The last time I wrote in this blog we had just about all finished the alpha testing phase of our project’s VOOCs (Vocational Open Online Courses) and we were looking forward to releasing the 2nd iterations to begin beta testing. This transition from 1st to 2nd iterations has proven not to be as simple as…
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Pro-VET marches on!
Every blog and every article we read these days seems to follow what has become a familiar thread; the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has caused untold damage and we have had, according to your point of view, either unnecessarily or justifiably harsh restrictions placed upon what we can do, where we can go and who we…
Continue readingPro-VET goes Dutch
As the wind and rain subsided across the Netherlands, the Pro-VET team descended on the small university town of Wageningen some 93 kms southeast of Amsterdam. This was our 4th transnational meeting and our genial hosts this time were colleagues from Aeres University of Applied Sciences – or in Pro-VET speak, P2 (AHW). For five…
Continue readingPro-VET at the West Balkans Cluster Meeting in Albania
In cooperation with our project’s Executive Agency, the EACEA, Albania’s National Erasmus+ Office (NEO) arranged the first ever West Balkans Cluster meeting in Durrës, Albania from 22 to 23 October and invited all Erasmus+ projects to be represented who are active in the region. Accordingly, Project Manager Graham Burns, and Professor Dr Nataša Papić-Blagojević from…
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Pro-VET One Year In: Making good progress
The Pro-VET (Professional Development of Vocational Education Teachers’ with European Practices) team met either side of the summer holidays firstly in Jyväskylä, Finland in June and then in Tver, Russia in September. The aim of these meetings was two-fold; to compete the state-of-the-art analysis concerning the current situation in VET teacher education in both Serbia…
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Pro-VET creating value in Russian and Serbian VET
Pro-VET (Professional Development of Vocational Education Teachers’ with European Practices), a co-funded project with the EU through its ERASMUS+ programme has formally begun. Over 30 colleagues from six different countries (Russia, Serbia, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland) were welcomed in a number of languages at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia 3-7 December 2018….
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