<< Background >>Vocational education and Training is essential in helping young people and adults acquire the skills needed in the labour market and find quality jobs, especially after the Coronavirus crisis. To respond to this mission VET should become more modern, attractive, flexible and fit for the digital age and green transition. VETCAMP designs and implements an innovative high-performing digital education ecosystem which capitalizes and enhances VET resources for delivering quality online vocational learning experiences and make them accessible to learners around the EU.VET SECTOR NEEDSEducation and training have faced huge disruption due to COVID-19 and a quick shift to distance and online learning. The mass use of technology has revealed gaps and exposed weaknesses. According to Cedefop (2020) VET teachers and trainers face challenges such as no access to equipment and internet connection required to offer distance learning; lack of digital skills and competences to make efficient use of the platforms; poor experience in creating digital teaching content; no experience in e-learning and other distance learning pedagogies in VET, especially for teaching practical components; concerns over privacy issues, copyright and data protection.VETCAMP embraces the digital transition, fosters a future-oriented approach and provides VET institutions with long-sought solutions. It addresses issues such as effective digital capacity planning and development, resource pooling, digital teaching and pedagogies, open educational material, accessibility and inclusion, use of innovative tools and immersive technologies like virtual and augmented reality, quality assurance, digital recognition of learning outcomes, use of digital services like Europass and mobility opportunities through EURES.NEW SKILL NEEDSThe right skills for jobs are an essential prerequisite for the transition to environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive economies. In 2010–11 ILO in collaboration with Cedefop conducted research in a sample of 21 countries identifying major gaps in and shortages of skills for green jobs, looking into the alignment between skills, environmental policies and institutional arrangements, and suggesting policy response strategies and good practices. A transformation towards a greener economy is expected to lead to significant changes across sectors and occupations, which could increase inequalities between individuals, industries and regions.VET can play a decisive role. Although jobs may be lost or transformed in the brown sector, the ‘greening’ of the labour market is expected to create new jobs in the green sector that could produce employment gains and prevent net job losses (ILO, 2015). VET should be capable to deliver high quality training programmes that align people and their needs with the needs of the green economy and labour market. VETCAMP suggests that this can better achieved through the pooling of resources and the employment of Open Educational Resources and Pedagogies.<< Objectives >>The aim of the ‘Green VET Online Campus’ project is to respond to the twin digital and green transition in VET through transnational exchange, sharing of educational resources and innovative learning experiences accessible to all learners worldwide. This is achieved through an incremental approach starting with designing/ developing/ updating green VET courses that will be openly available through a Green VET Online Campus. This Campus will be fully regulated through a common comprehensive framework for online course development and sharing. The Green VET Online Campus will offer solutions for VET institutions that need supplemental digital content to provide more asynchronous learning opportunities in existing courses on green skills and sustainable development. By leveraging ready-made online resources -especially small- VET institutions can capitalize on existing resources and support student learning.The specific project objectives are the following:• Create a unique, state-of-the-art, technology-enhanced, fully regulated Online Campus for VET providers. • Develop a Regulatory Framework based on the OER approach for creating, sharing, capitalising on existing resources and finally delivering online VET courses.• Support the effective digital capacity planning and development of new high-quality VET online courses that align with the digital recognition of learning outcomes and the use of digital services (eg. Europass). • Design and deliver targeted quality online courses that equip learners with high demand green skills. • Overcome barriers that exist in face-to-face classrooms, such as geographic location, physical impediments and socioeconomic contexts that can create inaccessible learning environments. In addition, the project dissemination and exploitation activities are expected to promote: • the sustainability and possible commercialization of the of the Campus after the end of EU funding. • the widest dissemination of knowledge from the project, including the capacity to design, develop, share and offer high-quality online VET courses through the employment of user-friendly tools and secure platforms, respecting privacy and ethical standards.<< Implementation >>VETCAMP shall implement the following activities: 1-PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION ACTIVITIES1.1. Project Management Handbook and Tools/Templates1.2. Management Board Set-Up1.3. Communication with partners/agency1.4. Coordination and Communication Platform1.5. Consortium Agreements1.6. Monitoring of Process, Budget, Dissemination 1.7. Data Protection / GDPR Compliance1.8. Progress, Interim and Final Reporting1.9. Transnational meetings #1 | #2 | #32-QUALITY ASSURANCE & EVALUATION ACTIVITIES2.1. Elaboration of QA Plan2.2. Set-up of Quality Assurance Committee2.3. Set up of External Group of Advisors (EGA)2.4. Set up of Focus Group (FG)2.5. Elaboration of a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan2.6. Elaboration of Monitoring and Evaluation Reports3-DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES3.1. Stakeholder Analysis3.2. Dissemination Plan3.3. Portfolio of Dissemination Material3.4. Project Website3.5. Project Social Media3.6. Newsletters-Press releases and media presence-Multiplier Events (see below)-Participation in EPALE and other EU platforms4-EXPLOITATION ACTIVITIES4.1. Exploitation Plan 4.2. Promotional Video 4.3. VETCAMP Network 4.4. MoU4.5. IPR and commercialisation agreementACTIVITIES RELATED TO PROJECT OUTPUT 1: GREEN VET ONLINE CAMPUS COURSESO1/T1: Teaching strategyO1/T2: Digital strategyO1/T3: Accessibility and inclusionO1/T4: Learning content ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PROJECT OUTPUT 2: GREEN VET ONLINE CAMPUS O2/T1: Green VET Online Campus Regulatory Framework O2/T2: Intellectual Property Rights managementO2/T3: VETCAMP Online PlatformACTIVITIES RELATED TO PROJECT OUTPUT 3: GREEN VET ONLINE TRAININGO3/T1: Piloting the VETCAMP online courses O3/T2: VETCAMP online courses roll-out and monitoring O3/T3: Career guidance and EU mobilityACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE MULTIPLIER EVENTSE1: Digital EU level consultation eventE2: Digital transnational multiplier eventE3 to E7: National multiplier events E8: Closing Event in Brussels<< Results >>VETCAMP shall deliver:1-EIGHT 8 GREEN VET ONLINE CAMPUS COURSES offered via the VETCAMP Platform, also addressing: • Teaching and digital strategy • alignment with ESCO/ Europass / DigCompEdu • digital recognition of learning outcomes • accessibility and inclusion2-VET ONLINE CAMPUS REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, defining the landscape in which the VET Online Campus will operate. The Green VET Online Campus training programmes and certification shall align with this Regulatory Framework. The following areas are addressed: • Quality Assurance • Enrolment policies • Student policies • Access and participation • Programme specifications • Work-based learning and career guidance • Course fee payment policy • Intellectual Properties Rights management • Data Protection management3-VET ONLINE CAMPUS ECOSYSTEM, comprising of:3.1. The VETCAMP Online Platform: a) the Course Matchmaking tool, b) the Machine-assisted peer review solution and Intelligent, c) the Learner-centric analytics and d) the Personalized dashboards and learning schedules for easy course discovery and keeping students on track.3.2. The VETCAMP Online Catalogues3.3. VETCAMP online courses delivery4- GREEN VET ONLINE TRAINING involving min. 10 VET trainers, training min. 150 learners, providing career guidance to 95% of the learners, 95% of VETCAMP learners to create Europass profiles.•Increased availability and use of OER will lead to better access, thereby contributing to more equity and to higher quality and improved efficiency of VET.Additional Material Results:• Project Management Handbook and Documents• Consortium agreements• Quality Assurance Plan• Monitoring & Evaluation Plan• Stakeholder Analysis• Dissemination Plan• Portfolio of Dissemination material• Project website & social media• Newsletters• Press releases and media presence – presence in EU platforms (esp. EPALE)• Exploitation Plan• Promotional video• Memorandum of Understanding• IPR and commercialization agreement• Reports: Progress Reports, Interim and Final Reports, Evaluation Reports, Dissemination Logs and reportsProject outputs also include the VETCAMP Network and multiplier events.