Almost all school students in 14-19 vocational education have considerable digital competence and experience acquired through access to their own laptop, tablet or smart phone, and their engagement with social media. Most schools and colleges have access to web 2.0 learning platforms, but only a minority of teachers use anywhere near their full potential for interactive, student-centred teaching and learning across the curriculum. This project aims to enhance the capacity of non-specialist ICT teachers to do this by identifying and providing the training and support they need to engage and develop students’ pre-existing digital skills in support of their personal and social growth, their vocational education, and their lifelong employability. The project is focused upon a collaborative program of action research undertaken by five providers of 14-19 vocational education in five European countries. It is directed towards a better understanding of what works, where, and why in providing the training and support needed by teachers, school leaders and other educational professionals to meet the aims outlined above. It investigates the extent to which best practice can be transferred across European countries or modified as appropriate to their specific social, cultural and educational contexts. In this way, it seeks to address the challenges of supporting young people’s completion of vocational education leading to transferable qualifications in “New Skills for New Jobs”. Major outputs include:• cumulative resource packs for training and supporting the work of teachers and school leaders in meeting this challenge through the enhancement of their own and their students’ digital skills and awareness; • demonstration of best practice including audio-visual presentations, documentary analysis, and reports for academic and professional publications, all feeding into regional and national policy communities; • an international conference showcasing these digital competencies in vocational education for employability; • an EU-fundable and sustainable training course for our immediate target groups of teachers, school and college leaders, educational advisors, business-education link workers and the members of local and national VET policy communities; • an online course where the knowledge gained through the project can effectively be shared with other teachers, leaders and schools around Europe;• a sustainable web-site as the basis for dissemination and exploitation of the project’s outputs across the whole European area.

"Industry 4.0 (IND4.0), often dubbed as “4th Industrial Revolution"", is expected to impact all disciplines, industries, and economies in EU and around the world. Through its Digital Single Market Strategy, the European Commission encourages all sectors to exploit new technologies and managea transition to smart, IND4.0 industrial systems. Under the impact of IND4.0, the healthcare system is undergoing a rapid transformation that will accelerate in the following years and must be accompanied by an appropriate personnel preparation. Technology is very important but, even morecritical, is the ability of the personnel to catch up with its rapid advances and to stay updated.The needs identified the from the context analysis that are:1.Suitable trained personnel is required in the healthcare sector in order to keep up with technology advancements and sector transformation towards Industry 4.0.2.Both initial and continuous professional development of personnel is needed, given the dynamic evolution of the healthcare sector under the Industry 4.0 revolution.3.There is an urgent need for VET teachers, trainers and mentors able to train healthcare personnel in the field of IND4.0 applications in their activities, in both school and work-based settings.4.There is an urgent need for strengthening the VET curricula with key competences related to IND4.0 applications in healthcare.5. Relevant new learning tools dedicated to healthcare personnel training in the view of IND4.0 transformation of the healthcare sector are needed.Organisations from Poland, Lithuania,Spain, Romania and Malta will achieve project objectives through realization of the following operational goals:•prepare a multilingual brochure which will provide essential insights on the current status of IND4.0 application in the healthcare sector as well as relevant VET guidelines;•create a curricula on IND4.0 for health professionals;•create an open and innovative blended-learning course, including an on-line Learning ManagementSystem and learning materials and methodology face to face training;•develop evaluation and certification tools for both on-line and face to face training;•create a special guide for trainers;•testing and piloting of the course and preparation of an evaluation report regarding the impact of IND4.0 on healthcare course in clinical settings.HI4 is a project directed at VET trainers belonging to health professions. The project, however, concentrates not only on trainers, as the indirect beneficiaries of our activities will be the healthcare personnel because the training will help them to better cope with the Industry 4.0-driventransformation of their jobs. Another beneficiary of this project will be various stakeholders from the health sector also entrepreneurs, policy makers, NGO’s, etc, who will be offered reports and analyses useful for improvement of healthcare services through use of Industry 4.0 technologies and may find useful some of our outputs in order to build strategies for development of the sector. In addition:• at least 20 participants from the partner organizations will be directly involved in the project;activities ;• minimum 300 persons will participate in the 5 Multiplier Events organized by the partners;• minimum 90 participants will be involved in the local piloting of the online and face to face courses;• 20 trainers from the 5 countries will be involved in the Short-term joint staff training event “Training for trainers in VET Industry 4.0 in Healthcare”.The main specific results are:1.“Industry 4.0 applications in healthcare – review and VET guidelines”. 2. Curricula of “Industry 4.0 in Healthcare” training course. 3. HI4.0 Learning Management System based on the previously developed curricula and hosts the online modules of “Industry 4.0 in Healthcare” training course as well as evaluation and certification tools. 4. Learning materials and methodology for the face to face “Industry 4.0 in Healthcare” training course. 5. Guidelines for “Industry 4.0 in Healthcare” trainers. 6. Best practice: Implementation of Industry 4.0 on healthcare in clinical settings and primary care by partner organisations.Intangible results and longer term benefits will be:- increased awareness among healthcare professionals concerning new technological trends in their sector and increased use of these technologies;- increased knowledge of health professionals, managers, authorities and policy makers concerning the advantages offered by the implementation of Industry 4.0 in Healthcare;- knowledge gained by partners’ staff in new areas, good practice exchange among them;- extended educational offer of universities and training providers;- better understanding of the jobs transformation in the transformation in the healthcare sector and of the impact of IND4.0;- new national and European multi-sectoral cooperation among project partners and stakeholders."

"The basic aim of the project was the development of learning material mainly in English (local languages in addition, if desired) for different age groups and subjects (history, ethics, creativity, sciences, economy, foreign languages, geography, health,…) around the topic horses and to put this on an online-platform.Another aim is intercultural learning and networking among teachers and students.The main objectives were:internationalization of education (324 students and 33 teachers had the opportunity to move and experience different approaches in teaching subjects in foreign schools) multilingualism (students used English as the communication language)improvement of skills and qualifications (the peculiarity of our project allowed vocational schools to exchange their knowledge about “horses and men” but also to improve and acquire new skills on this subjectuse of digital learning (most of our work was carried out using digital tools in order to communicate and exchange ideas and materialsdevelopment of tools and competences that promote a life-long and flexible learning attitude, with the final aim to help moving freely in Europe and be well equipped for job purposesEach partner contributed different aspects. The material was worked out by students together with teachers in the respective countries but also during meetings (workshops):1st Kick-off meeting in Bulgaria (Oct 2015) with the attendance of teachers from each organization. The aim of the meeting was to introduce the partners to each other, giving information about their cultures and the detailed planning of meetings/processes. The Bulgarian partner has a rich European project experience (more than 15 implemented projects so far) and explained how evaluation would be carried out.Apart from that, the veterinarian doctors (teachers of VET subjects) prepared a presentation about basic equine anatomy and physiology, behavior and main breeds. Horse-riding center ""Albena"" and a stud farm with local breeds were visited.1st short-term exchange of groups of pupils in Portugal (Feb 2016) - The Portuguese School of Equestrian Art and the National Coach Museum were visited; a bullfight training and ""campinos"" (portuguese cowboys) working gave insight into local traditions; visit at 267 years old Alter Stud Farm; teachers and students (T+S) took part in workshops with the topic ‘history, religion and ethics-knowledge’ about horses ‘evolutionary history’2nd short-term exchange in Austria (April 2016) was held with a workshop based on equine science and biology topics: visit of the ""Spanische Hofreitschule"" in Vienna and participation in the official opening of the federal exhibition of Upper Austria called ""Mensch und Pferd""3rd short-term exchange in Germany (October 2016) - summarized the unique relationship brtween horse and man. In practical training units and demonstrations with the horse the contents and results were introduced to the international guests (communication with the horse and social pedagogical use of the horse with disadvantaged juveniles and children). Methodical steps were executed together in order to be put into practice back home.2nd transnational meeting in Italy (Feb 2017) was for 2 teachers from all schools. Focus was on the mid-term report, the further planning, evaluation and on the problems encountered 4th short-term exchange in Spain (April 2017) - T+S got information on health, welfare and veterinary matters for horses competing in sporting events; meeting with veterinary health professionals; health of riders - warm-up, riders' massage, specific protection for outdoor activities; exhibitions and workshops to share and transmit the technical information about the issues; videos were and shared. 5th short-term exchange in France (Nov 2017)discussion of the geographical factors which enable the breeding of horses in a certain area, as well as the economic value of horses (economic impact of horse industry in each country), environmental and health benefits from having horses in our communities. 6th short-term exchange in Denmark (May 2018) - topic of horse arts, creativity and handicraft. A wide variety of equestrian craft ideas were presented as decorating ideas, sculpting and modelling; crafts for students inspired them to be creative and explore their artistic side, and teach them what imagination is all about; visit of Helgstrand dressage center3rd transnational meeting in Denmark (June 2018)During this final meeting a collective video was prepared and final evaluation was carried out."