Curious about new ways to gain international competencies in your own country, approximately 55 teachers in secondary vocational and higher professional education came to Nijmegen on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 for a special training. ROC Nijmegen, Da Vinci College and Nuffic Connects organized the Build@Home training that day; a new approach to how internationalization can … Read more

On November 2, Deltion College in Zwolle was the stage for the MBO conference ‘Skills without borders: enrich yourself internationally’. MBO professionals could meet each other and exchange knowledge and experiences about the many forms of internationalization. It was fantastic to see more than 130 MBO professionals from approximately 30 schools from all over the … Read more

In cooperation with ”Foreningen Danske Landbrugsskoler” (The Association of Danish Agricultural Schools) Roskilde Technical VET College carried out a Multiplier Event on the 24th of August 2023. The participants were mostly teachers and Managers from Agricultural Schools and Vocational Colleges from all over Denmark, but also representatives from the Danish NA attended. Head of Department … Read more

With the support of the Finnish National Agency (OPH), Helsinki VET college and Luovi organised a multiplier event to promote the use of the Build@Home’s project results among VET colleges around Finland. The purpose is to make international collaboration possible for everyone by focusing on internationalisation at home activities. Thank you so much to all … Read more

This week in Helsinki we have had the opportunity to learn about the resources created by the Erasmus+ KA2 funded project, Build@Home, to embed internationalisation in training provision of vocational schools. Through the site www.buildathome.online, we have discovered different tools to foster the strategic thinking about why to care about internationalisation in vocational education, tools to … Read more

On the 9th of May 2023, just before the Uniser Teacher Week 2023, “The school beyond borders” event took place at the Uniser office. Teachers from different VET schools joined this multiplier event of Build@home aimed at showing and spreading the project results. After an introduction on the project with a focus on objectives, partnerships … Read more

Builders and coordinators of B@H partner organizations from Roskilde Technical College, Luovi Vocational College and Helsinki Vocational College gathered for a two-day workshop in Oulu 30.1.-31.1.2023. The purpose was to create content for the digital warehouse. The digital warehouse will provide methods, activities and tools for embracing internationalisation at home. Aim is to provide hands-on … Read more

Last week the Build@Home team met in the Dutch VET school ROC Da Vinci for a working session to prepare the next training event to be celebrated at the end of March in Bologna (Italy). This event, addressed to international coordinators of VET schools, will be aimed at promoting internationalisation at home activities in vocational colleges, with … Read more

Promoting internationalisation at home activities is the main objective of Build@Home. As part of our project implementation to do so, teachers from Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland and the Basque Country participated in October in a training based on the materials produced by Build@Home, hosted by HETEL and Zulaibar Arratiako Lanbide Ikastegia in the Basque … Read more

In the whole EU, only around 3-5% of VET students have the opportunity to participate in international mobility through the Erasmus+ Programme. This raises the question, what happens with the rest, with the vast majority of VET students? They don´t have the possibility to develop international competences. As the mission of VET colleges is to … Read more