New knowledge New contacts New opportunities

A common labour market is now forming again in the

Baltic Sea region. The mobility of labour is increasing

and calls for skills uniformity and more knowledge about

the region. New market conditions allow developing

cross border entrepreneurship and involving skilful and

integrative labour force in various spheres of business.

Schools and other institutions providing vocational

training needs to adapt to the new market conditions in

order to give an adequate response to the market

needs. The question of internationalisation of vocational

education and training (VET) is not a matter of choice

but a matter of necessity.

Partners in SBTP

Partnership

NetPort.Karlshamn AB Sweden Litorina Folk High School Sweden ITC Innovations- and Trendcenter GMBH Germany Rietavo Business Information Center Lithuania Zemaitijos College Lithuania EUC Zeeland Denmark HIE-RO GermanyUniversity of Szczecin Poland

The associated partners are:

Regional Council of Blekinge, SE Karskrona Business & Craft association KFH SE County Rostock DE Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH DE Rietavas Women Employment Center LT The Union of Industrialists of Plunge LT Lithuanian Small and Medium Business Council LT Lithuanian Tourism Association LT Plungés Local Labour Exchange LT Voivodship Labour Office in Szczecin PL ECOVIS Akademy DE Voivodship Vocational Education Centre PL CELF Center of Education DK Naestved Language and Competence Center DK

Background

A common labour market is now forming again in the South Baltic region.

The mobility of labour is increasing and calls for skills uniformity and more knowledge about the region.

New market conditions allow developing cross border entrepreneurship and involving skilful and integrative labour force in various spheres of business.

Challenges needed to be addressed

Disparities in vocational education systems within the region.

Existing vocational training systems traditionally tends to focus only on the local market.

Existing barriers in concepts, approaches, financing, culture and languages.

Lack of opportunities for vocational students to get acquainted with neighbouring countries, business and possibilities to start own business with partner from neighbouring country.

There is a lack of tradition of working in the SB-region among vocational graduate.

Testing methods and seek solutionsThe objectives of the SBTP project are:

A) Support internationalisation of the Vocatinal education (VET) and the cross-border entrepreneurship between countries in the SB area.

B) Develop and implement the educational testing model where VET-students get the possibility to get a cross-border education and carry out an internship within the SB area.

C) Identify the problems that constitute bottlenecks for the internationalisation of VET-education and cross-border entrepreneurship cooperation.

D) Out of the project experience, create recommendations for stakeholders (VETs, the business sector, authorities and politicians) for the further development of these issues.

E) Create a platform where the target groups can continue the cooperation for further development steps, experience exchange and networking for further development after the project ends.

Application + Project idea•Via Internet

Coaching •Support in writing and developing the project idea in English

Match-making•Finding a host-company•If needed both the company and the student will be coached

Introduction •4 groups with 72 participants in total•6 days education with individual coaching

Internship•Three weeks•If needed both the company and the student will be coached

Final seminar and Recap•Recap for students (two days) with evaluation and reflection from internship •Seminar (one day) with external stakeholders with project presentations and discussions

Evaluation•Finding success stories•Identify difficulties

Thank you for your attention!

To join us, please contact:

Marie Björck

marie.bjorck@netport.se

+46 708 63 07 07

Irina Sadakova

Irina.sadakova@litorina.fhsk.se

+46 707 22 50 81

www.sbtp.eu

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