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Sustainable Culture for Change

About the project

Sustainable Culture for Change is a development and research project aimed at ensuring the quality of the school development projects being launched under the programme THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS’ European VET Development Initiative (EVI). The project includes support to local development projects with the aim of ensuring sustainable implementation. The project is producing results that can be used broadly by institutions implementing school development projects and in relation to the development of national vocational education and training systems.

The project makes use of process-evaluation as a tool for continuing quality development. Engaging school leaders and teachers in ongoing collection of experiences and reflection upon development activities provides guidance to each school project.

Project timetable

The project is divided into two phases.

  • In the first phase, a survey will be conducted and the methodology developed. Specific evaluation models are developed and tested in eight projects. The first phase will run from the beginning of 2019 to the end of 2021. After the first two years, the results are evaluated with the aim of revising the form and content of the project.
  • In the second phase, the developed evaluation models are implemented in full scale in all the established projects. The second phase of the project will be adjusted based on the findings in the first phase and will run from the beginning of 2022 to the end of 2025.
  • The total project has a duration of six years.

Meet the Schools

The private Secondary Vocational School, Kysucké Nové Mesto is one of the schools participating in the research project. Press here to meet the rest of the schools

Articles

Rapports and surveys

Rapport 1

Sustainable Culture for Change

The Sustainable Culture for Change Rapport 1 describes a number of factors that contribute to the quality assurance of development projects. In the working paper, we are focusing at conditions, which we have found important in connection with the planning and implementation of project-based development work. Published 2020.

A focused survey

Vocational Education & Training Systems

The survey describes the vocational education and training systems in the four countries The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The survey describes the national context for the development programs and outlines the challenges the projects seek to address. Published 2020.

Rapport 2

Sustainable Culture for Change

In this second rapport, we follow up on the experiences presented in Rapport 1. We ground our new experiences on a significantly larger set of activities and more comprehensive data, including the professional development courses for teachers, which we now have completed at all eight schools, and the schools’ responses to the project activities in the form of what we refer to as reflection papers up to the end of 2021. Published 2022.

Rapport 3

Sustainable Culture for Change

In this third report, we follow up on our experiences with the use of the Reflection Paper as a tool for formative evaluation and describe a series of joint activities bringing the schools together across countries. Furthermore, we gather our project experiences and provide answers to "what have we learned?". Published 2023.

Contact

Bjarne Wahlgren

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Funding:

The Velux Foundations

The research project is funded by The Velux Foundations. The foundation is philanthropic and supports technical and scientific research as well as environmental, social and cultural projects in Denmark and internationally. 
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Knud Holt Nielsen