Marijke Peusken_Aventus_Inclusion

Marijke Peusken

Marijke Peusken is an ICT lecturer at Aventus in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, where she has been teaching with great enthusiasm for over three years. She lives in Zutphen, a historic city with roots dating back to Viking times.

As a career changer, Marijke started teaching in the field of Health and Social Care while simultaneously completing her teacher training — a common route in Dutch vocational education (MBO).

Her career path combines two main themes: care and ICT. Initially trained as a specialist pedagogue for children with intellectual disabilities, she worked in residential care for several years. After the birth of her son in the early 1990s, she taught herself ICT and moved into the tech industry — from selling digital X-ray systems and networks for dental practices to working in advanced security technology for clients like the police.

Marijke brings this unique blend of experience into her classroom, making theory relevant and engaging. A highlight of her teaching career was participating in the international BIDS exchange program in Finland, where she experienced the shared global mission of vocational educators: putting students first.

Bridge the Ocean project

Bridge the Ocean is a partnership project of the Erasmus+ program, which creates a model of global mobility and cooperation between European and Canadian Colleges.

The partners are four vocational education and training (VET) colleges from Finland, two from Canada and one from the Netherlands and Denmark. In the project, two European and one Canadian study units are planned, which will be piloted with a multinational group during the project.

The project is the first European Erasmus+ VET project that involves partners from outside Europe. The main goals of the Bridge the Ocean partnership project are to increase the number of global mobility of students and experts, teachers, and at the same time promote the development of both professional and international competence and key skills.

The project seeks visibility and interest in the internationalization of VET.

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BIDS

Bridging Inclusion Digitalization & Sustainability
The BIDS project has three main objectives.

Building and strengthening partnerships to support the implementation and development of internationalization strategies.
Supporting the quality of staff and student mobility between two continents
Combining the previous two goals in such a way that we create a model of how the priorities of the Erasmus+ program, inclusion, digitalization, and sustainability, can be realized in the strategies of the VET providers.

The partners are four vocational education and training colleges from Finland, two from Canada, and one from Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The project will consist of three different modules: a Sustainability module in Nova Scotia Canada, a Digitalization module in the Netherlands, and an Inclusion module in Finland. These modules will be attended by students and staff from participating partner schools, representing a mix of different educational sectors. We believe that this diverse group will not only enhance students’ soft skills but also foster their international competences.

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