Thanks to the Vetmo4TL project, 32 teachers and headmasters from nine European countries trained in tools favouring recognised mobility developed under the Vetmo4TL project

As part of this project, a training seminar was held at the Graafschap College, the Dutch partner institution in Doetinchem, from 20 to 22 November 2019 with the objective to promote the project’s resources and tools and to train our target audience, teachers and principals involved in the implementation of European mobility.

Therefore, the seminar proposed several work units directly related to the use of the main project results such as the shared references (common professional profiles, occupational standards and qualification standards) allowing a mutual understanding of the qualifications and trainings existing in the ten project partner countries or the mobility schemes. Latter are aiming to help teachers and trainers to set up mobility projects. They contain concrete proposals for duration, level, type of mobility, the learning skills to be achieved abroad as well as assessment and recognition procedures. All results can be downloaded here: https://vetmo4tl-project.eu/en/page/deliverables.

In addition to the training in the project’s tools, the purpose of this seminar was to match the participants in order to promote the implementation of European mobility. In this perspective, several workshops have been held allowing teachers and principals to meet, exchange on their trainings and current or future projects and to establish partnerships for future mobility projects.

As one of the objectives of the Vetmo4TL project is to enlarge the existing Netinvet network (https://www.netinvet.eu/en/) at EQF level 4 in transport and logistics and to integrate more schools proposing these trainings, the seminar was also the occasion to present NETINVET to the participants. Most of the participating VET centres are already member of the network but some new schools could be reached with the aim to make them become member during 2020.

These programme points were complemented by several presentations and workshops about the added value and importance of European mobility for young people in vocational trainings, tools to motivate and support student engagement, and methods of intercultural learning to prepare them for mobility. On Thursday afternoon, two visits took place that were very much appreciated by the participants, first to one of the warehouses of the New Zealand company Mainfreight, a global Supply Chain Logistics company, and then to the educational warehouse of the Graafschap College.

A total of 32 people attended the seminar in the Netherlands representing 17 vocational training institutions from nine European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain (Catalonia) and the Netherlands. Participants were satisfied with the seminar and able to make contacts to create new partnerships and exchange with colleagues from other schools and countries about their experiences and practices.