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LEVEL 4: ENHANCING INTERNATIONALISATION

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Advice VET providers and employers for the strategic planning of WBL

international cooperation

Strategic partnerships involving international VET providers and employers of
different sizes, geographical areas and sectors can positively contribute to the
improvement of the three previous levels. The provision of inputs of partners
with different perspectives resulting from their different realities can potentially

be adopted by other partners or converged with them. They can bring into
discussions “new” ways of building educational capacity, co-designing curricula
and career pathways or how to network and lead.

The current labour market is globalised and changing rapidly. Due to that, it
needs a skilled workforce that is continuously developing its competences to
prosper and is more and more able to work abroad. Developing international

cooperation regarding work-based learning contributes to support this need.
Organisations need to understand the benefits of collaborating at an
operational level for all involved parties, address common challenges and define
coordinated strategies to pursue common goals.

This cooperation and mobility can be helpful in different ways. For example,
some European countries have high unemployment rates, especially youth
unemployment. International VET-employer cooperation can supply new skilled

young professionals to a globally aware workforce, increasing countries
competitiveness or making this competent workforce able to work abroad. For
that, it is utmost important that curricula and qualifications are defined together
and recognised among cooperating countries.

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