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HETEL is part of the network of networks alliance, aimed to promote international cooperation between vocational colleges from Finland, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland and the Basque Country. The members of this network of networks meet annually to exchange ideas for international cooperation and these days we are having that meeting in Glasgow. The meeting is officially ending today, but we already have some specific plans for the future in the area of industrial digitalization, internationalization at home, digital care and entrepreneurship. In this ocassion, the coordinator of international projects in HETEL, Tamara Rodríguez, has traveled with a group of teachers from Goierri Eskola, Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknika, Arratiako Zulaibar Lanbide Ikastegia y Zabalburu Ikastetxea, who have also had the possibility to get to know what is going on in other EU vocational colleges and join some interesting project ideas to keep working in the internationalization of their respective schools. Because being an abantean school includes seeing the whole world as a working place! By the way, next time, the meeting will be in Bilbao in September 2018!

We are happy to introduce the new member in our association: the Fishing and Nautical VET School from Ondarroa. With this school, we are 22 HETEL abantean Schools.  In HETEL we believe that diversity helps mutual enrichment and thus, has integrated into the association a different school, which provides professional families and training courses that are not offered by our schools. This school is also a reference school in its speciality, an abantean center then. Being the Beacon of Vocational Training is the vision we follow, with ambitious objectives defined in HETEL berria 2020 strategy. The fishing and Nautical VET School will support us to pursue this aim. Welcome aboard! Abantean! 

This week, Tamara Rodriguez, Coordinator Of International Projects in HETEL, has been in the VET school ROC de Leijgraaf (Netherlands) attending a training on inclusion in VET and how VET teachers can guide students, especially those with more difficulties for learning. Which skills are needed? How can we start? Which learning methodologies help us to achieve that aim? These have been only some aspects seen during this week, which will be transferred to HETEL abantean´s schools during a coming seminar dedicated to inclusion in VET, organised by our association as part of our contribution to the European project Inclusive VET.  

In the framework of the Erasmus+ project IMPROSK, HETEL is this week in Romania to attend the last transnational meeting of the partnership and to present the Basque dual VET model to diverse education authorities from Romania. Together with the IMPROSK partners from Germany, Italy and Turkey, HETEL is sharing its experience in the implementation of dual VET and other ways of Work Based Learning (WBL) in its associated schools. The event is taking place in Târgoviste, in Valahia University Campus and it counts with the presence of the Ministry of Education of the region and the Rectorate of the Valahia University among other educational authorities, teachers and companies representatives. Next academic year, this region will be the first one in Romania to start a dual VET programme in 2 technical schools. The experiences shared by the partners during the IMPROSK project have been of much encourage to implement this initiative. We surely believe it will be a success!

e-MOTIVE project has been the international version of HETEL´s inter schools Diseinua project, in which, IFOA´s Italian students, in collaboration with Basque students from Egibide (Vitoria) and La Salle Berrozpe (Andoain) schools, have worked together to solve a challenge, in this case the design of a wind turbine. The Project partners, HETEL, EfVET and IFOA, have met in Bilbao this week to assess the objectives achieved by the project. HETEL will carry on next course with the international version of Diseinua project, even if we don´t have any grants from Erasmus+. We will keep with this project because we consider it is very rewarding for the students and teachers takin part in it, as the principal actors describe in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8yP2Y12tA&t=1s . We will also implement the European version of SHARE project (similar project to e-MOTIVE but in the ICT area)…abantean! More information in the Project website: http://e-motive.vet/ Informazio gehiago proiektuaren web gunean lortu dezakezu: http://e-motive.vet/

HETEL coordinates LAIT 4.0, an Erasmus + KA2 project to update the knowledge, skills and competences of VET teachers related to industry 4.0 After attending a course provided by IK4 Tekniker in Eibar, the teachers have ahead the challenge of transferring this new abilities to their colleagues and to their own lessons, in order to better prepare students to become workers of factories of the future. During the meeting in Dundee, we are having a 2 days intensive session to discuss how can we make that possible and analyse how can we get companies involved and which kind of support we can offer from VET colleges. The results of this meeting and the continuous work of teachers and project partners, will be seen next Autumn, when a seminar on industry 4.0 will be organised by each partner to keep on raising awareness on industry 4.0 and the changes it involves. Keep updated in the project Website: www.lait40.eu

In the framework of the PBP in VET project (Teaching and learning microcontrollers via PicBasicPro (PBP) in VET), we are visiting the VET school Liceul Tehnologic Grigori Moisil, in Romania. Itziar Regidor, teacher in Salesianos Deusto, is accompanying us in this adventure for the development of training materials addressed to students in studying electronics and microcontrolling. Thanks to our Romanian partners for their hospitality!  

In the framework of the EURspace Project (www.eurspace.eu), HETEL abantean is in Vilnius (Lithuania) with its colleagues from Portugal, Turkey, Romania and Italy to work in the development of a learning outputs matrix to find those ones common (and different) in the curriculum of cookery and bakery courses, levels 3-4 EQF. The intention of this work is to facilitate mobility and recognition of competences across the EU, starting with this pilot project in the mentioned areas. More info to come in our Website and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/eurspace/

This week, from the 22nd to the 26th of May, we are receiving a group of 14 eachers from Italy, Romania and Turkey within the framework of the IMPROSK Erasmus+ project. As a partner in this project, HETEL will share with them our experience and good practices in the implementation of work based learning (WBL) in our schools. Along these 5 days, the 14 teachers will be in our associated VET schools Maristak Durango, Goierri Eskola and Zabalburu Ikastetxea learning about how we use different methodologies (Problem Based Learning, cooperative learning) and how we work with companies to promote WBL and to keep on improving its quality. At the same time, we have sent to Stuttgart (Germany) 5 teachers from our schools Maristak Durango, Zulaibar, Mondragon and UGLE. During 5 days they will learn how VET schools work with companies in Germany and what kind of training is received by the mentors of these students in companies.

   HETEL launched a competition among its associated VET schools to design the logo for the European project LAIT 4.0. Through this project, co financed by the Erasmus+ Programme, 7 teachers from HETEL, 4 from D&A College (Scotland), 4 from APROFormazione (Italy), 4 from SRC Kauno (Lithuania) and 2 from ROC Da Vinci (Netherlands) will attend a training course provided by IK4 Tekniker to update their technological knowledge so they will be able to guide SMEs and students in the adaptation process to industry 4.0.    In the first place, we want to thank the participation of all our schools and to recognise the high quality of the received proposals.  In the second place, we congratulate Igor Melgosa, student in Politeknika Ikastegia Txorierri, for winning the competition. Congratulations!