<< Background >>The Digital transformation is one of the two main strategic priorities in EU for the period 2020 – 2027. The Digital Education Action Plan has two strategic priorities:1.Fostering the development of a high-performing digital education ecosystem requiring:-infrastructure, connectivity, and digital equipment-effective digital capacity planning and development, including up-to-date organisational capabilities-digitally competent and confident teachers and education and training staff-high-quality learning content, user-friendly tools and secure platforms which respect privacy and ethical standards2.Enhancing digital skills and competences for the digital transformation requiring:-basic digital skills and competences from an early ageodigital literacy, including fighting disinformationocomputing educationogood knowledge and understanding of data-intensive technologies, such as artificial intelligence-advanced digital skills which produce more digital specialists and also ensure that girls and young women are equally represented in digital studies and careersMost educational institutions have problems addressing digital transformation on operational level although many supporting tools, literature and good practices have been developed. VET schools with all their sector specific challenges and rapid developments are put into an even more challenging situation as they have to apply digitalisation to these professional digital developments.We identified SELFIE (Self-reflection on Effective Learning by Fostering the use of Innovative Educational technologies) a free tool designed to help schools embed digital technologies into teaching, learning and assessment developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (launched in October 2018) as a useful tool to identify the digital readiness of schools. Nevertheless, it does not cover sector specific issues and apprenticeships which are one of the vital parts of VET schools.In spring 2020 JRC published a tender to pilot the SELFIE WBL tool (related to apprenticeships, involving also in-company trainers) in 4 EU countries (France, Germany, Poland, and Hungary). EfVET applied to the tender supported by the members in these countries (SEPR, BBSW, OIC Foundation Poland and AHDE) and the research partner from Slovenia (Skupnost VSŠ). The partnership piloted SELFIE WBL in the 4 mentioned countries engaging a total of 59 VET schools, 97 in-company trainers, 177 school leaders, 1,221 VET teachers, 10,294 VET students, and 43 school coordinators in the pilot.VET schools received a colourful report with a lot of data and information from different stakeholders. Nevertheless, all of them found it difficult to translate the results into actions to effectively address the digital transformation of their VET school. They missed recommendations based on results, good practices and a possibility to benchmark not as a ranking list but rather to have an indication what these results mean in the national or EU context. Furthermore, VET schools learned that their communication with the companies is quite poor and expressed the need to strengthen the ecosystem with their regional stakeholders.To address all these open questions of the VET schools engaged in the pilot the same partnership decided to apply for this SELFIE WBL Follow Up project.<< Objectives >>The objectives of the SELFIE WBL Follow Up project are:-For the VET schools to understand fully the results received through the SELFIE WBL institutional report.-Use these results to effectively address the actions for digital transformation.-Build the capacity for digital transformation of their VET school.-To use SELFIE WBL to strengthen the ecosystem and cooperation with companies and other stakeholders which will contribute to better professional and digital skills and competencies of all stakeholders (especially students).-For VET schools to use the SELFIE WBL tool on regular basis and follow their achievements towards their digital transformation.-Prepare guidelines with recommendations and good practices for all other users of the SELFIE WBL tool to make the use of their report easier.-Propose the project result SELFIE WBL supporting toolkit as supporting materials to JRC.-To make it easier to all further VET schools to use the SELFIE WBL tool as an effective toll towards their digital transformation.<< Implementation >>The SELFIE WBL Follow Up project aims to produce the following project results:Institutional Digital Action Plans by:-Comparing and analysing anonymous institutional SELFIE WBL pilot report results per stakeholder and section (Peer Learning Activity)-Reading and understanding institutional SELFIE WBL pilot report results-Analysing institutional SELFIE WBL pilot report results-Designing an institutional Digital Action Plan through the identification of “Excellence” by means of the McKinsey 7s model-Putting the Digital Action Plan into action (activating the Digital Action Plan, monitoring actions)Collection of good/bad practices/networking by:-Preparing a template for good/bad practice collection-Identifying and collecting good/bad practices-Quality check and selection of good/bad practices. identification of “Excellence” by means of the McKinsey 7s model-Sharing the collection good/bad practicesCPD solutions for leadership and management/teachers/students by:-Identifying digitalisation gaps among leadership/teachers/students-Developing CPD solutions for leadership/teachers/students-Piloting (Test) the CPD solutions-Implementing CPD solutions for leadership/teachers/students-Evaluating CPD solutions for leadership/teachers/studentsBuilding the ecosystem with companies by:-Identifying existing gaps with companies-Developing solutions to strengthen bounds to companies-Implementing solutions to empower the school – company ecosystem-Evaluating solutions to empower the school – company ecosystemRepeating the SELFIE WBL self-reflection exercise by:-Preparing the repeated SELFIE WBL self-reflection exercise by:oIdentifying areas of more detailed interestoSelecting the appropriate optional questionsoDefining and designing own questionsoDefining the best timeslot for the repeated SELFIE WBL self-reflection exerciseoMobilising stakeholders for the repeated SELFIE WBL self-reflection exerciseoPromoting the reasoning and benefits of the repeated SELFIE WBL self-reflection exercise among stakeholders-Conducting the repeated SELFIE WBL self-reflection exercise-Following-up focus groups and interviews-Collecting the repeated institutional SELFIE WBL report results-Analysing the of the repeated institutional SELFIE WBL report results and trends-Evaluating progress and trends according to the set Digital Action Plan-Updating the Digital Action PlanDeveloping the SELFIE WBL supporting toolkit-Preparation guide before the SELFIE WBL self-reflection exercise.-Follow-up guide.-How to translate results into an institutional Digital Action Plan.-Publishing and sharing the collection good/bad practices.-Country Progress Reports.<< Results >>As a direct project result, we expect:-50 Institutional Digital Action Plans (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 Good/bad practices (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-5 CPD solutions for leadership and management (1 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-5 CPD solutions for teachers (1 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-5 CPD solutions for students (1 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-500 in-company trainers engaged the repeated SELFIE WBL exercise (FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-200 school leaders engaged the repeated SELFIE WBL exercise (FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-1,500 VET teachers engaged the repeated SELFIE WBL exercise (FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-15,000 VET students engaged the repeated SELFIE WBL exercise (FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 school coordinators engaged the repeated SELFIE WBL exercise (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 focus groups with 5-10 teaching staff (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 focus groups with 5-10 students (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 interviews with school leaders (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 interviews with company representatives (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 interviews with institutional SELFIE WBL coordinators (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-50 Updated Institutional Digital Action Plans (10 per country – FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-1 Preparation guide before the SELFIE WBL self-reflection exercise in 6 languages (EN, FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-1 SELFIE WBL Follow-up guide in 6 languages (EN, FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-1 Guidelines on how to translate SELFIE WBL report results into an institutional Digital Action Plan in 6 languages (EN, FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-1 Collection good/bad practices in 6 languages (EN, FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-5 Country Progress Reports (FR, DE, HU, PL, SI)-Strengthening the digital capacity on national and international level in FR, DE, HU, PL, SIAs indirect project results, we expect:-Strengthening internationalisation among the 50 VET schools in FR, DE, HU, PL, SI-Promote digital transformation in VET-Promote the use of SELFIE WBL (EfVET has the reach of 205 associations in 33 countries, approximately 200 000 VET professionals and 2.000.000 VET learners)-To make the effective use of the SELFIE WBL for VET schools in all EU countries-Strengthen the SELFIE WBL ecosystem on regional and national level-Contribute to the further development of the SELFIE WBL tool also for Higher VET and PHE