Aims and objectives of the project
- Strengthen and expand UCE-activities in cooperation with the regional economy
- Foster knowledge transfer and experience based learning
- Maximise peer-learning, transnationally and within each partner country
- Implement staff development workshops for in-enterprises trainers/supervisors and for HE tutors/trainers, designed to support them in working with apprentices and based on an existing successful model
- Promote regional pilot projects in close cooperation with enterprises and regional partners
- Document and compare the different approaches and results
- Share and discuss roadmaps at national / European conferences with experts of Vocational Training, Professional and Higher Education as well as other umbrella organisations
Final Products
- Generic prototype of training model
- Template model agreement
- Advocacy pack including lines of action addressed to 4 different target groups: education stakeholders, enterprises, public authorities, learners
- Policy paper with recommendations
Target groups
- Workers, managers, employers of SME
- Trainers within enterprises and VET-institutions
- Teachers of VET
- Lecturers of higher education
- Lecturers of teachers’ education
- Public bodies representatives
- Learners
Project Impact envisaged on partnerships
- Strengthening and developing cooperation between higher VET providers and enterprises
- Promoting exchanges between stakeholders involved in different formats of work-based learning suiting the target groups (integrating knowledge and experience-based learning)
- Comparison of different implementation-strategies and cooperation-requirements (change management)
- Strategy discussions particularly with multiplier-experts to speed-up sustainability (roadmaps)
- Promoting the establishment of new apprenticeship and work-based learning schemes, or reinforcing existing ones
Processes undertaken to enable the development of the final ApprEnt tools
- State of play reports (Oct 2017):
Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain - Template to collect best practices
- National focus group discussions and reports:
Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, Portugal, Spain - Learning Workshop. University of Brest (FR)
- National workshops: Austria, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Spain
- Online consultation:
- National Valorisation Events: Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain (Madrid), Spain (Barcelona)
Visit the tools section to download all the final products of ApprEnt.