Well begun is half done: kick-off meeting for the 3-H project
Fourteen partners from Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Croatia and Finland attended the kick-off meeting for the 3-H project, held on 24 and 25 March 2022 in Verona. The 3-H (Head, Heart, Hand) project is based on the assumption that VET should provide a holistic education, i.e. an education that takes into account cognitive intelligence (head), social-emotional intelligence (heart) and manual intelligence (hand) in equal measure. The project focuses on socio-emotional aspects and aims to equip VET staff with methodologies for managing student demotivation.
Considering that in several European countries there are examples of schools that are incorporating socio-emotional aspects into their learning pathways, the project aims to study some of these experiences and the approaches behind them in order to replicate them in Italian and Spanish VET contexts.
The event was dedicated to increasing mutual understanding between partners and planning upcoming activities in detail. During the first year of the project, the partnership will focus on gathering existing best practices related to these four topics:
Welcome/orientation activities: welcome practices/programmes/activities for incoming students with previous negative school experiences, in order to facilitate their integration into the new IeFP pathway.
Self-Directed Learning: an active learning process in which students take the initiative and decide independently on their own learning path (what to learn, how to learn, with whom to learn, when to learn).
PBL (Project Based Learning) on social-emotional skills: supporting educators in implementing meaningful PBL activities that enable pupils to develop social-emotional skills and learn authentic content. In other words, PBL design projects that have a social-emotional component.
Well-being and motivation at school: practices to create a welcoming, engaging and inclusive school environment that transforms the relationship between the institution and students and generates a state of well-being.
The methodology behind the project is simple: on the one hand, partners who have developed good practices on the project topics over the years will transfer their successful models and expertise; on the other hand, partners with less experience will be trained on these topics and will seek to adapt these good practices to their national contexts.