ETIC_Algarve recognized at national level with the Erasmus+ 2018 good practices award

On the 15th we went to the Auditorium of the House of Stories of the Paula Rego Museum, in Cascais, to ​receive the ERASMUS+ 2018 Good Practices Award for the ETIC_Algarve IN_Cluster project (2016 and 2018) ​, our second ERASMUS+ project.

ERASMUS+ is a European Union program focused on the areas of Education, Training, Youth and Sport (2014 to 2020), and aims to support the implementation of the European Political Agenda for social justice and inclusion, growth and employment.

In this way, we developed the ETIC_Algarve IN_Cluster project ​(2016 and 2018) which aimed to provide our team with knowledge of good practices in training and pedagogical management given in European schools and training centers in the audiovisual areas. ​Because “knowing their realities, their project management and pedagogical methods are fundamental axes for us to be equated with the best that is done in these training areas, thus opening new doors of knowledge and opportunities for trainees,” says Nuno Ribeiro, director of ETIC_Algarve.

The project lasted 18 months and was attended by 18 members, including trainers, technical team and pedagogy whose training areas correspond to the training offered by ETIC_Algarve: ​Web and Communication, Design, Video Games, Video, Photography, Sound and Music; and with partner schools in Spain (School of Film and Sound – Training School, L’Idem Barcelona and ESART Escuela Superior de Artes Escénicas y Producción Musical in Barcelona), Italy (Centro Studi Formazione Orientalmente and Rome Business School), France (L’Idem France) and the Czech Republic (Prague College).

The results of this project also included the signing of a ​Protocol with Prague College ​for access to a 3rd year in Prague with the final degree certification, level VI to students of the 2-year Video, Design and Photography courses; the creation of a new 1-year Technical Course in the area of Actor Training; the exchange of trainers with IDEM and Prague College for Workshops and development of joint projects and international training in the creative areas to trainees without leaving mobility.

In addition to the prize that was awarded to us, which according to the National Erasmus+ Education and Training Agency is due to the fact that this school “was able to overcome the challenges it faced in the implementation of the projects and having presented physical and financial execution of about 100%”, two more Good Practice awards were also given to other entities in the Vocational Education and Training sector.