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About Us

About
TVET@Work

TVET@Work project’s main objectives are to build the capacity of vocational education and training (VET) providers and teachers to strengthen public-private cooperation for demand-orientated and opportunity-driven VET interventions and improve the quality and responsiveness of TVET to economic and social developments. The project’s specific objectives are aligned with regional and national development strategies. The objectives will be achieved by focusing on VET teacher training. VET teacher trainers and trainees will be equipped with the skills to train entrepreneurship for their students using digital solutions, equip them with digital pedagogy skills, and with skills on how to cooperate with the industry, including the inclusion in industrial attachments and civic engagement. To promote the cooperation between VET and the industry, we will produce a Guidelines and Toolkit for practical implementation. Participatory methods will be used throughout the project from planning to organizing and evaluating the activities. All the tools, guidelines, training programmes, and digital solutions will be jointly elaborated, developed, and assessed in co-creative workshops. The main target groups are the VET teachers and industry representatives.

Indirect beneficiaries are the VET students who will gain from increased quality and innovations in entrepreneurship skills training, TVET teachers’ pedagogical skills, especially in digital solutions, improved industry cooperation practices, and updated civic engagement skills.TVET@Work will have positive and long-lasting effects on the students, on VET teachers, participating organizations, and on the policy systems through guidelines dissemination. The overall impact is ensured by aligning the objectives with national strategies and the relevance of consortium members and their legitim and recognized mandate in instilling the results.

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Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) will serve as a coordinator for TVET@Work. HAMK has previously coordinated Erasmus+ CBHE and Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership projects focusing on teachers competence development and with the specific focus on online and blended learning. HAMK is a multidisciplinary university with 28 bachelor, 12 master, and 4 professional teacher education programs, over 8000 students and over 700 staff. HAMKs mission is to provide sustainable professional higher education to support students’ professional development, requirements and development of the world of work, and to carry out applied research and development important at regional, national and global levels. HAMK provides international education, RDI projects, as well as mobility and has a significant impact on internationalization of the region’s enterprises and community.

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The Vocational Educational and Training Authority (VETA) owns 48 vocational centres spread across nine zones for the whole nation. VETA employs approximately 1500 people, of whom more than 70% are teachers. VETA was established by an Act of Parliament No. 1 of 1994 charged with broad tasks of coordinating, regulating, managing VET fund, promoting and providing vocational education and training in Tanzania. One of the functions of VETA is that it may establish or manage vocational training institutions including vocational teacher training colleges. There are 29 new VETA centres build and 64 planned to cover all the 31districts of the country according to VETA strategy. The main responsibilities of VETA in this project would be to foster the VET-Industry collaboration in form of a workshop discussion with the industry representatives and create related Guidelines, as a series of new guidelines are in the pipeline according to the strategy. VETA will also foster the equipping VET instructors with the skills necessary to implement VET-Industry cooperation and incorporate new technology into their professions.

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Karume Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) is entrusted with the responsibility of preserving, enhancing, transmitting, and disseminating knowledge in science and technology by teaching, conducting research, and consultancy in various fields in the country. KIST has a mandate to grant awards on Basic Technician Certificate (NTA Level 4), Technician Certificate (NTA Level 5), Ordinary Diploma (NTA Level 6), and Bachelor degree (NTA Level 8) in 17 fields of different technical specializations and two diploma level degrees in teacher education, namely Diploma of Primary Teachers Education and Diploma of Vocational Teachers Education and training. KIST has a central role in Zanzibar to develop vocational teacher training and has the needed capacities to participate in the project. KIST's role in the project will focus on developing collaboration between TVET institutions and industry (WP2) as well as VET teachers' continuous development.

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HakiElimu is a Tanzanian Civil Society Organization operating in the Education Sector. The organization employs around 30 staff and has a network of over 40,000 volunteers that help the organization implement its activities across the country, with 6000 very active in advocacy relating to inclusive education. HakiElimu facilitates the transformation of education by influencing policy making and implementation at all education levels through evidence gathered using scientific research and policy analysis. HakiElimu's role in this project will mainly be on carrying out Project Impact assessments in order to establish key projects results and outcomes. HakiElimu will take a lead in implementation plans; evaluation of the activities and their impact at different levels, sharing, and use of the project's results. HakiElimu will also ensure an appropriate visibility and wide dissemination of TVET@Work’s outcomes, at transnational, national and/or regional levels with relevant partners.

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Centro San Viator (CSV) offers education to different levels: Kinder Garden, Primary, Compulsory Secondary Education, A levels (high school), VET (EQF from 1 to 5) to meet the needs of more than 1000 students working with a staff of about 110 professionals. CSV also promotes training courses for active workers. CSV provides VET education for full time students as well as part time to employed and unemployed people who wants to upskill or reskill. CSV actively collaborates with the Education Department of the Basque Government and other social agents to develop actions to support the entrepreneurial network of the region. CSV will provide the entrepreneurship training in this project.

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3DBear will lead the development of VR exercises for the entrepreneur training program, ensure the appropriate digital tools for the program and train the VET teachers to use digital tools and digital pedagogy in VET. 3DBear is an education technology company, offering XR-technology solutions for education. 3DBear is at the forefront of educational companies developing VET forward. 3DBear has done over 500 XR-solutions for education and been chosen to be one of the eight companies globally to master combining extended reality and education by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 3DBear will support the project with XR technologies which are jointly planned and are scalable for hyperlocal XR education content production combining technical and pedagogical knowledge