DEVELOP, EVALUATE AND SAFE KNOWLEDGE –KNOWLEDGE CONTINUITY IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

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The goals of the DESK project were. - to increase awareness in educational organizations for the challenge of retaining critical knowledge in times of demographic change. - to create best practice examples and a toolbox for organizations to preserve existing expertise within the faculty. As the DESK project was intended to produce results feasible for a variety of VET-systems the project partners were 14 PA9 Investing in People and Skills 2018 selected from 4 different VET-systems (Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Bulgaria) with different educational concepts and different economic situations. Additionally not only vocational schools but also teacher-training organizations were incorporated as partners. The eight DESK partner organizations developed tools, evaluated measures and created best-practice examples for knowledge management and securing knowledge in VET institutions. The experiences and findings were summarized, structured and made available to interested parties in the form of national partner reports and a handbook for knowledge management in VET.

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