HOTSAPP

<< Background >>The HOTSAPP partnership applied for this project to improve the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) capacity and awareness of Vocational Education Trainers, Teachers and Students in Europe. And, in a secondary sense, their digital skills via the use of an Open Educational Resource, the HOTSAPP Training Platform, available in English, German and Danish www.hotsapp.eu The HOTSAPP project addressed the need to train Vocational Education Trainers, Teachers and Students in Soft Skills in the face of increasing automation. Additionally, it highlighted the need for a pedagogical response to the ever-growing soft skill requirements of future labour markets. The HOTSAPP project addressed the need to provide VET Trainers, Teachers and Students with desirable transversal skills, rendering them more resilient in future economic downturns. And the need to cultivate non-linear thinking to secure the future of European innovation. The HOTSAPP project addressed the need to create digital upskilling tools that are bite-sized and attuned to the reality of the day-to-day needs of VET Educators, which can fit into a pre-existing lesson plan and effectively pass on Higher Order Thinking skills to VET Students.<< Objectives >>The HOTSAPP partnership wanted to achieve the creation of a Higher Order Thinking Apps Training Platform with the capacity to upskill European Vocational Education Trainers, Teachers, and Students in the Soft Skill of Higher Order Thinking www.hotsapp.eu This was achieved by conducting three transnational meetings using a robust programme of Project Management and a Dissemination Conference in Kolding, Denmark. The HOTSAPP partnership wanted to increase the digital readiness of European VET Trainers, Teachers and Students digital readiness by implementing the project through the use of Information Computer Technology. The HOTSAPP partnership wanted to reduce European unemployment by providing VET Trainers and Teachers and their Students a transversal skill, Higher Order Thinking, which will make them more employable and economically resilient by implementing the HOTSAPP project. The HOTSAPP partnership wanted to encourage European VET Trainers, Teachers and Students to include Soft Skill practice and awareness in their preexisting lessons. The HOTSAPP partnership wanted to work together to exchange and benefit from each other's expertise in pursuing VET excellence in Europe and promoting innovation through VET.<< Implementation >>The HOTSAPP partnership implemented the following activities;The HOTSAPP partnership implemented a research programme in three languages to create a Higher Order Thinking Skill Thematic Matrix and translated the HOTSAPP Matrix content into content to inform a HOTSAPP Apps Platform for Higher Order Thinking Skills in VET. Whilst concurrently technically developing the HOTSAPP Platform. The HOTSAPP partnership implemented a Project Management and Dissemination Plan, 3 Dissemination Reports, a Plan for Risk Management, a Risk Management Log, a Quality Plan and an Evaluation Strategy Plan, conducted Internal Evaluation Surveys and Reports for 3 Transnational Meetings and at the Interim and Final stages including an internal evaluation of the HOTSAPP Apps Training Platform.Three transnational HOTSAPP partnership meetings in; Meeting 1 - HOTSAPP Kick Off, Dublin, Ireland, hosted by Innoquality SystemsMeeting 2 - HOTSAPP Review, in Klagenfurt, Austria, hosted by Meta 4Meeting 3 - HOTSAPP Exploitation, Kolding, Denmark, hosted by International Business College DenmarkOne HOTSAPP Final Dissemination Conference, which was held in Kolding, Denmark, was hosted by International Business College Denmark.<< Results >>The concrete outputs of the HOTSAPP project are;The HOTSAPP Thematic Matrix for Higher Order Thinking Skills in Vocational Education Training (VET) The HOTSAPP Apps Training Platform for Higher Order Thinking Skills in VET consisting of 8 Apps in English, German and Danish www.hotsapp.eu The other results;3 transnational meetings in Ireland, Austria and Denmark. 1 Project Management Kit1 Team Canvas1 Project Execution Committee (PEC)3 Expert Board Committees (EBA) 1 Quality Plan and Evaluation Strategy (QPES)1 Suite of Internal Evaluation 1 Plan for Risk Management1 Risk Management Log1 Dissemination Plan 3 Dissemination Reports1 Dissemination Conference