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The keynote speaker, Perttu Pölönen, opened the event. Mr. Pölönen is a Finnish futurist, inventor and author. He shared with us his view on the competences of the future, highlighting the importance of those which makes us humans, such as empathy, creativity, sense of humour or compassion: “Along history, we´ve gone from the era of the muscle to the era of the brain and now it´s the era of the heart”.

After such an inspiring speech, VET leaders attending the webinar were even more clear than ever on how important personal and social competences are in order to success in education, at work and in life.

Continuing the webinar, Mrs. Miriam Korstanje, from the Dutch organization Katapult, introduced the concept of Centres of Vocational Excellence and their role in the regional development, as an appetizer which led us to a panel discussion dealing with the four main objectives of the Osnabrück Declaration on vocational education and training: 1. resilience and excellence through quality, inclusive, and flexible VET, 2. establishing a new lifelong learning culture, 3. sustainability, and 4. European Education and the international dimension of VET.

Moderated by Isaac May, from Belfast MET, guest speakers from Tknika (Basque Country), Salpaus College (Finland), Belfast MET (Northern Ireland) and Rotterdam region (the Netherlands) shared their views on key questions such as the role of VET colleges in the dual transition, our capacity to adapt and anticipate change or our role in lifelong learning and training needs arising from workplaces.

Along an interesting and fruitful discussion, the main points highlighted by the panellists were:

• The necessity of cooperation with local and regional stakeholders.
• The necessity of skilling and/or reskilling people with green skills.
• The involvement of VET colleges in sustainability since the point of view of school management and the integration of sustainability skills in the curricula.
• The importance of the human dimension in education.
• The permeability between vocational education and higher education.
• And the necessity for companies to count with mechanisms to validate the learning outcomes acquired by their own workers as part of their lifelong learning and the role VET colleges play in this personal development plans.  

The whole content of the webinar is available in this link: https://partnersin.vet/webinars/

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This year the Annual meeting offers an interesting insight into Finnish Vocational Education (VET) and the good practices from Finn-Net partner colleges. Please check the Annual meeting program and register for the event (choose some parts or all of them) by the 28th of September. You can forward the invitation to all relevant staff members within your college. 

During recent years, the network has faced many new challenges and changes, such as Brexit; covid-19; and a new Erasmus+ programme; which have inspired us to cooperate more closely and to clarify our common goals. We are currently facing the ‘New Era of International VET Cooperation’ which will be the main theme of the Annual meeting. We hope this meeting will offer us a chance to discuss and learn even more from each other and to find new forms of cooperation. The new strategic guidelines for the network will be presented and launched during the meeting too. The last day of the meeting will be dedicated to the different project funding opportunities and project ideas.  

We recommend participating especially on the webinar organised on the 6^th of October at 10:15-12:00 CET. The role of VET in the regional development and innovation will be discussed by the representatives of the different regions and colleges within Network of Networks. The webinar will start with inspiring keynote speaker, futurist  Perttu Pölönen, who shares insights for the anticipation of the future. He will convey new ideas about the evolution of work and education as well as new perspectives to the changes that lie ahead and are already taking place.  

His TEDx Talk challenges us to consider future competencies. What can I get from you that I cannot get from Google? https://youtu.be/MSx50MV02Bw 

Please join in the discussion! Looking forward to meeting you!  

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Warm welcome to the Annual meeting of Network of Networks! This year the Annual meeting offers an interesting insight into Finnish VET education and the good practices from Finn-Net partner colleges. 

During recent years, the network has faced many new challenges and changes, such as Brexit, covid-19, new Erasmus+ programme, which have inspired us to cooperate more closely and to clarify our common goals. We are currently facing the ‘New Era of International VET Cooperation’ which will be the main theme of the Annual meeting. We hope this meeting will offer us a chance to discuss and learn even more from each other and to find new forms of cooperation. The new strategical guidelines for the network will be presented and launched during the meeting too. The last day of the meeting will be dedicated to the different project funding opportunities and project ideas. Please join in the discussion!

Check the Annual meeting program and register for the event by 28th of September. Looking forward to meeting you!

Best regards from Finn-Net

La entrada Network of Networks Annual meeting from 5th to 7th of October 2021 se publicó primero en Network of Networks.

Due to the Covid situation, this year´s annual encounter of Network of Networks will take place on-line and will deal with the following topic: : ‘How can we deal with the social and economic impact of COVID-19 on VET in Europe?”

You can register to the different sessions following this link: https://bit.ly/non-alliance

We look forward to seeing you there!

La entrada Annual Network of Networks meeting. November 2020 se publicó primero en Network of Networks.