The project T. A. CI.T ? through an internships program of 12 weeks (3 months) carried out in 5 EU states (Sweden, Slovenia, UK, Spain, Portugal)has had the following targets-to Complete the specialized training of 17 students (selected among a group of 42 students) enrolled in two biennal training courses ? Ts for Applications of the Data Integration in Cloud environment? and ?TS for Integrated Applications on mobile devices? activated in the school year 2014-2015 by the ITS Kennedy Foundation of Pordenone;- to strengthen directly the employability of the participants, to understand better the objective of EU active citizenship, personal development and welfare (Rethinking education, COM/2012/0669).The target is represented by young people under 35 years old, having a good knowledge of the English Language, at least Liv.B2 QCER, that are available on the labour market, and already involved in the training path as well as in integrated actions of counselling and training (formal, non-formal and informal programs).The two training courses reflected the latest developments of IT applications and the concept itself of IT resources, aiming toward the ?cloud environment? Growth industries - Cloud Computing and Mobile- , identified by the Commission in its recent communication on industrial policy Punto A, pag. 7 COM 2013 582 final) , according to the logic of deliverance from the availability, location and resource management.At the international level, the specific requirements of comparison resulting from the characteristics of ITS programs on cloud technologies, linked to general aspects of changes in the request for skills and training in Europe (CEDEFOP, To analyze the needs of skills and competences 2012-2014), did the experience of internship abroad a natural and desirable integration to the course ITS offered by Kennedy Foundation.Besides the positive integration of this opportunity in the process of personal and professional growth of ITS students, thus developing the principles of European citizenship,it was also a contribution to the socio-economical development ? at a local, national, European level-in general to the development of more relevant and flexible education and training systems - as defined in the renovated Process of Copenhagen (2011-2020) - and being able to communicate with the enterprise system and through the common framework of skills, in particular according to the logic ESCO.The TA.C.I.T project provides, at last, the assessment of skills acquired in the internship period, level 5 EQF, defining it in terms of LOS and throught the recognition of corresponding ECVET credits, with the participation of the board of education and job training of the Region FVG (dott.ssa Ketty Segatti toke place to final meeting of 30 October 2015 to discuss the Erasmus+ benefits in accordance with ECVET system). The expected results and indicators of the project success TA.C.I.T included for first the individual level of the participants In terms of positive conclusion of the training path and the consequent improvement of employability Both on the basis of professional ICT skills , both on the basis of improving language skills in a foreign language, and relational ones, a result of the experience of living abroad. Improvements are however expected as far as the capacity of the Foundation ITS Kennedy is concerned, together with the ITS national system of partnership aimed to meet the training needs of young people oriented to technical vocations last but not least, it contributes to higher levels of innovation enhancing competition between enterprises in an increasingly global environment.

"O “European Report on the Metal Mechanics Sector and VET”, publicado no âmbito do projecto transnacional ISO QUAM, fornece uma ideia clara da previsão dos requisitos de formação no sector metal-mecânico. Em Portugal este sector emprega 7% da força de trabalho do país e lidera a classifica de crescimento dos últimos 25 anos. O crescimento do sector é estimulado especialmente pelo progresso tecnológico que aumenta a produtividade, e que gera mudanças nos requisitos da força de trabalho: trabalhadores pouco formados tornam-se obsoletos e são substituídos por máquinas enquanto a necessidade de trabalhadores especializados está a aumentar.Para responder aos pedidos do mercado do trabalho na procura de trabalhadores especializados, este projecto visou promover a empregabilidade através da mobilidade, para adaptar os sistemas de formação às necessidades do mercado do trabalho e dos aprendizes. Aos participantes foi dada a oportunidade de aprender trabalhando num outro país da União Europeia graças à formação oferecida no Reino Unido, Espanha, Itália, Finlândia.A duração do projecto foi de 24 meses, desde 01/06/2015 até 21/05/2017, enquanto as mobilidades tiveram uma duração de 63 dias, e foram completamente reconhecidas pelas organizações de envio como um período de aprendizagem no estrangeiro.Beneficiários deste projecto foram 94 Jovens estudantes portugueses provenientes de escolas profissionais, que estavam a realizar cursos de formação profissional nos âmbitos da mecânica e da mecatrónica, que compreendem cursos de gestão da produção, manutenção industrial, energias renováveis, refrigeração e ar condicionado, mecatrónica e tecnologias mecânicas. Os participantes foram selecionados independentemente do sexo, raça, cor, origem étnica ou social, idioma, religião ou crença. Os participantes foram seleccionados levando em consideração o seu CV, a carta de motivação e uma entrevista com o pessoal da escola e o coordenador do projecto.Os parceiros estabeleceram indicadores para medir o impacto do projecto:Taxa de satisfação de 70% dos participantes na mobilidade, medida através da aplicação de um questionário aos participantes, uma vez concluída a mobilidade ( foram seleccionadas 13 perguntas, consideradas ""chave"", do questionário submetido através da ""mobility tool"")Taxa de satisfação de 70% das entidades de acolhimento, medida através da aplicação de um questionário após a conclusão da mobilidade.Taxa de satisfação de 70% sobre o desenvolvimento do projecto,; medida com a aplicação de um questionário a todos os parceiros durante a avaliação final (mês 24).Para cada indicador de desempenho, o objectivo da taxa de satisfação de 70% foi alcançado:- taxa de satisfação de 85,6% dos participantes na mobilidade- taxa de satisfação de 83,5% das organizações de acolhimento;- taxa de satisfação de 88,56% dos parceiros que integram o consorcio sobre o desenvolvimento do projecto"

This project, in similarity with other Mobility projects that CENFIM in a continuously way leads, integrates the same objectives and expectations as always, which are characteristic to this European Initiative: Encouraging the growth of professional and personal skills in trainees, extending trainees perspective in relation to professional practice, and strengthening the social, cultural and linguistic dimension through mobility experience provided in other European contexts, giving them a greater sense of European identity and citizenship and contributing to a greater potentiality for mobility in the European Union.This Organization also believes that the opportunity to develop Mobilities in foreign countries reaches two purposes that are of most relevant: one is to promote the excellence in learning, enabling merit as a reward, that stimulate a greater achievement from the trainees in the learning process through objective selection criteria, other is enhancing professional skills and providing new opportunities for employment in Europe, although our trainees have full employability in Portugal in their sector.Aware of the impact that these experiences bring to the trainees in the local communities where CENFIM is placed, and on the other hand our national dimension (13 training centres across different territorial and industrial areas) and the high number of trainees, it was our requirement to decentralised the project, to distribute it into the various regions where we operate, in order to extend as much as possible the impact of these enriching experiences, not only professional, but also social and cultural. In the aftermath of this project, we are proud to have fully achieved these objectives/strategies, as the 30 Mobility for Trainees were fully realized, providing professional experiences (internships) in companies from 7 different countries, distributed by 4 different career prospects (Mechatronics, CNC Programming and Operation, Industrial Maintenance and Refrigeration and Climatization), involving young people from regions as distinct as Sines, Santarém, Peniche, Caldas da Rainha, Marinha Grande, Porto, Ermesinde, Amarante and Trofa, and we are convinced that this geographical heterogeneity has a strong positive impact on the local populations. It was therefore a project of great geographical diversity in the origin and destination of the trainees. It should be remarked that all Mobilities were carried out in a job-training context (Companies from the sector), which were recognized as “Workplace Practice” within the courses the students attended. For this reason these mobilities were evaluated according to CENFIM training evaluation requirements, and all learners had good evaluations with several cases of merit.The Staff mobilities were focused on study visits to homologous institution of CENFIM, that also were intermediate Partners for the trainees’ mobilities as well. So, it had not only been possible to know them better and to exchange experience within the context of industry and training in different European countries (not only boosting their professional skills but also the cultural and social context that these opportunities for contact with different European contexts and organizations necessarily brings); but it also allowed, coinciding the trip dates to allow the staff to accompany the trainees mobilities in their first week, in order to support their integration and the organizational issues of their placements. Unfortunately, one of the staff flow (6 staff) that targeted specific objectives did not occur. This was a long-desired opportunity to visit and acquire skills from a relevant entity as a supplier but also a coach in CNC technology but, unfortunately, despite the many efforts for the right scheduling, it was impossible to match calendars and compromises on a side-by-side basis for these mobilities occur. This even led to a request to extend the project, but the mobilities of these 6 staff were not possible.In short, this project provided 39 Mobilities, involving 10 distinct regions (besides the above-mentioned, Lisbon was one of the cities that provided beneficiaries), to countries as distinct as Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Finland, United Kingdom and Lithuania, contributing to a very strong impact on the beneficiaries' life and work experience, and also bringing a huge increase in CENFIM's European cooperation skills and visibility in communities that are usually less privileged in this kind of initiatives.

Following the previous projects KANT ( ID: 643327) and MAKEOVER ( ID: 674860) and KAIROS (1) (ID743797) KAIRÓS aims at improving the innovation capacity of SMEs in Triveneto area. In particular KAIRÓS: · will support an accurately selected group of SME’s of Triveneto macro region inclined to innovation, in order to design, create and maintain an Innovation Management System (IMS). Enterprises receiving KAIRÓS services will be selected taking into account their innovation potential.These companies will be provided with a specific service for enhancing the innovation management capacity (EIMC), in order to include a systematic innovation approach as an asset for growth and competitiveness; · will support beneficiaries of SME Instrument, FET Open and Fast Track to Innovation with a Key Account Management service focused on helping the companies to better exploit the opportunities offered by these EU-Programmes and reduce time to market; KAIRÓS activities and results will be exploited through Friend Europe-Enterprise Europe Network for animating local events and debates for rising the awareness of the local stakeholders about the European Standard for Innovation Management CEN/TS 16555-1. KAIRÓS will deliver up to 7/10-day service packages according to the invitation from EASME

MAKEOVER project aims at improving the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in Triveneto macro-region (Veneto, Trentino South Tirol, Friuli Venezia Giulia), in North Eastern Italy, in order to help in achieving the targets fixed by the Europe 2020 strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. MAKEOVER project fully addresses the challenges of part 7 – Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises – of HORIZON 2020 Work Programme 2014-2015. It will offer services to SME’s to enhance their capacity in managing innovation. It will promote the importance of Innovation Management and SME Instrument among small and medium enterprises, providing companies more inclined to innovation with two types of professional services: Key Account Management (KAM) for SME’s beneficiaries of SME Instrument and support to establishment of Innovation Management Systems (IMS) for companies with high propension to innovation. KAM service will help selected companies to better exploit the benefit of SME Instrument, accompanying them in finding a suitable coach, identifying and implementing their own exploitation plan. IMS support service will help innovation oriented companies in identifying and establishing their own system of management of innovation as a strategic asset for company growth on the market.