Develop skills, enhance employability. If you are responsible for vocational training or professional development, Leonardo can help you dramatically improve the potential of your organisation, your employees and your learners through a range of European opportunities.
Leonardo opens up new avenues for skills and training by enabling you to meet and work with organisations with similar ambitions to your own. Together with your European partners you can involve learners and staff in an exciting range of opportunities and raise the standard of training provision for all.
To find out more about the different activities please visit the Leonardo website.
Leonardo is for organisations involved in vocational education and training.
Examples of people taking part in the Leonardo programme include:
- Employees looking for professional development opportunities
- Trainees and apprentices seeking a unique experience working abroad
- Managers involved in developing training provision in their company or organisation
Organisations can apply for funding to offer opportunities to their staff and learners.
If you are interested in improving the quality of training in a particular area, Leonardo can fund you to:
- Visit potential partners in Europe to discuss possible areas for collaboration
- Set up a small-scale partnership with other European vocational education and training providers to share expertise and experience on issues of mutual interest
- Share successful approaches and develop new training courses as part of a large-scale Co-operation project
Alternatively, if you’re looking to offer your employees or trainees, apprentices or learners exciting new development opportunities, you could set up a work experience programme.
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Leonardo offers a range of activities (also referred to as ‘actions’), which allow you to develop different types of European projects.
Mobility Projects – Enhance skills through exchange and placement programmes
Partnerships – Share knowledge and improve training provisions
Transfer of Innovation – Share innovative approaches to training within a specific area
Before you apply, you will need to have a more detailed understanding of these activities. Visit the Leonardo website to find out more.
Leonardo Partnership
Leonardo Partnerships offer a unique opportunity to work with other vocational education staff and learners across Europe. Partnerships allow you to share knowledge and ideas on a theme that's important to you and your organisation.
Cardonald College in Glasgow has teamed up with five other learning institutions and explored the use of exciting new technologies to produce mobile learning materials for their vocational courses. Learner involvement has been a key element of the MOTIVATE project; for example students worked in mixed nationality groups to produce tourism guides to areas of Glasgow, making use of digital cameras, Flip video cameras, and the software Camtasia to produce and narrate finished products that run on MP4 players, such as I-Pods.
Throughout the project contact between students and tutors has been maintained through two social networking sites which use the NING software. Both the student and tutor sites have been a success. The tutor pages have supported contact between five partners, whilst the student site is a vibrant forum enabling them to meet and engage with students from other partner nations.
The project has had substantial impact for both students and tutors. Staff have encountered a range of new techniques for creating engaging learning materials whilst the students, many from small rural areas or disadvantaged backgrounds, have gained in terms of their personal confidence, their language skills and their technical skills. Students have also substantially broadened their own horizons.
One student commented “I learnt that students from other countries have common interests. We all like the same kind of music. They speak a different language, but we all enjoy doing the same things”.
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