Description of the project

The main reason for this project is the need to make more efficient the educative methodologies and techniques  through the exchange of ideas and good practices.
This proposal comes after finding that we have a lot of common needs, problems and reasons for participating in an European partnership:

– The number of students starting to study in VET programmes is decreasing. Consequently, we have a deficit of technical and vocational workers in the labour market. We want to put a stop to this trend and turn it around.
– The old electrician profile is changing to an innovative worker, involved in new technics focused to minimum electric consumption, energy savings and friendly environment technologies. Schools should be pioneers, instead than go lagging behind the new trends that future workers will find in the labour market. Sharing technical innovations that arise in different places of Europe means a mutual learning and enrichment.

– In order to gain new (especially young and women) VET students/workers, the quality and attractiveness of VET should by all means be increased. This is an EU/national priority and also strategy of all the partners’ organizations. International projects, mobility and VET promotion are good ways to increase interest, especially among the young and women.

There is a general problem in the student population surrounding a tangible lack of initiative. This has been compounded by the current economic situation. We are impacted by the economic crisis and its effects on every sector. The main adverse effect for the

Vocational Education Training sector is the high rate of unemployment, especially in young people.
Whether the current situation is an excuse for the apathy of many students regarding their employability and professional future or not, this lack of initiative has led to a situation where many students across Europe sit waiting for a call from a job instead of using their initiative to make a living.

There are passive students with no proactivity, but also talented and bright, proactive students with a lack of competence. There are entrepreneurial teachers, and others, with a lack of competence, specific methodology and teaching materials for entrepreneurship. Learners lack opportunity to present innovative ideas and restricted finance presents additional barriers

T-ELECTRO (Teach to learn better electro-world )  project’s objetives are:

– Improve  « Learning by Doing and Teaching » methodology to educate and train good quality trainees/workers with an international knowledge, skills and competence base, relevant to working life. That will increase their employability not only in the national but also in the EU labour market. In addition, this will set up the frame for their lifelong learning.
-Improve the quality of VET programmes by harmonizing the Electrics and Electronics curriculum with the labour market needs and also with other EU countries by transferring/integrating good practices. Creating a VET network is the right answer to address that need.
-Create a set of strategies and educational tools from which a model for entrepreneurship can be constituted and integrated to regular curricula in order to achieve entrepreneurial students.
– Promote the entrepreneurial spirit in students to use « Learning by doing and teaching methodology ». We will develop curriculum which will stimulate creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit. Measures include the development of specific lessons, incorporating actions on entrepreneurship transversally into different subjects of the regular curriculum. The model for entrepreneurship will work across curricula as a subject in its own right.
– Learn and work together with other EU colleagues. This will give them an opportunity to learn from each other, to be creative, to identify innovative approaches and good practice and transfer them to their everyday activities.
Improve their foreign language, intercultural and social competences by international cooperation, real-world experience (mobility, meetings) using the “learning-by-doing” method.
-Our formal intellectual outcome will be a « BOOK »  named « Learn-Do-Teach »  that collects a set strategies addressed during the project.The book will have these sections: definitions of objectives,competences, evaluation criteria, and implementing guidelines. This publication will also collect practical experiences from great partner teachers from  6  different  countries.

The way forward will depend on each partner and educational system, curriculum, etc.
Partners are from every corner of Europe.  We have agreed the distribution of tasks and all partners accept individual and group responsibilities. At the same time all partners are aware of  importance of working in a team, and are committed to the project and its goals and responsible for the success of the whole project.

The target groups are Electricity students and teachers of all partners.