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Global Innovation through ECVET
Global Innovation through ECVET
Start date: Nov 1, 2016,
End date: Oct 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The InnovECVET project is framed within the strategic plan of the European city network of Xarxa FP with the objective to promote quality, internationalization and innovation across Europe, by developing concrete actions aimed at the VET schools principals and adding high value to strength the European dimension of VET. This projects responds to the will and commitment of the network to involve the VET schools in the innovative processes that are being used in other European education realities, as the case of Finland, which is one of the first countries in implementing the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET), as well as the hosting country of the project, and which will ease the information and experiences exchange among the different participating partners. In the Northern Europe, VET studies are subjected to recognition and validation in other European countries. However, in Central and Southern Europe, this system has not been yet fully developed, while there is limited interest or indifference in taking on that transfer of credit system. The need to develop the InnovECVET project resides in the will of the organization members in providing both an added high value and larger European impact at the long term to enable VET students to recognize and validate their qualifications abroad from the hosting to the sending institution, through the credit transfer, with the objective of increasing the number and quality of the international mobilities of the European students. The general objective of the project is to understand and analyze the innovative aspects of the ECVET system as a common and European methodological framework of innovation to enable the practical implementation in Spain. For that purpose, the project seeks the educational and professional training to exchange ideas among the participants and hosting partners in Finland, allowing them to deep into common difficulties and transfer methods to recognize joint trainings at the European level through ECVET. This exchange is also planned to happen with other involved professionals coming from Germany, likewise interested in exchanging knowledge, experiences and future vision with our Spanish participants - the cooperation and alignment of consortia from different countries generates the new added value to this project and especially to the VET in Spain, assuming the necessary impulse to the continuous improving of the VET system and meeting the common objectives set by the European 2020 strategy. Also, the project searches for the improvement of social, personal and language skills (mainly English), as well as an intercultural exchange and adaptation to the socioeconomic context in Europe. The Secretariat General of the network is the responsible and coordinator of the Consortia of the project which it is composed by VET principals and professionals responsible of VET centres of the six Spanish cities belonging to the network (Alcoy, Barcelona, Gandía, Madrid, Mislata y Reus). The activities planned will be developed in two flows to make the most of the training stay and respond to the needs expressed by the participants and partner organizations. With regards to the impact, the project is expected to reiforce the consortia to lead a pilot project through the identification and ideas-sharing of experiences and best practices within the Finnish ECVET context, but also will allow the most proactive partner organizations to play a key role as ECVET experts in the country ato create future strategic partnerships (under a KA2 format) based on workshops and composed by experts from different European countries to jointly develop new innovative working lines to implement the ECVET system in their respective countries. In the long term, this project will also laid the foundations for a future collaboration among VET schoold and participants to face the VET challenges in Europe and to transfer innovative methodology that lead to the official recognition of joint trainings, by increasing its development and quality at the European level.