The will to build bridges between the world of education and training and the economic world remains a high priority for Europe with the 4th objective of the strategic framework for European cooperation in the field of education and training (ET 2020): "encourage creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training"; many actions are implemented in this direction. However, it is clear that teachers are not very well equipped regarding a their knowledge of financial, economic, organizational and social issues that structure the company and its role in the development of the economy.The objective of the Cokleeco project is to promote a better mutual knowledge between the two spheres; to update their mutual representations and to foster and sustain their cooperation through designing and building new training courses matching the realities of the different organizations in the partner regions. In a first step, these training courses have a regional dimension; in a second step, the partners work together to build a European integreted training course.Bringing together stakeholders from both the world of education and that of the company, the Cokleeco project brings together 9 partners from 5 countries:- FREREF (France) – Networks of Regions promoting LLL in Europe, in charge of coordination and evaluation for the project.- MCDN (Poland) – training center for teacher in Krakow-Ense (Spain) – Department of education of the Catalonia Regional authority-Medef Rhône-Alpes (France) – Regional organisation of the most important Employers’ association in France-Rectorat de Grenoble (France) – Public organization depending on the Minister of Education in France.-CCGPE-DGEO (Belgium) – Department of European projects in the Minister of Education in the French speaking part of Belgium.- Confindustria ER (Italy) – Employers’ association in Emilia-Romagna-Unimore (Italy) – University of Modena-FPE (Belgium) – Fondation pour l’Enseignement is cofounded by education bodies and Companies in the French speaking part of Belgium. It works on innovative projects in order to enhance the link between school and companies.The project intends to use innovative practices already exissting in the territories to build the training courses using a decontextualization-recontextualisation approach.The first stage of the Cokleeco project consists of identifying innovative practices in the field, and integrating them within the modules of the training courses. This also enables to determine some "invariants" (common points) for these practices.The second step is the construction of "local" training course on a modular basis. After a test and an evaluation of these regional courses, the partners jointly develop a European training course that will be common to all.The European integrated training course is design and trialled during two learning mobilities of one week each at an interval of six months, The participants also design pilot actions which implement the practical content of the training course in the field, with the students. The final stage of the project is to consolidate the results achieved in a “lessons learned” document and “recommendations” for policy makers, education stakeholders and company staff. These documents are particularly used in the final conference to be held in Belgium in 2019.The Cokleeco project targets three categories of target audiences:-the world of education with teachers but also guidance counselors and Heads of School;-the economic world with business leaders, entrepreneurs, human resources managers but also in-company tutors;- Students through pilot actions to facilitate their understanding of the European socioeconomic environment.By training teachers and enabling sustainable relations with companies, the Cokleeco project acts on mutual representation of stakeholders in the world of education and of the economic world by making them working together in building a common tool; it prepares students for a better understanding of the professional world which should strengthen their employability across the European territory.
Building bridges between the worlds of education and business is a priority for Europe. While teachers are not sufficiently "equipped" regarding their knowledge of the economic, financial and organizational issues that structure companies and their role in economic development, these actors often have a biased representation of the school institution and its operation. The objective of Cokleeco is to promote a better mutual understanding between these two spheres, to update their mutual representation and to develop cooperation through the development of a training program corresponding to the realities of different organizations in the territories of project partners. 9 partners, from 5 countries, from both the world of education and the company were involved in this project: Freref, a European network active on the issues of lifelong learning, based in France, managed it. In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), the project was carried by the regional MEDEF and the rectorate of the academy of Grenoble. In Emilia-Romagna (Italy), the project involved the Regional Confindustria and the University of Modena-Reggio (Unimore). In French-speaking Belgium, the Foundation for Education (FPE) for the promotion of the school-companies relationship as well as the General Directorate of Compulsory Education (DGEO) of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation contributed with their respective expertise. In Catalonia (Spain), the education department of the Regional Government of Catalonia participated in the project. Finally, in Poland, the MCDN, a continuing training center for teachers in the province of Malopolska (Krakow) gave their inputs on the question of the school-enterprise relationship. The Cokleeco project was dedicated to 3 categories of target audience. -The world of education with teachers, but also the actors of guidance and school heads; -The economic world with entrepreneurs, HR managers, business tutors ...; - young people in school (high school students, middle school students, apprentices, students ...). As a first step, the project collected innovative practices existing in the territories. These practices were then clustered with the aim of constructing a prototype of a training pathway using a decontextualization / recontextualization approach. On the basis of this prototype, the partners have developed pathways for each of their territory, in order to meet the expectations of local stakeholders. These courses were tested locally and during a week of mobility in Italy, the participants were able to share the comments and suggestions obtained in order to build a European training pathway. This pathway, common to the "business" and "education" people was then tested during a second mobility that took place in Grenoble (France) during which about thirty European participants from the world of education and companies were able to deconstruct their a-priori during exchange sessions and a day of immersion. The participants were then accompanied to build new actions, in a transnational way so that this better knowledge of the respective environments will benefit the final target audience: the students. This step was carried out during pilot actions involving the different target groups of the project, which made it possible to obtain the opinion of external participants and different audiences. Project partners have formulated lessons learned and recommendations so that they can share their experience with new actors wishing to become involved in this process. The impacts obtained by the Cokleeco project are numerous: In Spain, Italy and France the partners involved in the project are planning to renew the European training course on their territory with for example a "teacher summer camp" initiated in Italy in September 2019, which should take place in 2020. In Poland, some training content has been incorporated into MCDN teacher training. In Catalonia, the project was presented within the entrepreneurship network of the Ministry of Education of Catalonia with the aim of implementing the training pathway for VET teachers. In Belgium, the results of the project have been integrated in the reflections around the realization of the Pact4Youth currently led by the government of the Federation Wallonia Brussels. In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the project has made it possible to identify previously isolated practices and to recruit new players for future initiatives. At least 5 new European projects have sprouted through the Cokleeco project, one of these being already funded by the Italian Erasmus+ agency.