Improving the Quality of International Education through ECVET Units

This paper describes how a partnership of schools and industrial companies in the field of education and professional preparation focusing on electrical and information engineering can be developed at international and European level, and how to use such partnership in education for international recognition of acquired skills. Our description is based on the implementation of the international project MoVET (Modernisation of VET through Collaboration with the Industry), which represents a Czech-Slovak-Spanish learning base (using English as the reference language) that develops educational materials for new areas, provides - through internships abroad - testing of the acquired theoretical knowledge, and thanks to ECVET learning units also their transformation into the students' real skills. Last but not least, these skills are internationally recognized (within the EU) after passing an examination. The program for students also includes competitions of international student teams. At this point, we can share our practical experience after the first half of the project and introduce the benefits for the involved universities, VET institutions and industrial companies.