“Teaching and Learning Arduinos in Vocational Training” Technology is developing very rapidly day by day. It is a fact that technological developments force a human to develop himself / herself continuously in his/her profession. More than any other field, electronic and information and communication technology are developing more rapidly. These developments have led to the production of more complex control systems. Arduinos are now used to control these complex systems. Since we are educational institutions that teach technology, we have to follow the developments in the world. “Teaching and Learning Arduinos in Vocational Training” Project aims to adapt arduino applications to vocational training and to develop a more efficient training set and a guidebook for the laboratories and the workshops of vocational & technical education students. The main objective of this project is to develop a good practice guide book and a Arduino training set, to introduce arduino training models to other participants during their visits to the host country, to compare different educational systems and training methods with other participating schools and to share best practices.Participants of the projects; electrical, electronic, ICT, automation VET teachers. Participants are teaching arduino in VET schools. There are one coordinator and a total of 4 partners in the project and partners are vocational schools from Turkey, Italy, Romania, Austria, Greece. The total number of mobilities in the project is 40. A total number of 5 TPMs will be realized throughout the project and each partner will participate in each TPM with 2 participants. One TPM will be held in each country. With the project activities, it will be ensured that the best practices will be shared for arduino teaching and the partners will adapt them to their educational environments. The project partners will produce Arduino experimental kits and a best practice Guidebook. Our project activities aim to provide a successful learning and teaching environment for all VET teachers and students. As a condition of successful learning, teachers need to strengthen their role in facilitating learning. Teachers need new experimental kits and modules for innovation, teamwork, feedback and evaluation. Teachers should be given this opportunity for continuing professional development. Main outputs of the project are; an Arduino Training Set for arduino lessons in vocational education and a GuideBook for this set, a project website, a project DVD.The methodology to be used in the execution of the project is “Make-Develop-Share”. In our project, good practices will be made first, then developed, and finally shared. Everything is open and transparent in our Project. Each task and responsibility will be recorded or written in the project. The products of the project are not only written or documentary products, but also a practical Arduino training set and kits. In the long term, we aim to disseminate the project to teachers, students and vocational education schools, local educational institutions, electronic and ICT labor market. We believe that the results and products of our projects will have short and long-term impacts on vocational education and labor market by the dissemination activities. The total budget of the project with 5 partners is 59,000 Euros.

<< Objectives >>The best way to learn something is by doing and experiencing it. The most important education materials are the experiment sets in VET.When the curriculum of VET schools are analyzed, it is seen that it is difficult to give microcontroller education with these daily sets. We have prepared this project to overcome these problems, to provide a more efficient environment and experimental sets for our students in microcontrollers lesson, and to ensure that learning is more permanent.<< Implementation >>*4 Transnational meetings: 4 TPMs will be held during the two years project. The participants of these meetings are project teams of the partners. *European robot competition, LTT of students: Students will compete with the robots they will make by themselves with the CCS-C language knowledge..-Creating project team and tools.-Project Website.-Training Kits.-Guidebook in CCSPLinVoc.-Training Videos.-Project DVD.-5 Newsletters.-Best photo of the Project.-Planting Erasmus trees.<< Results >>-To change students’ perception of “Using microcontrollers with CCS-C Programming Language in Vocational Training”.-To decrease absenteeism level in microcontrollers' lesson.-To make teachers learn innovative methodologies about microcontrollers.-To provide better educational services to their students. -To create positive school climate and improve the learning environment.-To improve microcontroller's workshops and lessons in a better way at schools.-Increasing employment of graduates.

Entering the labour market successfully when their schooling is finished is a challenge to young people all over Europe, especially if they are considered disadvantaged. The problem is not only visible in the economically weaker countries in Southern and Eastern Europe, but is also evident in all other countries. To address this problem, many countries in Europe introduced 'work-oriented training' methods (WBT) in schools and vocational training programs to create a better link between theory-based learning and practical training. This approach is more stimulating to these students and has shown to produce feelings of success for young learners whose skills and capabilities lie to a greater extend in practical work rather than abstract learning. Nowadays, it´s widely recognized that those countries with an integrated work-based vocational preparation and training system and an apprenticeship-oriented approach are doing better with the successful transition from school to work. However, the national transition settings differ from country to country. Furthermore, regardless the national institutional system may be, the same challenge has to be faced everywhere: how to combine theory learning and practice training efficiently in order to produce sustainable learning success with disadvantaged young people.This in fact was the main focus of the WBT strategic partnership. The aim was to discover and examine the various work-based training approaches being used in European countries and to find out 'what works', striving to disseminate good practices and approaches. The overall aim was to find successful ways and strategies for overcoming long standing learning barriers and blockades in order to create sustainable learning success and to secure the successful integration of young students into the labour market.At first, the partnership researched the different transition settings and WBT approaches in the partner countries and illustrated the findings in an overview report. Following, an Online Survey was carried out, addressed to the main relevant stakeholders involved in school-to-work transition: teachers, trainers/instructors and the young learners themselves. The interviews were done through an online questionnaire containing a mix of standardized and open questions. The aim was to find out what were the great advantages of the respective WBT approach in the country; what were the drawbacks; and what kind of improvements can be identified. The online survey collected around 20 interviews from each stakeholder group in each country, producing more than 560 interviews in total. The online survey was evaluated in a Report on Findings and finally lead, as the core product, to a Manual on Work-based Training that illustrates the different approaches of WBT, documents the findings of the survey, and details best practices-by providing descriptions of demonstrative examples.

<< Objectives >>Accoring to the fast growing population, demands for energy are increasing rapidly. To overcome greenhouse gas emissions, alternative energy generation from renewable energy supplies are the only remedy. The production of renewable energy can create new employment opportunities, increase income, and support development of countries.Our motto in the project is “Make-Develop-Share”. In our project, good practices on Renewable Energy will be made first, then developed, and final be shared.<< Implementation >>4 LTT & 1 Meeting with the sector activities will be carried out.In each LTT, the host institution will introduce its renewable energy training module & KIT to other partners.When returning to home, they will make the same training KITs for their own institutions and use it for in-service training and VET activities.We will do:Solar-thermal energy module & training KIT.Photovoltaic energy module & training KIT.Solar irrigation module & training KIT.Wind energy module & training KIT.<< Results >>Main results of the project are;To prepare renewable energy training modules & training KITs.To create a renewable energy good practices guidebook, which is formed by the combination of all these modules.To raise awareness in society about renewable energy.To develop cooperation between institutions and countries.To support the need for qualified personnel in the renewable energy sector.To contribute to young employment in the field of renewable energy sector.

Boarders of European Union continue to evolve and the development of skills for our European workers is essential for today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. Indeed, crafts and companies are dealing more and more with international exchanges and facing a multinational competition, for both professionals and production technics. Qualifications and skills are therefore need to be updated. In order to move on that direction, it is primordial to provide each apprentice with the possibility to be trained and to work on a European level. Les Compagnons du Devoir et du Tour de France which train apprentices and young professional, by traveling, community living and knowledge transmissions, have always had a strong commitment to European mobility programmes. Long-term mobility projects have always existed in our Association. It is part of our specific professional training “Le Tour de France” to have a one-year experience abroad. So far, almost 7400 of our young graduated have already benefitted from such an amazing experience.Since 2004, more than 17350 apprentices have therefore benefitted from a 3 weeks mobility project in European Union, owing to our trusted partners, in any of our trades (industry, construction, building, baking, leather and textiles trades). Driven by our strong desire to institutionalize the mobility project abroad for our apprentices, we have mention the European mobility period into the training program for all our level 4 apprentices, under the framework agreement signed in 2009 with our ministry of National education.Thanks to Erasmus + agreement for 2017-2019, we exceed our objectives and financed mobility for 1222 apprentices in gathered mobility projects together with their class and their trade teacher (107 teachers in total); 152 young professionals gone for a one-year individual mobility; 8 post-apprentices who went abroad from 6 to 12 months in order to continue their apprenticeship; 39 young participants in a 2 weeks technical training and 4 staff members, gone for a job shadowing or a training.The enhancement of the quality of our project is owing to the pedagogical projects developed by our trainers and hosting partners, who suggest a precise program compatible with the specificities of the host country. This approach is necessary as mobility period are included in our training programs in France and comforts also the employers of our apprentices, worried about this mobility project abroad of their employee. Indeed, the project allowed our participants to acquire professional, language, intercultural and cross-disciplinary skills. Indeed, apprenticeship and trades are different from one country to another. Travelling is also a way to develop its adaptability and flexibility, two qualities required in the labor market. Our partners involved in our projects are training organizations, companies and intermediate organisms in 23 countries. Mobility is more and more recognized in those countries; therefore most of the previous work placements are renewed year after year. Years of experience with our partners allow us to organize those projects in mutual trust and prepare at best each participant for his mobility.Each apprentice’s mobility has been validated and recognized through a Europass, and for our post-apprentices, their skills and competences are highlighted on our online pedagogical platform “Aquisav”. With the mod-term puropose of using ECVET system, our partners already signed the “Memorandum of Understanding”. For this project, the International Service has maintained relationships with partners and developed new partnerships, ensured the administrative and financial monitoring of the fellowships, created necessary tools to help pedagogical teams. The service also helped their training centers in France for organizing the gathered mobility projects if needed and they supported young professional going abroad for one year (individual mobility) and the ones who were following a 2-weeks technical training.This ambitious project couldn’t have been organized without the considerable investment of our staff members involved, in particular educational staffs and trainers, for which we are very grateful.