Ongoing projects

The key objective of the Erasmus Plus project PEN-QM – Sustainable Quality Management – to foster future-proof job skills of HEI learners is to explore ways to provide Higher Education Institution learners, teachers and community with an innovative web-based learning instrument for the practical application of the top 10 Jobs Skills of Tomorrow. The secondary objective is to improve Practice Enterprise activities by developing innovative models for monitoring quality. And lastly, the consortium aims to facilitate greater cooperation between the Practice Enterprise network and HEIs on Quality, Evaluation and Audits. The consortium will work together to update the process of developing innovative models of Practice Enterprise quality mechanisms. The target groups in this project are HEI institutions and any other institution that works with Practice Enterprises.

Project initiator and coordinator:

Vilniaus kolegija

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Project INNOSOCIAL – Mainstreaming Inclusive Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

Goals:

• to create a basis for the preparation and execution of activities of the InnoSocial project (methodology and guidelines);
• contribute to the creation of the teaching and learning base necessary for the implementation of the project (programme and learning content);
• to improve the skills of the academic staff of higher education institutions to conduct training (teacher seminars and pilot training for students);
• raise awareness among stakeholders about the role of higher education institutions in promoting the integration of inclusive innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Main results:

• A toolkit for developing and implementing inclusive innovation and social entrepreneurship education.
• A modular course approved by partners higher education institutions and included in the education system as a separate course or part of existing courses.
• 25 trained teachers (intensive professional development training, 1 credit).
• 60 trained students (one semester course).

Project initiator and coordinator:

SPOLECZNA AKADEMIA NAUK (Poland)

Project partners:

Vilniaus Kolegija (Lithuania)

Tetra Solutions Ltd. (Bulgaria)

University of Pavia (Italy)

Fundacja InCREA (Poland)

Project number: 2022-1-PL01-KA220-HED-00089820

Project implementation period: 2022-11-01–2025-04-30

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The key objective of the FEMPOWER – Female Empowerment: Leaders of the Future project is to develop and reinforce female leadership skills and empower young women within the innovative work-based learning environment of the Practice Enterprise. The secondary objective is to implement elements into the programme to address gender stereotype expectations and raise awareness of gender-based discrimination in the labour market. The consortium will cooperate to develop a Female Leadership and Empowerment Mini-Course Programme through which young participants, especially female trainees, are more likely to emerge as leaders and understand the realities of the labour market and better adapt to new trends in the recruitment process.

PROJECT CONSORTIUM

PEN Worldwide (DE)

Project No. 101049598–FEMPOWER–ERASMUS-YOUTH-2021-PCOOP-ENGO

Project lifetime: 2022-03-01 – 2024-04-31

More information here: FEMPOWER

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„READY FOR NEW REALITIES – THE DIGITAL PRACTICE ENTERPRISE“

DIGIPRAC project aim is to transform current Practice Enterprise learning methodologies into a digital model and adding digital competencies to the learning outcomes, competences and skills that are regularly trained in the standard Practice Enterprise model.

TARGET GROUPS:

• PE trainees from VET institutions;
• disadvantaged young people and people with disabilities;
• VET institutions and organizations using practice based training programs and require remote learning-teaching-models.

PROJECT CONSORTIUM

Project Coordinator:

VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA (Lithuania) www.sl.viko.lt

Partners:

PEN WORLDWIDE EV (Germany) www.penworldwide.org

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (Denmark) www.ibc.dk

FUNDACIO PRIVADA INFORMINSTITUT PER A LA FORMACIO DE JOVES VERS L’ADMINISTRACIO D’EMPRESES (Spain) www.inform.es

CONNECTIEF VZW (Belgium) www.connectief.be

FZ-ESSEN GMBH (Germany) www.bfz-essen.de

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

• To re-evaluate the current Practice Enterprise model and methodology. The project will look at the advantages and challenges of setting up a digital Practice Enterprise and solutions for developing an online environment while maintaining a sense of reality in the classroom.
• To provide VET learners, teachers, schools and community with a new future-proof digital model of the Practice Enterprise adapting the standard Practice Enterprise model from a mostly physical setting to a digital setting which allows more flexibility when challenges such as pandemics arise as well as to provide more flexibility inside the standard Practice Enterprise setting and increasing inclusion for people that are unable to travel to educational institutions due to geographical reasons or physical challenges.
• To boost and sustain VET learners’ entrepreneurship skills through the creation of a virtual mistake-driven learning and internationalization at home environment to promote new future-proof digital model of the Practice Enterprise practices at school. While the standard Practice Enterprise model can and will continue, there’s a clear
• To enrich VET teachers’ pedagogical approaches related to challenge-based learning and new future-proof digital model of the Practice Enterprise promotion in the classroom through the elaboration of a tool to support them in the application, adaptation and transferability of the project innovative web approach.

PROJECT RESULTS:

The key result of DIGIPRAC is a future-proof digital model based on the network’s prevailing PE training programme.

Results:

• Framework & Model for Digital Practice Enterprise DIGIPRAC. A methodological document guiding the development of the further results.
• DIGIPRAC Resource Guide. Concentrated on developing and creating a digital resource guide on how to implement the DIGIPRAC Practice Enterprise Framework.
• DIGIPRAC Internationalization at Home Toolkit. To make VET practice enterprises more globally oriented and internationally connected. Digital PE integrates policies, programs, initiatives and a variety of distance learning approaches for increasing PE learners capacities to work in a international environment, offers all learners global perspectives within their programme of learning, whether or not they spend time abroad.
• DIGIPRAC Collection for Mistake-Driven and Effective Relationships E-learning. Based on „learning by mistakes” practices in the PE method, taking the best elements of existing tools and methods to implement them in digital PE, as Trial and error, also known as experimentation, is the basis for all discovery and learning.

Funded under Erasmus+ programme: Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices

Type of activity: KA220-VET – Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training

Project number: 2021-1-LT01-KA220-VET-000033195

Project lifetime: 1/12/2021 – 30/11/2023

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Completed projects:

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Web learning approach for advancing and sustaining learners’ wellbeing and mental health

Project Title: “Innovative Web Approach for Advancing and Sustaining VET Learners’ Wellbeing and Mental Health”
Funded under Erasmus+ programme: Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices
Type of activity: KA202 – Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training
Project number: 2020-1-LT01-KA202-078016
Project Acronym: STAYWELL
Project period is: 1/11/2020 – 31/10/2022, 24 Months

StayWell project aim is to develop an innovative web learning approach for advancing and sustaining VET learners’ wellbeing and mental health through the acquisition of social-emotional skills that would help them study effectively, master their life and enter the job market.

Target Groups:

• Secondary VET: learners; teachers, educators, trainers and professionals; psychologists and leaders
• Representatives of organisations promoting mental health and wellbeing in secondary VET
• Public bodies involved in secondary VET

PROJECT CONSORTIUM

Project Coordinator:

VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA Lithuania

Partners:

PSICHIKOS SVEIKATOS PERSPEKTYVOS VIESOJI ISTAIGA Lithuania
Foyle International Ltd. United Kingdom
KUTAHYA DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITESI Turkey
EUROPEAN CENTER FOR QUALITY OOD Bulgaria
AKMI ANONIMI EKPAIDEFTIKI ETAIRIA Greece
MEDNARODNA ZVEZA ZA ZDRAVJE MLADIH – INTERNATIONAL YOUTH HEALTH ORGANIZATION Slovenia

Project Objectives:

• To provide VET learners, teachers and community with a thorough understanding of the factors affecting and skills favouring students’ wellbeing through the development of a pioneering 4-pillar mapping frame of wellbeing;
• To foster VET learners to get aware, verify and continuously improve their level of psychological, cognitive, social and physical wellbeing through the development of a new to date approach for self-reflect upon the skills, which could help them improve their wellbeing and mental health;
• To boost and sustain VET learners’ wellbeing skills through the creation of a virtual challenge-based learning environment to promote wellbeing practices at school;
• To enrich VET teachers’ pedagogical approaches related to challenge-based learning and wellbeing promotion in the classroom through the elaboration of a full-cycle navigation tool to support them in the application, adaptation and transferability of the project innovative web approach.

Project Results:

1, Wellbeing Mapping Frame providing a thorough understanding of the factors affecting and skills favouring students’ wellbeing shaped in a pioneering 4-pillar frame.
2. Wellbeing Skillbox opening up VET learners’ minds about the importance of their mental health and wellbeing and fostering them to discover and continuously improve the skills,
which could help them improve their psychological, cognitive, social and physical wellbeing.
3. Digital Wellbeing Lab creating a virtual challenge-based learning environment for boosting and sustaining VET learners’ wellbeing skills through collaborative work and guided
discovery in the classroom.
4. Digital Wellbeing Lab Navigation Guide equipping VET teachers with a full-cycle navigation tool to apply, adapt and transfer the project innovative web approach.

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