International with Tradium

Project Bridge the Ocean (BTO) is a partnership project funded by the Erasmus+ program, which creates a model of global mobility and cooperation between European and Canadian Colleges. The three main modules for collaborations are Hospitality, Green Construction and Entrepreneurship. BTO has two main priorities. Firstly, to build partnerships to support the implementation and development of internationalization strategies for VET providers. Secondly, supporting both the quality of student and staff mobility. Both aims need setting up a contractual framework and practical tools for fostering mobility.

The aim of BTO is to prepare students for the global labour market. There’s also a growing interest among students for mobility overseas. Hence, there is a lot of anticipation and excitement for the Erasmus+ programme 2021-2027, which provides colleges with subsidies they need to send their students overseas.

 

The Bridge the Ocean project lasts from December 2020 until December 2023, with the following colleges participating.

• Luovi, Finland
• Turku, Finland
• Lappia, Finland
• KAO, Finland
• Aventus, Netherlands
• Nova Scotia Community College, Canada
• New Brunswick Community College, Canada
• Tradium, Denmark

The project "VET for West Balkans" aims to support and contribute to processes that will improve as well as modernize VET systems in the participating Western Balkan nations: Bosnia Hercegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania. The project will strengthen cooperation among the Western Balkan countries and the EU member state countries, all the activities: mobilities, trainings, meetings, events, campaigns, curriculum development, new strategies and development of material are all planned and implemented in cooperation among the partners.

The partnership consists of six VET organisations from EU membership countries, the international NGO, EfVET and four VET organisations from four Western Balkan countries.

Partner organisations from EU membership countries:

SOSU Østjylland, Denmark

Centro de Formación de Administración y Hostelería, S., Spain

Šolski center Kranj, Slovenia

Stichting Landstede. The Netherlands

Tradium, Denmark

STANDO LTD, Cyprus

Partner organisations from the Western Balkan countries:

Alternative Pro, Albania

High school of Metalworking crafts, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Secondary Vocational School of Electrical Engineering ‘’Vaso Aligrudic’’ Podgorica, Montenegro

Upper secondary technical school “Shaban Spahija”, Kosovo

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The project began February 2021 and will resume for three years.

The project is supports by the European Commission.

Bridging Inclusion Digitalization & Sustainability

The BIDS project has three main objectives.

• Building and strengthening partnerships to support the implementation and development of internationalization strategies.
• Supporting the quality of staff and student mobility between two continents
• Combining the previous two goals in such a way that we create a model of how the priorities of the Erasmus+ program, inclusion, digitalization, and sustainability, can be realized in the strategies of the VET providers.

The partners are four vocational education and training colleges from Finland, two from Canada, and one from Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The project will consist of three different modules:  a Sustainability module in Nova Scotia Canada, a Digitalization module in the Netherlands, and an Inclusion module in Finland. These modules will be attended by students and staff from participating partner schools, representing a mix of different educational sectors. We believe that this diverse group will not only enhance students’ soft skills but also foster their international competences.