V2V-AL is an Albania country-specific project that aims to increase VET attractiveness and performance through internationalization and mobility, increased responsiveness to labour market needs and skills development, both in IVET and CVET. Despite the key role that VET can play in economic transition, in Albania it remains quite small. V2V-AL project will develop customized and effective internationalization strategies and modernize the offer of vocational institutions through a capacity building process focused on twinning between Albanian and Programme VET providers. The core of the project, capacity building, will be achieved through a critical number of activities - courses catalogues, job shadowing, staff training, coaching, communities of practices, toolkits – focused on key areas such as internationalization, project design and management, dual system/work-based-learning (WBL), guidance. These activities will spill over throughout VET providers’ managerial, organizational, and didactic performance, benefitting staff, students, and stakeholders. Internationalization and mobility are clear drivers for VET attractiveness and performance; therefore, V2V-AL project will pilot short-term and long-term mobility for students and graduates. V2V-AL will also consolidate achievements through companies’ involvement, networking at different levels, advisory boards and workshop with stakeholders and policy makers, policy recommendations and international conferences. Overall, V2V-AL project will promote and improve VET internationalization, dual system/WBL, skills development and employability, and contribute to more secured current and future jobs.It will reach directly 129 staff and students, indirectly at least 800 staff members, 11.000 students and 8.000 graduates. Key project outputs – course catalogue, mobility process guidelines, toolbox, communities of practices, policy recommendations – will be freely accessible to potential users in the project platform.

The overarching objective of CANDI is the improvement of digital teaching competences of Vocational Education and Training (VET) teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Albania (ALB). Under the project lead of German VET school AFBB, 10 partners from BiH, ALB, Germany and Spain together design the CANDI workshop curriculum and develop the accompanying technical realisation. Having worked together on Erasmus+ projects in the past, the Spanish (MCC) and German (FHD, AFBB) partners are keen to share their expertise in training VET professionals and increase their Digital Education Readiness (DER). The well connected and in the VET sector actively involved partners IUS (BiH) and AS (ALB) take on the important role of coordinating many local activities and providing access to relevant local networks. The CANDI curriculum will be translated to Bosnian and Albanian. The Open Educational Resource (OER) will be implemented via a 3-part blended workshop (in BiH and ALB), including face-to-face (f2f) as well as online sessions with VET teachers (at least 40 from BiH and 60 from ALB). CANDI workshop facilitators will be 10 local teachers from 5 partner schools (2 in BiH, 3 in ALB), who will receive training in one f2f and one online learning/training activity to effectively deliver the CANDI workshops. The first Training-of-Trainers (T-o-T) will take place in the Spanish partners’ VET school, where the Teacher Trainers (TT) are given the opportunity to do job shadowing and explore digital technologies. To guarantee the wide dissemination and further implementation of the CANDI workshop design, a Transfer Concept is also developed, which will be introduced to BiH and ALB VET schools at two local Multiplier Events with relevant stakeholders.The TT will also be actively involved in all development processes of CANDI project outputs. Their input, amongst others, will inform the refinement of the CANDI curriculum, its technical realisation as well as the Transfer Concept.

Developing Capacity for VET Systems in Western Balkans is a follow-up initiative of the project of INTERVET WB (EAC-2019-0671) coordinated by Uniser and implemented in cooperation with the organisations from the Western Balkan countries involved here. The general objective is to innovate VET systems in Western Balkans through the exchange of practices and a pervasive capacity building action.The specific objectives are:1. To increase the quantity and quality of Work based learning and activities in collaboration with companies.2. To equip schools with tools to deal with the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities (Special Educational Needs; cultural obstacles; gender equality).3. To improve the internationalisation strategies of VET schools in WB.In order to achieve these objectives, the project will unfold in five work packages, two of them are transversal and will concern project coordination, quality management and dissemination, while the three core WP will be addressed to the capacity building action promoted by this call. They will focus on: improving work based learning and strengthening the collaboration with companies; fostering social inclusion and improve the internationalisation of vet. Each work package will include a research activity, an intense exchange of practices, training activities to upskill teachers and testing of new methodologies. The project will deliver the following outputs: a comparative analysis of Work Based Leaning approaches; video guidelines on how to set up WBL activities; an online gallery of virtual study visits of companies in IT, electronics and automation; an online repository of practices on WBL implemented in the testing phase; a toolkit on social inclusion for practitioners in the VET field; an E-Learning on internationalisation of VET systems in WB; Step-by-step guidelines on how to plan and implement a blended mobility projects.