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MET-VET – Metacognition for
Environmental Thinking in VET
Project number:
2021-2-PL01-KA220-VET-000050783

within these strategies, evaluating their outcomes, and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of
these initiatives.
Each partner has conducted the research in its local context interacting with at least 6 VET
professionals (VET trainers/teachers and Managers of VET Institutions), for a total of 56 individuals
involved in the research. The research has been conducted through one or more of the following
methods: online questionnaires, face-to-face meetings/focus groups, phone interviews.
The results per Country follow:
RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN POLAND
CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGY
No. of VET teachers/trainers 5
involved
No. of Managers of VET 5
organisations involved
Total no. of respondents 10
Profile of the respondents All respondents are from Podkarpackie region. The VET
Trainers are from two VET schools located in Ropczyce and
Rzeszów.
The experience of the trainers ranges from 5 up to 20 years
of experiences in training.
The managers come from VET organisations that are
members of Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Rzeszów
(1) and IT Cluster (4) that operate in Rzeszów and
Podkarpackie region.
Methodology adopted Face-to-face individual and group meetings; online
questionnaire
MAIN FINDINGS
All respondents answered negatively to the question investigating about the existence of an
integration and change management strategy in their VET centres.
Only two of them, coming from different organizations, said that they didn’t adopt the strategy
but their organisations have noticed that the change management is needed and some early
communications regarding this subject are being initiated. Besides these two organisations,
there are no concrete plans for implementation of such strategy, but there is awareness about
necessity of doing it in the near future.
When asked about the motivation to the lack of such strategy, respondents agreed that there
is a lack of knowledge about the subject and lack of understanding about the benefits of
implementation (6 respondents), lack of time to implement it due to high volume of work (2
respondents), lack of resources (1 respondent) and complexity of the process of
implementation of such strategy which is in fact a multi-stage process (1 respondent).
Regarding the adoption of the tools developed within MET-VET project, the respondents
provided positive answers. They stated that any new tools and especially innovative tools
should be explored and used by the organisations.
They agreed that using the framework and training has a potential of causing the increase of
knowledge and skills. Two respondents especially liked the digital library which they saw a
good tool thanks to the possibility of writing and reading stories. Such active participation is

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