EVSW stands for European Vocational Skills Week.

This is an opportunity to showcase the importance of vocational skills in nation-building and the development of capacity.
For many years, technical vocational education and training (TVET) has been seen as the poorer cousin of higher education. This narrative is slowly but surely changing.

On 23 October 2023, Warnborough College Ireland (WCI) and its learning centres and academic partners will showcase the best of TVET with a series of online presentations called “A Celebration of Skills“. Come here from some excellent experts and presenters.

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MONDAY – 23 October 2023
10:00 GMT	Dr Pamela Hatton	Opening and Introduction
10:05 GMT		#UpReSkilling The world has shifted substantially since COVID-19. There is now, more than ever, a need for people to skill, upskill or reskill in order to secure and sustain employment.
10:30 GMT	Mr Gouhar Pirzada	Conception of Sustainable and Green Entrepreneurial Art & Design Projects – A Qualitative Research Study. This qualitative study explores how vocational Art and Design students create eco-friendly and sustainable entrepreneurial projects. The study investigates students’ incentives for engaging in these initiatives, the issues they encounter, and the methods employed to manage these challenges. The data from 12 participants who completed at least one sustainable and environmentally friendly entrepreneurial art and design project was collected through semi-structured interviews and subjected to thematic analysis. The findings reveal that students’ passion for sustainability and ecological concerns and their aspiration to effect positive societal change serve as prime motivators for their involvement in such undertakings. Major hurdles most participants face include scarce resources, knowledge gaps, and the intricacies of harmonizing creativity with eco-friendliness. However, all participants employed various strategies like collaboration, exploration, and experimentation to overcome these obstacles. The long-term outcomes of these projects are highlighted in the study as personal growth, professional progress, and a favourable impact on both the environment and society. The study proposes the integration of sustainability and entrepreneurship education within Art and Design vocational curricula as concluded. It entails that sustainable and environment-friendly entrepreneurial design projects have the potential to advance the cause of sustainability and promote the principles of green entrepreneurship in less developed and most vulnerable countries like Pakistan.
11:00 GMT		BIM in Mechatronics, Transportation and Informatics BIM is an abbreviation of the English term Building Information Modeling – meaning modeling information about the building. It refers to programs supporting design, the operation of which consists in inserting previously defined three-dimensional objects such as walls, ceilings, roofs, ceilings, windows, etc. and assigning them appropriate parameters. The author cooperates with Warnborough College Ireland in the area of using BIM tools in university teaching in the fields of Mechatronics, Transport and Computer Science. International cooperation is very fruitful and has contributed to the creation of an online platform containing educational materials constituting practical case studies. This type of teaching is very interesting for students and brings many benefits.
11:30 GMT		Green Social Artistic Campus Creative, mindful, hands-on, collaborative and self-directed learning in our new green campus. WOB International Academy is part of a large international movement with special exchange programs for our students. Among others, we have been working with Warnborough College for almost 10 years. These programs are characterized by their emphasis on intercultural tolerance and ongoing social and interpersonal communication training. In particular, artistic endeavors such as painting, sculpting, crafts, gardening, music, and drama foster independence, character building, and teamwork skills. Communication with at least 3 languages, we practice daily the seamless transition from German to English to Italian in each direction mixed in the various practical and theoretical subjects of native teachers. And all this on our 6 ha green campus, surrounded by orchards with apple, pear, apricot, olive and fig trees, chickens, cats and our school dog Dadoo. In addition, students with learning difficulties are supported through individualized learning support so that they can still complete an A-Level or craft more interested or/and gifted a secondary degree. In our academy we aim to create a space for fear-free and inspired daily learning. Full-day classes are based on the principles of head, heart and hand. Regular internships form the basis for hands-on learning of customs, cultures, languages, etc. and travel excursions to Morocco or through a sailing trip lasting several weeks give students important and exciting insights into their own thinking and limitations and foreign cultures and challenges.
12:00 GMT		Special needs children: Success Transformed to Daily Life Jasmine’s determination in special education has been strengthened. In Malaysia, she has established five training centres, as well as one in Livingstone, Scotland, UK. The teaching method that resulted from Jasmine’s experience with her own children is ‘Junior Minds.’ ‘Junior Minds’ aims to connect with teachers and/or parents worldwide so that they can engage in discussions on how to better support children with autism. Jasmine’s book “What to Do When You Have a Special Needs Child “includes a range of successful case studies and teaching methods that will be shared in her presentation.
12:30 GMT	Dr Tulio B. Bulling & Prof. Francisco S.Riesco	Implementing a Technical Professional Qualifications Framework: the Chilean experience. This presentation showcases a local national framework to an international audience with two objectives: furthering the global conversation regarding diverse qualification criteria, and presenting local testimony on how this framework impacts the relationship between workforce and TVET institutions. The Technical Professional Qualifications Framework seeks to contribute to Chile having an articulated work and training system whose communication and integration favour the development of educational and labour trajectories that are meaningful both for people and for the rest of the social actors and in unison, it promotes greater competitiveness and productivity in the territories by having the labour capabilities that the industry needs. It is a guiding and referential instrument that allows us to recognise the learning that people, young people and workers have acquired in their lives, whether in Formal Education or outside of it, such as the skills acquired in the workplace. It recognises learning, distributed in a gradual structure of levels, which includes knowledge, skills and competencies. It allows them to be classified and placed at different levels according to the degree of complexity and proposes training and employment routes so that young people and workers can progress according to their skills, promoting lifelong learning. This recognition is possible because the Qualifications Framework is a customary reference agreed upon by different actors involved in Technical Vocational training, with a common shared language that facilitates the connection between the training system and the needs of the world of work. Thus, young people and workers will have the necessary information to decide their life projects and improve their job opportunities. Training institutions will be able to adjust their training offers to the requirements of the world of work, and economic sectors will be able to have technicians and professionals who are more qualified and relevant to the jobs. In short, the Qualifications Framework is an instrument to strengthen the quality and relevance of Technical Education and thus achieve: 1. Serve as a bridge between the world of work and training. 2. Develop work and training trajectories. 3. Articulate the different levels and training modalities. 4. Recognise people’s learning 5. Increase people’s employability

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