VET2Business
VET-Business Partnerships on Work-based learning and Apprenticeships
Project goals
Designing and implementing two new hotel and restaurant curricula, including training material for learning and apprenticeship training, in line with the skills needs and in line with the European Transparency Instruments (ex. g EQF, EQAVET, ECVET) using digital and innovative technologies.
Project duration
- 10/2017 – 09/2019, 24 months
Project partners
- AKMI ANONIMI EKPAIDEFTIKI ETAIRIA, Athens, Greece
- Stadtverwaltung Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Griechisch-Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer, Thessaloniki, Greece
- IHK Projektgesellschaft mbh, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
The project partners are supported by
- General Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants, Greece
- PanHellenic Federation of Catering and Tourist Industry Employers, Greece
- DEHOGA Brandenburg e.V., Germany
Problems identified by the partners
- VET curricula and work based learning schemes do not match modern industry needs
- Digital shift and technological developments are changing the ways how the Tourism sector works
- Skills diversification and learning needs in the Tourism sector are not fully addressed
- Tourism curricula in the VET sector are not enough entrepreneurial
Project activities
- Development of two new innovative curricula in the Hotel and Catering sector
- Conception and development of an "ePORTFOLIO“ for trainees
Project roadshow
- October 2017: Kick-off meeting in Thessaloniki (GR)
- June 2018: project partner meeting in Frankfurt/Oder (DE)
- November 2018: project partner meeting in Thessaloniki (GR)
- March 2019: project partner meeting in Cottbus (DE)
- October 2019: project partner meeting in Thessaloniki (GR)
Funded by the European Union in the framework of the ERASMUS Plus programme - KA3 Support for Policy Reform; VET—Business Partnerships on Work-based learning and Apprenticeships.
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