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Information, business, education or human relations take place more and more often in the digital world. The more we use digital media to look for and share any kinds of information with different purposes, the more necessary it is to know and understand the risks of doing so and to protect ourselves of undesired consequences. The CyVETsecurity, co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme from the European Commission and coordinated by HETEL, aims to increase the awareness of digital perils and the necessity of information and data protection across all kinds of professionals, by developing training materials addressed to VET teachers in order to increase their own knowledge and competences (and those from their students) on cybersecurity, counting also with the collaboration of technical experts and companies. With this in mind, we have already developed a tool that identifies different units of learning on cybersecurity adapted to 4 types of professionals: non-technical professions with just basic information security skills, technical professionals with basic information security skills, non- technical professionals with higher need of information security skills and technical professionals, mainly IT ones, with a higher need of information security skills. For each of these 4 profiles, we have defined essential units of learning and we are now in the process to develop training materials to acquire those identified units. In the project Website you will find these materials so you can train your own students and teachers and contribute to a safer digital world! http://www.cyvetsecurity.eu/intellectual-outputs/

The Erasmus+ project Mobiliteach, coordinated by UNISER, is coming to an end this month. The aim of the project was to train teachers to better prepare students to work in an international environment, being this through a mobility experience or by the integration in international teams. To do so, we created a summer school based on peer learning and experiential learning, hosted each time in a different country, which offered VET teachers from Italy, Basque Country, France, Germany and Slovenia the possibility to get in touch with colleagues from abroad, enjoying an international experience. We celebrated 2 editions of the summer school within the project, one in Bologna (IT) and one in La Rochelle (FR), dealing with the following topics: –          Intercultural communication and awareness. –          Management of mobility projects. –          International WBL We will keep on using the summer school concept to offer international training to teachers on different topics. Don´t miss the project Website to be updated with the possibilities we will bring you! www.mobiliteach.net

During the second transnational meeting of the Erasmus+ project “People in Work Based Learning”, hosted by the Federation of Metalworking Companies from Biscay in Bilbao, we defined a model to transfer the ECVET technical framework to the implementation of work-based learning by VET schools and companies in Slovenia, Italy and Spain. This week in Kranj (Slovenia), we are celebrating a training activity for teachers and companies in order to transfer this model and organise a pilot of it which will start in February and around 30 companies from the different countries will participate. The model and tools we have created, as well as the results of the pilot experience will be available along 2020 in the project Website: http://people-in-wbl.com/

Mobiliteach Summer School is an Erasmus+ project aimed to create a summer school dedicated to mobility, dealing with the different aspects related to it: intercultural preparation, administrative management and work -based learning abroad. During the first year of the project, the partners from Italy, Belgium, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal and Spain worked in the design of a programme and the development of the necessary materials to deliver a first pilot Mobiliteach Summer School, which took place in Bologna (Italy) between the 25th-29th of June 2018. With the feedback from last year, this July we carried out the second MobiliTeach summer school in La Rochelle (France). From HETEL´s side, 2 teachers attended the summer school in La Rochelle: Karmelo Usategi (Zulaibar Arratiako Lanbide Ikastegia) and Izaskun Arratibel (Egibide). As one of the trainers taking part in the summer school, Tamara Rodríguez, coordinator of international projects in HETEL, highlights “the good spirit the participants showed, their motivation and their personal involvement in all the activities, sharing their own experiences and own ideas on how to use what has been learnt when they go back to their job”. The programme, contents (and some funny pictures!) of the Mobiliteach Summer School in Bologna and La Rochelle can be consulted in the Website: https://mobiliteach.net/

On the 4th July HETEL FP was awarded with the Honor Plaque of the “Orden Civil Alfonso X el Sabio” by the Spanish Minister of Education and Vocational Education and Training. The recognition was given by Ms Isabel Celaá, Spanish Minister of Education and Vocational Education and Training, who  stressed that “the education is the oil of our society, supporting the development of human beings, as an essential tool for equality and indeed the door for a growing economy.”  Following these words, HETEL FP, has been recognized for their “efforts to improve the Basque Country VET system thanks to their excellence innovative projects which aims to improve the working opportunities of the younger generations and to match with the industry needs. “The Orden Civil Alfonso X el Sabio means for HETEL new enhancement to their work to improve the VET system in the Basque Country” has said Julen Elgeta President of HETEL “HETEL is growing: with more centres, more services, but also within their passion and engagement towards the improvement of the VET system”.  As Elgeta said this “award means a national recognition, and recognized their work as fundamental actors who are engaged with the training and working opportunities for the youngest”. Elgeta acknowledged HETEL team who are working really hard every day to open new working paths, of innovation and services to their network centers and for those youngest that are making VET as a real first choice. Concluding, he has greeted, as well, the Spanish Minister of Education and VET for supporting their work and engagement.

This week HETEL international has met in Pescara (Italy) with the EIDE partners, an Erasmus+ project which aims to reinforce entrepreneurial education of VET learners by focusing on the development of their emotional intelligence and their digital competences. The meeting was focused on the assessment of the contents produced by the partners for an on-line course addressed to VET learners for self-learning and on setting the basis for a manual addressed to teachers and learners on how to use the course, as well as complementary activities to be carried out in class. The course will be available in September in the project Website: http://www.eideproject.eu/

Entrepreneurship is a concept integrated in the curriculum of VET programmes in most of European countries. In the case of the Basque Country, entrepreneurship is one of the common subjects to any vocational programme, disregarding the profession. However, is usually focused from the perspective of business creation and management and it is difficult to promote from one subject entrepreneurial behaviour beyond the concept of setting up a company. That was the origin of CiTE (Confidence in Teaching Entrepreneurship), an Erasmus+ project addressed to identify how entrepreneurship is integrated in the VET curriculum and which materials are used for it in a number of countries (United Kingdom, Spain, Finland, The Netherlands, France, Portugal, Luxembourg and Estonia), filtering the good things and developing materials for those aspects not covered or not enough. Having that first step, identification and definition of the state of the art, almost done, the partners of the project, led by Colleges Partnership (UK) and with HETEL among the partnership, met in Tampere (FI) to discuss about the ideal profile to teach entrepreneurship in order to develop a set of materials (a toolkit) addressed to this profile. During this meeting, we counted with the presence of 2 teachers in the field, one from Nazaret Zentroa (Donostia-San Sebastian) and another one from Egibide (Vitoria-Gasteiz), who are part of the advisory group for the quality assessment of the project. In the next months, we will work in the definition of contents to include in the toolkit, having our next meeting at the end of September in Durango (Basque Country). Keep updated in the project Website: https://www.citeerasmus.com/

Once again, the European partners from the UK, Germany, Italy and the Basque Country met to discuss at Dekra in Berlin. This time around, there was some significant progress in AUTO 4.0 erasmus + project, with some tangible outputs from the 2 days of discussions. The partners opened by discussing the 19 job profiles which had been generated by and develop one job profile, which was a combination of six ‘operational’ profiles and one ‘data management’ profile: the new ‘Automotive Digital Mechatronic X.0’ profile. Next, the partners discussed which new IR4 competencies this job profile should contain, and developed a list of generic and specific competencies. This was an important step, as it was the logical approach following the 19 profiles. To finish, the partners developed a 4-step approach for teaching the students. Next steps for the Erasmus team is to fine-tune the ‘Automotive Digital Mechatronic X.0’ job profile, and then to finalise a teaching template to be used by each partner for developing the teaching material. Overall, this was an action-packed international meeting, with great progress. Lastly, all partners offer a special thanks to Malte and to Dekra for hosting this meeting.

Last week HETEL International attended the 4th meeting of the Mobiliteach project (funded by the Erasmus+ Programme) in Maribor (Slovenia) to prepare the next summer school, to be held in La Rochelle (France). As the summer school celebrated last year in Bologna (Italy), this year we are inviting VET teachers from France, Italy, Slovenia, Germany and the Basque Country to get together and learn and exchange on their experience in mobility projects: how they prepare students from an intercultural and professional point of view, how they support students while abroad, how they follow up their progress in cooperation with companies and mobility providers or how they deal with mobility management, dissemination and sustainability. The summer school in La Rochelle will take place between the 8th to the 12th of July and it is foreseen the participation of 2 VET teachers from HETEL´s VET schools. The programme will be soon available in the Mobiliteach Website: www.mobiliteach.net  

In the framework of the Erasmus+ programme, with the mobility grants managed by HETEL, Xabier Puertas, VET teacher in La Salle Berrozpe, and Karmelo Usategi, VET teacher un Zulaibar, were in the Netherlands during 4 days to learn how VET colleges in that country get ready for national skillscompetition (preparation methodology, structure, available resources, etc) The first days, they visited Deltion College, in Zwolle, and Albeda College, in Rotterdam, where they could see the dimension and importance of vocational education in the country. They could also see how students are prepared to compete in Skills competitions. They also had the opportunity to visit the Dutch National Skills Competition, Skills The Finals 2019, being able to see by themselves student´s skills in the Netherlands