Ikaslan Euskadi

MICRO QUEST
Network Member

Ikaslan Euskadi

Spain
Sectors:
  • Education
IKASLAN is an association of 28 public vocational colleges in the Basque Country of Spain. It offers initial vocational education for post-compulsory students and continuing education for workers, the unemployed, and those threatened with unemployment.
The schools also emphasize entrepreneurship.
IKASLAN was constituted in 1996 with the aim to promote and improve Vocational Training in the region. Nowadays, our organization is implementing its own ambitious, shared and encouraging strategy, together with other relevant agents, focused on providing the Basque youth with an excellent personal and professional training to attend the needs and the challenges faced by Basque companies and society.
During the past 20 years, Ikaslan has promoted the mobility of the students and teachers of the vocational educational system, through the European projects.
With other organizations, as Tknika, a Basque Centre of Vocational Excellence or the Basque Government, we’ve taken part in many projects related with the Vocational Educational Innovation, entrepreneurship, equality and so on.
Our Micro-Credential offer:
The provision of micro-credentials is a potentially valuable tool for improving the relevance and effectiveness of vocational training in a changing world of work. Specifically, we believe that micro-credentials would positively influence:

Fostering educational innovation and meeting the changing needs of the labour market. Micro-credentials as an effective tool to provide more specific and skills-oriented training.
Recognising and validating competences acquired outside traditional VET programmes. This could help students and professionals to highlight specific skills and increase their employability.
Promote collaboration between VET institutions and the business sector, to develop micro-credentials that respond to the demands of the labour market.
The importance of maintaining high standards of quality and rigour in the issuing of micro-credentials, to ensure their validity and usefulness for learners and employers.
Flexibility, allowing students to choose from a variety of options to tailor their training to their specific needs and career goals.