The Leonardo Da Vinci programme

Pilot projects

Pilot projects are the vehicle for improving quality and for promoting innovation in vocational training. Both aims should be integrated in the proposal in such a way that tools, methods or concepts, and also concrete materials which are developed during the project can be used in, or adapted for, changing environments.

The proposed projects are intended to contribute to:

• promoting the design, development, testing, assessment and dissemination of innovative vocational training products, tools, methods and approaches including training for trainers and guidance counsellors;
• developing the use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in vocational training;
• developing new vocational training tools, services and products using ICTs which will promote access to vocational training;
• supporting the creation of transnational open and distance vocational training networks1 intended to make the broadest possible range of innovative teaching tools and methods available to the general public (multimedia educational products, websites, remote tutoring);
• designing, testing and validating new approaches to vocational training designed for new work situations;
• developing innovative tools for information and counselling in vocational training in the context of lifelong learning.

Pilot projects may last 12, 18, or 24 months.

Thematic Actions (funded under the 2003 Call) may last for a maximum of 18 months.