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This year, thanks to the support of BBK and Caja Vital, two financial entities from the Basque Country, a group of students and teachers from HETEL schools will participate in the international version of the Diseinua project, following the e-motive methodology. This week our colleague Martin Borsje, from the Dutch ROC Da Vinci school, visited the participating HETEL schools and met with all the teachers involved. The purpose of this visit was to design and plan both the challenge to be solved with cooperative methodologies, by the teams of students from Euskadi and the Netherlands, as well as the moments in which the student´s mobilities will be carried out. The idea is to hold a first meeting in Euskadi, where students from both countries meet each other. During the stay, the teams will be selected and the challenge to be solved will be presented. Throughout 2 months they will work together in teams using different technological means (Skype, e-mail, etc). Participants in this project, in addition to learning collaboratively through a project, acquire other key skills and competences, such as English proficiency, work in multicultural teams, independence or self-management. Abantean!  

Throughout this week, more than 300 people will debate in HETEL schools about the necessary skills to face the technological advances in the 4.0 Industry era. This action is part of the European Vocational Skills Week, which this year has as claim “Discover your talent”. In each of the 21 participating HETEL Schools, a group of three agents (students, teachers and employers) will debate, and then, they will connect by videoconference to share their reflections with two other schools, which have already performed the analysis. All these conclusions, will be collected by HETEL. In these debates, the participants will try to answer questions such as what are the key competences people should have in a changing environment?, Can these competences be acquired in a VET School? What values ​​should be taken into account when making a new contract?. The current speed of change, specially the technological one, entails that much of the knowledge learned in the school is soon obsolete, which makes more than ever necessary a lifelong learning process, and accentuates the importance of certain transversal competences. These debates involve companies such as Euskaltel, Ikusi, RPK, Goimek-Danobat, CIE Egaña, Jema Energy S.A (Irizar Group), Elimotor Workshops, Prasa, Noraybio, Wolco, Batz Araluce, Ekin, …  

This week HETEL international is in Alba (Italy) with our colleagues from LAIT 4.0, an Erasmus+ KA2 project coordinated by HETEL and with D&A (UK), ROC Da Vinci College (NL), KTPMC (LT), APRO Formazione (IT) and IK4 Tekniker as partners. After a 5 days training in industry 4.0, provided in Spain by IK4 Tekniker, and a short course to transfer this knowledge to other teachers from partner organizations, the next step is to carry out technological check-ups in companies. The methodology and template to be used will be the discussion topics in this meeting to start with the technological check ups in 2018. Afterwards, we will créate a guide for VET colleges with the steps we followed so other colleges can replicate our work. Resources and more information can be found in the project Website: www.lait40.eu

HETEL coordinates LAIT 4.0, an Erasmus+ KA2 project aimed to transfer VET teachers knowledge, skills and competences related to industry 4.0. After attending a course provided by IK4 TEKNIKER, the VET teachers involved in the project organised yesterday a short training event in the Goierri VET college to transfer what they leart to other VET teachers. During this event, they went through the different technologies related to industry 4.0 and how they are changing and creating new business models. The attendants also had the opportunity to see different demos about the use of collaborative robotics, virtual reality, added manufacturing and virtual welding through augmented reality. In the afternoon they also paid a visit to IK4 TEKNIKER´s headquarters, also a partner in the LAIT 4.0 project. In the project Website www.lait40.eu you can access all the materials related to the project and keep updated about our progress.

HETELinternational is this week in Lanciano (Italy) with the partners of the “Understanding and achieving Automotive Training Outcomes 4.0.- AUTO 4.0.” Erasmus+ project of Strategic Partnership in VET. The main objective of this project is to anticipate the future key skills needed by the qualified workers of the automotive sector, and provide digital training materials to facilitate the online continuous training of the employees, in order to adapt to the implementation of the industry 4.0.  In this project, HETEL and AIC- Automotive intelligence centre will cooperate to improve the qualification of the employees in their associated companies. This project has also partners from Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Abantean! 

DELTA is an Erasmus+ KA2 project which aims to enhance and improve the quality of Work Based Learning. Along the 2 years of the project, the partners will produce several results to: –          Improve the information companies have about VET centres, shifting from a focus based on “what the compan needs” to “what a VET learner can do for the company”, facilitating transparency about methodologies used in VET centres, projects they are involved in, international activity and any other aspect which can lead to a better use of the VET learner skills within the company. –          Enhance the role of the tutor/trainer in company, establishing ways to improve his/her skills, the relation with the VET centre and to recognise the important part they play in WBL. –          Define a structured process to host students in companies, offering also alternatives for shared apprenticeships schemes, combined with mobility opportunities abroad whenever possible. We are happy to work again with Dundee & Angus College in this project, already a good friend of HETEL, and to meet new interesting partners from Sweden, Germany, Italy and Romania. Let´s go ABANTEAN with DELTA!

HETEL International is these days visiting the school EPRALIMA (Portugal) in the framework of the ERASMUS+ Project PBP in VET. As in previous ocassions, the partners of the project has assessed the module produced this time by the Portuguese partner about different kind of PICs for motors connection. Next meeting will take place in Bilbao in Salesianos Deusto, the HETEL Abantean school participating in the project.

Some of the Global Training granted youngs managed by HETEL- Politeknika ikastegia Txorierri – Confebask – Adegi alliance will soon be heading to their destinations abroad. For this reason, they have received a training course at the Txorierri Politeknika Ikastegia, with the aim of working on some transversal skills that allow them to adapt to the new work and cultural environment. This training course is given in English. From HETEL we wish you all a happy stay! We are sure that you will live a very enriching experience both professionally and personally. Abantean!

HETEL International is this week in Kiel (Germany) with the partners of SIMPLE, an Erasmus+ project to exchange good practices in the use of peer learning techniques for a better inclusion of immigrants and refugees in VET systems in Europe. HETEL´s part in the project is sharing how our schools manage differentiation in class, use learner centred methodologies, work on building a good class atmosphere and explain what it the teacher´s role in all this process. Along the 18 months project we will also learn from our partners from Germany, Slovenia, Turkey and Sweden what kind of peer learning systems they use and how can we adapt them to the reality of HETEL´s schools. Because inclusive VET is also an ABANTEAN value!

Next November, the 3rd edition of the innovative initiative HETEL TECHNOLOGICAL TRIANGLES (HHTEK) will be launched during the week from 20th to 24th of November in the framework of the  European Skills Week promoted by the European Commission. What do we mean with HETEL HIRUKI TEKNOLOGIKOAK? we are talking about triangles with 3 different agents involved: students, teachers and employers, on one hand, and, on the other hand,  these 3 agents in each school interact with another 2 vocational training schools composing the technological triangles. 3 different agents from 3 different schools, interesting ingredients that are mixed in a shaker to achieve conclusions about a subject that collects different points of view. On this occasion, they will discuss the key values, competences and attitudes needed nowadays to afford the fast technological changes that characterise the business world and society in general. This innovative initiative allows us to involve companies in vocational training in order to prepare better our students to be the leaders of tomorrow.    In the HETEL Saria award ceremony, 16th of April 2018 in Bilbao – bbk hall, some of the companies involved in the technological triangles will expose their conclusion.