The current unprecedented global challenges are addressed with great opportunities used in the benefit of humanities. War, migration, climate change, pandemic, a new idea of life and work of youngster and many others waves with technological innovation, artificial intelligence, will shape the future.
In education and world of work a change of paradigm is needed to switch from a performative approach to a human centred one.
A priviledged pathway is the Inclusive Excellence (IE) approach, starting from the recognition that every person is unique, it’s needed just helping to become ourselves to give our original contribute to the world.
In this perspective, the education and work experience have a clear vision and pathway:
Revisiting Vocational Excellence and reconceptualizing Inclusion from the perspective of the genuine inclusion based on vocational excellence (2022), the GIVE project invites at its final conference, scheduled on October 1st 2024 in Milan, where the multiple stakeholders to delve together into the proposed transformative set of deliverables that supports the newly approaches of the IVE eco-system.
Since November 2020 the CoVE Project GIVE (Governance for Inclusive Vocational Excellence) activated a community of academia’ representatives, trainers, learners, managers and leaders active in the VET ecosystem devoted to innovate for the purpose of making vocational excellence more inclusive, with a focus on disadvantaged groups.
During 4-year journey, the GIVE project partners from Italy (COMETA – consortium leader, Gi Group), Finland (OMNIA, HAMK), Malta (MCAST, The Malta Chamber of Commerce), Spain (San Viator, Lantegi Batuak) and Romania (University of Bucharest), Belgium (EfVET) crafted compelling narratives by engaging a reach spectrum of stakeholders, inspired actions, and catalysed meaningful change, aiming to move towards inclusion based vocational excellence.
Proposing innovative frameworks, empowering, consolidating or revisiting existing set of methodologies and tools operational in the Centres of Vocational Excellence at the time of the project submission, defining or re-examining relevant practices, designing and implementing training for capacity building purposes, drawing conclusions from the international mobilities hosted by the project as authentic learning opportunities, within the context of mission-driven functional governance (GIVE, 2023), the project is now ready to inspire others all that in view of building more inclusive futures
08:30 – 9:00 Registration and Welcome coffee
9.00 – 9.30 | Introduction and Welcome
9:30 – 10:20 | General statement supporting Inclusive Vocational Excellence
Moderator: James Calleja, President EfVET
10.20 – 11.00 | How to reach inclusion and excellence
Roundtable with:
Impulse talk: Paolo Nardi, executive Director EfVET
Moderator: Anca Nedelcu, Professor at University of Bucharest
10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 | Voice of the Protagonists of Inclusive Excellence – 3 success stories
11.45 – 12.15 | GIVE introducing the GIVE Academy: official launch
12:25 – 13:30 | Opening of the Networking Area – 3 pathways for Inclusive Excellence
13.30 – 13.45 Conclusion
13.45 – 14.45 | Standing Lunch
Cometa’s work experiences for people with disabilities
Meeting point at For&From: Via Indipendenza 19, Como CO
12:30 – 2:00 pm | Lunch at Cometa restaurant
Cometa’s VET School
Meeting point at Cometa, Via Madruzza 36, Como, Italy
Bus shuttle From Cometa to LVMH at 4:30 pm
Visit and cocktail at LVMH’s work cafè
Meeting point at LMVH, Via Alberico Albricci, 8, 20122 Milano MI, Italy