2nd Apprentice Student Vocational Skills Solidarity for Sustainability Begins

Within the scope of the Vocational Training Programme for Employment (VET4JOB) executed by Expertise France and EDUSER with the financial support from the European Union and in cooperation with the General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Training of the Ministry of National Education (MoNE GDoVTT) and the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (TESK), training on the 2nd Apprentice Student Vocational Skills Solidarity Activity was carried out in Adana on 6-8 December 2022.

With VET4JOB Apprentice Student Vocational Skills Solidarity Activities, it is aimed that apprentice students carry out studies that create social benefits on a small scale under the guidance of their teachers and master trainers and establish permanent ties with the society and sustainability with the approach of learning, producing and sharing together in the course of their studies.

Apprentice students, teachers and master trainers of VET4JOB institutions in Adana, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras and Mersin participated in the training activity that began with the opening speeches of Murat Yuksel, Branch Director responsible for vocational training at the Adana Provincial Directorate of National Education, Zekine Dayioglu and Suleyman Akgul, Heads of Departments at MoNE GDoVTT. Ecological, economic and social sustainability issues were discussed in the training, which lasted three days and covered extensive activities; trainings on design-oriented thinking, planning and evaluation of project processes, social benefit and impact and social entrepreneurship were given and various workshops were held.

The project ideas that emerged in the trainings will be realized by the school teams with the support of the community members that they are involved in.