International Projects
1. PMI2 Measure 1.The
Further Education Partnerships Fund, 2009-2010
Project: Doncaster College, Doncaster,
UK-Arch Academy of Design, Jaipur, India
The project involves staff from Doncaster
College and Arch Academy of Design and forms the starting point for
developing a sustainable partnership. Doncaster College is keen to
position itself in India and Arch Academy wishes to establish a
partnership in the UK with the view to exploring opportunities to
improve vocational education through shared practice.
The main aim of this project is to build a
long term partnership and to promote diversity in vocational
education. The objectives are to Share best practice in teaching
methodologies, assessment methods and recognising achievement,
share best practice in quality assurance systems, develop joint
curriculum, map programmes and validate to UK qualifications,
develop flexible vocational progression routes to HE, provide
opportunities for staff professional development and to provide
opportunities to develop and enhance vocational skills.
The project will produce a 1 year exchange programme between
staff, a staff development plan, document of mapped curriculum,
exchanged examples of good practice, a business
plan for curriculum development and UK validation, a framework for
Student progression and an MOU with medium and long term strategies
for future collaboration.
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Technical Vocational Education and Training Brochure (PDF
format, 10MB).
2. PMI2 Measure 2. The Further
Education Partnerships Fund, 2009-2010
Project: YHTVET Consortium-Chengdu
Partnership
The project involves member colleges of the
Yorkshire and Humberside Technical Vocational and Educational
Training Consortium and Chengdu Vocational Education Development
Panel and forms the starting point for developing a sustainable
partnership between the two organisations. The YHTVE Consortium is
keen to position itself in Central and Western regions of
China and the Chengdu Vocational Education Development Panel wishes
to establish a partnership in the UK with the view to exploring
opportunities to improve vocational education through the
development of entrepreneurial and employability skills in
graduates and undergraduates. The main aim of this project is to
build a long term partnership and to support Chinese and UK
government policy in raising the quality and skills of our
workforces. The objectives are to scope opportunities for
collaboration in Enterprise and Employability skills, share best
practice and methodologies, build capacity in colleges through
staff professional development programmes, support government
policy of up skilling people and preparing them for a global job
market, raise the skill levels of graduates and undergraduates and
improve their employability opportunities through the development
of employability skills, improve vocational education through the
embedding of entrepreneurial skills into the curriculum. The
project will produce a proposal for collaboration, a staff
development programme and a Memorandum of Understanding,
based on findings from initial scoping visits and staff
exchanges to share practice.
3. Grundtvig: DEVelopment Of Trainers in
Education: (DEVOTED) 2009-2010
Project Partners: Doncaster College
(UK) Centre for European Studies (CESO.-NL), Arcus
College (NL), Centre of European Studies and Initiatives
(CESIE.-IT), Romanian Society for Lifelong Learning (SREP.-RO), Die
Berater (AT), Second Chance School Mönchengladbach (WBK.-
DE).
The project DEVOTED focuses on the upgrading
of teachers/coaches/tutors/youth leaders/social assistants/mentors
in adult education institutions, second chance schools, social
organisations, re-training agencies; in fact all professionals who
have an educational contact with culturally and economically
disadvantaged youngsters. DEVOTED meets the real needs among
professionals: to create an up-to-date database with products and
descriptions of practices, available in at least five European
languages, supported through advice from experienced European
colleagues. DEVOTED will not primarily be focused on the
development of new instruments and tools, but will be mainly
focused on finalizing existing products, making them accessible and
useful.
DEVOTED is the first step towards a European Centre of
Excellence and thus aims at collecting existing good
practices in the following thematic fields:
- intercultural communication, gender and diversity;
- key, social and citizenship competencies;
-creative skills and ICT competencies
4. Grundtvig: Hattrick-Football Learning Integration
2009-2011
Project Partners:
UK Partners:
- Doncaster College
- Doncaster Rovers
European Partners:
- Die Berater (Austria)
- BUPNET (Germany)
- Centre for European Studies (The
Netherlands)
- Centre of European Studies and Initiatives
(Italy)
- ADREP (France)
- Euroinform(Belgium)
Links:
Integration of migrants into education and
training systems, the labour market and society in general is still
a major challenge in Europe. The football pitch, however, is one of
the few social locations where integration seems to be successful
in many cases. A good performance in sports entails social
recognition which is otherwise often denied. Being a successful
footballer does not only boost confidence and self-esteem of young
migrants: It also involves transferable skills like self
motivation, motivating others, teamwork, orientation towards set
goals, perseverance, strategic thinking.
These are also key competences for a
successful educational and professional career, and for integration
into society.
The basic idea of Hattrick is to use the
potential which young migrant footballers display on the football
pitch for (re-)entering education and vocational training and thus
improving their social integration.
Hattrick seeks to engage:
- young migrants
- young men with a migration background
- other young male adults who are
socio-economically disadvantaged, with a low level of education, or
at risk of exclusion in lifelong learning activities.
Hattrick will develop and test “FootbaLLL”
(Football and Lifelong Learning) workshops for 15-25 – year old
football players in which:
- Their transversal skills are developed
through football are made visible
- Pathways into education and training are
(re-)opened
- Their integration into society at large is
improved.
Moreover, to enable football trainers to
support their players in their process of integration into LLL,
training called “FootbaLLL Coach” will be offered
5. Transversal: Expert and eXcellence
ACademy for Teachers (EXACT) 2009-2011
Partners: Doncaster College (UK)
Centre for European Studies (NL), Arcus College (NL),Centre of
European Studies and Initiatives (IT), Romanian Society for
Lifelong Learning (SREP-RO), Die Berater (AT), Second Chance
School Mönchengladbach
(WBK-(DE),
The main focus of EXIST is on the WP
Dissemination and Exploitation. The aim is to detect relevant
key-decision makers and to create new (local, regional) networks of
so-called chain partners
A Centre of Excellence in the field of
lifelong learning will be established during the project period,
utilising the experience and developed expertise from former
European projects under Grundtvig, Leonardo, Socrates, Youth and
Minerva. The Centre will:
- act as a tri-lingual knowledge centre where
good practices are made available in both digital (web site and
e-learning platform) and non-digital way (reports, training
programmes, hand books etc.).
- guarantee being self-supporting after
the project period as relevant key actors, decision makers and
end-users will be involved and networks will be activated ( e.g.
needs analysis and marketing surveys be carried out and
public meetings held.)
- Regional networks will be set up to optimize
dissemination and exploitation of the products of EXACT. Internal
monitoring systems and external evaluation, executed by a
university, must vouch for a solid quality assurance.
The project products will be disseminated and
exploited by:
- an online, interactive platform (web
site);
- work shops and training;
- regional dissemination meetings in the
involved countries;
- broad publications and information in the
consortium and the partners' networks;
- incorporation of the good practices into in
the curricula and methodologies of partners and their
networks;
- the set up of a mobile team based on a train-the-trainer
concept.
6. Leonardo da Vinci: Training and Development of
Employability Skills (TRADES) 2009-2011
Partners: Savonlinna Vocational College
(Finland), Hagagymnasiet/Marielund/Second Chance School (Sweden),
Lycée Professionnel Nicolas Joseph Cugnot (France), Fahmoda GmbH
(Germany)
TRADES (Training and Development of
Employability Skills) is a student mobility project for young
people aged 16-18 who are undertaking a programme of vocational
education and work based training in order to gain qualifications
and skills that are relevant for the job market.
The TRADES project aims to broaden the
horizons of young people, improve their employability by
gaining new knowledge, skills and competence, build self confidence
and raise aspirations through the opportunity of living and working
in another country.
The TRADES project will initially focus on
areas of expertise in Hairdressing, Beauty Therapy, Hospitality and
Motor Vehicle Maintenance, adding value to the students training
programme by embedding work placement overseas into the curriculum.
Partnerships have been set up with institutions in Finland, Sweden,
France and Germany for their expertise in Motor Vehicle
Maintenance, Fashion and Textile, Hospitality and Hair and Beauty
training. Student mobilities will take place over two years with
two l groups participating in a 2 week training placement between
April and June in France and Germany and between April and May in
Sweden and Finland. The first placements will take place in
2010.
7. Skills for Employability Project - British Council
Funded - Morocco
Partners:
- British Council
- ESITH
- Doncaster College
- FusedWorks
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this project.
8. Skills for Employability Project - British Council
Funded - Tunisia
Partners:
- British Council
- CSFT
- Doncaster College
- FusedWorks
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this project.