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The Vocational Education and Training sector is crucial to Europe’s economy, both for the development of our workforce and for our industry. To fulfill its mission, as stressed in the “Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the future priorities for enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training”, the VET system has actually the mission to establish a permanent connection and a preferential way of dialogue with the world of work. In line with these premises, the project aims to promote work-based learning in an innovative way by creating a digital platform, on the model of the Business to Business platforms, both for VET providers and for companies. The VET system, through its regular educational and training programmes, daily implement a huge amount of activities (services of catering, web-design, marketing projects, lab tests, 3D printing, etc.) proposed to learners as exercises or as a simulation of real job. The idea of the project is to turn these activities in real and effective services, good and professional consulting ready on market to be sold to small and medium enterprises, through a digital platform where one business (in this case VET providers) serves the needs and requirements of another business (in this case SMEs). In detail, the main project goals are: to design, implement, test and promote, within a local and regional economical contest, a methodology to mainstream the work-based learning methodology within the VET educational system by the medium of a digital platform; to increase job opportunities for learners; to tackle the topic by a cross-sectoral approach matching the needs of VET providers, enterprises, VET trainers and learners; to develop a cross-sectoral partnership to look at the topic by a transversal European perspective. The project objectives and the needs it intends to fulfill are strictly related to the target groups identified and to the key stakeholders needs. The main target groups are VET providers and SMEs at local and regional level while the project stakeholders are: VET trainers and learners together with local and regional public bodies, other public bodies working for the promotion and management of activities in the field of labor market policies and employment. Selected teams of people, out of the above mentioned, in each country, will actively contribute to the platform implementation. These teams will work together and with the partners by the medium of working tables at local level (35 people in total). In a minimum scenario, the project goal is to involve as subscribers of the platform 100 organizations, but the number of reached organizations can be much higher considering the outreach range of such a tool. After its implementation and after a testing and finalizing phase, the platform will be promoted exploiting the partners’ networks, the dissemination tool aimed at the promotion of the project as a whole and by a serie of small events at local and regional level: the “VET2B: an alliance to grow smart” events (200 stakeholders in total in all countries) and the “VET2B: an opportunity to grow smart” events, exclusively designed for VET trainers and learners (300 people in total). All the project activities will be carried out by six partners coming from Latvia, Italy (two partners), Lithuania, Portugal and Poland, belonging to different business and social sectors and dealing with different topics (training, marketing, labour market, economy, social issues): together they will cooperate to provide a range of wide, real job opportunities, both to organizations and individuals. Five transnational meeting and five multiplier events involving 250 people in total will be part of the project activities. The project is designed to become sustainable: the sustainability plan includes a direct dissemination activity to promote the platform among VET providers, SMEs and public bodies, and a set of activities to start a collaborative dialogue with these organizations to be continued after the project closure. The contents of the platform itself are designed to be transferable to other contests and to be used by organization from European countries other than those of the partners. The project is developed at transnational level, as it will offer to participants opportunities to better understand foreign contexts, take part and be supported by an European stable network: all key assets in the labour market sector and a positive trigger for work quality and employment opportunities.
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