IDiVET

Identification of the project

Call :  
2020 ERASMUS+ KA2 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN RESPONSE OF THE COVID-19 SITUATION – Digital education readiness

Duration :  
18 months (june 2021 / November 2022)

Coordinator : 
ANFA – National Association for Automotive Training / Association Nationale pour la Formation Automobile (France)

Project number : 
2020-1-FR01-KA226-VET-095619

Funding : 159 491€

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

About the project

The COVID-19 pandemic has added further urgency to the need to develop innovative digital practices in the area of education. This is particularly true for Vocational Education and Training (VET) and even more so regarding initial VET on European Qualification Framework (EQF) level 3 and 4. Due to a certain focus on manual skills, VET has been less “digital” than other areas of education.

As anti-COVID 19 measures and restrictions increased across the globe, VET providers had to come up with quick solutions to maintain teaching and training provision. In many cases, this involved the deployment of digital practices and tools they were not very familiar with – without paying much attention to underlying theoretical approaches.

The project aims to support the adoption of innovative teaching approaches and the use of digital technology in vocational education and training, particularly in the automotive sector. A major challenge for vocational training providers across Europe, the Covid-19 health crisis has also been a real catalyst for accelerating the introduction of new digital and innovative practices within training organizations.

Know more

For 18 months, the project partners worked on developing the planned intellectual outputs, notably through online meetings and transnational events. The results were tested in the participating institutions

Objectives

The specific objectives of the project are:

Support and enable VET teachers and trainers to mutualise and capitalise on their COVID 19 experience to develop innovative digital practices

Provide them with insights from transnational examples

Support teachers and trainers in their adaptation to the digital transformation

– Support VET providers by developing suitable solutions to digital and distance learning

Outputs of the project :

Develop a grid to analyse digital VET practices developed since the outbreak of the pandemic

Create a repository of concrete good digital learning practice examples from the area of automotive VET through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews

Provide general recommendations on the principles of quality digital VET based on the insights from this analysis

Develop and test a transnational training course for teachers and trainers on how to design quality distance and digital VET