Call for Applications: Development of joint VET Qualifications and Modules

The joint qualifications and/or modules will include a work-based learning component and a mobility window for a certain number of VET learners enrolled in programmes with vocational orientation at ISCED level 3 or 4. Furthermore they are aimed at creating rotation mobility schemes enabling exchanges among the project partners to ensure the mutual automatic recognition of the joint VET qualifications and/or modules among the participating organisations.

Joint VET qualifications and modules have the potential to address common emerging and fast changing skills needs in various sectors and contribute to addressing labour shortages in the EU. Moreover, they can help remove barriers to internal mobility and the single market, while helping reduce persistent unemployment in some regions and contribute to reaching the VET mobility target set in the Council Recommendation on Europe on the Move.

Objectives 

• The objectives of this Topic are to contribute to:
  • Removing barriers to internal mobility for work and study purposes, facilitating portability, automatic recognition of qualifications and outcomes of learning periods abroad and contributing to the EU level target of 12% VET mobility participation by 2030;
  • Developing a highly skilled, qualified and mobile workforce, opening up opportunities for learners, workers and businesses;
  • Strengthening the quality, relevance and attractiveness of VET by supporting joint developments.

Funding Information

• The estimated available call budget is EUR 32 000 000.
• Vocational Education and Training: Development of joint VET qualifications and modules- EUR 8 000 000
• Projects should normally range between 24 and 36 months.

Eligible Activities

• Projects should implement all the activities listed below:
  • Development of joint transnational qualifications and/or modules [based on the identified skills needs] – the qualifications and/or modules can target a certain trade or can develop multi-disciplinary content, they should not only include jobspecific skills, but also content related to basic skills and transversal competences;
  • Test the newly developed or adopted qualification and/or modules through exchanges of teachers and trainers among project partners;
  • Deploy the joint qualifications and/or modules in a mobility activity of VET learners to be organised on a rotation principle among the project partners; integrate the joint training module(s) in the VET programme curricula (for example as a mobility window) and cooperate with qualification authority(ies) on this matter;
  • Certify (national or regional certification rules and Europass Mobility using the European Digital Credentials for Learning infrastructure) and automatically recognise the learning outcomes of the mobility period abroad of the participants.

Expected Impact

• The projects will contribute to addressing labour shortages in the EU and facilitate the removal of barriers to internal mobility and the single market, also fostering mutual trust and the recognition of qualifications or modules across countries.

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies) active in the fields of education and training, research and innovation or in the world of work.
  • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • Erasmus+ Programme Countries:
      • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
    • non-EU countries:
      • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme
      • for higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries: be holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education).
    • Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can only be involved as associated partners (not as beneficiaries and affiliated entities).
• Exception: organisations from Belarus and the Russian Federation are not eligible to participate in this action.

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