Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
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Summary
This call is part of the Partnership for Excellence.
The initiative on Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) supports a bottom-up approach to Vocational Excellence involving a wide range of local stakeholders. It enables VET institutions to rapidly adapt skills provision to evolving economic and social needs, including the digital and green transitions. CoVEs operate in a given local context, being the linchpin of skills ecosystems for innovation, regional development, and social inclusion, while working with CoVEs in other countries through international collaborative networks.
Detailed Call Description
They provide opportunities for initial training of young people as well as the continuing up-skilling and re-skilling of adults, through flexible and timely offer of training that meets the needs of a dynamic labour market, in the context of the green and digital transitions. They act as catalysts for local business innovation, by working closely with companies and in particular SMEs.
The concept of Vocational Excellence proposed here is characterised by a holistic learner centred approach in which VET:
- Is an integrated part of skills ecosystems, contributing to regional development140, innovation141, smart specialisation and clusters strategies, as well as to specific value chains and industrial ecosystems
- Is part of knowledge triangles, working closely with other education and training sectors, the scientific
community, the creative sector, and business - Enables learners to acquire both vocational (job specific) as well as key competences146 through high quality provision that is underpinned by quality assurance
- Builds innovative forms of partnerships with the world of work, and is supported by the continuous professional development of teaching and training staff, innovative pedagogies, learner and staff mobility and VET internationalisation strategies
Centres of Vocational Excellence will operate at two levels:
1. At national level involving a wide range of local stakeholders creating skills ecosystems for local innovation, regional development, and social inclusion, while working with CoVEs in other countries through international collaborative networks.
2) At international level bringing together CoVEs that share a common interest in:
- specific sectors or industrial ecosystems
- innovative approaches to tackle societal challenges (e.g. climate change, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, sustainable development goals, integration of migrants, upskilling people with low qualification levels, etc.), or
- innovative approaches to increase the outreach, quality and effectiveness of existing CoVEs
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Other Services
- Public Administration
- Regional Development
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- Large Enterprises
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Any public or private organisation active in the field of vocational education and training, or in the world of work and legally established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme or in any third country not associated to the Programme (see section “Eligible Countries” in Part A of the Programme Guide) can be involved as full partner, affiliated entity or associated partner.
For example, such organisations can be (non-exhaustive list):
- VET providers
- Companies, industry or sector representative organisations
- National/regional qualification authorities
- Research institutes
- Innovation agencies
- Regional development authorities
Exception: organisations from Belarus (Region 2) are not eligible to participate in this action.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Foundation for the Management of European (EU) Lifelong Learning Programmes
www.erasmusplus.cy
info@llp.org.cy
Tel: +357 22 448 888
Youth Board of Cyprus
www.erasmusplus.cy
erasmusplus@onek.org.cy
Tel: +357 22 402 644
(Publish Date: 15/12/2021-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
European Education and Culture Executive Agency:
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/contacts_en