Digitalisation in education is increasingly gaining ground across the global and within educational sectors. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend also in the VET sector.
According to EfVET (2020, Recommendation paper following COVID-19) “digitalisation of work and teaching methods, and the use of online educational resources, guidelines and supporting tools has become critically important to learners and teachers” alike
“VET institutions have realised that students and trainees need to learn soft skills before going to practice them in a job environment” (VET-GPS: Guiding Tools for Professional Skills – Quality framework for the cooperation in VET system, 2018). Soft skills are a game-changer for VET students seeking employment or striving for self-employment.
Resulting from the research we identified three core problems that hamper the adequate soft skill development of VET students:
The central activity of the project is to develop a unified hybrid learning programme on soft skill development of VET students. For the time being this programme is called DIGITALIS.
It will be composed of two components:
While the VET Digital Learning Space is fully online and accessible from anywhere in the world, the European VET Learner Award combines distant learning components with a residential training phase and a public award ceremony.
DIGITALIS is innovative because:
While the VET stakeholders are expected to increase their competence to integrate and use digital and hybrid learning programmes in their daily education work, the VET students’ soft skill development is expected to increase their employability and self-employability.
The project also expects to impact the VET education system locally, regionally, nationally and on a European level in the following manner:
The project brings together a partnership of cross-sectoral character composed of a VET centre (HU), a teacher association (SLO), a private company (DK), a network of entrepreneurs (SK), and two NGOs (HU, RO) facilitating European cooperation and supporting VET learner mobilities across Europe.
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