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

training activities; webinars focused on in-school training, providing an opportunity for
continuous professional development and keeping faculty updated with the latest educational
strategies and tools. All the stakeholders declare they would be willing to experiment or suggest
experimenting with further innovative tools/approaches. Furthermore, all of them would adopt
the tools/approaches developed through the MET-VET project to improve metacognitive
competences in order to improve the green skills of the Green-Comp framework.

RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN CYPRUS
CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGY
No. of VET teachers/trainers 5
involved
No. of Managers of VET 3
organisations involved
Total no. of respondents 8
Profile of the respondents The VET trainers are all experienced professionals with more
than five years of experience in VET training. They work on
Secondary Education Vocational and Technical Schools in
Cyprus and they are all working in the sector of hospitality
both the theoretical and practical sector. The VET trainers
teach subjects like cooking, hotel administration, hospitality,
etc. The VET managers were the principals of two vocational
schools
Methodology adopted Phone interviews
MAIN FINDINGS
All the participants declared that they haven’t experimented any innovative approach.
For the 5 trainers the motivation were different: it was not proposed by the VET institution they
work for (3 respondents); they didn’t feel confident enough (1); they were not obliged by the
Ministry of Education (1).
All the five trainers declared that currently they are inclined to experiment with further
innovative tools and approaches. They all agreed with the fact that learners nowadays
appreciate learning through novel means and methods, they are pro digital learning and they
learn through informal and non-formal methods of learning. Thus the implementation of
innovative methods of teaching and learning is imperative. All the respondents stated that they
would use MET-VET tools to support them in the green transition.
The answers given by the Managers of VET institutions shown that they need clear instruction
and guidance by the Ministry of Education to implement long-term and effective initiatives. In
public VET institutions there is a lack of or insufficient knowledge and skills amongst the trainers
that can only be eliminated through policies and strategies from the Ministry of Education and
their overall guidance.

RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN ESTONIA
CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGY

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