VENHANS

Objectives of the project

Objectives of the project

The consortium was committed to disseminating, mediating, support EU policies bringing them to the grass-root level: the training centres. VENHANS – VET European networking enhancement is a project aimed to help EVTA and the other VET provider’s networks to:

• Increase their representativeness at the national/regional level, expanding memberships and stimulating networking, particularly between VET providers and companies, with a special focus on under-represented territories in the VET policies’ definition;

• Enhance the cooperation between the members of the VET4EU2 platform to allow maximum synergies and joint efforts, to sustain and support decision-makers in the VET policies development and deployment in all the EU member states;
• Promote VET provision’s quality improvement, propagating the concept of excellence in VET, exploiting best VET learning tools and practices, promoting benchmarking as a reference to implement development strategies, adopting bottom-up approaches to valorize local contributions

Expected Results

VET providers, teachers and trainers, stakeholders benefited from the three action plans EVTA activated (Networking, Capacity building, Dissemination) and the outcomes they generated, such as networking peer learning reviews, benchmarking tools and support to develop roadmaps for improvement, training webinars in local languages, development of networking with companies (GO+Europe) involved in work-based learning, support to conferences and country-level events, a VET European Digital Magazine, contribute to the European VET WEEK.

Specifically:

• Communication platform
• Networking road map
• Networking peer learning reviews
• Excellence centres management meetings
• GO+EUROPE animators meeting
• GO+EUROPE launch conference
• Excellence peer learning reviews
• English VET webinars
• National Language VET webinars
• SOLITY tool
• SOLITY support service
• Go International tool
• Go International support service
• Silver experts group
• VET digital magazine
• Country-level events for VETWEEK census
• VET conference VET4EU2 provisions
• VET4EU2 website & social pages

Project Activities

The VENHANS project supported this dialogue through the following three actions plans:

NETWORKING – Strengthen the cooperation between the VET networks grouped in the VET4U2 umbrella; extend the EVTA partnerships; promote effective and proper use of the EU funds among the old and the new partners of the network; guarantee a more qualified and extended representativeness within the EU experts’ workgroup, conference, policy survey, etc.; actively contribute to the VET policy development and implementation fostering the cooperation between the EU institutions and agencies and the other umbrella organisations.

CAPACITY BUYILDING – The Capacity Building’s Action Plan aimed at collecting all the processes capable of empowering VET professionals’ knowledge and skills, VET providers’ attractiveness and quality of provision, VET stakeholders networking involvement, internalisation attitude to VET learners.

DISSEMINATION – Through that the partners developed and carried out together, strengthening the relationship and cooperation among the umbrella networks.