Project Results
Project Result 1
Report on the present status of inclusion and prevention of drop- out in VET
The partnership will elaborate a methodology for information gathering concerning the present situation regarding vision, policy, strategies and actions VET schools are taking to increase inclusiveness and prevention of drop-out. Based on the methodologies, needed online questionnaires, interview questions for an individual meeting with VET school staff (teachers, administrators and management), NGOs working with NEET youth and local/regional VET authorities).
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Project Result 2
Online digital tool for self-assessment of inclusiveness and drop-out prevention in VET schools
The Online digital tool for self-assessment is a form of RiskScan
identifies the main factors involved in the prevention of drop-out.
As such it is an important building block for setting up appropriate
procedures to identify, mentor and monitor the students through
their processes of career development. Crucial for the use of the
Risk-Scan is the way the scan is incorporated in an integrated
development approach and the collaboration with all key school
staff in the process. If the VET schools do not have a student
monitor or mentoring program which can be enriched by the
parameters mentioned in the RiskScan the first activity of a school
will be to start to develop a policy for the prevention of drop-out
and related monitor and mentor system. It will cover the main
attention areas presented within the framework of EQAVET
indicator 8. Further, it will demonstrate how those attention areas
in quality planning can be used in monitoring and mentoring
program of a school, as well as some example showing how such
integration is created.
Quick Scan Tool
Project Result 3
EQAVET4INCLUSION training curricula for vocational school’s staff
The training curriculum will be developed in a form of a distance
course through Moodle open-source. The main feedback group
engaged are the focus groups consisting of teachers,
school management officers and guidance counsellors. The
purpose is to inform the school staff about using EQAVET in
general and indicator 8 in specific for quality improvement in their
VET school. The training material will assist schools to create a
long-term plan to detect and prevent drop-out by the selection of
policy, strategy and activities that address the particular needs of
the school. The Prevention Plan training material will offer step by
step advice on how schools can focus their efforts to keep young
people connected to their VET school. It will help VET schools to
create an inclusive school through the improvement of the school
climate and also a process to identify and track pupils who are at
risk of deop-out and respond to the warning signs.
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Project Result 4
Report on validation of the assessment tool and training curriculum and materials
The validation aims to measure the applicability of the elaborated
assessment tool and training curriculum and materials among a
wider range of VET providers with regards to: a) Size of the Vet
schools b) VET schools offering programs in different economic
sectors c) VET schools in various member states in the European
Union d) Various member states both inside the partnership and
outside the partnership The result of the validation through wider
piloting will give important input for a) Increasing the applicability
of the elaborated assessment tool and training curriculum and
materials b) Increasing the transferability to various types of VET
schools in different member states The validation will be done
through already established “EQAVET in Practice” to reach VET
schools in 17 EU countries that already use the platform. The
result will be a better alignment of the elaborated assessment tool
and training curriculum and materials in the toolbox of EQAVET
and thereby recognized by the EQAVET secretariat.
Project Result 5
Policy recommendation for prevention of drop-out in VET schools
based on EQAVET
The partnership combines bottom-up perspectives from the VET
teachers and trainers in VET and the direct delivery of VET to
trainees and students, with concrete engagement in programme-
level and policy-level mechanisms and instruments in the
EQAVET field. The EQAVET-4-INCLUSION has been designed in
a strong policy context, informed by the call requirements of
Erasmus priorities both horizontal and VET sectoral. It envisages
continuous engagement with quality experts and EQAVET
audiences throughout. In our experience, it is difficult for
innovation projects to find a policy action audience without a clear
pathway to policy stakeholders, such as that which we have
designed for this project. The
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Project Agreement: 2021-1-SE01-KA220-VET-000033282