”GLO-VET - making vocational education promote global responsibility and sustainable actions”, shortly called GLO-VET project aims at tackling the most serious issue of our time – sustainable development and particularly climate change in the context of vocational education and training (VET). This will be done by developing the professional skills of teachers in vocational colleges to integrate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their teaching, collaborating with relevant actors outside the college, and strengthening the student voice and democratic participation opportunities through local action projects.The GLO-VET project team includes four partners: three VET colleges from Finland, Sweden, Latvia, as well as a small education-focused multimedia company from Spain.OBJECTIVES1.For VET teachers to learn new pedagogical methods to mainstream UN sustainable development goals in their teaching, network with other teachers and share their experiences and good practices2.For VET students to become responsible global citizens - ambassadors for sustainability - by developing their key competences, including civic and sustainable development competences, social and intercultural competences, critical thinking and creativity3.For partner organisations to adopt a whole school approach, and to develop social and environmental responsibility of educational institutionsPARTICIPANTSThe direct participants of the project are VET teachers and students in three partner schools. In total 9 VET teachers from partner countries and 60 VET students from partner countries will participate actively in the project, mainly from the fields of tourism, catering, business, IT and media. The indirect participants of the project include:- 20 VET teachers in each partner school trained in workshops during the project, in total 60 teachers- 1200 VET students reached on the topic of sustainable development through trained teachers- 900 people reached through local actions (campaigns, events, workshops etc) organised in partner schools throughout the projectACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGYThe preparation phase includes an online meeting, practical arrangements and a LTT kick-off week for VET teachers and management in Finland in December 2020. The good practices learnt and shared during the project will be more widely disseminated in our partner colleges through internal workshops and other communication efforts.Blended mobility combines local student-led activities with online collaboration, and three physical mobilities, LTT activity weeks for five students and two teachers in Sweden, Latvia and Finland. Local activities can include campaigns, events, theme days or social media communication to spread awareness on UN SDGs in the school and municipality. Students will exchange their experiences, thoughts and plans with their peers in partner countries through online collaborative workspaces (eg. eTwinning, G Suites).The LTT weeks will provide the chance to share experiences, and both for students and teachers to gain new knowledge, skills and ideas for future activities related to UN SDGs, as well as to develop the content for the project output.As a practical pedagogical tool and the final project output for wider dissemination, the project team will be developing a website with two parts: learning kits on UN SDGs to be used by teachers and students, and a game platform for testing skills and sharing the results with social networks. The website will be available in English, Finnish, Swedish and Latvian. RESULTS1. VET teachers will have improved competences to integrate sustainable development and global citizenship topics in their teaching through engaging and motivating ways, using non-formal, project-based and inquiry-based learning methods2. VET students will have developed their key competences as global citizens through more opportunities for participation, this way increasing student well-being and positive climate actions in the partnering VET colleges3. Partner VET colleges will have improved their approach to social and environmental responsibility through more strategic sustainability planning, increased visibility of sustainable development at the college, and improved cooperation with local working life and other actors related to sustainable development (municipalities, NGOs, museums, artists, research institutes etc)As a longer-term benefit of the project, the aim is to influence policy-makers at different levels to highlight the necessity of developing global citizenship competences of VET students, both on the curriculum-level, but also translated into practical teaching skills through pedagogical mentoring, tools and training of VET teachers. Having competent, motivated teachers, and committed management of VET colleges to support them, are the key for engaging VET students in learning and becoming responsible global citizens for more sustainable futures.