The kick of online meeting of project Skills Swap - sharing skills for WBL in VET for Europe’s hospitality sector took place on the 12th of November 2020. At the beginning of the meeting the project was presented together with its five intellectual Outputs.
The Skills Swap project is aimed at upgrading the efficacy and relevance of contemporary VET in the hospitality sector by designing and integrating into sector-based VET provision an innovative 'skills swap' approach to employer-facilitated learning design in work-based learning (WBL) for employees and apprentices. ‘Skills Swap' initiatives focus on skills sharing within the sector for the mutual benefit of companies, VET participants and employees.
The Skills Swap project will produce five Intellectual Outputs (IOs):
IO1: Skills Swap: Methodological Framework
IO2: VET practitioners' role specification and competency matrix
IO3: The Employer's Resource Pack
IO4: The Skills Swap eTracker for hospitality employees and apprentices
IO5: Skills swaps in hospitality; A Digital Toolkit for VET practitioners
The partnership comprises six partners from five countries RINOVA Limited (Coordinator, UK), STIFTELSEN KURSVERKSAMHETEN VID U-AUNIVERSITET(Sweden), DIMITRA EDUCATION & CONSULTING(Greece), CAMARA OFICIAL DE COMERCIO E INDUSTRIA DE ZARAGOZA(Spain),EDITC Ltd(Cyprus), Sextaplanta(Spain).
After the presentation of the project the first deliverable IO1: Methodological Framework was presented and discussed. This was followed by the presentation of the dissemination and Quality Assurance activities.