The aim of WP2 is to break down the perception of VET as a self-referential system that relies on public funding to deliver vocational training. To dismantle this perception, it is necessary to intervene internally within the VET system (i.e. at organisational level, within the training institutions, to overcome endogenous resistance to change) and externally (i.e. to modernise and streamline the way training organisations are perceived and known).

The objective of WP2 is therefore to intercept the needs, criticalities + potential and opportunities of VET providers to become ‘service providers’ that based on private sector criteria (efficiency, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness) are able to develop lines of services, products, solutions that meet the demand market (of training services, but also and above all of services related to training, such as Human Resources, Innovation, Internationalisation, Networking, Business Management).

As such, WP2 is instrumental in achieving the objectives of the project Business Transformation for VET (BT4VET) project, in particular:

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: to support innovation and competitiveness of VET by making more resilient VET providers who have the potential to become ‘agents of change’ of the socio-economic development of their territories, becoming providers of integrated services for the human and professional resources value chains of the context of intervention.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: to increase the competences of VET managers/leaders in general by enabling them to develop sustainable positioning strategies that enable them to become providers of integrated services to companies and operators of social development on the territory and overcome the two biggest barriers to increasing the level of efficiency and attractiveness of the VET system: 1. internal inertia + 2. External resistance.