EMEU network to submit KA2 ‘crossover’ project After two successful projects, EMEU4Engineering and EMEU4ALL sectors which were awarded with European awards (Best Practice, 2016 and Success story, 2018, the EMEU network is currently preparing a third KA2 project 2021-2024, EMEU4Crossovers. The virtual activities and study modules from the previous projects have been developed for use within specific vocational sectors, e.g. Health care, Marketing or Engineering. However, in our global society anything and everything is connected which is reflected in a growing need for innovative products, services and social innovation. An app is used to monitor our heart rate, to track and trace the whereabouts of parcels, to offer online fitness

Collaboration Inspired by the EMEU concept, Graafschap College (The Netherlands) and Tullamore LOETB (Ireland) have started their own project. A group of students from Graafschap College and Tullamore LOETB are currently working together on an online project on ‘Teamwork.’ Each week the students have a meeting and work together on several assignments. In February 2021 they will submit a training video on teamwork for a fictional company. Feedback from all students has been positive. They enjoy the challenge and feel the collaboration adds to their learning process. What the colleges have found the most useful about using the EMEU concept is that the projects are integrated in the teaching programme,

Virtual Mobility in Automation and Electrical Engineering – December 2020 – January 2021 Ten students from the German Vocational school for Metal- Design- Mechatronics (BSMDM) and the Spanish Armeria Eskola took the challenge of automating the assembly process of small pneumatic parts by programming a Mitsubishi robot… remotely. Motivated to meet new people and learn how to program and do maintenance work at a distance, students from Armeria Eskola met their partners online in a live session and sent them information about the process: electrical-pneumatic schemes, instructions for inputs and outputs to be used, robot points and process grafcet. After analyzing the details, the German students developed the robot program

EMEU Minutes SG meeting 19 January 2021 Item Agreed up / Action Round the table Janaa reports that a substitute for Jari (Construction) needs to be found French connection Carole presents her new job at the National Education Board in her hometown Lille, France, which covers the regions North and Pas de Calais. Carole manages a consortium of about 60 regional colleges and in total she has contacts with some 120 VET colleges. Carole hopes to motivate them to become internationally active. ACTION: Carole and EMEU representatives plan a physical presentation after corona. QUESTIONS for Carole: 1. How many colleges in the regions mentioned are internationally active? 2. What is the nature

Christmas Activity Before the Christmas break students form Gradia college (Finland) and mboRijnland (the Netherlands) worked together at an virtual activity. The task was: “Imagine you have a foreign friend or student and you want to introduce him/her to your country, your culture and your Christmas customs. You and a few classmates take a living photo in which you can see characteristics of your country and the Christmas customs. You show the ‘photo’ in a video and let the student from the other country ask questions about this ‘photo'(Make a moving image as if you were being photographed) a ‘Tableau vivant’You meet in MS Teams and you have an amusing

Minutes from EMEU steering group meeting 02.12.2020 Short status update on EMEU4CROSSOVERS – Where are we now? What do I have? What do I need? How to proceed? Virtual activities going on right now or in development? (Christina Murphy) Rough module plan for May/ June (can we plan modules in presence in summer months/ or are there further restrictions in school?) – maybe it could be Plan A to develop a module plan if we have open borders in the summer months again – let’s hope and be positive 😉 (Christina Murphy) Further information about EMEU conference? – participants/ date/ agenda (Christina Murphy) Discussion about how we see inclusion in

VIRTUAL MODULE OF EMEU HEALTHCARE TEAM VIRTUAL MODULE OF EMEU HEALTHCARE TEAM The first two meetings of Virtual Module of EMEU Health Care team was carried out on September 2020, and there will be one more meeting on February 2021. There were involved altogether six students and four teachers; 4 students and 2 teachers from Horizon College and 2 students and 2 teachers from Gradia. All students have signed up for EMEU student exchange when it will be possible again. The main goal of the Module was to offer the students an opportunity to be in contact and get acquainted with peers from another country. In addition, the objective was

Sanna Puustinen visiting the Netherlands MBO RIJNLAND in Woerden. Sanna Puustinen visiting the Netherlands from 19.2-21.2.2020 MBO RIJNLAND in Woerden. Sanna Puustinen came over from Finland to visit me in Woerden. She received a detailed program from us about the visit. Sanna (Dutch national) has studied to become a childcare practitioner in Finland and wanted to come to the Netherlands to learn about the Dutch daycare system and learn more about the Dutch education “Pedagogisch mederwerker” in the Netherlands. She also hoped to have a chance to talk to teachers and students and learn more about the different sorts of daycare that are available in the Netherlands. On Wednesday the

“Social and health care”, “ICT”, “Gastronomy” and “Painters” have made videos. GRADIA have made some new videos. If you would like to watch them, go to “YouTube” and write “GRADIA emeu” in the search box.

Four Dutch students went to Spain FITNESS FOR HEALTH Study Module February-March 2020 in UNI Eibar-Ermua As part of the E4ALL project, the Vocational School UNI Eibar-Ermua in Eibar hosted a sports study module dedicated to FITENESS FOR HEALTH, which was attended by four students from Horizon College from the Netherlands. They came to attend lessons and practice different physical activities related to health time. They joined our first course group of Social-sports teaching and animation and our first course group of Physical Conditioning. During these weeks apart from attending lessons at our college, they have had the opportunity to spend some hours at different workplacements such as football teams,

Four students had a great trip to Finland. In November 2019 us four Danish students went to Jyväskylä, Finland, to visit their culinary school. We became a part of their everyday school life, and cooked both traditional Finnish food, and more classical dishes. They really gave us an insight into their culture, and we got to taste both elk, reindeer, and a lot of pike. The Finnish people was quite shy, but after a couple of days, we won them over with our charm and funny Danish accents. But this trip wasn’t all school. In our spare time, we wanted to explore the amazing Finnish culture. We watched ice hockey,

Read the article here As part of the E4ALL (EMEU for all) project, the Vocational School UNI Eibar-Ermua in Eibar hosted for the first time a sports study module dedicated to SPORT-ANIMATION in November 2019. Four students from Horizon College in the Netherlands came to attend lessons an practice different sport activities related to leisure time from 04. to 22.11.2019 at UNI Eibar-Ermua. They joined our second course group of Social-sports teaching and animation. During these three weeks apart from attending lessons at our college, they have had different experiences such as a speleology tour into a cave, visit two sport centres for people with functional diversity, one in San