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.

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.

"The Erasmus+ KA2 Partnership ""3T-EH"" connected - and still connects as we speak - 3 schools with a shared ambition to Train Today Tomorrow's ECO Hairdressers! Secondary VET schools in Iceland (Reykjavik), Finland (Helsinki) and Flanders (Ghent) decided to join forces to face the challenges of the Hairdressing business. All three of them consider themselves as reference schools in their country in training professional hairdressers. As customers/clients the last couple of years got far more demanding than in earlier days, this project tried to train and prepare future hairdressers to meet the new standards. As the needs of the clients changed, so did the profile, the competences and the skills of the future hairdresser. Thanks to EU support the schools involved in this project have been able to exchange good practicises and innovative approaches. In the second year of the two year program, young aspirant hairdressers from Flanders, Iceland and Finland were invited in the partnership schools to follow a 3 days course with training and workshops."

Day in, day out, we see the impact of our modern-day way of life on the environment, an impact we have been ingnoring for decades. Luckily more and more people are realizing that we need to act now and that we can all help to reduce our impact on the environment. Today there are challenges for each and everyone of us, in each and every field. More and more hairdressers and beauticians see and feel the growing impact of chemical products not only on the environment but in their private lives as well: on their hands, arms, respiratory tracts, etc. They, sometimes radically, change their path and choose to start working with eco-friendly non-toxic products, followed or urged by their customers. This project directly supports many of the goals in the EU Agenda 2030 for Sustainable development. By developing and taking into use more ecologically friendly methods and substances in the hair and beauty sector we reduce the ecological footprint of the industry at the same time as workers and clients in the hair and beauty sector do not get exposed to toxic or damaging substances. All partners - being reference schools in their own country - share the same ambition to focus on this eco-friendly path as we think it should be our main goal and common duty to prepare the next generation of professional hairdressers and beauticians for the eco-friendly challenges lying ahead. The last two years, in our 'Training Today Tomorrow's ECO Hairdressers' project, we focused on the exchange of good practices and innovative approaches in haircare. Today, as demand, interest and awareness are still growing, all parties feel the need and desire to extend and broaden our project. We would like to introduce an additional partner, Srednja Frizerska Sola in Ljubljana, to join our project, thus adding a lot of expertise and know-how when it comes to hair treatments and the use of natural oils. We would also like to broaden our scope to hair AND skincare as we feel both fields go hand in hand and cannot be seen apart from one another.Our project focuses on two main objectives:- We broaden and deepen knowledge, competences and skills of teachers and students in eco-friendly hair- and skincare. Skillful teachers and learners lead to a modern and professional school environment with integrated good practices and innovative methods and approaches.- Development of new innovative, eco-friendly education courses on 1) Ecological hair colouring, 2) Ecological Haircare and 3) Ecological skincare. We see these programmes as a result of our benchmark, a collection of the best and most recent innovations and practices in both haircolouring/hair and skin treatment.In the first year of this project the first 2 meetings/activities (to be held in Gent in autumn 2020 and Helsinki in spring 2021) will deal with the practical organisation of the other 4 meetings. Two teachers (not necessarily the same) of each school will meet twice to prepare the student workshops/education programmes focusing on the exchange of experience and know-how, the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices, the practical organisation of the workshops/courses and the concluding dissemination seminar. During the third meeting in the first project year and all 3 meetings during the second project year (to be held in all 4 participating cities) our attention shifts to our learners as we transfer experience, know-how and innovative practices from teachers/experts to learners. Our focus will be on the practical part of the job. It is important for our learners to do, experience, feel, test and treat people in practice. We also take into consideration mixing learners from different cultural backgrounds and emphasize learning of the culture in the spare time at each workshop week. Six students from each school will take part in every new educational course for five days. These vocational education students are primarily aged 17+ and have sufficient English language skills to take part in the project. As we aim to reach a broad dissemination, students cannot take part in project weeks more than once.The impact and long term benefits of our project - and more specifically our education programmes - will lead to:- the increase of quality of education and training, combining higher levels of excellence with increased opportunities for all, bearing in mind it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for the majority of our learners, not in the least from a financial and social-cultural point of view.- education better aligned to the needs of and opportunities offered by the labour market (specifically the sector of hair and skincare) and closer links to (potential) business partners and clients.- improved skills and competences, not only job-related but also entrepreneurship, an increased competence in foreign languages, a greater understanding to social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity and last but not least an increased environmental awareness

Small and medium sized businesses in the service sector stands for an increasing part of employment in Europe. Entrepreneurship has been integrated in the curriculum across Europe and is an integrated part of almost all education programmes. Entrepreneurship education and programmes mostly focus on one country and one field. The aim of this project is to develop new innovative business ideas with service design by blending business ideas from five countries; Finland, Holland, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden, and three different fields; hairdressing, media and fashion & clothing. The project comprise 7 different schools. About 120 vocational students and 20 teachers will participate in the project.In addition to blending business ideas from different countries and fields the project focus on future skills in sustainable development and circular economy as central themes. A good life is no longer achieved by simply producing more and more goods. How do we move to a circular economy, in which consumption is based on using services – sharing, renting and recycling – instead of owning things?, this is a question that every future entrepreneur should be able to answer (www.sitra.fi). The project also benchmark and develop new methodology and pedagogical tools for entrepreneurship education.A central theme is also aim to increase language skills, promote intercultural communication, develop intercultural sensitivity and teamwork skills for students and teachers participating in the project.