About The Project
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
Key Action 202: Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training
Main objective of the project: Innovation
Project No.: 2020-1-BG01-KA202-079089
Project Start Date: 01-10-2020
Project Total Duration: 24 months
Project End Date: 30-09-2022
Project Coordinator: University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria
Main Objective
- to empower VET trainers/teachers that assist low-skilled adults from rural areas in partner countries to become successful entrepreneurs with a focus on small business development.
Specific Goals
- to develop the capacity of adult trainers and teachers and VET supporting organisations in entrepreneurship;
- to strengthen the competences of educational workers to support their target-groups (low-skilled adults from rural areas);
- to provide participants with skills that are necessary to succeed in teaching activities;
- to develop basic and transversal skills: enhance digital integration in learning and teaching through promoting access to and learning through Open Educational Resources (OERs);
- to support ICT-based teaching and ICT-based assessment practices.
B-LAND
The main aim of the B-LAND project is to assist VET educators of low-skilled adult people in 4 partner countries (Spain, Greece, Poland and Bulgaria), to become successful entrepreneurs with a focus on small business development. The partnership aims to increase vocational competences of teachers/trainers of entrepreneurship through an innovative pedagogy and approach to teaching with the use of interactive and innovative mobile learning application, applied for agriculture, forestry & rural context.
The main output of this project will consist of multilingual INSTANT ACCESS MOBILE CLASSROOM in the form of 7 short learning modules for innovative VET curricula that will address the most important topics on entrepreneurship education as business modeling, design thinking, business planning or use of ICT tools. Moreover, it will focus on pedagogical approach on how Teachers can develop their skills of personalizing learning and making it more engaging and relevant to young adults from rural areas. B-LAND project approach will prove significant in ensuring people’s enjoyment of motivation and engagement with learning enhancement of their skills. This innovative e-learning approach will be completed by BEST PRACTICES GUIDE, that will contain cases of experienced VET and Formal Education Teachers/Trainers, in order to guide educators on how to equip their students with knowledge and skills relevant for entrepreneurship and personal development.47
