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PRESENTING OUR LATEST PROJECT “ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (EVE)”
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2009-08-20
The Education Exchanges Support Foundation has granted the Institute‘s project “Entrepreneurship in Vocational Education (EVE)” submitted for the Leonardo da Vinci program Transfer of Innovation open call.
EVE’s activities seek to contribute to the solution or relief the problems concerning the readiness of formal education system to develop personality able to be initiative, assess and try our different possibilities, contemplate critically. Mostly, the innovative coaching tools used for achieving mentioned goals are used in non-formal education, in NGOs and there is no worked out methodology how these methods could be adapted for VET system and practice. The co-operation among institutions of VET and NGOs purposely working with issues of fostering youth entrepreneurship and creativity is still of fairly low volume. The EVE seeks to contribute to the encouragement of this co-operation.
The aims of the EVE project are:
1. To propose an innovative product - adapt and transfer the best elements of innovative coaching methodologies aimed at fostering youth creativity and entrepreneurship into vocational education system.
2. To propose an innovative solution – platform for innovative methodologies for ensuring proper dissemination and exploitation of innovative methods, and raising cooperation between NGO’s and VET system.
As a result, there will be developed new methodology for training process, published books, carried out seminars for researchers.
3 organizations from 3 EU countries form the consortium of EVE project: NDI - Lithuania, OIC Poland Foundation - Poland, CRASIC - France. Also there is planned that 3 silent partners – 1 from each participating country – will be involved in the EVE for assistance in trying-out and transferring the developed innovative methodology in VET system and practice.
The co-operation of NGOs and institutions of VET system and practice, the usage of formal and non-formal methods in traditional education system will influence positively the youth involvement in labor market, the drop of youth unemployment rate.
