How to prepare for Erasmus+ VET placements, Part 2

In the second of two posts with tips on preparing and managing Erasmus+ VET placements, Elva Duggan of our Client Services team summarises insights that were shared by project coordinators at a recent Léargas workshop. The first post...
How to prepare for Erasmus+ VET placements, Part 1

Léargas recently brought together project co-ordinators from a variety of Irish colleges and organisations to share their experiences of how best to support students during their Erasmus+ VET placements abroad. Patricia Wilkinson--who used to...
VET Connected Get Connected: A Contact Seminar to Meet Partners and Plan Projects!

Léargas Vocational Education and Training Mobility officer Elva Duggan explains how international contacts and international projects were formed at a recent Contact Seminar held in Dublin, 'VET Connected Get Connected'.
Early Childhood Education: Innovation, inspiration, transformation and collaboration!

Elaine Hynes is Training and Practice Manager with Early Childhood Ireland. Elaine leads the Training and Practice Team in delivering key projects which support quality in Early Childhood Education and Care settings. In this post, Elaine outlines...
Stepping into European Projects in Ballymun Job Centre

Ruth Baker is EU Project Officer with Ballymun Job Centre in Ballymun, Dublin 11. The Centre uses Erasmus+ Vocational Education and Training funding to collaborate with European partners. Their projects focus on Cooperation for innovation and...
QUAKE and ECVET: Action from the Ground Up

ECVET is a framework for transferring and recognising learning outcomes across VET learning environments. QUAKE is a 2014 Erasmus+ KA2 VET cross-sectoral project that set out to develop the capacity of VET teachers to implement ECVET. Mary...
'The best three weeks of my life'

Inchicore College of Further Education in Dublin 8 has been integrating European placements into its Vocational Education and Training courses for more than a decade. Supported by funding from Erasmus+ KA1 and its predecessor programmes, trainees...
All-neu experiences for a VET trainee in Berlin

Martin Larkin studied Festival Management and Sound Production at Sound Training College in Temple Bar, Dublin and graduated in 2013. Towards the end of his training he realised he wanted to further his skills by working in another country, and...
CoderDojo: Creativity with code

Ross O’Neill is Community and Communications Lead at CoderDojo. In 2015 CoderDojo received funding under Erasmus+ KA2 Vocational Education and Training for a Strategic Partnership project involving five organisations in Ireland, Spain, and Poland.
From Carnival Queens to Celtic FC

Erasmus+ VET placements from Galway Technical Institute Galway Technical Institute first received funding for student mobility under the Leonardo da Vinci programme in 2009. In that year, almost €24K was used to fund six participants. The...
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