"The Agrarian Vocational School of Vagos was founded in September 1989 by program contract concluded between the Municipality of Vagos, Vagos Agricultural Cooperative and Agricultural Secondary School of Vagos. In the year 2000 it takes the designation of Vocational School of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vagos (in Portuguese, EPADRV), assuming the status of public authority and moves to Gafanha da Boa Hora, where occupies an area of approximately 10 hectares.EPADRV, investing and developing their work in proximity with the region in which it operates, is today a center of development in the areas of Agropecuary, restoration, environmental and rural tourism and renewable energies with the HelioAgro project. It also promotes contests, events, catering services. It produces daily hundreds of liters of milk and annually tons of vegetables.Under the slogan ""A school for everyone, qualifying each one"", it has responded to dozens of youngsters, who annually seek for a qualified training of excellence. In the constant encouragement to youngsters to complete their school careers successfully, the school instituted awards for the best students in different courses, thus recognizing individual merit and the action of every student in school and in extra-school community activities.A school is not only done by students and therefore the training body has not been neglected. All the training body members have training available to them, through the training center or partner companies. This training is always an asset and, in some cases, a requirement for the reviews. For EPADRV it means leveraging and maximizing the potential of each professional trainer and teacher, in order to ensure the greatest success of their students.EPADRV defined their project through the identified needs, taking as general objectives: ➲ Promote new experiences and life-experiences in international territory ➲ Promote the interest of learning other languages ➲ Provide training skills to youngsters that enable them to be co-responsible in the economic recovery of the region and the country ➲ Provide visits and international internships of reference ➲ Fight school abandonment➲ Promote the employability of its students, with a target of 75% ➲ Increase the mechanisms of internal management, planning and monitoring of activities ➲ Promote a continuous training plan based on the needs detected by teaching and non-teaching staff ➲ Promote stability among teaching and non teaching staff, with updated skills and more ability to respond to the challenges posed by a student body in constant changeFor this project we propose the involvement of several participants, covering all the bodies of the school: ➲ 15 students from vocational training: 4 from Agricultural Production; 4 from Equine Management; 4 of Restoration 4 of Industrial Maintenance ➲ 5 teachers of Portuguese, Mathematics, Philosophy, English and ICT. ➲ 5 (technical/ operational) professionals: 2 Administrative, 1 Librarian, 1 Operational Assistant and 1 Coordination of School Administration ServicesThe activities planned to take place during the project are: STUDENTS - Academic Internship (12 weeks) and language and cultural training course (1 week) EXPECTED TIMETABLE - June to September 2015STAFF – Activities of job shadowing (2 weeks)EXPECTED TIMETABLE – April and May 2015Destination of the mobilities:France / Spain / Germany➲ 15 students from the courses of Agrarian Production; Equine Management; Restoration (Cooking&Bakery/Restaurant Industrial MaintenanceSpain➲ 2 teachers – Mathematics and Philosophy➲ 3 staff - SAE Coordination; Librarian; Operational AssistantItaly➲ 3 teachers– ICT, Portuguese and English➲ 2 staff – administrativeThe desired impacts in the PARTICIPANTS are: ➲ Strengthening the personal profile of the participants ➲ Improved self-esteem➲ Solid European experience and knowledge of European dynamics ➲ Master of strategic European languages ➲ Increased motivation for the studies ➲ New entrepreneurial attitudes and of personal investment ➲ Attitudes to enhance human rights, citizenship and gender equality ➲ Consolidation of the certified Skills in the training path ➲ Up to date and competent teaching and non-teaching staff ➲ Competent technicians in school management and relationship with students ➲ New methods of fighting failure in core subjects ➲ Setting a larger network of peer contacts at the European levelThe disclosure and dissemination of the project will take place at the beginning, middle and end, using Internet, press and radio, and with the following target-audience: ➲ School community ➲ Population of the county ➲ Companies and prospective employers in the region ➲ International network of partners ➲ Partners / international investors – promotion of the regionThe international partners will promote the project in their networks.All the documents will be included in the final report."

The Covilhã.Forma consortium was created with the intention of giving an answer to the will shown by each of the schools: to offer its students the possibility of carrying out an internship in an international context, as a vehicle for training and regional development.The consortium was formed by the city of Covilha and five schools in the county: Associação para a Formação Tecnológica e Profissional da Beira Interior (AFTEBI) Escola Secundária Quinta das Palmeiras (ESQP) Escola Secundária Campos Melo (ESCM) Escola Profissional Agrícola Quinta da Lageosa (EPAQL) Escola Secundária Frei Heitor Pinto (ESFHP)Each of these schools, by itself, did not have the human, financial resources and even time, allowing them to submit an individual application.The Municipality has emerged as the obvious coordinator for the consortium, since it has all the necessary means and already has the role of mediator in the management of relations between the various County schools, from preschool to higher education.Furthermore, and as is the will of all stakeholders, the establishment of a broad consortium secured the impact of a joint project have been much higher.The project developed from the county needs recognition and schools and is in its interconnection that define their objectives: combat dropout and truancy Advancing national character and international projects Promote Vocational Education as a quality alternative promote the social inclusion of young people in socio-economic disadvantage Ensure qualified professionals in the county develop policies and actions to support County youth build new networks of local and international partnershipThe ultimate goal was to increase the employability of young competent professionals and thereby promote human settlement in the region.All these objectives have contributed to the development of schools and county.The participants in this project were 20 students (4 students per school) following the sending schools and the respective vocational training courses:• Escola Profissional Agrícola Quinta da Lageosa (EPAQL) - Course Equine Management (2 members), Agricultural Production Course Variant Animal (2 participants)• Escola Secundária Campos Melo (ESCM)- Fashion Production Course (1 participant), Event Management Course (1 participant), Mechatronics course (2 participants)• Escola Secundária Frei Heitor Pinto (ESFHP)- Environmental Management degree (2 participants), Sports Management Course (2 participants)• Associação para a Formação Tecnológica e Profissional da Beira Interior (AFTEBI)- Industrialization Course Product Fashion (2 participants) Programming Course Computer Systems (1 participant), Mechatronics Technology Course (1 participant)• Escola Secundária Quinta das Palmeiras (ESQP)- Multimedia Course (3 participants), Tourism Course (1 participant)Performed activities:The activities planned by the participants for this project included the preparation process, the language course (1 week), the internship with the 12 weeks and the evaluation and certification of mobility.In the case of a consortium, in the management and monitoring of the project, meetings were held between the different partners in order to plan the entire project implementation and dissemination.Mobilities will take place between June and September 2015 and September and December 2015:Italy - 4 participantsUnited Kingdom - 4 participantsSpain - 6 participantsFrance - 6 participantsAll participants received the Europass Mobility, language course certificate, internship certificate and promoter of the certificate.The main impacts recorded in this project were:- Personal Profile Strengthening and professional participants- Self-esteem improved by recognition of new knowledge- Greater openness and connection of participants and community to Europe- European solid professional experience, knowledge of European dynamics in terms of the labor market- New valuation of attitudes of human rights, citizenship, gender equality and equal opportunities- Elimination of barriers to the mobility of people, ideas and knowledge- Domain strategic European languages, and consequent greater integration odds on the European labor market- Skills certified in consolidated training course- Reducing the dropout rate- Recognition of the validity and importance of vocational courses- Definition of new strategies and approach of the training curriculum to the European context- Partnerships with companies at European level consolidated- Needs of employers answered the countyThe dissemination of the project resorted to different means allowed to disclose their impact both in terms of schools or the county. They were used as media: internet, radio, press, with articles, photos and videos. It is also being planned to organize a final seminar of the project.

The project SCIENCE is born on the basis of previous projects, always in LLP-Leonardo da Vinci IVT contest, made by the Sarrocchi, and this year it involves all professional profiles of the school (chemical thecnician; construction technician; electronic technician; computing technician; mechanical and mechatronic technician) because of the widespread interest in the mobility proposed in previous school years.It has been developed by the school and matured in the context of Siena area, which has seen in the recent years a deep economic and social development, but also in a European context..The project will contribute to meet the needs of various actors, physical and legal, of the local territory in general: the students of the Institute, many companies in the sectors related to these areas of study, education institutions, public bodies responsible for economic development, education and connection to school and work.The basic need is to train a new generation of experts (connected to the above mentioned profiles), in order to possess the skills needed because of the rapid evolution of technology (including the UE key competence of the language, personal growth, transversal abilities and the professional skills ...) . Therefore we believe that the participants would get concrete answers to the need to update, professionalization, improvment of skills and operational capabilities, through an international internship.More specifically, the aims of the participants, will focus on the acquisition/improvemento of:- skills related to the professional profile (different for each profile) - language and UE key competences (same for all the profiles)- transnversal (same for all the profiles)Objectives of the promoter and the partnership are:- to increase the quality of training- to expand and improve the skills of their students- to make students more employable- to connect the world of school to work in order to meet the needs of the local and European market.- to promote the use of ECVET tools in the recognition of mobility experiencesExpected results include increased training and employability of the participants, an increased efficiency of company partners who may have qualified and updated staff, an improvement of the courses offered by the Institute Sarrocchi in terms of quality and European dimension.The participants will be 70 students (4 with special needs) and 8 accompanying teachers (2 for participants with special needs):The expected flows are as follows:Jan-Feb 2015: Paragon Europe Malta (1 flow): 14 learners Jun-Jul 2015: AIP and Oneco Spagna (2 flows) 14 learnersSep-Oct 2015: ECTARC Galles and InternEurope Belfast (UK) (2 flows)14 + 14 learnersJun-Jul 2016: Globtrain Berlino (D) (1 flow) 14 learners.The project will have a total duration of 24 months.Project partners are: public entities, SME connected to the sectors of the projects, vocational trainingn institutes. For project management Sarrocchi the Institute, in its fifth experience of project management LLP-Leonardo da Vinci IVT will use its tools and instruments of T-TACTIC@SCOOL manual for the management of international internships for schools.

Nowadays, only 20% of the whole plastic production is recycled due to barriers such as the presence of complex fractions in the waste streams including contaminants or multilayer materials or the mix of plastics with other types of waste that cannot be sorted in a feasible way. This situation implies a high environmental impact when plastic waste is landfilled or incinerated, so new solutions other than mechanical recycling must be developed to significantly increase the amount of plastics being valorized into new feedstocks. PLASTICE was conceived to solve this need by developing a set of new valorization processes that are aligned with the most relevant roadmaps of chemical recycling technologies at European level. Therefore, main efforts will be devoted to the design, development and demonstration under real conditions together with EU waste managers of four valorization technologies: (i) MW-assisted pyrolysis; (ii) hydrothermal liquefaction; (iii) Combined gasification and chemical post-treatment and (iv) Cascade enzymatic hydrolysis. Moreover, PLASTICE overall approach will deploy innovative elements along the whole value chain with the objective of integrating green technologies for the new processes to become sustainable and closing the loop to deliver circular value chains around plastics (including textiles with plastic content). Therefore, PLASTICE works both upstream and downstream the valorization processes, integrating new sorting systems, quality upgrading technologies, digitalization tools and eco-design principles together with new business models linked to each step of the circular value chains. Following this approach, PLASTICE will impact on the amount of landfilled plastics and GHG emissions linked to process operation and fossil fuels-based feedstock. Its replication will be supported by contributing to the development of new standards and regulations, and by creating a community of followers supported by PLASTICE tools and consortium.