Berbiqui

Context/background of the projectThe impulse for this project came from the need to increase labour market potential of VET students of crafts and design. Among growing problems in Europe is unemployment of young people. Consequently, VET institutions have high responsibility in providing education and training that would meet the needs and trends of the society's labor market. Entrepreneurship and transnational networking, including distance team-working and ICT-based practices, are increasingly more important in creative industry labour market in addition to increasingly aiming to high standard professional skills. The project aims to contributing to the labour market adequacy of crafts and design education. Therefore, the project deals with increasing versatility of VET curricula in participating organisations, thus enhancing the quality of crafts and design education on local, regional, national and European level. Objectives– improving students' entrepreneurial skills for better labour market potential– improving students' classical and ICT based crafts and design skills– increasing participants' social competences to contribute to their cooperation and teamwork skills both in- and outside industry– enhancing participants' cultural and linguistic skills to raise their cultural awareness and competence to work on international level– sharing ideas and increasing EU partner network, thus raising the participating organisations' potential to provide competencies for better performance on EU labor market– modernizing pedagogy, raising quality and versatility of the participating organizations' VET curricula in terms of professional, digital and self-employment skills as well as knowledge on product design and cultural heritage. Tangible outcomes of the project will be – designed patterns inspired by cultural heritage or other culture-specific visual motives– deliverables (product prototypes) of different fields of crafts and design, representing regional cultural heritage or other visual features.Number and profile of participating organisationsAltogether, 5 organisations took part of the project: Tartu Art School (TAS), a vocational institution, Lybecker Institute of Crafts and Design (PRAVET), vocational studies, Instituto di Istruzione Superiore G. Mazzatinti, which is State High school offering five different courses with different curricula, Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño y de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales de Burgos (EASD), which offers both vocational and degree studies, and finally, ASOCIACION PARA LA GESTION DEL CENTRO EUROPEO DE EMPRESAS E INNOVACION DE BURGOS (CEEI-Burgos) which is a business consulting, incubating and innovation centre.Description of undertaken main activitiesAmongst the main activities of EntreVET were a Virtual Studio on cultural heritage in digital design, three Learning, Teaching and Training activities and two transnational project meetings.In addition, local dissemination activities, exhibitions of the products with patterns, regular management meetings in Skype, consulting and coaching between workshops, ongoing product and pattern development.Results and impact attainedResults on the level of participants:– increased entrepreneurial mind-set and skills, and therefore raised labor market potential– increased cooperation and communication skills both in- and outside own industrybetter understanding of cultural heritage and diversity, better cultural awareness, understanding of cultural diversity and linguistic skills– improved social and team-work skills– increased level of classical and digital competence to be applied in the field of crafts and designResults on the level of organisations: – due to successfully implemented methodology, an innovative entity of studies or its modules to be integrated in VET curricula of crafts and design education, more versatile curricula. Therefore better tools to support competitiveness and employment among graduates of crafts and design field.– increased motivation to integrate good practices and new methods into crafts and design studies– increased motivation of staff and capacity of organisation to work at international level– stronger and more active educational network of crafts and design on European level, increased opportunity for sharing good practices and innovative initiatives.Tangible outcomes of the project, that is:–a collection of digitally designed patterns inspired by cultural heritage or other culture-specific visual motives– deliverables (product prototypes) of different fields of crafts and design, representing regional cultural heritage or other visual features.

The context of the project lies on the importance of caring and learning about the European heritage which is unquestionablly important for every European citizen, especially for the young generations who soon will be fully responsible and mature members of the European society. As being part of the educational system and playing the important role in transferring the knowledge, this project gives great opportunity to the teaching stuff and the students as participants who will explore the national heritage and goods of their own country with the aim to connect that with the European heritage and values by learning and comparing the ideas and work of various European schools representing their countries through several topics revealing national heritage. The target groups of the project are students and professional school stuff (total number 186), the local communities of each country and web visitors as an possible audience. During 5 mobilities, participants from Croatia, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Portugal will participate in the activities about natural, cultural, musical, sports, industrial and human heritage. The students who will participate will improve their social skills and English language. Visiting other countries and communicating with other students from different cultures will provide the European dimension. This will also strengthen the teaching professions by exchanging different teaching methods and experiences. All partners will benefit from the European dimension of the project and they will spread that to their schools and local population, especially through presenting their results on eTwinning at the end of every exchange, having a virtual meeting with one school which has never been part of the Erasmus exchange.At each school there will be a special place to put the information about the project: a ‘Project Board’ or ‘Erasmus+ Corner’ to disseminate the project materials in schools. Classes can visit these boards to study the displayed materials. The activities and results of each mobility will be shown on eTwinning, school website, project Facebook page and Instagram, such as teen tourguide from every country, cooking book, cultural,musical, ecological and sports presentations and posts which will be presented to touristic centres.The results expected for the students and teachers during the project and longer benefits are:-to develop a sense of belonging to the national and European community-improving the skills of foreign languages for students and teachers-to practice digital skills for communication and education-developing more organisational, social and life skills through travelling and hosting-exploring and more appreciation of national heritage -exploring and valuing European heritage through arts, culture, ecological and natural treasures and costumes of partner countries-taking active role in the society through planning and organizing workshops, field trips and presenting the project and its results-expanding the knowledge and observing different educational styles and teaching methods-making education more attractive and dynamic-strenghtening teaching professions through international cooperation-empowering young population for international exchanges or studying and working in the EU countries-including the students of lower socioeconomic status to take a part in the international exchange We plan to continue using the results of the project after the project's end to demonstrate the importance of the heritage learned during the exchanges.We will have workshops for attendants for each school involved, we will create annually events under the form of a students conference showing the results achieved in different fields of our educational system. We`ll encourage participants to stay connected on eTwinning and keep doing eTwinning projects in the long terms choosing different topics. Students will be motivated to attend meetings with their skills and competence, they will spread project idea in their family and among their friends, enlarging the project impact. We will also establish sessions to inform local community about the project stages and its contribution to educational process in schools involved. Those sessions will include press articles, short presentations to parents meetings, announcements on media and Internet channels, attendance to local educational events such as book fairs, and cultural evenings. Local schools community will be informed and invited to attend using meetings with other teachers. At international level we will use eTwinning platform to invite schools which haven`t been part of the Erasmus exchange, in this way other schools will take part to our activities. The participation in this project will contribute to the development of the schools involved since we want to improve teaching and management skills of school staff and ensure active students involvement in each stage of the project.