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Sustainable practices
Workforce and leadership
covered:
Green skills and
Waste management- selective collection, zero waste, Sustainable thinking
competences
applied/fostered:
Impact on leadership /
None
governance:
Impact on pedagogical
High
staff:
Impact on learners: High
Challenges faced: Funding good practice, developing school infrastructure, motivating children
Potential for wider
introduction of a work plan in all high schools
application:

Table 4: Digitisation of learning and support materials

VET provider with 20-50 staff and 500-1000 full time learners. It offers professional
Organisation context: courses related with electrical infrastructures and facilities, logistics, hotel
receptionist, aesthetic, and car mechanics.
Overview of the best The VET provider provides school manuals and other support materials
practice: through digital platforms, thus lowering the number of papers used.
Sustainable practices
Digital transformation. Sustainable delivery.
covered:
Green skills and
VET professionals and learners gained new digital competences and adapted to a
competences
paperless school.
applied/fostered:
Impact on leadership / Decrease of the total amount of paper used by the school, in all processes and
governance: classes, that eventually was going to be discarded.
More than leadership/governance, VET professionals had a huge role since they
were the ones helping their learners to get used to the new digital work
Impact on pedagogical staff: methodology for paper use reduction. They were the ones who were behind the
entire process and transformation of behaviours, supporting their learners to better
adopt the digital work methodology without using paper.
Despite the initial challenges of the digital transformation in the way of learning,
Impact on learners: students rapidly adapted to the new methodology and saw the advantage of not
going to school with too much school baggage since everything was digital.
At first, learners were not comfortable with the new digital work methodology, and,
Challenges faced: for some, it was not easy not having a physical school manual or other training
materials in paper.
Based on the efforts of the VET provider, it is believed that this good practice can
Potential for wider be widely applied. However, for those other institutions they need to provide good
application: internet access and more advanced technological equipment. This usually means
more financial capacity for ensuring computers or tablets per learner.

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