The Digital capacity building for VET Trainers - VET-Di.Ca.B. project - develops in the context of Digital Transformation by expanding the preparation, resilience and digital capabilities of VET teachers, trainers and operators, and intends to achieve the development of small-scale cooperation that starts from a re-reading shared and participatory of DigCompEdu” (2017). The project is contextualized in a post-pandemic relaunch phase in which on the one hand there is the need to renew and relaunch in-person training and on the other to optimize and not waste the results obtained in the pandemic period in terms of acceleration towards greater use of digitalised educational and training environments. With its implementation the project aimed to: -Facilitate the construction of new partnerships and stimulate the peer-to-peer exchange of practices/experiences; -Improve and strengthen the digital skills of VET trainers/teachers/operators; -Promote a bottom-up participatory discussion on DigCompEdu for the renewal of training through the application of tools and technologies in digital environments; -Improve the level of attractiveness of the VET system.
Economies with a skilled workforce are more resilient to economic shocks and grow faster. The EC states that a more efficient investment in training could have an impact of up to 0.4-0.6% of GDP growth and for the period 2021-2027, the EC has established for the first time the specific objective of increasing of the percentage of citizens with basic digital skills, from 56% in 2019 to 70% in 2025. The project partners operating in the VET sector have identified the need to achieve a new balance between the need to renew their teaching in presence and use of increasingly digitalized tools corresponding to the needs of a constantly evolving job market. The Partner Organizations, teachers and trainers therefore agree on the need to acquire and make DigCompEdu increasingly operational by promoting its reinterpretation through a participatory comparison between peers to increase their digital skills and to propose teaching approaches, methodologies and applications in modern educational environments also in order to determine an increase in the attractive value of the entire VET system.