Hooray! Tools for T project was approved!

September 2022

Relevance of the Project

Tools for T has the priority of contributing to innovation in vocational education and training, while also focusing on common values, civic engagement and participation to increase the flexibility of opportunities in vocation education training.

By combining Virtual Technology with the awareness of young people in citizenship competences and the importance of sustainability, we take an important step in innovative education. Learning is not always fun and sometimes very confronting, especially when it is about something other than your profession but about yourself and who you are and how you contribute to the world of today and tomorrow.

We find it very important that our students know what is happening in the world, especially now in times of a pandemic and a war not far from us. By working on digital opportunities, we also hope to make education accessible to students across Europe. Inclusiveness is very important in VET education, everyone is allowed to participate and everyone has a voice. By working together on citizenship education and boosting generic skills, we can better prepare our students for the world of tomorrow. A world that is changing even faster than ever.

Objectives, Implementation and Results

The aim of Tools for T is to provide teachers with tools, assignments and instruments to better integrate citizenship education into their teaching activities. Teachers will no longer feel that citizenship & SDG is something extra, but that citizenship education is valuable and fun because of our tools, instruments and V-learning modules. In this way, we assume that citizenship and SDG in combination with hybrid learning projections get more attention within education. This way impact will be bigger in learning.

We will set up a framework in which citizenship themes and social aspects are collected. This forms a basis for subsequently designing and collecting tools and materials for teachers and students. Part of the assignments and tools are the V-learning modules which provide a new, more fun and innovative addition to the teaching materials and education. All these assignments, tools and information will be collected on an E-Learning platform which can be used by every EU citizen. We will make use of active piloting.

Teachers will have at least 50 tools/teaching materials and V-Learning modules linked to a framework and a platform that make citizenship education more fun and easier to teach within VET. Students will be given the right tools to become a practical world citizen and thus be ready for the world of tomorrow. The work field will receive a requested practical world citizen in which the graduate is not only good at the profession/skill but also aware of himself, the environment and the world around him.