10 Temmuz 2025 Perşembe

Project Process Summary

CreaVET Anthem

From Lithuania's shining skies

To Turkey where the sunrise flies,

Italy, Spain, with hearts so wide,

Portugal, Czech, all side by side.


Together we create and grow,

With every voice, ideas flow.

Teachers, students — hand in hand,

In CreaVet, we take a stand!



We learn, we laugh, we dream, we do,

A team of many, strong and true.

From every land, we innovate—

With CreaVet, we celebrate!


Together we create and grow,

With every voice, ideas flow.

Teachers, students — hand in hand,

In CreaVet, we take a stand!

WP1:  Project Management

WP-2: Survey and Research Reports

A2.1. Kickoff Meeting -TURKİYE

A2.2. Preparation  Survey  of "Creativity and Problem Solving Skills in VET" For Students and Teachers- MRU SUA 

A2.3. Applying  Survey  of "Creativity and Problem Solving Skills in VET" To Students and Teachers - All partners

A2.4. Preparation   Survey Report of "Creativity and Problem Solving Skills in VET" - Communia

A2.5. "Gaining Creativity and Problem Solving Skills with PBL" Research Report - Mazhar Zorlu MTAL


WP-3: Teacher Training and  Seminars

A3.1.        Short-term joint staff training - ITALY

A3.2. Preparation  Seminar Plan and Documents - FEPSET and Goodwill

A3.3. Seminars for teachers in each partner school  - All partners


WP-4: Training for Students

A4.1. 2nd Transnational Meeting - CZECHIA

A4.2. Preparation    Curriculum (Creativity) (Problem Solving)  -  Alan Turing and Mazhar Zorlu MTAL

A4.3. Preparation Reference and Practice BookAlan Turing and FEPSET

A4.4. Translating Curriculum, Reference and Practice Book and   into Turkish - Mazhar Zorlu MTAL

A4.5. Seminars for VET students in each partner school - All partners (Except Communia)

A4.6. Technical and Artistic Trips for VET Students - All partners (Except Communia)

A4.7. “Creativity and Problem Solving with PBL in VET” Training for Students - All partners (Except Communia)


WP-5: Student Mobilities and Projects Exhibition

A5.2. Exhibition in each partner school  -  All partners (Except Communia)


WP-6: Digital Platform, Skill Competition and Conference

A6.1. Preparation and Manage  of  Digital Platform for VET -  Alan Turing and Mazhar Zorlu MTAL

A6.2. Material Contribution to the Digital Platform - All partners

A6.3. Preparation of Competition Document for VET Students - All partners (Except Communia)

A6.4. Skill Competition  - All partners (Except Communia)

A6.5. Final Meeting and ConferenceLITHUANIA
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Digital Platform







Final Evaluations of Project Partners

Czechia

"Project goals are very up-to-date, in complience with modern teaching methods. So it was very beneficial both for teachers as welll as students to get familiar with our outcomes. Digital platform is very well organized and presentable to external parties, so they understand what we were working on.

Students really appreciated the visits, especially the activities in mixed international teams.

Creativity has been part of my lessons, I can not imagine teaching todays students in an old fashioned way. It is always good to learn something new or compare how other collegues work. We all need to implement methods that we discussed in this project in order to keep up with the latest development. As an instutution we are proud to be part of such a professional international team.

I am truly amazed by the perfect management, coordination and organization of the Turkish team! Everything was remebered in time and communicated ahead. Personal meetings were always fun and in between we we coordinated very well and felt in good hands.

We are going to spread the info on our social media as well as during meetings with collegues from other schools. Huge thanks to Turkish coordinators for professional management!!! 

Big thanks to all who participated!"


Lithuania

"The project went according to the plan, all the goals were met. Meetings happened on time, students activities were useful and novel, dissemination activities completed after each activity.

It brought knowledge,  experience,  new understanding about teaching and learning in this new era, new concepts and view.

It was fantastic,  so accurate, details, always responding and helping in minutes, coordinating all processes and taking care that everything goes smoothly. The atmosphere was always motivating and struggle-free. I evaluate with the highest score possible.

Students and teachers who participated are the best  ambassadors. We are still spreading news about the outcomes of the project. Students are so happy about participating in it.

We are waifor new projects with these partners as we feel like a family that can reach the sky in implementing any project. Team and partners are the most important factor to achieve any goals in a project. 


Portugal

"We believe the results have a very good quality.

Regarding the process, there was always the concern to keep all information very clear and precise, very well established timelines and lists of what to do."

More awareness on the importance of developing soft skills such as creativity, divergent thinking, convergent thinking, teamwork, problem resolution, critical thinking on the teeaching/learning process. As well, some techniques and methodologies that we can work on with the students.

The coordination has always been present, working on all the planning, organization and promoting the teamwork and team spirit.

We'll keep on doing it whenever we talk about learning/teaching methodologies, in presentations with partners from different countries or the social partners and surrounding community. We'lln present the project results in the last meeting with the boeard and the first meetings in the beginning of the school year. We are genuinely glad to be working with you for the last years, are really grateful for all the hard work, organization and belief in all the project and partners! 

Our students and teachers really appreciate having the opportunity to work within the project as well."


Spain

"As CPIFP Alan Turing, we consider that the project goals have been clear and realistic, especially regarding the study and implementation of the PBL methodology (problem-solving-based learning). The meetings have helped us to exchange ideas and to coordinate tasks in an effective way. The intellectual outputs, such as the teaching materials and the guidelines for teachers, have been useful to introduce PBL in our classes. Both our teachers and students have received training and have improved their skills in collaborative work and critical thinking. The student activities and the skills competition have been a good opportunity for students to apply what they have learned and to work on real problems. The digital platform has made it easier to share content and communicate with the other partners. Finally, the dissemination activities have helped us share the results of the project with other teachers, companies and local institutions. In general, we think the project has had a positive impact on our centre and our educational community.

The project has brought many benefits to our teachers, students and our institution as a whole.

For our teachers, it has provided new ideas and tools to use the PBL method in their classes. They have also improved their teamwork and international collaboration skills. However, not all teachers have decided to take part in the project because some of them still do not fully understand the idea and the teaching philosophy behind this new learning approach.

For our students, the project has helped them to develop problem-solving, creativity and communication skills. They have learned how to work better in teams and how to face real challenges.

For our institution, the project has been an opportunity to modernise our teaching methods and to strengthen our European network. It has also increased our visibility and our cooperation with companies and other educational centres.

We believe that the Turkish team, as the project coordinator, has done a very good job managing the project. We already had the chance to work with them before in the IndEra 4.0 project, which was also focused on the PBL (Project Based Learning) methodology. In both projects, they have always been friendly, supportive and open to collaboration. The coordinator has organised the work clearly and has kept good communication with all the partners from Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. Meetings have been well planned, and tasks have been clearly shared among the partners. The budget and work plans have been transparent and realistic. Whenever a problem appeared, the coordinator tried to find a fair and practical solution. Their leadership and teamwork have helped us to keep the project on track and achieve the main goals. In our opinion, the coordinator institution has shown strong project management skills and a deep understanding of the PBL approach.

We plan to continue sharing the results of the project with other teachers and students in our centre. We want to organise small workshops and training sessions to explain the PBL methodology and show the materials we have created. We will also include information about the project on our school website and social media channels to reach more people in our educational community. We plan to present the project results in local and regional meetings with other schools and companies, so they can learn about the benefits of using PBL in vocational education. Finally, we want to keep in touch with the project partners and look for new opportunities to cooperate on similar projects in the future. 

We are grateful for having been part of the CreaVET project. It has given us new ideas and motivation to keep improving our teaching methods and to work more with the PBL approach. We hope that this experience will help us to develop new projects in the future and to strengthen our European network. We really hope that the new project we have applied for will be approved, so we can continue this good teamwork with our partners.

Thank you for this opportunity and for the good collaboration during these years."


Italy

"From its starting drafting to the very last meeting, the CreaVET project pursued a very clear goal, encapsulating a vast array of sub objectives, all having at the very nucleus the student: the need to foster innovative and alternatives educational approach that could foster creativity in students. Varied in its forms, creativity is a skill, and as such, it can be nurtured, and trained through guidance, support and practice. The CreaVET consortium tried to foster this view by making of the use of the Problem Based Learning (PBL), a student-centered approach built around the belief on the importance learning real-life problems can have for students. With a clearly defined project goal in mind, the consortium took action at different levels, instantiated in the training of not only students but especially teachers. Although famous in the learning environment, working with educators to be able to provide them the needed tools and instruments was the very fist step to then let students experiment with with PBL in a creative but assisted way. From the seminars for teachers to the mobility programs with students, problem-based learning was applied in a cross-cultural and interactive manner, as condensed in the other intellectual outputs of the project, as the research report produced and the results of the project accessible through the learning platform. The dissemination of the project, still undergoing, has also proven successful, but to be able to fully evaluate it, time must be granted for the results to reach to a greater audience in the different countries of the parterns.

This project brought several opportunities and learning lessons to the Italian team. Being a cultural non-profit association instead of a school, Communia worked in close collaboration not only with the partnership's schools but also with Italian schools from the district of Ancona. Engaging students from the territory, coming from different migratory backgrounds and varied cultures, allowed to benefit not only of PBL training, but also of being part of a community, receptive to their needs and questions. Students left Italy for their exchanges as feeling shy, often not confident about their skills or not fully aware of the potential of creativity skills. However, they came back with a full cultural baggage, more confident and strong, with new friends and new interpersonal and inter relational skills. Receiving this very feedback from them was invaluable. In terms of our institution as a whole, CreaVET allowed us to once again establish our role as a support network for the local community, by providing opportunities, not only to students but also to the many project managers and social workers members of Communia that were able to contribute to CreaVET. As newcomers, CreaVET greatly helped them too in understanding the importance of dialogue with the community and with other realities, transcending cultures and borders.

The Project Coordinator Institution demonstrated excellent management skills, by having accompanied partners of the project during the whole process, from organization, planning and coordination of activities, budgeting and allocation of funds, creative resolution of problems as well as technical guidance needed on the seminars implementation. Indeed, every question that has arisen was rapidly and efficiently met by the coordinator. Moreover, inputs, and ideas were welcomed and fostered. Finally small problems or inconveniences, although collaterally normal in big projects, were addressed from the very start, allowing the project not to be influenced by them. Our future plans for disseminating the project relate to creating a strong network, as we started doing during the seminars phase, of students and teachers from the territory to which introduce and sponsor our approach and research outputs. Starting from the Ancona and Marche region, we aim to bring people working and the educational sphere closer to territorial and community-based institutions as Communia, where they could find resources and information on projects such as Creavet. To do so, we plan to continue to engage in discussions with the students that benefited of the mobility programs, as well as to ask them to include fellows friends interested in fostering their soft and creative skills.

CreaVET was a fruitful collaboration, where the human capital was put at the core of the discussion, making it the most powerful and successful final output. Students learned by doing, and teachers were enriched by observing and collecting the successes of their hard work. Everyone was receptive of others' needs and the passion for education and continuous growth allowed the methodology showcased to really make an impact."

29 Haziran 2025 Pazar

Final Meeting and Conference

The final meeting and conference of the CreaVET project was held in Lithuania between June 25-27. The conference started with the opening speech of the host institution Mykolo University Sudovian Academy and evaluated each partner project. The meeting evaluated budgeting, project results and outputs, education and dissemination activities, skills competition and digital platform.

CreaVET Anthem

From Lithuania's shining skies

To Turkey where the sunrise flies,

Italy, Spain, with hearts so wide,

Portugal, Czech, all side by side.


Together we create and grow,

With every voice, ideas flow.

Teachers, students — hand in hand,

In CreaVet, we take a stand!



We learn, we laugh, we dream, we do,

A team of many, strong and true.

From every land, we innovate—

With CreaVet, we celebrate!


Together we create and grow,

With every voice, ideas flow.

Teachers, students — hand in hand,

In CreaVet, we take a stand!














14 Haziran 2025 Cumartesi

Skill Competition in Czechia

Implementing a creative presentation competition for my field of study 

with PBL

On 21 May 2025, a competition for the creative presentation of my field of study with learning difficulties took place at Goodwill - Higher Vocational School Ltd., which was implemented within the Erasmus+ Ka220 VET (CreaVET) project number 2023-1-TR01-KA220-VET-000152095.

The aim of the event was in line with the project objective, i.e. to promote creative learning. Students competed in the categories Foreign Trade, Tourism Business and Tourism Animation. It was a competition in groups of three to four persons. The judges were teachers of vocational subjects, a practitioner and final year students. First and second year students took part in the activities.

The main objective was to promote creativity in vocational education using PBL. Students were asked to understand the nature of problem-based learning and prepare a project to help transfer vocational knowledge using creative approaches. The main aim was not seriousness but to enhance creative approaches, communication, teamwork and cross-curricular links (e.g. marketing, animation activities, project management, communication techniques, computing, presentation techniques, etc.). The groups were given the following assignments in advance: a Creative Presentation on the theme of differentiating oneself from the competition, a Creative Business Plan for beautifying the school environment and a Creative Activity that will appropriately complement vocational education. The assignment was the same for each category and the objective was to present the topic or moderate the activity. Each group created its own name and slogan.

Not only the quality of the presentation was evaluated, but also the preparation and planning of the project and the approach to problem solving. 

Students demonstrated an understanding of the principle of problem-based learning, were able to apply creativity in the transfer of professional competencies and the ability to evaluate objectively. Thanks to the collaboration on the project, the links between students and teachers were strengthened. The aim of the project was achieved.


Skill Competition Specifications        Download

Principles of Evaluation                      Download      





    
          

13 Haziran 2025 Cuma

Dissemination Activity in Czechia

Conference School Friendly New Dimension 5. 6. 2025 Frýdek-Místek

The CreaVET project was presented at the School Friendly conference, which was attended by 50 representatives of vocational schools and companies that cooperate with schools. The conference took place on June 5, 2025, in Frýdek-Místek at the New Dimension company.

The Association for the Development of the Moravian-Silesian Region values the exemplary cooperation between schools and companies in the region through the School Friendly initiative. The aim is to connect the world of education with commercial practice and inspire other entities to establish closer cooperation.

https://schoolfriendly.cz/










Dissemination Activities in Portugal

 Throughout the project, we had the opportunity to share our project with:

  • Students
  • Parents 
  • Colleagues from our school
  • Colleagues from partner schools (Erasmus KA1 staff visits at FEPSET)
  • The City Hall
  • In general, with social media publications and in the school’s website 


Project’s dissemination for students and by students




Project’s dissemination for colleagues


Project’s Dissemination for the School and the City Hall




Project’s Dissemination for Partners from Different Countries


Skill Competition in Portugal

 RATIONALE - DOLPHIN PARADE 2025

FEPSET was given the challenge to provide a contribution to the city, by painting one of the dolphins to be exhibited in the bay, a noble part of the city. The contest had a National range and more than 350 competitors applied;

The moto was: ‘Dolphins and Setúbal Bay, one of the most beautiful in the world, are two inseparable images’.

The initiative was promoted by the City Council and it’s aims are:

  • to promote the waterfront
  • raise awareness of the need to protect these animals 
  • “emphasize the importance of dolphins in the imagination of the Sadin people”.

The City Council provided the graphic form    



THE PROCESS (1)
  • In order to apply for the National contest, the class performed na internal skills competition, in order to enhance some creativity skills, perspective, divergent thinking and competition.
  • Each of the students proposed at least 1 drawing to the dolphin and they were voted by the trainers from the technical field, as well as by the Eco-School Coordinator
THE PROCESS (2)


TEAMWORK AFTER COMPETITION

  • For the selection process, the members of the juri voted for the proposal that represented the city and its elements, considering the graphic form, the colours and the moto. 
  • The winner from our skills competition was proposed to the national contest and, in more than 350 competitors, was voted as one of the 20 dolphins to be painted and exhibited in the city.
  • The dolphin was drawed and painted at school by the whole class, working in a team after the competition.
THE WINNER

Daniela Cruz (Student) 




THE CEREMONY 






12 Haziran 2025 Perşembe

Dissemination Activitiy in Malaga, Spain

As part of our Erasmus+ KA2 CreaVET project, we organized a dissemination activity at the Polo Nacional de Contenidos Digitales (Polo Digital) in Málaga — a strategic hub for digital innovation, startups, and creative industries in southern Spain.

The event brought together educators, training providers, and digital industry professionals to learn about our school’s involvement in CreaVET and the project's core focus: enhancing creativity and problem-solving skills in vocational education through Problem-Based Learning (PBL).

We shared examples of how we’re implementing PBL in our classrooms, such as our recent public speaking skill competition, which challenged students to develop soft skills through real-world communication tasks and peer evaluation. The activity sparked great interest as a model of student-led, reflective learning.

The Polo Digital was the ideal venue — a space where education, technology, and innovation converge, reinforcing the project’s mission to connect VET education with real-world challenges and foster active learning.

We’re proud to contribute to the visibility of the CreaVET project and to promote its impact beyond our school community!