Forging new pathways of research and innovation in open and distance learning

EuroDuaLE
European cooperative framework for Dual
LEarning
Runtime: 09/2015 – 08/2018
Partners: Università degli studi di Modena Reggio Emilia, Associazione Sophia R&I, Fondazione ADAPT,
Camera di Commercio Italo-tedesca AHK, Otto-Von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, University of
Southampton, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, UC Leuven, Cofora International Projects, EFE, Universidad
de Sevilla, Università degli Studi di Padova, Università degli Studi Roma TRE.
Project representative to be contacted for further info: Antonella Poce (antonella.poce@uniroma3.it)
EuroDuaLE Erasmus+ project want to open the road for transnational cooperation for the provision of dual
learning programmes. HEI are asked to strengthen the quality of the education provided, for example with
the use of ICT solutions and more innovative training approaches, open up to cross-national cooperation
and relate more efficiently with the labour market (EU Modernisation Agenda for HE, 2011). EuroDuaLE
project aim to put HEI at the centre of a new learning/training framework, a new form of transnational dual
learning driven by HEI which promotes formal learning combined with apprenticeship possibilities and
work-based learning, as an approach to accompany European youth in their mobility experience. The
framework implies form of physical mobility and virtual mobility, reducing the social costs of migration by
using the potential of ICT solutions.
The European Commission has clearly stated in the 2020 Strategy the will for a smart, sustainable and
inclusive growth, increasing significantly the investments for higher education, research and innovation.
Europe increasingly need people with the right combination of transversal competences, digital skills,
creativity and adaptability, together with solid technical knowledge depending on the specific field. Higher
education programmes are too often behind compared to the emerging needs of the economy in general,
and specifically to emerging career paths. High youth unemployment, even among highly skilled young
adults, is the result of such delay, particularly dramatic in southern Europe.
To facilitate youth integration in the labour market and stimulate job creation, and actual placement, there
is need to close the gap between labour demands and people actual training and competences. In this
context, Dual Learning Systems seem to have the potential to substantially increase the employability of
young people at the end of the educational experience.
The project as a whole is therefore innovative in several ways:
- propose a dual learning system applied to Higher Education, while nowadays mostly carried out by
VET institutions.
- emphasize the international dimension of HEIs and apprenticeship
- introduce some form of informal learning on-the-job which combined with formal learning
happening in HEIs gets official recognition and assessment by the HEIs
- propose a methodology as a reference for future planning at national and European level
- explore the support demand of young adults during their mobility experience and job-related
migrations
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