BEACON
January 1, 2021 — December 31, 2023 — Be a Competence Now — Beacons for Incidental Learning
Escola Artística e Profissional Árvore is part of the BEACON consortium, an Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnership that develops digital and transversal skills to support vocational students’ transition to the labour market through incidental learning pathways mediated by beacons.
Escola Artística e Profissional Árvore is part of BEACON, an Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnership that aims to develop skills that support vocational students’ transition to the labour market.
What are beacons? They are hardware devices equipped with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE): low-cost, low-power technology that can detect nearby devices at short range and send notifications to a tablet or smartphone.
BEACON aims to develop digital and transversal competences by engaging students in incidental learning pathways. When faced with a prepared fault or problem, students work collaboratively using beacons to find solutions — enabling sharing, discovery, interaction, editing of content, and learning beyond the classroom.
BEACON was coordinated by Liceul Teoretic de Informatică “Grigore Moisil” in Iași, Romania, running from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023. Partners from Romania, Italy, Spain and Portugal included Ludor Engineering; Cisita Parma, ISISS Galilei Bocchialini and Food Farm 4.0; Fundación AITIIP and CPIFP Corona de Aragón; Newtie, CITEVE and EAPA — spanning food, information technology, mechanics, fashion and textiles.
- Status
- Ended
- Funding
- Erasmus+ · KA220 – Strategic partnerships in vocational education and training
- Project code
- 2021-1-RO01-KA220-VET-000034746
- Duration
- —
- Countries
- Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain
Activities
- Design and piloting of incidental learning scenarios using beacons in vocational education settings.
- Development of digital and transversal skills through collaborative problem-solving on prepared challenges.
- Integration of low-cost BLE devices to sense proximity, share content and extend learning beyond the classroom.
- Transnational cooperation among schools, technology centres and organisations in food, IT, mechanics and textiles.
- Dissemination of results to trainers and school communities across the four partner countries.
Expected results
- Training pathways and reusable resources for beacon-based incidental learning in VET.
- Improved digital, collaboration and problem-solving competences among students.
- Closer alignment between vocational training and real challenges in the participating sectors.
- A network of good practices and shared materials across institutions in four EU Member States.
Partners
ISISS «Galilei-Bocchialini» (Itália)
Partner
Food Farm 4.0 (Itália)
Partner