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RESULTS

Handbook for Training VET Teachers

As a last step in our project, all partners contributed to the creation of the content of the training course for VET Teachers that trains them in stepping out from the teacher role and taking on a trainer role in non-formal education.
The handbook contains step by step activities and methods to be applied by anyone wishing to do such a training. It was tested in a training in Colombia, following which the participants offered feedback on the training content. Using these, we finalised the Handbook in English, Hungarian, Romanian and Spanish versions, which are downloadable below.

RiVET Curriculum for Vocational Education and Training Students

The main activity of the project was to create a Curriculum that aimed to bolster those 24 competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) that VET students wanted to develop, to be better equipped for the labour market, which we identified in our research.

The RiVET Curriculum for VET Students, has 30 teaching hours and promotes transformative learning in VET focusing and applying non formal education methodologies and enable youth in VET learning to better cope with their studies and to enter the labour market. It includes 10 sessions from which the first 4 focus on Social Entrepreneurship and the competences related to that, the next 2 on Philosophy for Children / Communities and the next 3 on Communicating in English, Sustainability and Climate Change and Career Guidance. All these were first trained in an international training course in El Salvador to teachers from the six countries. And these teachers were those who from December 2023 until September 2024 have used the draft of the curriculum and the training experience from El Salvador to first train more than 180 of their fellow educators and then all of them trained and tested the curriculum with more than 1900 VET Students.

The last chapter of the publication shows the effectiveness of the curriculum itself as it compares self-assessments from all the students who took part in the testing phase on how they developed the 24 competences we were focusing on. It is available in English, Hungarian, Romanian and Spanish versions, which are downloadable below.

Research Report - Enhancing VET Practices and Capacities through Transformative Learning

The first activity of the project involved conducting a small-scale baseline research to understand the contextual factors and possibilities of applying transformative learning in VET education.

This research aims to assess the current state of VET education in the partner countries, examining the willingness and potential for implementing transformative learning theory and methods, as well as compiling a collection of best practices related to cooperation with companies, digital and green practices within VET, inspiring VET institutions in the six countries and beyond.

The research results are summarised in the present research in English, Hungarian, Romanian and Spanish, which are downloadable below.