Project Development and Implementation Unit
The PDIU led the programme for promoting vocational education (VET), and the projects "Entrepreneurship Studies in the Vocational Education Institutions" and "Quality Assurance in the Vocational Education Institutions". The PDIU was the coordinator of the Estonian Youth Skills Competitions; accordingly, preparing young people for the international competitions EuroSkills and WorldSkills. Foundation Innove was an official representative of the organizations related to the competitions. The PDIU also coordinated several international projects in cooperation with the other organizations.
In 2008, a five year VET promotion programme, financed by the European Social Fund, was launched. The main objective of the programme is to raise the awareness of the Estonian population about Vocational Education and training (VET) and the possibilities to study VET. In the programme, the following activities are carried out: skills competitions are held, VET newspaper is published and a brochure advertising the opportunities to study VET is released in cooperation with the VET Observation Centre. Communication trainings are organized for the employees of VET Institutions and creative projects contest: „VET is Cool“ is held for the students in VET institutions. The communication training took place during the 2009/2010 school year and was conducted by Corpore Ltd. There were plans to organise a souvenir contest among the students of VET schools. The programme for promoting VET was financed by European Social Fund.
During the project of Entrepreneurship several study materials were published to improve the quality of entrepreneurship studies delivered at the VET schools. A computerised simulation play called Pizzeria was published to introduce the basics of entrepreneurship to the young people. The project of entrepreneurship received a special award at the contest “Acknowledge the Promoter of Entrepreneurship” held by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.
In 2009 Foundation Innove was approved and became involved with partners from Germany (ICON-INSTITUTE GmbH & Co) and Ireland (Project Management Group) in a consortium which implements a project “Support to VET, Labour Market and LLL Systems in the Northern Part of Cyprus” (EuropeAid 125925/C/SER/CY). The main aims of the project were to assist the Turkish Cypriot Community (TCC) in improving the quality and effectiveness of its VET system, support the TCC in building up and implementing a VET reform strategy in partnership with relevant stakeholders and to support the economic and human resource development in the TCC, including enhancing the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups. The partners regularly sent experts to the region with specific tasks and the duration of the project was three years.
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