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Table of contents

INTRO TO THE TOOLBOX (p. 3)

What is OBESSU (p. 4)

Where does the idea of toolbox come from? Who wrote it? (p. 4)

CLAIM YOUR VOICE (p. 5)

YOUVET TRAINING (p. 7)

PART 1

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN EUROPE (p. 9)

VET in Europe (p. 10)

Important documents on VET in Europe (p. 11)

PART 2

THE ROLE OF MEMBER ORGANISATIONS OF OBESSU (p. 12)

Survey results on certain areas of work with VET on a national level (p. 13)

Examples of actions (p. 15)

PART 3

SOME CONCRETE TOOLS (p. 16)

Agenda of YOUVET training (p. 17)

What is a session template? (p. 17)

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INTRO TO THE TOOLBOX

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What is OBESSU

OBESSU – The Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions is the platform for cooperation

between the national school student unions active in general secondary and secondary vocational

education in Europe. It was founded in April 1975 in Dublin, Ireland and brings together Member and

Candidate Organisations from all over Europe. All Member Organisations are independent, national,

representative and democratic school student organisations.

OBESSU stands:

to represent the school students as stakeholders of their educational systems, and in

issues concerning their lives;

to provide the national school student unions with assistance and support and to co-

operate for the development of school student representative structures;

to encourage and enable exchange of experience and good practice among the national

school students unions;

to promote equal access to education and to strive for the end of all discrimination and

injustice within the educational systems;

to contribute to the development of democratic educational systems in Europe, that

promote active citizenship in all forms;

to promote solidarity and understanding between young people;

to promote new teaching methods in learning and promote healthy teaching

environment

Where does the idea of toolbox come from? Who wrote it?

In 2012 OBESSU launched a campaign on Vocational Education and Training called “Claim your voice” - see

the video of the campaign launch at the YO!Fest in Brussels here. The campaign was run by OBESSU and its

Member Organisations in general, but was coordinated by a Working Group and by a Policy Officer on VET.

Together they decided to give a concrete outcome to the campaign and to the huge work OBESSU has been

doing on the topic with a toolbox full of ideas, information and concrete tools used during the campaign.

Thanks to Tiia - policy officer for VET in the OBESSU Secretariat, Daniele - Board Member in charge, and

Giuseppina, Musa and Triin from the Working Group for the hard work.

Thanks to Member Organisations and to YOUVET participants for giving concrete inputs and materials for

this toolbox.

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CLAIM YOUR VOICE

Unemployment among young graduates is extensive. Young people are struggling through courses they do

not fit in. For many years the EU had an excessive focus of universities. In the meantime, the labour market

is in great demand for skilled labour. These are few of the many good reasons to focus on Vocational

Education, which approximately 50% of European upper secondary students attend today1.

VET students are first and foremost an utterly under represented group of the students: politicians do not

know about their conditions because they are academics, the media does not give them attention and in

youth organisations across Europe, academic youth are the majority.

By putting focus on the representation of VET students with the Claim your Voice campaign, OBESSU wished

to raise awareness for these educational paths at national and European levels. On the one hand, the

campaign aimed at encouraging OBESSU member Organisations to work more with VET students and to

represent them in their daily political work. With the campaign OBESSU wished to raise the European

perception of VET by working closely with stakeholders and advocating for higher quality in VET.

The campaign, in brief, wanted to:

raise awareness and respect of Vocational Education and Training;

secure representation of VET students in all decision-making processes concerning them;

1 Vocational Education: a key component of education in the EU, CEDEFOP – European Centre for the Development of Vocational

Training.

Daniele, Triin, Musa, Tiia and Giuseppina.

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value the VET systems more and to discuss VET as a viable option to academic studies;

make Vocational Education and Training more attractive to young people in Europe.

The timeline below shows the main events and actions during the campaign, but does not show for example

the extensive external representation done in the framework of the campaign, or the actions carried out by

OBESSU Member Organisations.

December 2011 Internal launch of the campaign “Claim your Voice! Stand up for

VET” at the COMEM and 7th European School Student Convention

“New Skills for New Schools: Education & Training and Work”

January 2012 Survey among members on what is VET really like. The results

were published as an infographic which is available online.

3rd May 2012 Presenting the campaign for the European Commission’s Unit on

Vocational Education and Training

10th May 2012 The campaign website obessu.org/vet, Facebook and Twitter go

viral!

16th May 2012 External launch of the campaign at the YO! Fest in front of the

European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium. The campaign gained

media visibility and the interest of the President of the European

Parliament Martin Schultz.

22nd May 2012 The participants of the OBESSU Conference “Arts and Sport as a

catalyst for social inclusion” Claimed their Voice!

5th July 2012 Meeting with BusinessEurope to find synergies in the work on

VET and present the campaign

14th – 17th September 2012 The first meeting of the newly selected OBESSU Working Group

on VET in Lisbon, Portugal

October 2012 The project funding application for the upcoming YOUVET

training course is accepted!

30th November – 3rd December 2012 The VET Working Group meets again, this time in Rome, Italy, to

set the agenda for the YOUVET training for YOUng campaigners

for VET!

January 2013 The participants of YOUVET are confirmed

11th February – 6th March 2013 YOUVET Online Training!

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7th – 12th March 2013 YOUVET on-site training in Brussels, Belgium

14th – 17th June 2013 The Working Group on VET meets in Amsterdam, the

Netherlands, to evaluate the progress after YOUVET and plan the

last month of the campaign

2nd – 3rd July 2013 OBESSU takes part as an observer in the meeting of the Advisory

Committee of Vocational Training (ACVT). OBESSU is the first

civil society organisation to attend an ACVT meeting in its 50

year history.

2nd July 2013 Launch of the European Alliance for Apprenticeships

Fall 2013 The Working Group is running a survey for the Member

Organisations to map the current situation of VET in Europe.

3rd – 6th December 2013 The Working Group meets for the last time in 2013, in London,

United Kingdom, this time to evaluate the campaign and

prepare the presentation for the OBESSU Council of Members.

31st December 2013 Claim your Voice! Stand up for VET! is officially over, but

OBESSU’s work with VET will continue

The campaign “Claim your Voice! Stand up for VET!” has been a successful project, as proven above. It has

brought the school students and VET students closer to the decision-making processes and opened various

interesting discussions. Despite the campaign being officially closed, OBESSU will continue to work in the

field of Vocational Education and Training, representing VET students at the European level and supporting

national school student organisations in their work for VET.

YOUVET TRAINING

Vocational education and training (VET) have been a raising topic in Europe on this last couple years. In

OBESSU we decided to arrange a training for young campaigners to give them tools to raise and affect the

VET field in a national level. A training was held during February and March in 2013 and it contained 2 parts,

online and on-site training.

In the online training we had many different sessions which had different topics like Governance of

VET, major policies, lobbying and organising events and many more. During these 30 days, participants took

part in different sessions online. In these sessions we used different methods and tools such as Lore.com,

Google drive and Skype to work effectively, to exchange ideas and also interact with each other to raise a

discussion.

The second part of YOUVET training was the on-site training which was held on 8th to 10th of March

in Brussels. In the on-site training we used knowledge and output from online training to get more in depth

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on topics in a practical way. We also aimed at creating Action Plans which were afterwards used in a national

level to promote and improve vocational education in different European countries.

The YOUVET training was the beginning for the raising and tackling issues and problems related on

vocational education at national level for improving VET in all around of Europe. The training is over, but

the participants are in their home countries with the Action Plans, wider knowledge and many new tools

learned during the training. In their own countries participants still continue to improve and raise

awareness of vocational education and also use their skills to teach others. They will continue tackling the

problems and issues of the different VET systems across Europe and together improve the European

perspective towards Vocational Education and Training.

Below you can find session templates of session both of the Online Training and of the Face2Face training so

that you can take some clues from them.

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PART 1

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON VOCATIONAL

EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN EUROPE

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VET IN EUROPE

Vocational Education and Training, as other educational paths, is a very complicated and fragmented

system. There is no such a thing like a European VET system; the systems differ from country to country and

sometimes also inside countries (e.g. Italy).

In 2012 OBESSU run a survey which was completed by representative from 16 out of 21 of the countries that

OBESSU’s members reside in. This survey shows some immediate problems with VET, problems that go across

differences in systems and countries.

First of all is the perception of VET as a “low level” education. In 12 countries this seems to be one of the

biggest problems. This corresponds to a Euro barometer published by the European Commission back in

October 2012, which showed that only 27 % of young people would recommend a VET education to their

peers. This is a big problem, because VET is not a second rate education, and it should not be perceived as

such. This is the message of OBESSU, and was also agreed by the participants of OBESSU’s 7th European

School Student Convention in Oslo. But why is it then still that young people in Europe sees Vocational

Education and Training as less than a general academic secondary education?

Another big problem spotted in the OBESSU Survey was that when choosing an education, young people

does not have enough information to make an informed choice. It shows that 75 % finds that the lack of

information concerning possible choices in their education to be the biggest problem. This problem is

linked to the first, and if students are not familiar with all the educational choices available, they are bound

to rely on advice from peers, parents and just choose what they know.

This data, shown also in the infographic below, is a clear sign of a need for change in VET all over Europe

and a clear alarm for all EU and national institutions: VET is neither a second chance education nor only a

trampoline to the Labour Market. Member states need to invest in it and need to discuss together strategies

to harmonise systems and build a common ground where VET students are free to move without having

problem with qualification recognition and finding quality VET everywhere.

Infographic: What is VET really like?

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IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS ON VET IN EUROPE

This paragraph is possible thanks to great work that participants of the YOUVET training did during their

online learning period. In fact, here is a short introduction to two of the most important ongoing or

finished processes regarding VET at the European level.

Copenhagen Process & Bruges Communiqué

This has involved 33 European countries in development of Vocational Education and Training since 2002,

when the Copenhagen Declaration was published. European actions and initiatives in VET are carried out as

parts of the Copenhagen process.

Every two years the national Ministers of Education get together to review the process and plan future

actions. In December 2010 in Bruges there was a Ministers’ meeting where the priorities and goals of the

Copenhagen process for the years 2011-2020 were set. The Bruges Communiqué is a Communication issued

by the European Commission on enhanced European cooperation on Vocational Education and Training,

with a package of objectives and actions to increase the quality of vocational training in Europe by making it

more accessible and relevant to the needs of the labour market. Ministers, together with representatives of

employers and unions and the European Commission, confirmed shared objectives for vocational education

and training for the next decade and an action plan for the 2010-2014 time. Those objectives are called

“Short Term Deliverables”. In Semptember 2014 CEDEFOP, the Centre for Development of Vocational

Training organised a stock-tacking conference in Thessaloniki based on this STDs which you can read more

about here.

There are also other communications (Helsinki, Maastricht and Bordeaux), but they have already expired.

External sources:

The general infomation:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/vocational-education/copenhagen_en.htm

The Copenhagen Declaration:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/pdf/doc125_en.pdf

The Bruges Communiqué:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/vocational-education/doc/bruges_en.pdf

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PART 2

THE ROLE OF MEMBER ORGANISATIONS

OF OBESSU

Member Organisations were the real actors of the Claim

Your Voice campaign as well as of the day-to-day work of

OBESSU. In this part of the toolbox we are going to

explore different aspects of the work of Members on the

topic of OBESSU, we'll start from the results of the

internal survey we conducted and we'll them move to

examples of actions. Who knows, you might find

interesting ideas in this part!

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Survey results on certain areas of work with VET on a national level

In June 2013 at the Working Group meeting we had in Amsterdam, we decided to conduct a survey amongst

OBESSU Member Organisations to Get updates on the situation of VET in each country. The survey was made

out of 5 questions and 15 out of 20 Organisations dealing with VET answered to it. Questions were:

1. What is going on in VET in your country?

2. How is your Organisation involved in solving VET issues?

3. Does your Organisation have someone specifically responsible for VET?

4. Have you taken some actions on the topic of VET?

5. Is VET included in any of your internal documents? Are there specific ones?

Here are some answers.

What is going on? The situation country by country is very different. In

Lithuania “The Ministry of Education is trying to adopt a new law on Vocational

Education and Training” whilst in Spain “the number of VET students

increased”, in Finland “The government is cutting 250 mln to secondary

education” and in Ireland “There is no proper VET schools”, to name a few

examples.

Most of our Member Organisations are dealing with solving VET issues in some

way. For example, FSS is currently working with SAKKI in Finland with their

mutual project "Normit nuriin" (Get rid of the standards). ŠUS in Slovakia is

working on a VET campaign, where they have formed a group of 4 people

(working group) and the campaign is currently taking shape. UDS in Italy works

through lobbying to the Minister of Education and at the moment they are

pushing to achieve the Charter of Rights for Students in apprenticeships,

traineeship and internship and to revise the VET system.

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A great amount of Organisations took some actions in the field of VET, and those who

yet did not are taking advantage of the “Action planning” part of the face to face

training of YOUVET, mentioned earlier, during which all participants had to write their

own action plans for when they got home. Most of the action plans were then

respected and used to develop and implement actions on the national level. Examples

will follow later on.

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Some examples of actions...

AKS – Austria

“We always try to help VET school student councils to work out

projects which fit their school type and to inform them about their

rights, as I already wrote. We do also have VET activists, but less

than from the gymnasiums, because they do not have that much

free time. To include them we try to organise workshop days and

special meetings for them to give them the opportunity to also be

involved in the organisation.”

UdS, Italy

“In Italy the mechanism of “stages” (internships) is very poorly

regulated, so we work on a campaign, called You are not a robot,

during which we wish to push for the approval of charter of rights

for students under work-based learning.”

SAKKI – Finland

“On 14th of May 2012, SAKKI, together with Ammattilainen – PRO, a

project for well-being of VET Students, gathered over one hundred

VET students to march for their appreciation and to raise awareness

of the inequality between VET students and the students in academic

secondary education. Every year for example the biggest newspapers

in Finland publish the names of those graduating from academic

secondary education, but forget that at the same time every year,

thousands of young people graduate from Vocational Education and

Training too. This is one of the points SAKKI and Ammattilainen want

to draw attention to.”

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PART 3

SOME CONCRETE TOOLS

In this part of the toolbox you are going to find the

agenda of the Face-to-face training which was part

of the YOUVET project, as well as what is called a

Session Template, a tool to plan and put in place

workshops, seminars, roundtables etc.

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Agenda for YOUVET training

As you can see the training was focusing a lot on action simulating and planning in order to give tools to

participants to use when getting back home. However there were also some interesting and hot debates on

the future of VET and on the relation between unemployment and VET with external speakers, among whom

we can mention representatives from BusinessEurope and the European Youth Forum. Willing to get to know

some methods and have a deeper insight on session to get some ideas? Keep on reading next paragraph!

What is a session template?

A session template is a table, a document, whatever tool you feel comfortable using, which highlights

objectives, expected outcomes, methods and timings, space and material needs and role of the people

involved in shaping the session.

Here you have…

an empty session template to get familiar with the tool

summed-up session templates for the Online Training of YOUVET stating in brief a description, aims,

methods and outcomes

filled-in session templates of the face-to-face meeting held in Brussels

Are you up for the challenge?

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SESSION DESIGN TEMPLATE

Written by … – Date of the session...

SESSION TITLE:

SHORT DESCRIPTION FOR THE

PARTICIPANTS

TIME:

NEEDS ANALYSIS:

WHY DO YOU THINK THIS WS SHOULD BE

RUN? WHAT DO THE PARTICIPANTS NEED?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

WHAT WILL THEY LEARN? WHICH WILL BE

THE OUTCOMES?

SESSION DESCRIPTION (STEP BY STEP) & METHODOLOGY

ACTIVITY (INCLUDING METHOD, GUIDING QUESTIONS, ETC) TIME

MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS:

(PLEASE INDICATE QUANTITIES)

SPACE REQUIREMENTS:

EQUIPMENT NEEDED:

HANDOUTS:

IF APPLICABLE (PLEASE SPECIFY HOW

MANY AND FORMAT)

COMMENTS:

ROLE OF THE PREPTEAM, BOARD

& SECRETERIAT:

(IF APPLICABLE)

EVALUATION & FEEDBACK:

(TO BE COMPLETED AFTER THE

WORKSHOP)

The table above is what is usually used to shape a session. Let us now have a look at session that

happened during the online training outside of the table, in brief...

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Online workshop on Campaigning in practice

Description:

In this workshop we talked about campaign and campaigns. We talked about how to do a good campaign,

political and public one. We discussed also why not so big and not so “good” campaigns can also be really

good and effective. Then we talked about different ways to campaign (events and actions) and what can be

the outcomes from campaigns and how you can use them after the campaign.

Aims:

Campaigning is really important. It is good way to get students claim their voices and take a stand for

something which matters to them. Every student organisation does campaigns, so in this session they

learned how to do it effectively way and what different kind of campaigns you can create.

Methods:

Internal speaker/s

Campaigning documents, videos and books

Crating own campaigns and them evaluation

Watching best practices

Brainstorming

Outcomes:

People who took a part learned about campaigning creating and got basic knowledge about campaigning.

They also learned why to do campaigns, what they can achieve by doing them and all the different forms and

ways to do campaigns. Our one biggest goal was teach them who to use outcomes of campaigns and what to

do when campaign itself ends and why. The workshop also prepared them to do action/campaigning plans

together with other organisations.

Online workshop on Lobbying

Description:

There are many good ways to achieve one’s goals. In this workshop we talked one of these ways, lobbying.

Lobbying is really important way to achieve one’s goals. We talked what is good lobbying. We also went a

little bit back and talk about stakeholders, because they are really important part of lobbying. If you want to

do effective lobbying you have to know who you should do it and how can you contact to those people. Then

we talked about different ways to lobby and expanded our views to the European level.

Aims:

Lobbying is really important way achieve goals and take a stand. Every student activist has to know how to

do lobbying, because this is sometimes the best way to contact stakeholders and get one’s own point of

view noted.

Methods:

Using practical examples

Videos, books and documents

Brainstormed

Problem solving tasks where used created lobbying situation

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Outcomes:

People who took a part got basic knowledge of lobbying. That contained why, who and when you should do

it. We used many examples by thinking and analysing those. People who took part thought that they got

really good and proud overall view about lobbying.

Online workshop on Funding & Fundraising

Description:

Everyone and everything should start from something and that something is usually money. In this session

we talked more about fundraising for non-profit campaigns. Moreover we used examples of the best

fundraising examples.

Aims:

Everyone and everything should start from something. You cannot organise a campaign if you cannot afford

for example basic material. To have basic needs covered you have to fundraise money for campaign.

Everyone should think of one possible fundraising idea and then start to think how to reach that.

Methods:

Brainstorming

Introduction of examples and then talking about those

Evaluating best practices

Creating own fundraising ideas and how to get funds

Learning Objectives:

Where to find money for Claim your Voice

Who can be partners (governmental/non-governmental sectors)

What can you offer for the money (or support) which will be given?

PROS and CONS of different funding

Online workshop on VET Policies, Stakeholder, Documents

Description:

During the session participants went through the most relevant VET Policies, Stakeholder, Documents, etc.

Aims:

It is very important that participants have basic knowledge about VET documents, policies and stakeholders,

because then they know how it works at European level and also have sufficient competence to work with

VET in local level.

Methods:

Materials reading and making notes

Group conversation, talk about documents

Meeting with expert(s)

Outcomes:

People got basic knowledge about VET documents and stakeholders, they knew where they can found more

information.

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Online workshop on Investments on VET education

Description:

There is no VET education without money, so it is very important to know how VET is financed and invested.

In this session participants got an overview of investment in VET and think about what is missing.

Methods:

Materials reading and making notes

Group conversation

Meeting with expert(s)

Outcomes:

People got basic knowledge about investments on VET

Online workshop on VET students participation, involvement, representation

Description

The aim of this workshop was to collect ideas and thoughts about one of our top issues, VET students’

involvement and participation. Using new and experimental interactive methods we will discuss together

about participation, involvement in both in decision making process and in active school life and the

meaning of student representation. We together brainstormed on how to raise both the quantity and the

quality of participation both in schools and in the student organisations.

This workshop was run to formalise the everyday work which the MOs of OBESSU do at their national and

local level. It assumed also greater importance in VET field since it is recognised that student

participation is not always as much as we could expect. This workshop was run to give motivation to student

activists to proceed and boost their work in their organisations.

Aims

Why participation is so important at school level, especially VET level?

Avoid the common misunderstanding of student representation.

What are the best practices to involve students?

Methods

Each participant was asked to record a video explaining the main problems he-she identified in VET

student participation

Participants then prioritised the most relevant problems, for each one of these they described

examples, they brainstormed some solutions that can be adopted at the local, national and

international level

Participants could then access a section called ‘OBESSU Bazaar’ where they could see what OBESSU

has done up to then.

Outcomes

Participants got more knowledge about the main problems in other countries/organisations and by

expressing their own they felt more involved.

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Online workshop on Quality of VET examples Description

In this workshop we examined the case of the “Dual model of VET”, as the system is called in for example

Germany and Austria, considered by many to be a quality example. We tried to define the most relevant

aspects which make a VET system of high quality.

The dual system is considered in the European VET debate the most efficient. Participants need to

understand what are the aspects that make the German considered the best ones . So they need to share

and then compare some aspects of their VET education system.

Aims

Aspects to be evaluated in a VET system;

Main differences between the VET systems in Europe;

List quality examples in VET;

Basics of German model/Dual system;

PROs-CONs of this model;

Debunk the myths of this model;

Give a critical opinion of it.

Methods

Reading of articles and opinions

Commenting and answering guided questions

Shown below you can find the filled-in tables of the session templates for some sessions of the face-to-face

training.

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SESSION TEMPLATE 1

Session Title:

VET, Labour Market &

Unemployment

Short description

for the

participants

During this session participants

will go deeper into the topic of the

relation between the labour market

and VET by tackling the aspect of

Youth Unemployment. Main

questions will be:

a)Is VET a viable solution, or part of

the solution, for youth

unemployment?

b)Do the current VET Systems

provide the set of skills needed at

the actual labour market?

c)Apprenticeships - solution to

skills mismatching?

We will discuss it with:

Robert Plummer

(Adviser at

BusinessEurope, the

organisation of

employers in Europe)

and James Higgins

(Policy Officer of

Employment & Social

Affairs at the European

Youth Forum)

And Alexander Egger,

project manager,

Confrotations Europe

time: 90 minutes

Needs analysis:

why do you think

this WS should be

run? What do the

participants

need?

Learning objectives:

what will they learn?

which will be the

outcomes?

They will get other points of

view about what they discussed

during the online trainig, and

this will help them to get an

overall idea on the

pheonemenon of youth

unemployment

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Session Description (Step by Step) & methodology

Activity (including method, guiding questions, etc) Time

Posters will be hanged on the walls (divided by topics) and participants will have the chance to write

questions/comments/suggestions to ask to speakers

Introduction about the speakers and the topic. (5-10

mins)

What has been done during the training on the topic?

A small group of volunteers may expose the outcomes of both apprenticeships and labour market session

10 mins

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and what do we think needs to be done.

1) Online training outcomes (volunteers)

2) OBESSU official position (Giuseppina)

Open interview to the speakers - speakers will have a chance to introduce themselves 10 min

Yes or no -questions (5-10 statements)

Green paper = yes

Red paper = no

10 min

Speaking and debating about the topic in the form of an interview in which the interviewer are

participants.

40min

Conclusion 10min

-

Material requirements:

(please indicate quantities)

Papers to hang on the walls

Red & Green papers

Space requirements: A space where there’s room enough to sit in a circle

equipment needed:

Handouts:

if applicable (please specify how many and format)

comments:

role of the prepteam, board & secreteriat:

(if applicable)

evaluation & feedback:

(to be completed AFTER the workshop)

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SESSION TEMPLATE 2

SESSION TITLE: Discussion “Future of VET with Alison Crabb”

SHORT DESCRIPTION

FOR THE

PARTICIPANTS

The main question to be discussed is “how can

stakeholders, including students, work together for

better Vocational Education and Training.” The aim is

to find to find a common ground for students and

European stakeholders: what are the objectives, how

do different stakeholders see the future of VET, what

needs to be done and what can be done together.

Alison Crabb is the Debuty Head of Unit

of the Unit at the European Commission

responsible of VET. She specially works

with for example the Leonardo da Vinci

program and has a very wide knowledge

of everything going on in Europe in VET.

TIME: 90 minutes

NEEDS ANALYSIS:

WHY DO YOU THINK

THIS WS SHOULD BE

RUN? WHAT DO THE

PARTICIPANTS NEED?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

WHAT WILL THEY LEARN? WHICH WILL BE THE

OUTCOMES?

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SESSION DESCRIPTION (STEP BY STEP) & METHODOLOGY

ACTIVITY (INCLUDING METHOD, GUIDING QUESTIONS, ETC) TIME

We and participants will write questions/topics on the flipcharts. Flipcharts will be on the wall

whole saturday and sunday.

If someone comes up whit good question during the session they are always allowed to ask those!

Saturday and

Sunday

Introduction the sessions (Daniele) 5 min

Self Introduction of Alison, her job, her ideas 25 min

What if questions (scenarios given by us) 20 min

Question from participants 30 min

summary and (final relief) 15 min

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MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS:

(PLEASE INDICATE QUANTITIES)

SPACE REQUIREMENTS: Class room. I thought that maybe we should put chairs

to the circle and Alison will sit somewhere in there and

she can either sit or stand.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED:

HANDOUTS: IF APPLICABLE (PLEASE SPECIFY HOW MANY AND FORMAT)

COMMENTS:

ROLE OF THE PREPTEAM, BOARD & SECRETERIAT: (IF APPLICABLE) One of i use will ask Questions/floor and give topics.

Participations are allowed to ask questions also during

the question parts!

EVALUATION & FEEDBACK:

(TO BE COMPLETED AFTER THE WORKSHOP)

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SESSION TEMPLATE 3

SESSION TITLE: Action simulator

SHORT DESCRIPTION FOR

THE PARTICIPANTS

This workshop is meant to make the participants

cooperate together to plan and create a concrete

action. It is important as a preliminary exercise for

the real Action plan drafting which has to be done

just after this session.

TIME: 180 minutes

NEEDS ANALYSIS:

WHY DO YOU THINK THIS

WS SHOULD BE RUN?

WHAT DO THE

PARTICIPANTS NEED?

Thanks to the feedback given by other participants they will better understand how to put in action their future action plans. And “what is done once will be easier to do again” (Musa).

LEARNING

OBJECTIVES:

WHAT WILL THEY

LEARN? WHICH WILL

BE THE OUTCOMES?

They will learn how to make actions. They will cooperate together.

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SESSION DESCRIPTION (STEP BY STEP) & METHODOLOGY

ACTIVITY (INCLUDING METHOD, GUIDING QUESTIONS, ETC) TIME

Energizer to start with 10 min

Presentation of Claim Your Voice:

- Expaination of what is CyV

- Prezi of CyV

- Interview Jessie about the background idea of CyV

- Show materials and pictures

30 min

Explanation of the workshop 10 min

They divide in groups of 3-4 people. Each group will have a blank flipchart and will start discussing the

campaign. They will follow these steps:

They have to decide the topic of the campaign (either big or small)

Then have to decide the target (like for students "We want bring out that all the students are

value!!").

They have to think where to get funding;

They have to think about the location where the campaign will take place (in a big stage, class

room in school...?).

Logo identity and visibility on social media

Daniele and Musa will float around all the different groups and will check if any help is needed.

60 min

After a final check, each group has to present their work 30 min

Taking pictures of works and CyV

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MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS:

(PLEASE INDICATE QUANTITIES)

different papers, pencils, markers, scissors, tape…

Campaigning- sessions Campaign tasks handouts (print them to the

paper)

SPACE REQUIREMENTS: first some kind of “class room” and then they can separate to do

actions.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED:

HANDOUTS:

IF APPLICABLE (PLEASE SPECIFY HOW MANY AND

FORMAT)

COMMENTS:

ROLE OF THE PREPTEAM, BOARD & SECRETERIAT:

(IF APPLICABLE)

Help if they need help while creating actions!

EVALUATION & FEEDBACK:

(TO BE COMPLETED AFTER THE WORKSHOP)

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The toolbox ends like this, with some concrete

tools each school student activist or trainer

can put in place when dealing with Vocational

Education and Training.

Please find more information about the campaign at www.obessu.org/vet and

subscribe to the Obessu newsletter on the website www.obessu.org.

We wish to receive a lot of feedback on this toolbox.

You can write to board@obessu.org

Thanks for going through this

toolbox, which we hope you found

useful!