Promote WBL
Partnership for more effective work-based learning in vocational education and training (VET)
Creative Alliance are a lead member of a trans-European consortium which brings together training providers, businesses and social partners from 7 EU countries (United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Poland and Croatia). to produce an online training course and a series of complementary support tools for VET professionals.
Context of our work
Reducing youth unemployment across the EU remains a significant issue and developing their skills to meet employer needs and find work is a crucial element to respond to this challenge. Work-based learning (WBL) uses the workplace as a powerful learning environment that contributes to developing these skills.
What will we do
Promote WBL will not only identify and share methods which help make work-based learning more effective, but it will also provide VET professionals with the knowledge and tools to make it happen through a dedicated online course. Our partnership aims to demonstrate that work-based learning in VET can be a win-win situation for both learners and the host employer.
Barriers to making this happen can be challenging to overcome. Issues we have identified include poor relationships and collaboration between VET providers and employers, and a significant skills gap among learners of transferable skills; especially their entrepreneurship capabilities. VET professionals play a key role in developing this agenda, as both relationship-builder with industry and as the deliverer of skills improvement in young people. Promote WBL will support the training of VET teachers to help their students to make the most of their work-based learning.
Through this we will support VET institutions to create a number of long-term collaborations between themselves and businesses of all sizes to create high quality work-based learning opportunities for their learners. It is also expected that, through Promote WBL’s contribution to a more effective learning experience for students, we can help to influence an increase of early employment outcomes.
Keep up-to-date on progress via our social media and our dedicated project website on the links below:
f: www.facebook.com/Promote-WBL
