Abstract:

In response to the rapid changing economic, productive and technological contexts, the sustainable transformation of Vocational Education & Training (VET) Centres and companies or industrial cooperatives are key factors. The main objective is the improvement of the quality of the active learning processes of the technological area and the development of the key skills of the students, also to enhance the link between companies and VET Centres in the Basque Country and understanding their needs and opportunities, developing and improving learning processes. The project has fostered the participation and empowerment of the staff of both agents, workers and teachers, in a cooperative way, designing processes to address the identified gaps in the training of students and creating mechanisms that would be repeatable and sustainable in the future. The project has been based on lifelong learning culture: first, a working table has been created between companies and VET Centres which has been active through all the process; second, a deep diagnosis has been made in order to identify the prospective key skills and profiles of staff and students into the technological area and, also, to compile information on needs about companies and educational centres cooperation strategies; third, collected data has been analysed through advanced Machine Learning (AI) and Big Data tools, and finally, based on the analysis carried out, ad hoc processes and strategies have been identified in order to transfer them to other VET centres and companies. In the end, this project is expected to improve the active learning processes, which are the basis of the ETHAZI model and influence the proper development of students' skills, as well as the competitiveness of companies and the improvement of the future of employment.

Keywords:

Active Learning, Problem and Project-Based Learning, Lifelong Learning, Teacher Professional Development, Vocational Education Training.