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Background:Multicultural working life and international labour market continues to put pressure on thedevelopment of international cooperation between training providers. The change caused by themulticulturalisation of society and its impact on skills requirements must be taken into account,among other things in curriculum development and teaching content.Partners face the same challenge; how to involve more teachers and staff into internationalisation. Itis important that internationalisation does not rely only on the commitment of few individuals but on allstaff members. Only in this way the culture of internationalisation can be embedded at institutionallevel. Besides, the world of work requires increasingly international skills and competences andteachers themselves must have these skills to be able to encourage and guide students tointernationalisation. Teachers may think they do not have necessary language skills, but internationalskills are far more and can be developed as other skills, too.We also wanted to promote the visibility of internationalisation and to enhance the strategic approach linking internationalisation more closely with the organisational strategy.Objectives:Our objectives were- to increase the ownership of internationalisation activities within the organisation and engage moreteachers and staff members in such activities. Engaging more teachers in internationals activities iscrucial to increase the attention to the European context, develop new curriculum planningprocess and new curriculum models and help to widen cultural understanding among students.- to develop and recognize the skills and competences required in the global world and promoteinternationalisation of education from “a rookie to an expert”.- to promote staff development in terms of internationalisation skills such as more knowledge about the EU, better understanding of other VET systems, language and managerial skills and updating theskills needed to work in a multi-cultural environment- to promote the link between international activities and the strategy and development of theorganisation and staff professional development.We wanted to encourage VET staff to participate in internationalisation and to develop internationalisation paths to link internationalisation as a part of staff professional development and strategies of VET providers.Implementation:We worked on four intellectual outputs during the project. One of the partners was leading the work and we organised subgroups especially when working on the training module. We monitored the work in monthly coordinators meetings online and in transnational project meetings. We organised three transnational project meetings face-to-face and four online. Most of the work was done in smaller groups between the transnational project meetings. Besides, we organised one learning, teaching and training activity for staff members from allpartner organisations to test the model of international path, training module and open badges in Helsinki in October 2021. Based on the feedback we developed the products.We had a variety of dissemination activities and we organised five multiplier events either online or face-to-face in each participating country. Evaluation and dissemination were ongoing activities in REX VET. After every transnational project meeting and after the LTT activity we sent a questionnaire to all participants to get feedback from the event. Besides, we made a self-evaluation among coordinators after the first year and had a monitoring visit by Finnish National Agency. We had final evaluation in Verona in March 22.Impact:The concrete outputs of REX VET are:1. Mapping the international skills of the staff in partner organizations.2. Personal development path model in international skills for staff in VET3. Training package to support the skills development4. Digital learning badges to document and recognize the learning and skills gained ininternationalizationAll products are in English.Other results are:-the international skills and competence of the teachers and other staff participating in the project are improved- the link between the organization's strategy and international activities is strengthened- wider possibilities for co-operation and joint development among partners- more visibility for international activities in partner organisations- the quality of internationalization and international processes in the participating organisation is improved-the idea and model of international path for VET staff as a part of professional development is more recognized and enhanced in partner countries
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