The NOPSA - Fast vocational path to the labour market

The NOPSA - Fast Vocational Path to the Labour Market project aims to find a solution to smoothen up the transition from vocational education and training to postgraduate studies and to speed up the study path leading to the labour market.

The NOPSA - Fast Vocational Path to the Labour Market project aims to find a solution to smoothen up the transition from vocational education and training to postgraduate studies and to speed up the study path leading to the labour market. Teachers and instructors are also coached towards career guidance thinking, competence-based orientation and effective utilisation of digital tools.

The focus of the project is on the field of technology, communication and transport. Vocational students in both UAS and VET as well as professional teachers and instructors are the key target groups of the project.

NOPSA consists of three work packages:
Work package 1: Developing cooperation between vocational education and training providers and universities of applied sciences.
Work package 2: Individual, flexible study paths towards higher education
Work package 3: Study path models for language learning

The project will produce models for identifying and recognising competence and utilising digital solutions in guiding studies and making competence visible. Studies planned and implemented in the UAS-VET cooperation in the fields of technology, communication and transport, a career guidance coaching programme for professional teachers and new models for language learning will also be produced. The cooperation will also promote attractiveness of the field of technology, communication and transport.

Disseminating and anchoring the results also takes place through professional teacher education organised by Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). The emerging models are intended to be utilised nationwide.

Key actors in the project include four vocational education and training providers and five universities of applied sciences. The project's implementer network is formed by CENTRIA, HAMK, SAMK, TAMK and TuAMK and the vocational education and training providers AMISTO, TREDU, CITY OF TURKU and WINNOVA . Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) is the main implementer and coordinator of this project.

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