OBJECTIVE
- Provide tools for young VET trainees – this is essential for getting new skills that boost employability;
- To foster VET schools, governmental agencies and business organisational Partnerships, sustainability, networking, capacity, and partnership building;
- To increase young VET trainees’ knowledge through work readiness and career counselling curricula as tools to boost young VET trainees’ practical and transversal skills that can ultimately lead towards employment or starting their own business;
- To build the capacity of Kenyan VET providers to strengthen cooperation between private and public stakeholders in the field of vocational education and training;
- The training offered by this project to Kenyan VET organisations will focus on new pedagogics, new VET tools, steps for quality assessment, workshops on how to address difficult pedagogic cases;
- To improve the quality and responsiveness of VET to economic and social developments to enhance the labour market relevance of skills provision with the assistance of European VET and business support organisations;
REQUIRED OUTPUTS
- To support teachers/trainers in VET schools. RESULT Production of a Training the Trainers online course;
- To support individuals with relevant skills training. RESULT: Production of an online Training Programme for young people;
- To provide a training and support environment for VET institutions and young VET trainees. RESULT: an Internet based training, Networking and support environment where the interactive tools, Reports and training materials developed as part of the project will reside
PARTNERS
The project is implemented by seven partners based in Kenya and the European Union including:
1. SPEL (Portugal);
2. The 4Civility Institute (Ireland);
3. Citizen Initiatives (Sweden),
4. Savanna Initiatives (Kenya);
5. Vera Beauty and Fashion College (Kenya);
6. Chamber of Commerce (Kenya);
7. Kua Zone Innovation College Limited (Kenya).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
