ePassport project aims to reinforce the capacities of organisations working in the field of VET and improve their techniques and methods of preparing and following-up online their beneficiaries participating in a hybrid and virtual mobility project. For these reasons, ePassport consortium will develop, within the two year of the project, innovative, inclusive and sustainable material: two online training tools and two online guides. The aim is also to adapt these tools and guides to be used by VET structures not only throughout the partners' countries but also throughout Europe. The consortium is composed of four partners: ADICE in France, Forum Educativo in Spain, KERIC in Slovakia and KANE in Greece. All partners are located in territories on which unemployment has an impact and where opportunities such as European mobility programs are less present. This situation was aggravated by the COVID19 crisis and led to an alarming unemployment rate in Europe. This is further reinforced by the fact that unemployment situations and inactivity have a heavy impact on the mental health of individuals. Thus, hybrid and virtual mobilities are a way out for these people to face the Covid-19 crisis by allowing them to remain active, to continue training and acquire key skills for their employability while preserving their motivation and their European commitment. Altought, the COVID19 crisis found the majority of the European organisations unprepared to carry out their activities efficiently online, without the appropriate tools and resources. This is why the implementation of an online training and the endowment of the organisations with qualitative tools and skills is a must. The partners of the ePassport project will therefore undertake the creation of 4 intellectual productions: a) The IO1 "Participants ePassport" will be developed to help future VET participants build their project during a distance preparation and follow-up. b) The IO2 "eGuide for online predeparture training" will be a user-friendly and adaptable tool for professionals in the vocational education and training field that will increase the access and knowledge to existing tools for online training implementation through the creation of an online guide. c) The IO3 "Hybrid and Virtual Mobility eNotebook" will be developed in order to ensure the support and continuous contact between organizations and the participant during a hybrid or virtual mobility. d) The IO4 "eFollow-up guide" will aim to improve remote monitoring of the participants during hybrid and virtual VET mobility. The resources will be open source, freely consultable and downloadable via the project partners websites in English and in the other project languages. Users will be able to tailor the materials to the needs of specific target groups. In order to do so, each organisation will be in charge of organising a multiplier event in its country where the four intellectual outputs will be disseminated and evaluated. By the end of these events, it is expected that the participants are made aware about the new existing tools and have a good understading of where they could find them online and how to make use of them. The Multiplier events will take place in: a) One Multiplier event in Roubaix, France b) One multiplier event in Seville, Spain c) One multiplier event in Kalamata, Greece d) One multiplier event in Cacda, Slovakia The ePassport project will directly involve 40 vocational education and training workers and 50 participants to mobility projects, including at least 20 with fewer opportunities. The impact of ePassport project will be on the number of vocational education and training workers trained. It will also be on the future hybrid and virtual mobility participants that will receive a personalised support in order to be well oriented and prepared to benefit from hybrid and virtual mobilities in terms of competences, professional and personal experience. Also, by maximizing the follow up of participants by vocational education and training workers, and the capacities of the people with fewer opportunities while undertaking a hybrid or virtual mobility, the desired long-term impact is for these participants to have more opportunities to access employment after the end of their mobility. The project also aims to have a positive impact on the wellbeing and safety of the participants, especially those with fewer oportunities in a context where people lose the moral because of economic crisis as a consequance of the COVID situation. Overall the project partners expect that the results facilitate the work of VET workers in the COVID context and equip them in the digital era with innovative tools to overcome the actual needs.
ePasseport aims to reinforce the processes and methods of VET professionals to develop high quality and relevant hybrid and virtual mobility projects for their participants. After the COVID-19 crisis, a gap was identified between the capacities of VET organisations to implement hybrid and virtual mobilities, and the need from participants to keep participating to such initiatives in spite of the health context. The ePassport initaitive has been created to respond to the necessity to work on improving hybrid and virtual mobility methods and techniques, to ensure efficient and qualitative opportunities while respecting the sanitary rule. ePassport sought to contribute to the needs of VET professionals and participatants and the digitalisation priority of the European Union by facilitating the development of digital initiatives in the VET sector across the European Union. To that end, the ePasseport consortium developed innovative, inclusive and sustainable materials, available in five languages to enable wide dissemination and long-term impact.
ePassport was designed to promote innovation within the VET sector while responding to the urgency posed by the COVID-19 crisis. The overall objective of the project was to reinforce the capacities of VET organisations by providing innovative methods of online preparation, monitoring and evaluation for their beneficiaries participating in a hybrid and virtual mobility project. The project addresses the needs identified in the analysis carried out prior to the project. ePassport provides four distinct digital and innovative tools for VET participants and professionals. Each tools was designed to respond to specific gaps highlighted in the study: development of digital tools to support effectively VET participants in their in-person, hybrid and virtual mobility activities, and ressources and guides for VET professionals to elaborate online trainings, and pedagogical support (preparation, monitoring and evaluation) to their participants. Overall, ePassport was designed to facilitate the further development and implementation of hybrid and virtual mobilities and enable the promotion of these alternatives across the VET sector and on multiple levels.