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.

Cameroon Renew-ed The consortium of 3 EU organizations (Noorderpoort- NL; APRO- IT, MasterPeace- NL) and 3 in Cameroon (Hope4Better Future, FAP and Sopisdew) support the relevance, accessibility, and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development using innovative renewable expertise on solar, wind and hydro; The new gold for Cameroon! Our main objective is to improve and increase the capacity of VET teachers and trainers; to boost the exposure of staff, teachers and learners using 21st century and innovative renewable energy blended VET materials. We bridge the gaps in profiles between education, the labour market and governance policies. The consortium is part of African and global networks to share the lessons learned and scaling competences. Our primary target groups: 1.0) VET organizations and teachers (to increase the capacity and support their exposure); 2.1) Youngsters in the age group of 16-30 years, 60% female/40% male 2.2) Employees of business partners. Our secondary target groups: 3.1) private sector to boost their business and close the gap between VET and labour; 3.2) local decision makers and our global partners to build an ecosystem that drives the transformation; 3.3) society to inspire them with positive stories and best practice examples. Our main outcomes: ·Score of 10 on evaluation by VET organizations and participants ·Gap between VET and Labor smaller ·Profiles formally recognized ·Expertise on renewable energy is a fundament for prosperity to society Our main outputs: ·9 trainers trained; 200 students trained and create personal business plans hosted by 25 businesTrain-the-trainer project with schools, business and local government and network, and partners in Netherlands and Italy, to strengthen the capacity of the Cameroon partners. Focus on renewable energy and sustainability. Mobilities and exchange of staff and students

Five European Regional Skills ecosystems will collaboratively design, test, refine and exploit an integral curriculum in digital transformation competence for mid to high level EU technicians. The curriculum will be available in EN, BG, EL, ES, IT and NL and supported by an international IoT network Hub.The Digital Transformation in Advanced Manufacturing – DTAM project aims to create and provide innovative curricular training (reskilling and upskilling opportunities) in digital transformation competence for the advanced manufacturing sector (AM), for mid-high level IT and OT technicians at EQF Levels 4-5 +. Materials delivered will allow technicians to understand, install, configure, monitor, analyse, transfer data and maintain digital systems in advanced manufacturing environments. The complete DTAM curriculum will offer learners in IVET and CVET open access to all training modules as OERs via the project e-learning platform and to innovative supporting digital technology in the form of an international network of IoT labs. The partnership will encourage the growth of digital transformation, and talent and technology 4.0 profiles in H/VET centres by providing and launching a(n):• Model for the Creation and Exploitation of a Sustainable IoT lab: the model created will address the essential issue of financing and sustainability of IoT laboratories through collaboration with local / regional industry and SMEs• International Network of DTAM IoT labs which H/VET centres developing IoT labs can join, supporting a growing pool of labs which learners can access remotely via the project IoT HubThe DTAM curriculum aims to be a reference curriculum for Quality training and certification in digital transformation competence for Smart Industry. The partnership aims to have the DTAM Modules validated and included in regional and national VET training courses in the mid-term.

The project aims to address the skills gap of Smart Cities technicians and engineers, by designing and testing a vocational education and training program that is based on a novel and multi-disciplinary curriculum combining digital skills on Smart Cities enabling technologies, with soft, entrepreneurship and green skills.The expected project outputs are:• A Smart Cities competences map and ESCO-compliant Smart Cities job profiles.• A Smart Cities curriculum combining both technical and non-technical skills and competences and promoting personalized learning pathways.• Learning resources for Smart Cities enabling technologies and for building the soft, entrepreneurship and green skills of Smart Cities technicians and Engineers.• A diagnostic tool to identify personalized learning pathways.• A MOOC for Smart Cities enabling technologies.• Virtual Worlds for building the soft, green and entrepreneurship skills of Smart Cities technicians and engineers.The main project beneficiaries are Smart Cities technician and engineers either from the public sector (i.e. municipalities) or enterprises providing Smart Cities solutions, as well as HEI and VET students interested in Smart Cities. The curriculum will be tested through 4 national pilots in Greece, Bulgaria, Spain and Italy with at least 160 trainees. The certification of the skills and competences will follow a two-fold approach: (a) using micro-credentials to recognize the knowledge and skills gained through the successful completion of each online training module at the MOOC and Virtual Worlds and (b) designing the “Smart Cities Specialization Certification” that will be awarded to those passing online certifications exams with e-proctoring after the completion of the training modules.The project will create an ecosystem for the co-design and co-development of an innovative curriculum and technology-enhanced learning tools for the upskilling/reskilling of Smart Cities technicians and engineers.

TOURing, aims at establishing and sharing a common model for skills in Tourism sector in the EU in order to address the skills mismatches and “invest” for the future developments. We are going to establish an effective mechanism where partnering VET Institutions and Tourism Businesses are going to engage mutual learning, peer counselling, and capacity building, aimed at raising the quality and attractiveness of VET provision and a European, National, Regional and Local Level. TOURing, is the answer towards bridging the gap between the market needs in terms of skills and competences in the Tourism Sector, and the ability of the VET to provide more tailored Curricula and Up-Skilling opportunities that would create balance in the booming tourism sector.Based on the above our main goals are:• To support Tourism Stakeholders to respond immediately to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital and green skills sets;• To contribute to the Knowledge Hub of Pact for Skills by providing updated and state-of-the-art curricula addressing the need for digital and green skills in tourism sector;• To create the ground for partnerships and cooperation structures between VET/Education Providers and Labour Market Representatives in Tourism Sector;• To raise the awareness of VET systems and Tourism Industry in digital and green transitions in tourism;• To increase the quality of the VET Curricula related to Tourism which nowadays goes hand in hand with digital technologies and environmental sustainability;