DECENT

Inclusive Labor Market Participation enhanced through vocational teachers’
continuous professional development in digitalisation, gender, inclusion,
entrepreneurship, and private sector collaboration.

Kuuntele

Project information

Project	Inclusive Labor Market Participation enhanced through vocational teachers’ continuous professional development in digitalisation, gender, inclusion, entrepreneurship, and private sector collaboration. (DECENT)
Duration	1.1.2026-31.12.2027
Partners	HAMK, IP Leiria, UP Maputo, IP Songo, ADPP Mozambique
Funders	Erasmus+ CBVET
Budget	499 997,02 €

Mozambique faces major problems with youth unemployment and a poor vocational training-skills needed in the world of work mismatch.

We aim to strengthen vocational education and training (VET) -private sector collaboration
and improve the quality and responsiveness of VET.

We aim to address the challenges of low level of VET-Industry collaboration, gender equality, inclusion in the labor market, and digital transformation by skilling VET teachers, as they are the main vehicle for the improvement of quality. To overcome the slow pace of official VET teacher education, we introduce possibilities for VET Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the mode of short courses for most topical issues.

Target group

The main target groups are the VET teachers and the VET teacher trainers in Mozambique.

Operating area

We operate in different parts of Mozambique during the project. The pilot trainings will be organised in Nacala and Sofala.

Short courses and pilot trainings

During the project, we will develop five short courses on the following topics:

Gender equality in VET and labour market.
Inclusion in VET and the labour market
Digital pedagogy to overcome geographical disparities
Entrepreneurship for decent income for youth
VET-Private sector collaboration to increase the responsiveness of VET to labour market requirements