Electronic sport (esport) is a popular and rapidly growing phenomena all over the world today, and just as traditional sports, it attracts people of all ages and of all levels. In recent years it has been possible to attend esport profiles at upper secondary schools, just like for example football or hockey schools, thus making esport a big part of the students’ everyday life, as well as their studies. The Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian vocational schools who are running this project have had esport profiles for several years, and they all has seen that the integration of esport into regular school has increased motivation, integration and the graduation rate if its handled didactically and pedagogically well by educators. However, they have also discovered that the lack of standardised classes and learning goals is something that is an impediment for the further development of esport in schools.The goal for this project is to develop tested and evaluated course content and assignments connected to the esports classes, which is something that do not exist today. This is a great lack since it makes it difficult to work with a standardized and professional course content in esports. In this project two teachers from each school will meet three times to develop three VET esport courses; 1) Tactics and Planning, 2) Health and Life Management and 3) Multicultural Teamwork and Gender Equality. All courses will be piloted with five students and one teacher in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Based on feedback from the pilots the educational material will be developed even further. Standards for the connection of the courses to national curricula of the participating countries will be made. In the project we also raise awareness and increase knowledge of healthy and professional esport on a national level. On the European level we aim to enlarge this VET esport education network for further development in the future.

Esport as a hobby, part of studies and as a profession has increased in recent years among students in vocational education in northern Europe. Esport in vocational education was quite new in 2018 when Prakticum (FI), Teknikum (SWE) and Arna vgs. (NO) decided to start cooperating on the topic. In this project we have developed esport education and coaching in vocational education and published findings in an esport handbook för students. The focus as been on physical and mental health in esport and life management skills for students. We believe that combining physical and mental wellbeing with esports give esport students increased study motivation, better study results, decreases dropouts and decreases the risk for marginalization. Esport can also contribute to developing social and teamworking skills, as well as many other skills for working life. Special attention was given to support for students in the risk of dropping out of school, disadvantaged groups and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. The main target group was teachers and students age 16-21 involved in esport in the partner schools. As the project evolved secondary target groups emerged; esport organizations, esport teams, other schools and esporters outside the partner organizations. Six teachers (two from each country) and 104 different students took part in the project. The working group of the project consisted of two teachers from Finland, Sweden and Norway whom met four times to benchmark best practices, develop esport education and published an esport handbook for students. Six students from respective countries met in Helsinki and Växjö to pilot new pedagogical methods and coaching in esport education. Students also participated in piloting and developing the esport handbook. The mobility with students planned to Norway was held on distance due to corona. The working language of the project network was Swedish, but we communicate externally in English to spread results, enlarge our network in esport and further our thoughts of physical and mental wellbeing in esport.This network will 2021-2023 continue to develop esport in vocational education with a focus on esport students health, wellbeing and life management skills in the Erasmus+ project Excellence in esport. Feel free to contact us with any collaboration suggestions in developing esport education. Also make use of the student's handbook in esport produced in this project and spread it freely throughout your own networks. You can find the handbook in the Erasmus+ results platform and Prakticums webpage; https://prakticum.fi/om-prakticum/projekt/internationella-projekt/student-wellbeing-through-esport.

1. Context - Timber is ecologically sustainable building material and the use of timber in construction is moving towards a more industrial production mode. Vocational training needs to understand this shift and develop a relevant response.2. Goal - we want to develop a comprehensive understanding of the modern value-chain of timber and apply this to a discussion on the relevant vocational training 3. The participants are three schools and one university. Each school has 2 teachers/admin and 6 vocational students in the project. The university has 2 researchers. Total participants is 26.4. The activities are one week sawmill, one week element building, one week construction and a half week in research facility. 5. Method - We will arrange introductory lecture including safety themes, we will work in factory situations at relevant companies, interspersed with short classroom discussions. There will be a reading list for each visit, and report writing during and after visits.6. The results will be a more comprehensive understanding of the value-chain of timber and a keen understanding of where the construction sector is moving and where innovation is possible and needed.7. The long term benefit for the school and their ecosystems will be a more relevant vocational training. For the students it will be a keen understanding of some European building traditions and modern developments in architecture and construction.