Leadership interaction in sustainable partnerships to enhance continuous improvement of vocational teacher education
▶Summary
The EU’s Osnabrück declaration emphasizes the importance of vocational training for European competitiveness, sustainability, employment, fair distribution, democracy, and value creation. The decl...
▶Objectives
The project sought to contribute to "promoting interconnected higher education systems' by reinforcing and promoting collaboration between higher education, in the form of vocational teacher education, and vocational schools, together with the industrial and public sectors. This collaboration was enhanced by the twin aims of LeadVET: 1) developing leadership and 'boundary spanning' abilities for professionals in the relevant fields, 2) developing tools and models for more effective networking across sectors. Its concrete objectives relate to "contributing to innovation in VET' The concrete objectives are: objective 1/PR1: identify tools for mapping networks and networking activities across vocational ecosystems objective 2/PR2: Create a model and mentoring system to bridge the theory-practice gap in vocational teacher education objective 3/PR3: Increase the potential for recruitment of quality candidates for VET teacher education.