About Us
To expand VET schools' knowledge on the best ways to teach EU subjects, by updating and upskilling their teachers' skills on this topic, the exchange of pedagogic experiences between a Higher Education Institution, VET Secondary Schools and VET Teachers / Trainers (collaborative work on specific topics and on methodologies, and common activities) are the aim of this project. Although its direct target is VET teachers, we also provide an emphasis on its impact on students.
Education
2 Courses
for VET teachers (built with micro credentials) and other for VET students
EU Skills virtual competition
we include creative pedagogic approaches
For that, we have coherent and integrated activities: the design & implementation of 2 courses on EU skills, one for VET teachers (built with micro credentials) and other for VET students, both targeting the EU benefits and its direct impacts on young people daily life, created collaboratively between the HEI and the VET Schools.
The main goal is to develop EU citizenship awareness for both VET teachers and VET students, in an enjoyable and non-theoretical way, highlighting on the expected learning results the impact the EU has on our daily life, and to show them the importance of their active participation in EU society.
To improve teachers' teaching and students' learning processes, with the use of digital tools, we include creative pedagogic approaches: a EU skills virtual competition, between VET schools’ teams of teachers + students. With digital gamification, both VET teachers and VET students can achieve the expected learning results in a more attractive & different mode.
Learning materials
As a field visit, the VET teachers attending the course and the winning team of the virtual competition take part in a one-day visit to the EU institutions in Brussels. They study first-hand what they otherwise only see in the news and in school textbooks. Interview scripts for EU policymakers are prepared, recorded on video, edited and used as learning materials on EU-related subjects. Two complete kits for celebrating Europe Day in schools are created and piloted. Monthly podcasts on EU-related subjects are broadcast.