Within the scope of the “Programme for Facilitating Access to Employment of the Syrian and Host Communities by Providing High-Quality Apprenticeship and Vocational Training in Türkiye”, the first of the Apprentice Trainees Vocational Skills Solidarity Activities has been launched with a comprehensive training study.
With the financial support of the European Union and in cooperation with the General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Training of the Ministry of National Education (MED MTEGM) and the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (TESK), the Vocational Training Programme for Employment (VET4JOB) executed by Expertise France and EDUSER, the first of the Apprentice Trainees Vocational Skills Solidarity Activities within the scope of VET4JOB started with a comprehensive training held in Ankara, Kizılcahamam on 5-7 October.
VET4JOB, which is one of the most comprehensive programmes contributing to the vocational training of non-trained Turkish and Syrian youngsters in line with the needs of the labor market through apprenticeship training, has been continuing since 1 January 2020.
Apprentice Trainees Vocational Skills Solidarity Activities aim to guide apprentice trainees to carry out small-scale social improvement activities in solidarity, guided by their trainers and master trainers. While performing their studies, it is aimed that trainees establish permanent ties with the society and sustainability with the approach of learning together, creating social benefits, producing and sharing.
Apprentice trainees, trainers and master trainers who met in Kizilcahamam on 5-7 October for this goal received training on teamwork, sustainability, design-oriented thinking, planning and evaluation of project processes, social benefit and impact and social entrepreneurship. After the training, the trainees, guided by the trainers and master trainers, will realize their projects in a three-month period with the support of their teams and the community members that they are involved in.
Apprentice Trainees Vocational Skills Solidarity activities will be carried out 3 times to cover all the schools within the scope of Vocational Training Programme for Employment (VET4JOB). In the first group in October, schools in Ankara, Izmir, Kayseri and Konya; in the second group in December, schools in Adana, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras and Mersin; and in the last group to take place in May 2023, schools in Bursa, Istanbul and Kocaeli will participate. Sustainability-oriented projects that trainees will design and realize in cooperation will be shared with the public through a digital exhibition to be prepared.
