Potentials of Apprenticeship within School-Based VET Systems

Dual Vocational Education and Training (VET) or apprenticeship schemes as a promising approach to overcome economic crisis in south Europe and to adapt the handling of new technologies when these reach the “world of work” (and not yet VET-schools) is since years high on the agenda of European and national policies. Consequently a manifoldness of approaches and projects have been started to support Work-Based Learning (WBL) in all of its forms, for a comprehensive overview see for example WBL-toolkit (2018). However, being honest, most of these measures are rather far away from “real” apprenticeship schemes; most approaches are internships, learning projects, simulations, etc. In our current ERASMUS+ project “Integrating Companies in a Sustainable Apprenticeship System” (ICSAS 2017), we are focusing on the sector of industrial shoe production and are working on the question, whether an approach, being close to apprenticeship scheme in Germany, is of benefit within and for school-based VET-systems of Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), and Spain (ES).