Objectives

Objective 1

Develop ecological restoration curricula for VETs targeting pressing needs of future professionals across sectors to successfully implement European green strategies, engaging multiple actors from the public, private and non-profit sectors

Objective 2

Implement four specific curricula as OER in ecological restoration for VET

Objective 3

Use and advancement of demonstration sites to spur hands-on skills, responsibility and autonomy in VET on ecological restoration

Objective 4

Foster reciprocal exchange of needs, knowledge, skills, and competences between secondary and tertiary education providers, scientists and practitioners at regional and national level

Objective 5

Initiate international knowledge exchange and collaborative curricula development of students and teachers at nationally-oriented VET providers

Objective 6

Showing the added-value of ecological restoration as a business model and career opportunity

Objective 7

Communicate on education of ecological restoration in the context of VET and transfer to other countries

Objective 8

Sustainability and long-term impact of TEAM#UP on education in ER

Workplan

To support the transfer of innovation to practitioners via VET schools, TEAM#UP will jointly establish four Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) in:

(1) Germany - multifunctional and sustainable land use in agricultural systems,

(2) Norway - restoration of old infrastructure, ecological compensation and landscaping,

(3) Czech Republic - restoration across urban and rural landscapes,

(4) Spain - forest restoration and disaster risk management.

TEAM#UP aims to shape a generation of professionals within VET, skilled to implement climate and environmentally smart solutions. Four VET curricula and educational resources on ER will be developed. The four CoVEs will pilot the educational resources to ensure adequacy in practice. TEAM#UP will accompany other VET schools in the partnering countries in implementing the upgraded curriculum in their regular teaching. Besides basic ER courses, student-led demonstration sites on ER will spur hands-on skills, responsibility and autonomy.

Teachers will learn to teach students to visualise demonstration sites with augmented/virtual reality approaches. An exchange between CoVEs will support the skill development of VET students, teachers, and sector partners.

Students will benefit from training in business development, e.g., by an Ideathon to identify realistic ER business models.

We will produce and share educational resources and visualised demonstration sites will be made available in a multilingual OER platform via a Digital Ecological Restoration Toolbox (DERTO). A series of webinars will promote DERTO for use in VET and further education in Europe and beyond.

Work packages

WP1

Coordination and Monitoring, HSA

WP2

Cooperative module development, HSA

WP3

Open Educational Resources Development, CIDA

WP4

Pilot implementation and evaluation, NINA

WP5

Business models, funding and governance, UA

WP6

National outreach and integration into further education, UA

WP7

Dissemination, impact, and European exchange, USB