DETVET Project Meeting in Östra Grevie

Östra Grevie Folkhögskola

The second project meeting took place in Östra Grevie yesterday and today in Folkhögskolan Östra Grevie close to Malmö, Sweden. The main objective of the meetin was to learn more about pedagogical methods and techniques.

After the welcome speech by the session organiser Katarina Andersson the meeting digested the presentations:Coaching as a pedagogical method in VET, theory and practice (Tord Hansson and Maria Beres, Sweden)What's the challenge and teachers role, when the students go abroad? (Henrik Hjort and Kaare Jorgensen, Denmark Tutorship In Adult Education and Management Of Self-Study (Helena Grecmanová and Pavla Mruzkova, Czech Republic)

Finalising the questionnaire DETVET uses to collect data from VET teachers was done under supervision by Irena Pasilyte and Pavla Mruzkova, Czech Republic).
Dissemination was discussed after the presentation by Elmo de Angelis, Italy, and Cai Melakoski (Finland) led the discussion about developing the social media tools of the project, the blog and the Google group.

Finally DETVET project manager Loreta Staskuniene chaired the final talks about the work and tasks until the next meeting.

The next meeting will be held in Sant'Angelo in Vado, Italy April 7-8.

Östra Grevie Folkhögskola

The host delegation Tord Hansson, Maria Beres and Katarina Andersson preparing their group assignment

European competences and Adult's education

In relation to the DETVET project aims and objectives, LLP Leonardo da Vinci office in Rome promoted the following contact seminar "Net-Working...Net-Thinking: The European common tools for transparency and certification of competences and qualifications (ECVET and EQF) and the non formal and informal learning" on 10-12 December 2009. 95 people participated representing different organisations from the training sector all over Europe. One member of Training 2000 participated in the seminar to discuss competences and transparency of certification for teachers and trainers in the domain of EQF and ECVET. The developped draft material was presented in the plenary session and accepted great interest.