Mobility Managers for Vocational Education and Training in Albania

ongoing

Albania is steadily progressing in its accession to the EU. MoMaVET aims at supporting this process, by increasing the capacity of the local VET system and schools to develop and implement strategies for internationalisation, through learning mobility. MoMaVET impacts on two levels: a strategic one: the capacity building of the decision-making Albanian National Agency for Vocational Education and Qualifications NAVETQ, favouring the design, testing and adoption of processes and methods to include international mobility as a part of regular VET curricula. This includes preparing VET schools to be accredited to perform mobilities similarly to the Erasmus+ charters, defining criteria for the appointment of qualified teachers, and methods and tools for the validation of learning outcomes of mobility. An operational one: training “Mobility managers”, VET teachers able to design, organise, implement and assess EU and international learning mobility strategies and activities in their schools. After describing the skills set required for Mobility managers, partners will develop the relevant training programme and deliver it in blended mode to a selected sample of teachers. Training will include the gamification of processes for participating in mobility activities, by simulating on-the-field the issuing, application, implementation and assessment of an “Erasmus+-like” mobility scheme. This pilot will involve NAVETQ staff, 20 teachers and 50 students in 10 VET schools, who will set up and undergo learning mobilities at the workplace in Italy and Greece. Achieved outcomes will be acknowledged with ad hoc issued Open Badges. A handbook for Mobility managers and a “white paper” for the integration of mobility experiences in official VET curricula in Albania will collect and disseminate lessons learnt. MoMaVET is proposed by a strong partnership of Italian, Albanian and Greek organisations, supported by an outstanding set of public and private associated EU partners.