The Centre Forestier and the project partners applied for this project due to the identified need to improve the competences of their VET trainers and to implement in their training new pedagogics producing higher results and higher satisfaction among the trainers as among the trainees. The project is the continuation of the BLEFT project ( Erasmus+ KA2 2018-2021) during which the concept of learner-centric approaches and gamification were learnt by the partners and applied to blended-learning. The project consists in applying those approaches to face-to-face trainings in order to achieve the need identified above. Through the learner-centric approaches, the partners intend to tackle the following difficulties identified during face-to-face VET trainings :

Lack of motivation
Establishment of a participative learning environment
Establishment of a true trainer-trainee connection
Adaptation of the trainings to trainees with different learning styles
Adaptation of the trainings to trainees with learning and concentration difficulties ( DYS, TDAH notably)
Talking efficiently to trainees about safety
Conducting a training course by videoconference
Introducing digital tools in face-to-face trainings

Finally, an ultimate need is tackled through this project : the need to put forward and raise awareness on sustainable and climate-friendly forestry among the population, here more specifically among VET trainees as a part of the population generally not targeted by communication on sustainable forestry.