Education and training help foster knowledge-based economic growth, enhance productivity, contribute to people’s personal and social development, and reduce social inequalities. (Council 2009).Therefore, efficient investment in human capital through education and training systems is not a choice anymore. It is an essential component of the EU in increasing the employment rate of the population aged 20-64 from the current 69% to at least 75%. (EU 2020). The success of Europe’s strategy for 2020 depends on enhancing labor supply, skills and competences that promote productivity and employability (Decisions 2015). Acquiring right skills of the jobs is a necessity in today’s fast-paced world where competition for employment is intensifying. Because people with low levels of or no qualification are nearly three times more likely to be unemployed than those with high qualifications. Vocational education and training (VET) students need to have diverse vocational skills and competence, complete continuous renewal of competencies enterprises require to find a place in the labor force. Vocational education and training has a great deal of potential for better skills, growth and jobs (Commission 2012) Erasmus+ is making a major contribution to helping address these key challenges that Europeans are facing. Under the Key Action 1, it provides educational opportunities for organizations to send VET learners to benefit from training, and for staff to receive or give trainings. These trainings lead to boosting their skills and employability. Organizations wanting to take part in these opportunities can apply as an individual vocational education organization. In addition to that, it can also apply as part of a national mobility consortium. A learning mobility activity of individuals (VET learners and staff) involves minimum two participating organizations: one sending and one receiving organization. The receiving organization must be either a workplace or a VET school. Mobility activity projects consist of three stages: Preparation, implementation and follow-up. At the first stage, the sending organizations must find an appropriate workplace or a VET school where the training will take place and set up agreements with them beforehand. With the interviews we have done with VET school administrations, VET students , VET staff and workplaces we have noticed that developing VET mobility projects,especially finding an appropriate partner is a big problem for them. Why? 1) Incompetent personnels: The main reason why this problem exists is that either VET school administrations and workplaces do not have competent personnels to overcome this issue. This incompetency can result from computer illiteracy or a lack of foreign language skills. 2) Lack of effective and efficient Online platform: The EU has online platforms such as etwinning and epale for other Erasmus+ key actions. However, there is no an effective and efficient online platform for VET organizations to overcome this issue. Moreover, search engines such as Google fail to solve this problem because the search results they provide do not mean that the results are safe,appropriate and optimal. 3) Ineffective consulting firms: Consulting firms means a cost. VET organizations can allocate some fund from their budget for a consulting firm to facilitate this cumbersome. However, there is no guarantee for VET organizations for an appropriate partner in terms of safety and training. eVET will be the Online platform on which VET schools and workplaces can develop VET mobility projects. Thus, the need for an Online platform for VET organizations will be met faster with less expenditure and more benefits. Stakeholders : The stakeholders of the project are VET schools, VET staff, VET students, workplaces, consulting firms, Ministries of National Education, EU Agencies for VET such as Cedefop and ETF, National Agencies and Programme Countries. The impact of the project on them varies depending on their positions in vocational education and training. Beneficiaries: a)Target groups: The target groups of the project are VET schools, VET Staff, VET students, workplaces ,national agencies, Ministries of National Education in Turkey, Germany and Italy. b) Final beneficiaries: The final beneficiaries of the project are Programme countries, EU agencies for VET:Cedefop and ETF,National agencies,VET schools,VET staff,VET students and workplaces, Ministries of National Education in Programme Countires.
Context/Backround : eVET is an online vocational education and training platform on which VET providers (VET schools, governmental organizations etc.) can connect and collaboratively develop KA1 VET projects. The VET providers will specify their criteria to find the most suitable VET providers to arrange vocational education and training opportunities for the learners and staff.Erasmus+ is making a major contribution to helping address these key challenges that Europeans are facing. Under the Key Action 1, it provides educational opportunities for organizations to send VET learners to benefit from training, and for staff to receive or give trainings. These trainings lead to boosting their skills and employability. Organizations wanting to take part in these opportunities can apply as an individual vocational education organization. In addition to that, it can also apply as part of a national mobility consortium. A learning mobility activity of individuals (VET learners and staff) involves minimum two participating organizations: one sending and one receiving organization. The receiving organization must be either a workplace or a VET school. Mobility activity projects consist of three stages: Preparation, implementation and follow-up. At the first stage, the sending organizations must find an appropriate workplace or a VET school where the training will take place and set up agreements with them beforehand. With the interviews we have done with VET school administrations, VET students , VET staff and workplaces we have noticed that developing VET mobility projects,especially finding an appropriate partner is a big problem for them. eVET platform presents solution for these problems. Objectives : The main objectives of eVET was the online platform on which VET schools and workplaces could develop VET mobility projects. And the need for an online platform for VET organizations has been met faster with less expenditure and more benefits. eVET, online Vocational Education and Training platform is now available as an online platform for VET providers (VET schools, workplaces etc.) in one of the Erasmus+ Programme countries, on which VET providers communicate, collaborate and develop KA1 VET projects, eliminating the barriers in VET mobility activities through providing an environment in which VET schools and workplaces can develop VET mobility projects in a more effective and efficient way has a great deal of impact on the entire Programme Countries in the field of vocational education and training. Undertaken Activities: To reach the objectives above, eVET completed the activites as follows ; WP1 Project management: Project management took 27 months and aimed at obtaining the highest possible results within the project deadline and budget. WP2 Analysis: This work package was consisted of identifying the inputs, outputs and processes, identifying problems. WP3 Design: This work package composed of designing the system inputs, designing user interfaces of the system, designing the system processes, and designing the system outputs. WP4: Development Development was the work package where the eVET itself was created. At this time, the Project staff used the individual graphic elements generated in Design work package to create the onlive vocational education and training platform aimed. WP5 Test and Delivery: In this work package, the project staff took care of final details and test web site. The website was tested for functionality and compatibility issues. After eVET was ready for publishing, the website was online. WP6 Maintenance: In this work package, the project staff ensured that the website remain running at peak performance levels. The duration was three months. They solved any website bugs and customized the website to users needs as user’s needs may change with time. WP7 Multiplier Events: In this work package,481 from VET schools and workplaces in Turkey, Germany and Italy were trained. These people learnt how to use effectively and efficiently the online platform developed.The duration of this work package was three months. WP8 Project Dissemination: The duration of this work package was 27 months. In this work package a website was created to publish the results and findings of the project. On the semi-annual basis, 4 newsletters were prepared. Audiovisual materials such as YouTube videos were created to make the project more efficient , effective and attractive. Social media was not a choice anymore in being in contacts with stakeholders. The project had a Twitter account on for the purpose of sharing information on the project. The number of participants involved in actvities ; 1. Multiplier Events : 481 2. Registered to the platform :274 3. Stakeholder meetings :45 4. Dissemination workshops :265 5. Evaluation Activities : 40 Results and Impacts were mentioned in related parts in details.