Developing Enterprise and Employability during Mob..
Developing Enterprise and Employability during Mobilities
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Feb 28, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
The applicant has devised and piloted an Enterprise and Employability programme which is complementary to KA1 VET work placements in foreign organisations. We now wish to share and improve the programme with the help of a network of European VET partners, working together towards achieving transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate learning, employability and labour mobility.Our Enterprise and Employability programme comes to complement the KA1 VET mobility schemes, and adds value to it by offering a training scheme that equips and empowers beneficiaries of such schemes with entrepreneurship and employability knowledge and skills, leading to sustainable employment at the end of the mobility. The training programme is designed to work in symbiosis with the work placement, allowing the students to record both their professional and personal goals through the use of the Individual Development Plan and Log Books that are complementary to the training.The proposal builds on the UK approach to student-centred learning, offering an innovative pedagogical approach to partner nations. The curriculum materials will offer a formal training route, and opportunities for national and ECVET certification will be explored. The enterprise and employability programme that we wish to share, improve and standardise is based on an empirical approach, offering immediate solutions to engage employers in work-based learning and to help beneficiaries of mobility schemes into sustainable employment. The tangible results of the project will also lead to the development of better quality assurance mechanisms in VET, by identifying clear statements of learning outcomes.We will work together to bring in good/better practices, improve the materials of the Enterprise and Employability programme and standardise it, with inputs from 11 partners representing 5 EU countries. We are all seeking to enhance the “boost to employability” through an employability/enterprise curriculum that is offered during the mobility. We want to design the most appropriate curriculum and pedagogy, using the knowledge of all the partners. We acknowledge the different pedagogical approaches of partners/nations, yet also seek to be uniform in our approach.The impact will be that we develop a common curriculum which we all own – both as intellectual property and “own” in terms of our commitment to its quality delivery. The main target groups will be the VET students and the staff of the partner organisations, which will benefit directly from the developments of the project.The current proposal will build and strengthen a network of European VET providers, enabling them to deliver a standardised enterprise and employability curriculum, build organisational capacity and collaboratively work towards achieving results that tackle EU's 2020 Strategy.
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