Empowering VET Trainers Through Cross-Border Collaboration and Peer Learning

The AILEEN project successfully united vocational education and training (VET) trainers from Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey to drive pedagogical innovation through transnational mobility. Centered around peer learning, co-creation, capacity building, and experiential learning, two strategically complementary mobility activities brought together a total of 11 participating trainers. The first session took place at ISQ in Portugal from January 13 to 16, 2026, focusing on welding technologies, inspection practices, and modern training methodologies through case study-based, peer-to-peer learning. The second session was followed by a hands-on, workshop-based mobility program dedicated to additive manufacturing technologies and their industrial applications at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in the UK from January 19 to 22, 2026.

By empowering teachers to share practices and benchmark methodologies across national frameworks, these initiatives clearly demonstrated the feasibility and immense value of transnational staff mobility. The joint efforts directly contributed to transferring best practices, strengthening cooperation among CoVEs, and aligning competence-based training to build a highly skilled European workforce.