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."
