Centres of Vocational Excellence
| Target Orgs: | Companies, Government, Municipalities, Non-profits, SME |
| Category: | Education, International cooperation |
| Issuer: | European Commission |
| Website: | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/port… |
| Total budget: | |
| Due date: | 07.09.2022 Single-stage |
| Grant min-max: | 0 € – 4.000.000 € |
| Own contribution: | 20% |
| Keywords: | Erasmus, partnership |
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The initiative on Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) supports a bottom-up approach to Vocational Excellence involving a wide range of local stakeholders. It enables VET institutions to rapidly adapt skills provision to evolving economic and social needs, including the digital and green transitions.
They provide opportunities for initial training of young people as well as the continuing up-skilling and re-skilling of adults, through flexible and timely offer of training that meets the needs of a dynamic labour market, in the context of the green and digital transitions. They act as catalysts for local business innovation, by working closely with companies and in particular SMEs. Vocational Excellence ensures high quality skills and competences that lead to quality employment and career-long opportunities, which meet the needs of an innovative, inclusive and sustainable140 economy.
Centres of Vocational Excellence will operate at two levels:
- At national level involving a wide range of local stakeholders creating skills ecosystems for local innovation, regional development, and social inclusion, while working with CoVEs in other countries through international collaborative networks.
- At international level bringing together CoVEs that share a common interest in specific sectors or industrial ecosystems, innovative approaches to tackle societal challenges (e.g. climate change, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, sustainable development goals, integration of migrants, upskilling people with low qualification levels, etc.), or innovative approaches to increase the outreach, quality and effectiveness of existing CoVEs.
The networks will bring together existing CoVEs in different countries, or develop the Vocational Excellence model by linking partners from various countries, that intend to develop Vocational Excellence in their local context through international cooperation.
Eligible organisations:
Any public or private organisation active in the field of vocational education and training, or in the world of work and legally established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme or in any third country not associated to the Programme can be involved as full partner, affiliated entity or associated partner.
For example, such organisations can be (non-exhaustive list):
- VET providers
- Companies, industry or sector representative organisations
- National/regional qualification authorities
- Research institutes
- Innovation agencies
- Regional development authorities
Exception: organisations from Belarus (Region 2) are not eligible to participate in this action.
The partnership must include at least 8 full partners from a minimum of 4 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme (including at least 2 EU Member States).
Each EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme must include:
- at least 1 enterprise, industry or sector representative organisation, and
- at least 1 vocational education and training provider (at secondary and/or tertiary level). Further composition of the partnership should reflect the specific nature of the proposal.
Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can also participate as full partners, affiliated entities or associated partners (not as applicants), to the extent it is demonstrated that their participation brings an essential added value to the project.