Eldri samstarfsverkefni
Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri hefur í gegnum árin tekið þátt í mörgum erlendum samstarfsverkefnum.
Hér er hægt að sjá yfirlit yfir þau verkefni sem skólinn hefur tekið þátt í síðustu ár.
2021-2024 BlendVET
2021-2024
BlendVET is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway grants and is a cooperative project between three countries; Iceland, Slovenia and Norway. The main topic of BlendVET is boosting digital skills and developing didactical solutions for introducing online learning in VET programs. This project is a response to the need of VET providers to review their strategies in order to integrate digital technologies in their teaching, learning and organizational practices. The BlendVET project comprises a series of development and training activities aiming to support the development of VET professionals' pedagogical and digital competencies, and to provide comprehensive didactical and digital solutions for teaching and learning processes.
The Blended learning in vocational education and training project – BlendVET - focuses on vocational education and training. BlendVET’s goals is to improve teaching and learning practices in blended learning and the exchange of knowledge and good practice with institutions from donor countries.
Three departments with two teachers each from VMA took part in BlendVET.
Construction department made a 360 degree classroom with interactive videos, on safety of the classrooms machinery. Example: Edpuzzle
Art department developed and finished interactive videos on how to dress an Icelandic loom, a part of Icelandic heritage that is disappearing. Art department also developed new teaching material to use in Fab-Lab.
Hairdressing department developed videos to use for online, vocational homework.
2019-2023 Nordplus - Empowerment by innovation - a must for inclusion
2019-2023
This is a project that is funded by Nordplus and is based on a collaboration between schools in Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark and the Business and Economics department in VMA. The project centers around using creative and innovative methods when it comes to the social inclusion of immigrants. That is the topic that the students will be working with.
2021-2023 ELECTROECO TEAM
2021-2023
ELECTROECO TEAM is a cooperation partnership project between six electrical schools; VMA in Akureyri Iceland, IES Santa Lucía in Canary Spain, BMSZC Egressy Gábor Két Tanítási Nyelvű Technikum in Budapest Hungary, MTAL in Istanbul Turkey, Agora in Roermond Netherlands and Solski Center in Celje Slovenia. The project is based on workshops where the students work together on projects centered around sustainability and green energy.
Verkefnið var valið sem fyrirmyndarverkefni Erasmusplus 2023.
2021-2023 DigitalVET 4 all
2021-2023
The project aims to tackle the challenges of inclusion and equity in virtual teaching and learning environments. This project provides teachers with a virtual space for sharing information on inclusive teaching methods. The primary aim of this project is to offer teachers in VET from different disciplines across Europe a chance to co-create and co-experiment innovative practices when developing digital learning and teaching material that develop the students' vocational skills and key competencies for lifelong learning. Read more about the project.
2020-2023 VET 4 Change
2020-2023
The project aims to find the tools and innovative methods to better meet territorial needs in the form of required skills and also to improve the dialogue between education/training system skills. Action learning and research methods will be used in this project. The partners in this project are MFR Grand EstFrance, GAL Cluj Napoca Romania, Breza Croatia, BSC Slovenia, IFOCAP France, Inter Mondes Belgium, Leader Union Estonia and VMA Iceland.
2020-2022 Ready for the World
2020-2022
For this project three schools will be working together on the topic: How can we assist and empower people in need for help? The three schools participating in the project are; The vocational school in Akureyri in Iceland, SOSU Randers in Denmark and Morgen College which is a part of the Landstede school group in Harderwiijk in the Netherlands. Each school will form a diverse group of 10-15 students from all layers of society, that will meet in each country and work together on the topic.
2019- 2022 Rotten Shark and Aioli: Sharing Culinary Culture to Erase Differences
2019-2022
The project is funded by the Erasmus+ program and is based on cooperation between the culinary department in VMA and MFR La Tour d'Aigues in Southern France. The aim of the project is to work with local food traditions, both old traditions as well as local modern food processing. Here in Akureyri the students will get to know and present local food production and the same goes for the French students.Together the students made a cookbook included their recipies.
2018-2021 VET@Work
2018-2021
This Erasmus project is in some ways a direct continuation of other Erasmus projects, Workmentor and AppMentor, which VMA also participated in. The main aim of the project is to produce an online manual for implementing innovative ways of collaborating with the labor market when educating students within VET. Participants in the project come from both the educational system and the labor market. VMA's partners in the project are Het Idee and Stichting Welzijn Lelystad from the Netherlands, Axxell Utbildning AB and Raseborgs stad from Finland, Nantes Terre Atlantique from France, Broadshoulders Ltd from the UK and Hair salon Medulla.
2019 Empowerment by innovation - a must for inclusion
This is a project that is funded by Nordplus and is based on a collaboration between schools in Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark and the Business and Economics department in VMA. The project centers around using creative and innovative methods when it comes to the social inclusion of immigrants. That is the topic that the students will be working with. A group of students from VMA visited a school in Porvoo in Finland in October 2019. The remaining visits have been postponed due to Covid-19.
Previous projects:
Completing Secondary Education - 2014-2017This is an Erasmus + KA2 project. Charlottenlund in Trondheim Norway is the coordinator, partners are VMA and schools in Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Germany. The project aims at collecting procedures and solutions that have been used and have proven supportive to students having difficulty in finishing their secondary education. Webpage for the CSE project |
GreenPOP - 2014-2017VMA takes part in a project in Macedonia about Organic Agriculture.
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FING project on oil and gas, offshore work - 2014-2016The FING project is a project funded by Nordplus and NORA . This is a project that looks to establish an innovative network of quality within oil and gas training and education, while taking into account environmental and safety issues.
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WorkQual - Workmentoring within a Quality management System- 2014-2016Structure for Cooperation Between School and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) . The WorkQual project is directly related to WorkMentor.
The Workqual project was approved and started in September 2014. The goal of the WorkQual project is to develop a standardized approach to placing students in workplaces. The idea is to collect information, sheets, checklists and procedures and form a general model of how to work with workplaces to place students in workplaces. VMA, Norway, Finland, England, Netherlands and France.
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Continuum Skole Jobb - 2014-2015The department for special education in VMA is working on a project to compare and improve the cooperation between schools and the workplaces where students in special education are being trained. |
Sharing good practices in vocational training for automotive technology and transport - 2014 |
WorkMentor - 2011-2013The WorkMentor project has been an important part of the international work at VMA. VMA was the coordinating partner in a project that started October 2011 and ended in October 2013. The WorkMentor project transferred the methods of mentoring into the relationship between a student in a workplace and an experienced worker supporting the student. |
Collaboration with Charlottenlund Comprehensive College Trondheim Norway - 2014Spring 2014, VMA paired up with Charlottenlund VGS (Videregaende Skole) which is a school /Comprehensive College in Trondheim, Norway. Together the two colleges sent applications for grants to the Nordplus program to fund visits from students and teachers to the schools. |
AppMentor – 2016-1- FI01-KA202- 022668This European Erasmus+ Project brings together seven partners from across Europe with an interest in using technology as a tool to strengthen the mentoring process during work-based learning. The partners plan to experiment using different technologies to improve: communication, learning; mentoring and mentoring and review between the student, employer and tutor / trainer. |
Nordic Modern and Criminal Literature – a Language and Reading Project - NPLA-2015/10003This is a Nordplus project whose main objective is to increase Nordic cultural awareness and knowledge among students and teachers of the participants. The partners will also be experimenting with new methods for acquiring skills in Nordic languages. The partners in this project are Hadeland High School in Oslo, Katrinelundsgymnasiet in Gothenburg, Copenhagen's KVUC, Forening Norden in Norway, the Library in Gran Municipality in Norway, the University of Aarhus, the University of Gothenburg and VMA.
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"InnoVET", Innovative VET devices in rural areas - 2017-1-FR01-KA202-03748While economic globalization continues to put in tension territorial economic and social balance, many local actors are looking for tools and innovative ways to improve the adequacy between training offers and skills needs. What is at stake is how to enable workers to adapt to the changes of the local production system, while at the same time promoting the competitiveness of small and very small businesses that make up the main part of the territorial economy. The partners in this project are MFR France, MFR Reunion island, Vivasol Lithuania, Sol et Civilization France, BSC Slovenia, IFOCAP France, OFFA Belgium, GAL Napoca Romania and VMA. |
Win Win Sports Project - 2017-1-NO01-KA201-034190This Erasmus+ Project brings together three Nordic partners; VMA, Oppdal Norway and Fjerritslev Denmark. The department of sports science in VMA will participate in this project which involves sharing innovative practices in connection to sports education and mobility of both students and teachers.
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Language and land expansion of the vikings - NPLA-2018/10040 The project is a two-year language and reading project (Nordplus Nordic Language) between four cooperative schools in Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The aim of the project is to increase student's knowledge and understanding of Nordic languages, history, culture and society. Another aim is also to develop teaching materials that can be used for teaching Nordic languages and Nordic language history. The role of the participants in the project is to build networks, develop teaching materials and teaching plans. Two teachers from each school will teach one week at a time in one of the partner schools each year.
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secondary school in Oppdal, Norway, a well-known own ski school that applies for the project. The partners are three; VMA, Oppdal and Fjerritslev, a Preview