JUMP TO EUROPE develops an international activity for IES HELIOPOLIS, a public VET School. The project sets mobility opportunities for students and staff belonging to VET education. The aims of the project are:- To develop an international dimension of the CentreTo improve the offer- To offer the possibility for some students of doing international internships that will be validated as FCT and with validation through EUROPASS system tools- To fund these experiences- To improve our students' employability- To promote languages learning- To Develop cross competences, both personal and professional- To update and improve trainers' competences- To acquire competences on the management of European projectsThe project will include:- 9 week international internships for 22 students from the last year of vocational training studies. Participants will go to Germany, Lithuania, United Kingdom and Italy. the experience will be validated by EUROPASS system tool and FCT (in Spain)- 1 week job shadowing in Italy (3 participants) and Germany (3 participants), with the objective of learning about new methodologies, ideas and experiences regarding the internships of local students in local companies.- 2 week mobility for 10 students of Gastronomy, who will be working and practicing in a similar school in Verona (Italy), developing a specific learning on methodology and new techniques. Professional sectors will be: Gastronomy, Tourism, Catering sector, Office management, Electronics, and heating system fieldJUMP TO EUROPE will carry out mobilities in may and june 2018, but activities will start two months before when participants will be selected. There will be an extensive pedagogic and intercultural preparation of the participants. there will be some innovative tools and iniciatives that will work on minimise the risk associated to this experiences for young people with low language skills. Phases of the project will be:- Call and selection- Preparatopm- Mobilities- Evaluation y awarding- Disemination (in every phase)

JUMP TO EUROPE is a project designed for enhancing IES HELIOPOLIS's international scope , that has some experience on the matter as a consequence of the specific participation in other projects the aims of the project are:- To develop an international dimension of the Centre- To improve the offer- To offer the possibility for some students of doing international internships that will be validated as FCT and with validation through EUROPASS system tools - To fund these experiences- To improve our students' employability- To promote languages learning- To Develop cross competences, both personal and professional- To update and improve trainers' competences- To acquire competences on the management of European projects The project has included:- 9 week international internships for 16 students from the last year of vocational training studies. Participants have been in Germany, Lithuania, United Kingdom and Italy. the experience has been validated by EUROPASS system tool and FCT (in Spain)- 1 week job shadowing in Italy (3 participants) and Germany (3 participants), with the objective of learning about new methodologies, ideas and experiences regarding the internships of local students in local companies. Professional sectors involved: Gastronomy, Tourism, Catering sector, Office management, and Electronics. JUMP TO EUROPE has carried out mobilities in May and June 2017, but activities have started two months before when participants had been selected. There had been an extensive pedagogic and intercultural preparation of the participants. Some innovative tools and initiatives has been used to minimise the risk associated to this experiences for young people with low language skills. All the project long, a TIC platform has been used for communication and documentation management, that has allowed every participant to have and verify any information. The phases of the project have been:- Call and selection - Preparation- Mobilities- Evaluation and awarding- Dissemination (in every phase).

SHINE PV will develop alternative technological routes to PV production for Silicon Heterojunction and TOPCon solar cells, covering the three key steps in the back-end manufacturing: metallization, post-processing and interconnection. SHINE PV will demonstrate different flows and down-select the most promising ones in terms of cost of ownership and high volume manufacturing readiness. Advanced equipment at TRL7 with Industry 4.0 dedicated features, innovative materials and solutions will be developed. For the metallization, SHINE PV will introduce parallel dispensing and plating as High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) alternative processes to incumbent screen printing, with the objective of demonstrating the complete or partial replacement of Ag with Cu, a fundamental step to enable Tera-Watt scale production levels. Moreover, SHINE PV will increase the efficiency through cell post-processing by applying Light Soaking process in HVM and recover the cutting-induced losses by Edge Re-Passivation. For the module making step, the innovations in interconnection proposed are Twill and Shingling processes and HVM equipment. Both will leverage on the optimization of the metallization and post-processing steps and will demonstrate their potential in terms of superior electrical properties, aesthetics, reliability, and compatibility with premium module designs. The expectation of the project is to enable an increase of solar cell (or module) efficiency of 0.5% absolute versus the reference process with a simultaneous CoO reduction of 20%, due to reduced material costs and increased equipment productivity. SHINE PV project will demonstrate the integrated innovative processes and novel equipment both virtually and within physical pilots at industrial partners at TRL7. To our knowledge for all these technologies no production equipment is available for HVM worldwide, and we envision a great potential for a PV supply chain revamping in EU.