Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Greenland
Project name: Nordic green shift in education
Acronym: GREEN FING
Project duration: September 2023 to August 2025
Project funded by: Nordplus: https://www.nordplusonline.org/
Partners: Vinnuháskúlin (Faroe Islands), Greenland School of Raw materials (Greenland), and the Comprehensive College in Akureyri (Iceland)
In this new initiative - "Nordic Green Shift in Education", we understand the term "green shift in teaching" to refer typically to a shift in educational practices and approaches that prioritize environmental sustainability and ecological awareness. It involves integrating sustainability principles and environmental education into the curriculum and teaching methods.
The green shift in teaching emphasizes the importance of ecological literacy and encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of environmental issues and their role in creating a more sustainable future.
Our main objectives are firstly, to create an innovative quality network for educators primarily in the provision of VET within green growth, climate change and sustainable development. Secondly, we wish to produce a "Green Shift Teaching Handbook" which offers practical "green shift teaching" modules for teaching and learning pedagogies and methodologies, from multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches.
As our FING partnership started over 10 years ago, we will use the acronym GREEN FING for this new project.
Poland/ Norway
Project name: Empowering Youth Vocational Skills for Automated Metal Industry – adjusting vocational education to demands of metal machining industry of the future
Acronym: skills4ami
Project duration: January 2022 to August 2023
Project funded by: EEA Grants
Project partners: Radom Chamber of Commerce (Poland) and EduExpert (Poland)
Funding was allocated for institutional cooperation for the improvement of quality and relevance of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and vocational continuing education.
The aim of the project was to develop and create a modern educational platform supporting youth in choosing a career related to the technical industry. The platform is rooted in current VET programs (including dual education), also complementing them in terms of specific competence gaps indicated by practical vocational teachers and entrepreneurs.
Project page: https://skills4ami.eu/
Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Greenland
Acronym: FING
Duration of project activities within this partnership: 2012-2022
Project funded by: NORA (https://nora.fo/?_l=en) and Nordplus (https://www.nordplusonline.org/)
Project partners: Akureyri Comprehensive College: https://www.vma.is/is; Vinnuháskúlin Center of Maritime Studies and Engineering: https://vh.fo/ and Greenland School of Minerals and Petroleum: https://www.kti.gl/kl/
Some of our partnership activities:
Train the trainers: 3 crane and lifting TTT, 2 mock audit trials in crane facilities, drone handling and license exam, courses within HSE for the offshore industry
Some of our seminars/webinars: “Thriving schools in small coastal communities: different solutions” (Iceland), “Training and education in oil and gas for the Arctic region” (Greenland), “Moving green energies: alternatives” (the Faroes) and “Practical applications of drones in remote areas” (Norway).
This partnership was established in 2012 and aimed to create an innovative network within vocational education and training while taking into account environmental and safety issues.
The overall aim of this project involving educational providers from the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Norway was to place partners on an equal level of competitiveness in the international market when it comes to their capacity to offer training and education in related specialized areas.
