Design Thinking for Quality VET Education Matching Labour Market Needs

<< Objectives >>Aim: Increasing the relevance, permeability, innovation, competitiveness, and attractiveness of VET.1. Support VET providers in adapting training offers to changing skills needs, economic cycles, and green & digital transitions.2. Innovate organisational practices (planning & management) to increase VET relevance to emerging ecosystem needs.3. Develop market-needed and learner-centred VET offerings to close gaps in training access for employable adults to manage labour market transitions.<< Implementation >>Design Thinking VET-tailored Manual: Harnessing Design Thinking as a planning tool & management method of market-needed and learner-centred VET offerings.EDUCkathons GUIDE: Conceptualizing a new educational planning tool (EDUCkathons) to provide guidance to organise EDUCation hacKATHONs for VET actors to design & curate innovative VET offerings.Design Circles: Enhancing EDUCkathons and Design Thinking as integrated regular practices within VET providers via practical workshops and webinars.<< Results >>Through merging design thinking principles (experimentation, gamification, and innovation) with the objectives of VET, the project will transform vocational training into a more inclusive, adaptable, and industry-relevant endeavour. Also, VET actors such as managers & educators who will be exposed to Design Thinking & EDUCkathons will gain enhanced innovative capacity that supports the design, planning and management of future VET offerings that respond to the market needs and demanded skills.