Project: Avoiding and dealing with multicultural conflicts in VET (Nordplus project)
Duration of the project: 06/2024 – 06/2026
Coordinator: Helsinki Vocational College, Finland
Project partners: Ester Mosesson Vocational College (Sweden), Vamia (Finland), Raufoss videregaende skole (Norway)
The project aim is to develop a study unit, which gives students in vocational education an understanding of the most important cultural values and work life expectations. Vocational education is one of the main fields of education where adult immigrants are trained, thus it is important to find effective ways of helping students to learn cultural skills. The goal is to prevent and to be able to resolve conflicts that may arise from not understanding central expectations or for some other reason not complying with them.
Project: A Sustainable Future Work – Bebe Verde (Erasmus+ project)
Duration of the project: 01.09.2024 – 31.8.2026
Coordinator: Helsinki Vocational College, Finland
Project partners: Institut Mare de Déu de la Mercè (Spain), ROC Mondriaan (The Netherlands)
The main objective is to create a step-by-step learning concept through which teachers can increase learners´ awareness of the impact of sustainability and to find sustainable solutions across professional fields. A Sustainable Future Work-Bebe Verde project anchors the knowledge and hope of a sustainable mindset of the learners and guides to understand everyone’s opportunity to influence a sustainable future. The project prepares learners to take responsibility and make sustainable future choices.
Project: Call to Rewild (Erasmus+ project)
Duration of the project: 1.9.2022-31.08.2024
Coordinator: Pražské humanitní gymnázium, školská právnická osboba, Prague, Czech Republic
Project partners: Helsinki Vocational College (Finland), IES Llanes (Spain), Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych Nr 2 (Poland), Agrupamento de Escolas Nuno de Santa Maria (Portugal), 2nd Junior High School of Nea Makri (Greece)
The aim of the project is to inspire students in secondary education to preserve and protect nature in cities and to think about ways of including nature into city design in a desirable way. During the project the students will study what kinds of green spaces exist in their cities and suggest ways of protecting or improving these. A project week is organised in each partner school and students will gather there to work together on an aspect of the theme.
Previous international projects
Project: BUILD@HOME (Erasmus+ project)
Duration of the project: 1.10.2020-30.11.2023
Coordinator: ROC Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Project partners: Stadin AO, Da Vinci College (The Netherlands), Luovi (Finland), Hetel (Spain), Uniser (Italy) and Roskilde Technical College (Denmark)
The main objective was to develop an easy to use toolbox BUILD@HOME that enables teachers and students to create or follow education that closely matches the curriculum and learning objectives, learning needs, talents and core qualities of the student. All this in the context of the required international competences and Agenda 2030. The toolbox is designed for every type of education and for every type of student and it can be found through this link https://buildathome.online/.
Project: SOCS, Surveyor’s Opportunities for Collaborative Surveying (Erasmus+ project)
Duration of the project: 31.12.2020-31.12.2023
Coordinator: Stadin AO, Helsinki Vocational College
Project partners: Istituto di Istruzione Seconadaria Superiore ”Buontalenti – Cappellini -Orlando”, (Italy), Berufskolleg Cuno2 (Germany), Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Høgskulen på Vestlandet (Norway)
Surveyors’ Opportunities for Collaborative Surveying (acronym SOCS) was a strategic partnership initiative focused on strengthening and sharing of key competencies in surveying and enhancing internationalisation of the sector. The project was based on the idea of collaborative learning in transnational groups prior to and during four workshop weeks, each focusing on chosen surveying theme reflecting working life processes. Themes covered gathering data (for example by drones) and processing the data with different software, such as 3D modelling.
Workshop weeks were a mixture of different learning methods, small transnational group work, discussions, comparisons, building up summaries and presentations, active hands-on surveying work and company visits. Furthermore, work safety issues were included in each workshop according to theme of the week. Participating students built up a five-language surveying glossary in English, Finnish, German, Italian and Norwegian of the key concepts. In all, during the process, 60 surveying students had the possibility to participate in workshops.
