Ultimately, the project results promote the experience of VET placements, the quality of life at work and synergies between companies/organisations, VET centres and students/interns for a better management and coordination of work placements. This translates to improving the involvement and participation of the three key actors in the environment of VET training: VET centres, companies and students. The project also has developed different tools that allow both VET centres and companies to identify the needs of students, and also mechanisms to implement changes to cover these needs. Any VET institutions / companies using VETTER project tools/results will be able to improve the quality of the internship periods within VET through a greater participation of the companies and the monitoring of minimum standards of quality to ensure the provision of health standards at work in a holistic way.
In this increasingly evolving post-pandemic educational/training environment and workplace, in which lifestyles of students and employees are constantly having to adapt to external factors (e.g., the global pandemic, shifting demand for various new skills, etc.), it has become clear that increased demand for flexibility on both the side of the employer and employees (interns/trainees). VETTER project partners have identified the need to oversee the development of VET programmes which offer a balanced mix of vocational skills and create work-based learning opportunities well aligned to all economic cycles, evolving jobs, and working methods and key competences. After analysing the situation in the different countries that conform this partnership, the members of the consortium realised that there was a need to be covered in terms of the evaluation and monitoring of internships – amongst VET institutions as well as within companies. The VETTER project has set out to improve these processes, providing new methodologies & tools for VET institutions and companies to utilise to ensure the monitoring and evaluation of the internship period of students is more transparent and useful for all parties involved.