Skilling Eco-TVET Project

In April 2023, the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus Plus project ‘Skilling Eco-TVET: enhance enabled environments for private and public TVET key actors in Ghana and Senegal’ was held at Don Bosco Ashaiman, Ghana. The aim of this project is to foster the creation of a favourable environment for the development of the private sector in order to increase youth employment and improve the livelihoods of vulnerable groups, while at the same time discouraging the risk of irregular migration.

The project is specifically focused on the development of TVET in order to improve the technical, managerial and pedagogical skills of the trainers in the countries of reference and link the training with the labour market. The target groups are vulnerable and economically disadvantaged individuals such as women, people with disabilities, potential migrants or returning migrants.

Training for these target groups will be conducted. In Ghana, at least 700 students will be trained, 10 training for trainers and job service officers will be conducted and at least 25 farmers will be trained in organic farming techniques. In Senegal, 10 training sessions will be organized for trainers on organic agriculture, energy efficiency, solar development and food production. Finally, at least 5 job service officers will be trained on the logic of the green market who through a cascade approach will train new job service officers.

The project has a three-year duration and is funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. The activities are carried out by four European partners (CNOS-FAP and VIS from Italy, MUNDUS from Spain and LUOVI from Finland) and five from the African continent (Bono Bosco Youth Network and Business Resource Center from Ghana, ADAFO and USSEIN University from Senegal and Don Bosco Tech Africa).