tradition, just like the warm soup you’ll be served when the sun comes up.
Gastronomy of Thessaloniki
Leaving Thessaloniki, you’ll take with you thousands of memories, and a few (worthwhile) kilos. High-end restaurants and historic eateries, trendy dining options, as well as, out-of-the-way ouzeris, tavernas and all-day restaurants will offer you a lifetime’s worth of foodie fun. Istanbul and Pontos, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, Macedonia and Thrace… all these cultures will make their way onto your plate.
Thessaloniki’s gastronomy reflects the melting pot of cultures that this city has been for centuries. Its cuisine is known for its meze (small plates intended for sharing) that the 1920s refugees brought with them. They also brought the tradition of patsa (tripe soup) and Thessaloniki’s world-famous bougatsa (a sweet-cream breakfast pastry).
An experienced business tourism destination
Thessaloniki, the business hub of the Balkans, also offers excellent infrastructure. The city hosts several major exhibitions and conferences every year, including the International Film Festival and the Thessaloniki International Exhibition.
Your off-duty needs will also be well-covered with good food and entertainment options, rich history and culture, excellent museums, popular pedestrian ways and brand-name shopping. Spectacular, internationally-renowned archaeological sites of Greece are easily accessible from Thessaloniki, at Philippi, Pella, Ancient Dion and Vergina.
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HOTEL
The MET hotel
The MET Hotel
Conveniently situated on the harbour of Thessaloniki, within easy reach of the city centre, THE MET HOTEL provides outstanding comfort and sophisticated amenities for business and leisure travellers.
This contemporary hotel features 212 guestrooms and suites , 13 meeting rooms, gourmet restaurants, atmospheric bars, a fabulous spa and other facilities and services that ensure an unforgettable stay. Innovative décor, impeccable service and personalized attention to detail reflect a refined business ambience and timeless elegance.
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- 2-storey Formula 1inspired underground parking with 200 spaces.
- Complimentary shuttle service to/from the city centre.
- Complimentary wireless internet.
- Business Centre.
- 24-hour room service.
- Non smoking rooms.
- Wheelchair access.
Fully flexible, the meeting rooms at The Met Hotel can accommodate up to 750 people in a variety of arrangements. Experienced coordinators and a dedicated staff guarantee a successful event from start to finish.
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ROUNDTABLES
Life On Line
Jon Harding
Victoria Pyke
The Life Online Project is a E-Learning project funded by Erasmus + led by Bridgwater and Taunton College, UK with support from partners in Spain, Finland Slovenia and the UK.
This project is being developed to improve the employability and entrepreneurship skills of young people through an online E-Learning platform.
E-Learning as a methodology is relatively underutilised but is seen as an innovative medium to prepare young people for the world of work. This project will harness these digital technologies to encourage and deliver the skills that young people require in order to broaden their employment and entrepreneurship prospects.
The project will focus on the five key competency areas under the product of ‘Master Your Future’:
- Kick start your Global Journey
Think like an Entrepreneur
Communicate like a Pro
Master the Art of teamwork
Manage your Career
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Improved Safety for Electricians
Valentina Chanina
Kent Andersen
The Safety4El project has after the first project year delivered rich outputs for training and testing safety for electricians and other employees in the building and construction industry. The materials developed are available in five languages; English, Danish, Greek, Maltese, and Spanish.
During the presentation we’ll demonstrate:
– an Open Educational Resource based on a Moodle MOOC with hundreds of multimedia supported multiple choice exercises
– safety cases based on videos produced by the partnership
The content of the course modules has been prepared so it may be used as part of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), the CLIL scaffolding is based on online units with all words linked to dictionaries in 118 languages, this will help prepare craftsmen and apprentices for mobility. The project has also produced a Scaffolding Guide, which shows how to prepare a lesson so it becomes CLIL based.
The project has two main target groups from the same sector; electricians and electricians’ apprentices, but the bulk of the proposed outcomes will also be suitable for all employees and apprentices in the construction industry.
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Engineering Mobility in Europe for all VET sectors
Frans van Schaik
Ellen Ejerskov
The Engineering Mobility in Europe for all VET sectors (EMEU4ALL) project is the successor of the 2016 European Best Practice project, EMEU4Engineering. In this follow-up project 20 European VET teams from Health care, Social care, Sports, Marketing, Catering and Retail develop and offer short 3 weeks’ study modules which are embedded in the partners’ curricula. Besides that they develop intensive virtual activities which provide opportunities for much higher numbers of students to work together through Internet on assignments within their own vocational context.
In this roundtable we will provide full details of the EMEU concept and how we can help you to set up similar activities within your own EU partnernetwork.
Come and join our roundtable, get excited and ready to start working on your own EMEU concept!
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AppMentor; Introducing mobile technology as a tool to strengthen the mentoring process during work based learning.
Tanja Halttunen
Iker Orueta
The need of AppMentor (2016-1-FI01-KA202-022668) has arisen as an increasing amount of the learning is conducted during work based learning and at placements located far from the VET provider. It’s too time consuming to travel to the companies and have mentoring sessions on the spot. By introducing and encouraging work mentors and mentoring teachers to start using mobile technology when mentoring will make mentoring a learning experience that is fun, flexible, qualitative & user friendly.
The outcomes of the project are
a) AppMentor Online Mentoring Course
b) Guidelines on how to implement mobile technology and social media in the mentoring process during work based learning
c) An online manual of mobile technology and social media that can be used to facilitate and strengthen the quality of the mentoring process
The partners are:
1. Axxell Utbildning Ab, Ekenäs, Finland (Coordinator)
2. Broadshoulders, Hereford, UK
3. IFSAT, Haarderwijk, Netherlands
4. Charlottenlund Upper Secondary School, Trondheim, Norway
5. Nantes Terre Atlantique, Saint Herblain, France
6. Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
7. Education & Mobility, Bilbao, The Basque Country, Spain
The project is in its second and final year and we hope you join us in our roundtable session to give us feedback on our outcomes.
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Reshape the future
Anne Hosio-Paloposki
Outi Komi
“Reshape the future – Education and Training for migrants and refugees” is an Erasmus+ funded project where the partners are scrutinizing the education and training for migrants and refugees from five different perspectives. These perspectives focus on the recognition of formal and non-formal learning, competencies needed for the educators and counsellors, guidance and counselling needs, education and training for entrepreneurship and quality assurance relating to the educational activities and social integration.
The aim is to share the best practises, to identify the problems and challenges and to develop solutions which can be put into practice in partner organizations.
Partners involved in the project are Keuda Vocational College (Finland), Alfa College (Netherlands), IFOA (Italy), SIAE (Slovenia), Tietgen (Denmark) and Finska Folkhögskolan (Sweden).
Our round table presentation consists of the following topics:
– the overview of the project
– the project’s themes
– good practises found
– challenges identified
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Qual4T2 - Guiding teacher teams in their startegic planning
Gitte Dyrloev
Tina Biil Eriksen
This project aims at guiding teacher teams to work in the field of strategic planning. The project is focused on a bottom up approach as a systematical improvement of the long term results that are team responsibility.
In the project we aim to produce a collection of tools which can be used by any team in order to reach these goals. It is essential that the teams are approached as professionals and with the possibility to adapt the tools to their specific needs.
This is definitely needed to connect the long term strategy and policy of the institutes with the short term actions on the ‘work floor’ by the teams. The QUAL4T2 – project aims at fulfilling the identified needs – targeting teams (teachers/trainers), quality staff and management.
Further Quality Improvement for VET is the key point in the QUAL4T2 project, as feedback from teachers made in connection with the QUAL4T project (focusing on the culture of quality involvement by teachers) shows that teachers’ teams don’t feel that they have enough knowledge and tools to write a good year plan and follow the PDCA-cycle.
Website: http://www.qual4t-project.org/new-qual4t2-project-approved
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European Knowledge Centre for Mobility
Udo Lut
The European Knowledge Center for Mobility (EUKCEM) project aims at contributing to a European Area of Skills and Competences and increased EU mobility by offering an one stop shop for important mobility processes including ECVET.
The project supports the quality in mobility by structured step by step information about mobility processes for all actors involved (host organisations, sending organisations and beneficiaries) as well as by a partner search database of quality organisations, that assured to follow certain quality standards and agreed to get rated for their performance by beneficiaries.
EUKCEM will add important components to further support coordinators in mobility and also participants. The added contents will be a growing database of ECVET learning outcomes as well as attractive and user friendly tutorials about the five important parts of every mobility project, such as application, preparation, implementation, evaluation and finalisation.
The EUKCEM project aims at adding content on the EUKCEM platform to facilitate the management of mobility project. Video animated tutorials, checklists and training contents delivered in webinars from a practicioner point of view about topics such as “From idea to application”, selection of beneficiaries, definition of learning outcomes… until how to document and prepare the final report will practically support project coordinators.
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Healthy Social Media
Ms. Valentina Chanina
Healthy Social Media is to empower young people to critical assess social media and interact more responsibly online, in a way that safeguards their own wellbeing as well as actively contributing to that of others and society in general.
However, social media has come at a price, and due to the scale and complexity of media outlets, and the fact that adults grew up in a pre-digital world: there is an obvious deficiency in support and assistance for children to use media wisely and safety.
Over the past fifteen years digital advancement has radically changed the way individuals interact, it is becoming an inescapable part of cultural and social structures. This is particularly so far the youth of today, in fact most teenagers do not a time when there was not some form of social media.
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Development of curricula on Accessible Tourism for VET Tourism Courses - TOUR4ALL
Alicia Gaban
Valentina Chanina
TOUR4ALL – aims at developing a training module about accessible tourism to be included in national curricula for Tourism Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses. With suitable training, future tourism professionals currently attending VET education can make disabled and senior guests feel welcome and can even overcome some of the physical and functional barriers that are still present in older buildings and environments. The pursued objectives of the project are:
✓ To validate and fine-tune the needs of people with disadvantages and special needs regarding tourism activities;
✓ To validate the data collected on Accessible Tourism;
✓ To collect case studies and good practices on Accessible Tourism initiatives across Europe;
✓ To implement a benchmark analysis of existing VET curricula on Accessible Tourism for VET courses:
✓ To design and create the structure of the curricula for VET ECVET principles;
✓ To develop TOUR4ALL training resources;
✓ To develop the training platform that will host all training resources;
✓ To test and validate TOUR4ALL training curricula and resources in small-scale pilots in PT, IT and DE;
✓ To deliver the final publication: “Promoting Accessible Tourism for all people”.
The all productions and input will be available on TOUR 4ALL website: www.tour4all.org
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jopapp, Job Placement App
Ms Susana Espilla
Ms Jone Etxebeste
The aim of the project is the creation of a manual for trainers and counsellors, and an app for students to guide and help them in the preparation and development of their job training period abroad. This tool “jopapp” is created through the direct application of the innovation model Rainova, implementing and adapting the contents and best practices of the RAINOVA model to a learning environment.
Student should lead the development of their job training process; they should be the driving engine of their own learning process, which would develop their soft skills such as a positive attitude, good communication skills, time management abilities, strong work ethic, problem solving skills, self-confidence, flexibility and adaptability, working well under pressure, competences for innovation in VET students.
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ROI-MOB: Measuring return on investment in VET mobility
Luca Boetti
The Education and Training 2020 Strategy wishes for a challenging 6% rate of VET students involved in a mobility experience abroad.
All people say work experiences abroad are useful, enriching, favour employability, development of one’s skills, etc.. What are such statements based upon?
Recent and accurate researches are available on the Higher Education side, especially regarding the Erasmus programme. However, it looks like no up-to-date study and statistics are available about the “Return on Investment” in VET mobility, nor apparently did anybody try to describe it with a single value, able to represent, with proper weights, the range of dimensions and factors affecting it.
ROI-MOB aims at putting some order in these matters, by identifying and testing some indicators suitable to measure the “Return on Investment” (ROI) in EU VET mobility (especially for 19+ years old participants, and EQF levels 4 and higher), investigating affecting factors and devising methods and tools for turning them into success factors.
Besides presenting the project and its current outcomes, the round table will give participants a chance to share their experience and points of view on these topics, and to co-operate to the project, if they wish so.
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Junior Job Coach
Norbert Ruepert
This new ERASMUS+ project aims to address the big European problem of early school and college leaving (ESL), particularly those students who drop out of their vocational programme during their work placement. The human and financial cost of ESL is substantial.
The Junior Job Coach programme will improve the effectiveness and success of work-based learning and apprenticeships by offering students at risk with a little help. It will also offer leadership opportunities to higher-level students and targeted support for employers to get the best out of work placements and apprenticeships.
The project will develop three key products to fulfil these objectives:
A Competence Framework will detail the key skills that are required to be a job coach. This is to be informed by field research in five European countries.
A Junior Job Coach Training Programme, based on the Framework, is to be developed and offered to higher-level students. Young people at risk in work placements and apprenticeships will be matched with a higher-level student in a speed-dating session to gain maximum compatibility with needs and skills. Support for the in-work placement student will be provided face to face, by text or a preferred social media.
A Junior Job Coach ToolKit, containing information on the training programme, is to be customised for employers.
The project will help to:
• Increase retention and completion rates
• Offer inspiring workplace experiences to more able students
• Support employers in their quest for better qualified apprentices
Partners:
ROC Midden Nederland (NL)
Cambridge Regional College (UK)
BFI OÖ (AT)
Gobierno de Navarra (ES)
CPIP (RO)
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İSMEK
Kerem Koker
Ali Koca
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Art and Vocational Training Courses (ISMEK) provides the residents of Istanbul with free-of charge artistic and vocational trainings as an adult education organization operating with mass-public education principles since 1996.
Since its foundation we have been providing free vocational, arts and crafts training in 38 districts of Istanbul in 235 course centres for 540 branches. Up to now ISMEK has had more than 2 million graduates. Having more trainees than the students of various universities, ISMEK has become the biggest “public university” of Turkey with the number of the trainees and courses, the diversity of the training programs and the high-class productions resulting from such programs. Apart from free-of-charge artistic and vocational trainings, ISMEK carries out such organizations as exhibitions, seminars, symposiums, fairs, publications, competitions, panels, conferences and projects. Today ISMEK is regarded as a model institution both in our country and the whole world.
ISMEK Profession Schools provide to resistant of Istanbul employ and improve their ability about their profession, to become expert in their job. These are Culinary Art School, Colpan Ilhan Fashion School, Child Growth School, Information-Accounting and Finance-Graphic Design School, Pastry And Beverage School.
Many district governments have opened similar artistic and vocational training programs by taking ISMEK’s operating system and activities as the basis. Moreover; a lot of committees from UK, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Syria, Morocco, Ethiopia, Dagestan and Kazakhstan have visited ISMEK and gathered information so far. ISMEK provides training to trainers as part of training of trainers’ projects. Additionally, ISMEK provides various training services for the disabled citizens of society to be self-sufficient, enhance personal self-confidence, adapt the social life more easily, to have social contacts and to acquire a profession. ISMEK serves trainings in various branches so as to rehabilitate and provide a peaceful life for the aged inhabiting nursing houses and poorhouses. ISMEK in collaboration with Turkish Ministry Of Justice also provides trainings for the prisoners in reformatory schools, jails, detention houses to pass time, contribute to the production and acquire a profession after being evacuated. We have also retailing school and school of small and medium sized enterprises which provide vocational training. When trainers complete their education, ISMEK gives opportunity to them find a job by negotiated firms.
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European Business Baccalaureate Diploma (EBBD)
Achim Obst
Ute Schmitt
The European Business Baccalaureate Diploma or “EBBD” provides students and adult learners having achieved or aiming at a general university entrance qualification with an economic focus to acquire additional qualifications in the fields of Economy, Europe and Mobility. These competences form a homogenous standard across Europe and will be accredited as European Business Baccalaureate Diploma – EBBD, thus being a label of excellence which is based on but goes beyond the respective national/regional curricula. The EBBD curriculum defines a graduate profile which can be developed in different manners in different national systems.
In a converging Europe the EBBD, in particular at vocational schools, should promote the development of a standard that assists the mobility of graduates and improves their chances for employment. The value of economy-related education will be increased, the transparency of the diploma on a European level will also be increased and the motivation to acquire economy-related competences will be promoted.
Soft skills are an essential part of the profile and they are closely integrated into the qualifications and conditions of the diploma. The soft skills cover especially the requirements of higher education institutes and needs of working life.
As a consequence, the introduction of a European Business Baccalaureate Diploma – EBBD leads to an added value for the economy, for the participating educational institutions and for the graduates. Moreover, it enhances the development of a European area of education in general.
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Commercialpolis
Sjoerd Wanrooij
We see many advertisings, every day. How can these advertisings catch your attentions? “Storytelling” is the new buzz word. But what skills do you need to use storytelling in advertising in the right way?
COMMERCIALPOLIS is an ERASMUS+ Key Action 2 project in which six VET schools and one university, in collaboration with the industry, try to find out what skills and knowledge we need to make an attractive and binding (video) advertising.
How do we do this?
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Progression pathway for employees - from recognition of non-formal and informal learning to tertiary qualificaitons
Mr Frankie Tang
We will share experience on a case of a local catering enterprise who developed progression pathways for employees to encourage lifelong learning. Experienced employees are encouraged to obtain formally-recognised qualifications under Hong Kong Qualifications Framework (HKQF) through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), and to join in-house training programmes accredited under HKQF. Articulation to tertiary qualifications are being arranged with a local university to complete the step-by-step progression for employees from little or no formal qualifications to become holders of bachelor degree.
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GET UP – Gender Equality Training to overcome Unfair discrimination Practices in education and labour market
Mr Sylvia Liuti
Ms Chiara Palazzetti
Which competences do ourselves – as trainers, teachers, guidance officers, HR managers – need in order to combat gender stereotyping and start valorising differences between men and women as an added value in educational and training settings? Are we effectively monitoring the impact of our educational offer on girls and boys, men and women?
The project GET UP – Gender Equality Training to overcome Unfair discrimination Practices in education and labour market is an initiative promoted by a multi-stakeholder consortium of 7 organizations acting along the education-training and labour market chain and intends to promote a capacity building process for the professionals involved in transition phases.
VET providers, trade unions and employers have developed together a European Minimum Standard of Competences (EMSC) on Gender Equality, coherent with the European Qualification Framework and are now working on a related training offer. The EMSC is meant to represent a common framework of reference for:
• designing effective initial trainings and continuous professional development opportunities for professionals of the transition phases along the education-training-labour market chain;
• recognizing and validating competencies acquired in non formal contexts and by professional experiences with regard to the promotion of gender equality;
• reviewing job descriptions and tasks avoiding discriminating language and the perpetuation of sectoral gender segregation;
• improving the minimum requirements of the services involved in guiding boys and girls, supporting educational and professional choices, managing the selection and career progression of women and men;
• raising awareness on the impact of discrimination and opportunities linked to the valorisation of gender differences in educational and professional environments;
Join us to learn more about the European Minimum Standard of Competences and to share ideas on how to encourage its adoption in your countries!
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Yritysamis - a new approach in VET
Raimo Sivonen
Risto Virkkunen
In Kainuu Vocational College has been developed a new pedagogic approach to VET. A way where students learn by doing in schools enterprises and in their Young Entrepreneur -companies. Method gives students a flexible pathway towards qualification and experiences of entrepreneurship. Team work, cheer, credits. Less lessons, more action. Awarded in many occasions.
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Engineer for the Future - Engine4F
Ana Ribeiro
The partnership of this project, composed of 10 partners, from 6 different countries, is a well balanced and strong one, as it involves schools, vet schools, universities, SMEs and Order/association of Engineers and addresses a common European need related to the lack of qualified staff within technical and engineering professional areas, especially women.
Our project aims at intervening among 8th and 9th grade students – and female students in particular. At this age and period in the academic life, students still have the time to learn from experience and to be well informed by the time they have to choose a career area or a VET course (at the end of the 9th grade). By increasing the exposure to technical areas and engineering professions and by promoting the learning of STEM related subjects through creative and innovative teaching practices, to be included in the subjects of Sciences, Maths, Physics and Chemistry, we will also contribute, among others, to deconstruct gender stereotypes, promote gender equality within these areas, increase labour market relevance of VET courses and review negative pre-conceived ideas related to VET learning paths.
ENGINE4F supports an “Awareness > Action Plan” methodology in the first two years and the study of the impact in the third year of its application, followed by the development of a set of activities, separated by area, related to STEM subjects and to be implemented in Sciences, Maths, Chemistry and Physics classes, as a way to complement them and to enhance student’s motivation and predisposition for learning.
Activities within this methodology will result in an e-manual and will continue to be held after the end of the project. This e-manual will be always updated, involving more schools and more students.
The project will also comprise the creation of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) http://www.pragmaeng.it/engine4f/ , which will act as a portal giving information on career areas, the curricula of engineering/technical areas, examples of career opportunities within each area, professional profiles, possibility to upload or download documents, etc. webpage: http://engine4f.aeva.eu/
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Summerschool for excellent students
Sjoerd Wanrooij
Summerschool for excellent students
Summerschools are often for students who are slow in their educational program. But what about the excellent students? They also need extra attention to have an attractive and inspiring education.
This round table is about how to make an attractive and inspiring international summerschool in which students can learn a lot about their technical and social skills.
This round table is not a advertisement to attract new participant because. The GLR SummerSchool is only open for GLR partner schools.
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LAIT4.0 - Learning Advanced Industrial Technologies
Andre Schoonhoven
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies are the core of the last industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0. The EU has created a Task Force for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Clean Production to co-ordinate EU efforts to increase the competitiveness of Europe’s manufacturing industry.
Advanced Manufacturing includes production activities able to improve production speed, productivity, energy and materials consumption, operating precision, waste, pollution management and enabling resource-efficient and low emission production. The retained definition is not linked to any particular industrial sector.
The objectives of the Task Force are:
• Accelerating the dissemination and commercialisation of advanced manufacturing technologies
• Boosting the demand for advanced manufacturing technologies
• Reducing skills shortages and competence deficits.
The LAIT 4.0. project focuses on this last objective involving VET centres, Innovation Centres and Companies (especially SMEs) to do so.
Industry involvement is key to achieving tangible impact in the real economy. Member States are encouraged to promote the commercialisation and deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies, and to develop transnational collaboration taking into account their national specialisations and needs.
Building up cooperation triangles between VET centres, innovation centres and companies we intend to transfer the expertise and knowledge of innovation centres to VET centres and from these ones to companies.
The idea is to provide VET trainers/teachers with the necessary skills so, first of all, they will be able to incorporate in the VET curricula the training to develop those skills among VET learners so they will be the ones driving the industry 4.0 concept later on in companies and, secondly, they will be able to cooperate with companies (especially SMEs) to become “factories of the future”.
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Growing the Market in Accessible Tourism
Marijo Irastorza
Marny Thompson
The object of the Growmat project is to create new business opportunities in Accessible Tourism for senior and others, particularly extending the out -of season market.
The concept of the program is to create educational and training courses to help entrepreneurs in tourism and hospitality, training providers in Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and Tourism and generally any people who are associated with customer services to meet elderly needs and to promote accessibility.
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VET Hosting/Sending ``Quality Commitment``
Enrique Miana
Alberto Tortolero
Through the experience of these last years in hosting and sending Vet students. We have discovered that is not easy to establish reliable institutions that take care specially of quality standards that ensure a full learning and profitable experience within the mobility.
We are convinced that all EFVET members or participants in the conference are on the same page. So what not to share our experiences, protocols and procedures focus on this?
From our side we have develop some strategies and tools that we would like to share and also we will be enchanted to listen needs and solutions related to them during the mobility process by rest of members/participant in the seminar.
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MentoMigri - Mentoring Migrants on the Upper Secondary Level Education in Finland
Ms. Aino Malin
MentoMigri is a European Social Funds Project 1.3.2017-28.2.2019) aiming at supporting, and assisting migrant students on the Upper Secondary Level Education to complete their studies and to promote equal possibilities for education. It also aims at widening the scale of training in Finnish colleges as well as at improving multicultural skills and knowledge of the students for the needs of regional working life. An important goal is also to improve the two-way integration between migrant and Finnish students.
The practical mentoring work consists of pair and group work with Finnish and migrant students. The mentors-to-be are trained during a two-day training programme and the mentees have been found in several colleges in Central Finland. The mentor students represent the educational fields of Social and Health Care as well as Youth and Leisure Time Instruction.
During the ESF Call 2017, a transnational aspect (TCA) has been taken into the programme for the first time. In MentoMigri, three other European countries are involved, i.e. Belgium, Germany and Sweden. The partners share information, experiences, mentoring models and expertise as well as test each others’ methods.
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BEEHIVES
Susana Espilla
Iñigo Araiztegui
Boosting European Exchange on Higher VET and Employer Involvement in Education Structures
The purpose of the BEEHIVES project is to promote European Exchange in Higher Vocational Education and Company Participation in Educational Structures.
A key objective of the Agenda to Modernise and Reform Higher Education in the EU is for Higher Education to more clearly meet job market requirements. Several recent studies highlight Higher Vocational Training’s strategic role as a significant driving force when providing high-level skills related to employment and when improving employment rates after graduation.
Higher Vocational Training is an area with confusing policy in many member countries — where HVET is offered in different, structurally separate sectors (SE, VET, CVT) with limited permeability (vertical and horizontal) and, in many countries with limited opportunities for progress.
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EUROSTEAM
Jone Etxebeste
Iñigo Araiztegui
All countries participating in the EuroSTEAM project have the same problem: low performance in maths, science and literacy levels. According to the OECD, this situation is particularly problematic in Italy and Portugal.
To face the challenge faced by participating countries, and to guarantee that students in Europe develop the necessary competences, the consortium is planning to co-develop three “STEAM Camps” and develop teaching materials.
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Promote WBL
Carl Quinn
An exploration of the CPD needs of VET teachers and trainers on how to best understand and promote work-based (WBL) learning opportunities to their key stakeholders – namely students and businesses. The institutions themselves can play a key role in establishing quality provision as well as improving the stature and impression of WBL.
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