Project Title: Lifelong Learning (LL)

Project Duration: 24 Months (2014-2016)

Project Owner: Turkish Ministry of National Education – General Directorate for Vocational and Technical Education, Turkish Ministry for European Affairs

Project Budget: 754,835 Euro

Project Participants: 260 Vocational School Teachers

The Erasmus+ mobility program for teachers "Lifelong Learning Project", has been developed for:

• increasing the skills and competencies of vocational teachers,
• contributing to the development of VET education in the respective fields,
• strengthening relevant VET competencies and skills in line with the sector needs,

by examining the implementations in EU countries.

This project has been implemented, with the overall aim of:

• upgrading the VET education, as a contribution to the works concerning the opening up of new employment areas.

The project owner is the Turkish Ministry of National Education – General Directorate for Vocational and Technical Education. ARDA Beratung & Bildung is the direct working partner of the Ministry of National Education in Germany, Berlin. 

The project-participants come from 22  provinces of Turkey (Ankara, Aydın, Adana, Antalya, Bursa, Balıkesir, Diyarbakır, Eskişehir, Erzurum, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kayseri,Konya, Kocaeli, Manisa, Mersin, Samsun, Sakarya, Trabzon, Tekirdağ, Hatay) and represent their respective Ministry of Education - Provincial Directorates.

The duration of the stay abroad shall be 4 weeks. The first week shall be devoted to theoretical training, the remaining three weeks for practical skills training.

The Mobility Program shall make a contribution to the upgrading of the skills of VET teachers in the following fields:

1. Child Development-Care,
2. Food-Beverage, 
3. Accommodation-Travel,
4. Radio-TV
5. Journalism,
6. Photography-Graphics
7. Marketing- Retail,
8. Nursing-Elderly Care,
9. Beauty-Hair Care,
10. Furniture-Interior Design,
11. Motor Vehicles,
12. Metal  Technology