The document describes committees established at a vocational training center to promote student participation in decision making. There are four committees focused on labor hazard prevention, environment, image/communication, and coexistence. Each committee consists of 12 students and 2 teachers and meets weekly. The committees are responsible for monitoring their respective areas, identifying improvement opportunities, developing plans, implementing measures, and communicating results. The goal is to foster transversal skills and ensure knowledge transfer through hands-on experience.

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COMMITTEES
Fostering the active
participation in the decision-
making through working teams
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Purpose
Favour the transversal competences
such as Labour risk prevention,
Environment, Image and
Communication, and Coexistence by
making working groups.
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Objectives
•The students take active part in decision
making in the centre , as well as its
improvement, through formalising
working teams.
•Ensure the knowledge transfer regarding
transversal competences; as people
“learn by doing”.
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Composition
•There are four committees (working
teams): Labour Hazard Prevention,
Environment, Image and Communication,
and Coexistence.
•Each committee consists of:
- 12 students: six first-year students
and six second-year students.
- Two teachers: one first-year teacher
and one second-year teacher.
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Organization
•Each committee meets weekly for an
hour.
•The representatives are selected in each
group by voting, after having performed a
dynamics to determine each person’s
strong points within the group.
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Functions (1/2)
•Call for the weekly meetings
•Carry out a surveillance on safety,
recycling, image and coexistence.
•Identify the improvement areas and
prioritise them.
•Elaborate a performance plan
•Manage the implementation of
improvement measures.
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Functions (2/2)
•Control and evaluate processes and
results.
•Elaborate the minutes of each meeting.
•Communicate the identified
improvement areas and their results to
the centre. It is done through staff
meetings, assemblies, specific notice
boards…
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Produced by Fondo Formacion
Euskadi in the framework of
Erasmus+ project
“Open Professional Collaboration for
Innovation”
Contributors: Marta Palacio
This project has been funded by Erasmus + programme
of the European Union. This OER reflects the views only
of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein.