VET2B platform aimed to give both the VET providers and the enterprises – with a special attention to SMEs – a tool to successfully collaborate: a unique and challenging environment for networking through which VET providers will be able to promote their learners and trainers’ competences to enterprises – in the form of good, services and professional consulting – and through which enterprises will be able to buy good, services and professional consulting under each partner’s countries legal framework rules.
On the model of the Production schools – where the goods and services, produced by the participants, are sold at market terms enabling the teachers to offer the participants tasks, which, in specific situations, have immediate value and function for the participant as well as for the school and the customers – the idea of the project is to turn the classroom learning in a real and effective work-based learning activity by the medium of a platform built on the B2B model: a platform set where one business (in this case VET) serves the needs and requirements of another business (in our case companies at local and regional level).
The platform will be multi-functional, acting as a marketplace and will be closely connected to the project website and to the partners’ websites.
The platform will contain a catalogue of good, services and professional consulting by sector (as for example: services of catering, web-design, ecommerce marketing consulting ; 3D printing components, etc.) according to VET providers course programmes and potential offer within which the companies subscribing the platform services will be able to choose good, services and professional consulting they need.
The subscription to the platform will be open to local and regional VET providers and SMEs – in its startup phase – with the aim to widen the network to national and European level after the closure of the project thanks to project partners own funds.