InvestTech Project Team
Centers of Excellence in VET (CoVEs) typically bring together a wide range of local partners. These include vocational training centres (VET centres), employers, research centres, development agencies and employment services, which contribute to the creation of a “skills ecosystem”, and which contribute to regional, economic, social development, innovation and follow smart specialisation strategies (S3).
The question arises as to how to establish a CoVE in the IT sector, which will link the work of educational institutions, businesses and other key stakeholders to create the skills that the digital transformation in a given region, sector or country needs?
As the Christmas holidays approach, we all rewind and take stock of what we have achieved and what we have not in 2024. However, we cannot ignore the feeling of dissatisfaction and disappointment with our inability to properly manage information and knowledge (personal, community or company) to be more effective and more useful for ourselves and the people we live and work with. As a result of these reflections, wishes were born!
May 2025 bring us success:
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in purifying and optimizing our information channels. Let us overcome the stress of our inability to filter and use only the useful from all that attacks us in the information space.
Following the previous article "PPPs for CoVEs: challenges and lessons learned" here we give an example for good practice - case is of Colego Cristo Rey from Spain that concerns the training sector Mechanics Electronics Automation. This publication is in help to the InvesTech Project.
This case is taken from the paper of the ETF "Processes and practices: Study of working processes and key practices of CoVEs for advancing autonomy and public-private partnerships".
Context of the project
Not all the projects the school carry out in cooperation with companies have automatically resulted in good practices – some simply produce a transfer of knowledge and provide material resources without changing the way things are done at the centre.
Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the context of institutional autonomy in implementation of vocational training is a way to increase its effectiveness.
Interesting and instructive for anyone planning to create a Center of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) are the results of the study of the European Training Foundation (ETF), shared in its report "CoVEs: processes and practices. Study of working processes and key practices of CoVEs for advancing autonomy and PPPs".
Below we focus on the main challenges and lessons learnt reflected in this report.
They fall into the eight categories described below:
1. Towards greater CoVE autonomy.
