AgileDT: VET schools solve real-life challenges with innovation techniques

AgileDT seeks to adapt VET programmes to future labour market needs by changing the way that students and teachers collaborate in agile teams through the design of digital innovation frameworks to...

AgileDT seeks to adapt VET programmes to future labour market needs by changing the way that students and teachers collaborate in agile teams through the design of digital innovation frameworks to support them to move their ideas into products that industry and civil society will use to solve their challenges. The main result of this project will be a cross-disciplinary activity that can be embedded in the VET programme and will help their students to be better prepared for the future of work.

AgileDT will implement the following activities: - understand and prioritise schools' context via focus group analysis - create 3 cross-disciplinary teams (DT-Forces) of students and teachers to - learn about Design Thinking, Agile and other innovation methods and tools in online workshops so they can - co-design 3 Innovation Frameworks (IF), - implement an online digital platform with methods and tools description and - pilot test the IFs in an iterative mode within the schools’ context

At the end of each work package, we expect to have results that allow the project to progress seamlessly. Therefore, WP2 results in the creation of 3 cross-disciplinary teams (DT-forces) that work according to the school context analysis; WP3 results in the definition of 3 IFs (1 per country); WP4 results in the deployment of an online digital platform to show how to apply innovation techniques in VET; and finally WP5 results in a series of challenges completed with industry by applying the IFs.