The training activities in the Netherlands om May 8-12th 2023 will aim at enhancing on the one hand the potential of the participants for work based learning schemes and professional organisation of workplacements on the other hand. The staff training in Netherlands will also be an activity that will lead to achievement of the project objectives. The experts from Netherlands will train the participants so that they learn how to establish good connection with the companies and how te motivate the students to have a practical placements in companies. Read more what we will do at Area071 below:

Dutch VET Circle Programme

The VET-Circle project is co-funded by the Erasmus Plus programme of the European Union. The project wants to help companies to get the best students, and also help the students find the most appropriate company for their work placement. One of aims of the Vet-Circle project is to develop e-courses for company mentors and school teachers.

Presentation Better Teaching and Learning

The project ‘Creating VET Business Partnerships for WBL’ is a partnership with Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, The Netherlands and North Macedonia. One of the aims is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives on Work based learning education, to support young people, schools and companies out there. Our project starts with making overviews of the VET Systems in each partnership country. On January 24th-25th 2022 we have our transnational project meeting in Skopje. That’s why we publish our sixth project article in the VET-WBL Series, which covers the Macedonian vocational education and training system.

‘Creating VET Business Partnerships for WBL’ Introduces

The project ‘Creating VET Business Partnerships for WBL’ is a partnership with Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, The Netherlands and North Macedonia. One of the aims is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives on Work based learning education, to support young people, schools and companies out there. Our project starts with making overviews of the VET Systems in each partnership country. Our fifth project article in the VET-WBL Series covers the Turkish vocational education and training system

During August 24th-25th 2021 the partnership ‘Çreating VET Business Partnerships for Work-Based Learning’ came together for the Hybrid meeting (OnLine and face-to-face) in Larissa Greece. In this very successful meeting we discussed and presented our progress so far with our products and intelectual outputs: VET-WBL Guide, Passport to Success and the VET-WBL Platform.

VET-WBL Guide

On day 1 of the Greek hybrid meeting Pieter van Schie presented the VET-WBL Guide and the Passport to Success. The VET-WBL Guide has reached the final concept stage. The VET-WBL Guide is a comprehensive good practice guide detailing the steps towards setting up and running a work based learning programme for schools and companies in accessing employment or employability training.

The 120 pages WBL guide includes information about the VET systems in the partnership countries, statistics of the youth unemployment rates and leavers from Education and Training in the European Union and the VET-WBL countries. Further it provides examples of good practice and work based learning templates, student, tutor and employer surveys, partnership agreements and service user consultation tools.
We have carefully described the definition and outline of the structure of the work-based learning activities regarding the ‘VET business partnership for WBL’ skills qualification, and the assessment criteria for identifying this as a good practice of work-based learning.

The aim is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives on Work based learning education, support for young people, schools and companies out there. This Guide is for schools and companies, finding the identifying ‘good practices’, to use this knowledge to be able to innovate and have impact. We anticipate that this will likely include training, self-education, and practice by doing.
The desk research and Study Analysis has given us an overview of relevant theoretical perspectives which enhances Work Based Learning / VET interventions for schools working with companies and vise versa and / or support services in each state of partner organisations. The guide will be able to be adapted for use across a range of sectors.
To take quality steps, we have shaped everything in a very organized way. In this process, we have first developed a template for the VET-WBL Country Reports, including the data gathered from each participant country to understand how work based learning works with a good validated plan. The validation is done through practice by doing. Currently we are editing and finetuning the VET-WBL Guide.

Passport 2 Success / VET-WBL Platform

On day 1 the Passport 2 Success also was presented. We will publish an article in a couple of weeks to show our progress on this particular service.

The VET-WBL Platform was presented by Thomas and Tereza of Wisamar on Day 2 of the hybrid meeting. Thomas explained how the teachers, students and companies can create profiles and use the platform to their advantage. There is still some work to do, but looks already terrific. The platform will be translated in each VET-WBL country language. The Platform is still in a test environment, but will be OnLine soon…

The project ‘Creating VET Business Partnerships for WBL’ is a partnership with Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, The Netherlands and North Macedonia. One of the aims is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives on Work based learning education, to support young people, schools and companies out there. Our project starts with making overviews of the VET Systems in each partnership country. Our fourth project article in the VET-WBL Series covers the Bulgarian vocational education and training system.

The project ‘Creating VET Business Partnerships for Work Based Learning’ makes overviews of the VET Systems in each partnership country. Our first project articles in the VET-WBL Series covers the German and Dutch vocational education and training system. This article gives a more indepth look in the most popular Dutch Job search instruments. Recent research by Intelligence Group shows that job sites are the most-used channels when searching for a new job. That makes job sites a more popular method than using own networks, Google or social media. Since they are so popular, we have made a top 25 Job Sites for you.

Dutch Job Site 25

The project VET-WBL, also known as ‘Creating VET Business Partnerships for WBL’ has started Work-based learning – Training on Best practices. Our German partner Wisamar is leading the training. The partnership with Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, The Netherlands and North Macedonia aims is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives on work based learning education, to support young people, schools and companies. During the VET-WBL training the VET systems of each country will be compared. The VET-WBL Series started with the German vocational education and training system, also known as the dual training system. Today we will highlight the Dutch VET System. The Dutch have four VET levels.

VET-WBL Series

As regards to Dutch Vocational education and training (VET): The Dutch term for secondary Vocational Education and Training (VET) is middelbaar beroepsonderwijs. The Dutch usually referred to it by its abbreviation MBO. Pre-vocational education and training is known as voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (VMBO). In the Netherlands VET training is offered at upper secondary as well as postsecondary levels.

The Dutch Vocational Education Training System

You can read our first article about the German VET System, here.

Ecvet for Digital Publishing (EfDP) will support the development of a suite of new credit-based Digital Publishing qualifications within the context of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and related processes for European Credit Transfer for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET).

EfDP Project Kick Off February 4-5th 2021

On February 4th and 5th the EfDP project kicked of with a digital meeting. The project will respond to the demand for digital skills within the publishing industry and related sectors by developing course curricula for a suite of new ECVET based Digital Publishing qualifications focusing on 5 key areas:

(1) Content

Creating, sourcing and collating content for Digital Publishing, as well as editing and curation for online content and examining legal issues associated with intellectual copyright and clearing rights within Europe and internationally

(2) Production

Skills and knowledge for digital production processes that develop content into digital products, such as: e-books and audio books; digital magazines; blogs; and elearning materials

(3) Design

Analysis and justification of different design approaches; awareness of software options for creating digital assets; designing for instant impact, and online optimisation

(4) Distribution

Awareness of the channels and platforms available for delivery of digital content and assessment of options for different digital products and audience targeting and engagement

(5) Business Models

Understanding of the impact of digitisation on mainstream publishing, as well as developing knowledge of alternative and emerging business models that facilitate monetisation of digital content, including advertising and subscription-based models and multiplatform returns on intellectual property.

ECVET Partners, Principles and Processes

Following ECVET principles and processes, the EfDP project will work with VET Partners in 5 EU countries (Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, as well as the Federation of European Publishers who will act as an industry-focused ‘Expert Partner’ to develop ECVET based Digital Publishing VET qualifications that will enable learners to start training
towards their target qualification with a training provider in one EU country and then, whilst part way through, transfer the credits gained to date to another training provider in a different EU country to complete the course.

EfDP Target Groups
The primary project target groups are:

• VET institutions historically or currently offering courses tailored to the traditional publishing sector, but especially those interested in:
  a) developing qualifications based on skills appropriate to the transition to digital within traditional publishing and/or
  b) wishing to offer VET provision related to the spectrum of skills relevant to ‘stand-alone’ digital publishing.
• VET learners interested in pursuing a career in publishing, primarily be young people aged 19-24 facing economic and educational obstacles to labour market integration in their chosen field.
• EU VET Support and the corresponding National, Regional and Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks in the partner countries. In total 312 people will directly benefit from the participating in the EfDM project including 15 project staff, 7 VET practitioners taking part in teaching and training activities, 50 VET students accessing pilot courses and 240 people taking part in Multiplier Events. Dissemination functions will also engage significant additional numbers of Digital Media employers,
  VET organisations, practitioners and learners.