The EPAR MOVE 3 project allowed EPAR’s international development (it started with the EPAR MOVE) to continue beyond its horizons, making it a school distinguished by the guarantee of an excellent offer and the good interpersonal relations it promotes by providing a healthy growth space for students and professional satisfaction among the school staff. Through this project, it was possible to send in mobility for curricular and extracurricular internships: 12 11th grade students from the following courses: Management - Human Resources, Tourism and Multimedia as well as 8 recent graduates from Tourism and Commerce courses.The destinations for the internships were: Spain (Bilbao), United Kingdom (Derry), Slovenia (Liubliana). Mobility for the job-shadowing programme was not implemented due to structural changes in the organisation in the second semester of 2017. The objectives of the project were: -To create training and personal development opportunities for EPAR students and alumni on a European leve,l aiming to enhance their employability skills, their affirmation and integration – Strengthen EPAR’s educational project through the creation of networks and actions aiming to train professionals and citizens with equal opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age , gender or geographical origin - Launch the basis for networks at European level for a greater dialogue and relationship between Vocational Training and the Labour Market. After completing this project, we can say that it was a great success for both EPAR and the students. The results achieved were as follows: Students - Consolidated CVs - Higher employability - Fluency in foreign languages - Domain of specific ICT and software - Knowing how to behave in a social and work context - Notion of the importance of lifelong participation in international mobility projects - Creation of social and professional networks - Adoption of healthy habits and behaviours - Reinforcement of European values - Reduction of failure rates and school drop out - Students with more structured life plans towards their future, (international mobility has become a goal for many to achieve) - Adoption of new, improved or adapted working methods in the organisation of the educational project – Promotion of EPAR’s participation in new international projects - Use of ICT as a tool for working and relationshi reinforcement between partners and work communities.

"The project "" Scuola Lavoro Europa "" has been promoted by a varied and complementary consortium: 5 institutes ( IFOM , Istituto Cattaneo - Deledda , Institute Elsa Morante , ITCS Rosa Luxemburg , Meucci IISS ) the Emilia-Romagna region through the information desk Europe Direct and CNA Bologna, the association representing the SMEs of Bologna. The consortium has been assembled considering the need to ensure an educational success of the economic - administrative students, reducing dropouts, improving skills and concrete employment opportunities for learners. The consortium has identified on one hand a discrepancy between the number of students enrolled in vocational schools and, on the other, between graduated students competencies and the ones demanded by labor market. Consortium’s schools are facing two major risks of the labor market: - The skill-mismatch between specific and transversal competencies of the students that are finishing their education and the skills requested by the labor market; - The mismatch between the demand and offer of occupation in the administrative and commercial sector. The project ""Scuola Lavoro Europa"" aimed to overcome these problems. The project lasted 17 months (from 01/09/2017 to the 31/01/2019) and included two activities: 1) Mobility of 80 students and 22 teachers for internships abroad , divided into five flows of 1 month each. 2) Mobility of 20 newly graduates for internship abroad divided into four flows of three months each.Among the students will be included at least 24 (30%) students with fewer opportunities and 10 students with special needs (DSA and BES).The mobilities have been organized in 3 phases (May 2018, June/July 2018 and September/November 2018) The objectives achieved by the consortium with these activities are: - Strengthening student’s motivation and orientation into labor market, through internships abroad; - Develop the recognition and validation of learners' Learning Outcomes with ECVET; - Extend to the abroad, the territorial limits of carrying out the training programs, in order to improve school-work combination’s capacity and skills; - Promote students’ personal growth through discussion and widening of cultural horizons, social and human rights; - Strengthen linguistic and multicultural skills of learners; - Provide a European awareness and education to internationalization to students and school staff; - Expanding students labor market’s knowledge, through a varied awareness, diverse and transnational; - Enhancing training quality, by identifying an inner linguistic competencies development plan, to include in training programs; - Develop, considering large number of consortium’s members, a collective consciousness on practical work placements abroad, involving local and international companies, civil society, policy makers and public bodies; - Improve the ability to ensure internships abroad in a cohesive and efficient manner, sharing good practices, creating a complementary skills and contacts system, centralizing services related to the organization and management of mobility; - Strengthen transnational relations numbers and quality of this consortium, developing new contacts and new opportunities for cooperation. The outcomes of the mobilities had a relevant impact on a wide number of actors:- Students, that improved their transversal and professional competencies and will be more competitive on labor’s market;- Schools, which started a process of modernization and internationalization of their educational offer, increasing their appeal and - Companies, which will satisfy their demand in terms of number and competencies.- Indirect beneficiaries, with dissemination activity, which will benefit by peers experience- Other stakeholders, that will benefit of new consortium competencies in terms of new relations and future projects."

STARDUST serves as smart connector bringing together advanced European cities and citizens of Pamplona (ES), Tampere (FI) and Trento (IT) - with the associated follower cities of Derry (UK), Kozani (GR) and Litomerice (CZ). These six cities, collaborating with relevant industrial partners, including a variety of innovative local SME, and supported by academia and research centres will demonstrate three lighthouse cities, deploy intelligent integration measures, test and validate technical solutions and innovative business models, and deliver blueprints for replication throughout Europe and abroad. The objective of STARDUST project is to pave the way towards the transformation of the carbon supplied cities into Smart, high efficient, intelligent and citizen oriented cities, developing urban technical green solutions and innovative business models, integrating the domains of buildings, mobility and efficient energy through ICT, testing and validating these solutions, enabling their fast roll out in the market . The core idea of the STARDUST project is the demonstration of different “innovation islands” as urban incubators of technological, social, regulatory and market solutions which, once validated, could contribute to this objective of transformation of our cities towards Smart Cities. The integrated approach of STARDUST is based in the combination of technological solutions with human being reflected in joint decision making, economic constraints, citizen’s governance, etc. The STARDUST Smart City concept has been designed to enhance the integration of all these aspects to define a new Urban Metabolism.

The LOGRO-EUROPE III project has sought to go a step further than what has been done in the past. In addition to providing training support to recent VET graduates for the performance of quality training practices in a working environment in other European countries, through providing them with the tools to face their access to the labour market in the best possible way, it has also been intended to promote among the participants the values that make up the spirit of a common European citizenship through their respective mobilities, as well as the inclusion and social integration of all its citizens.To this end, Logroño City Council created a Consortium made up of 6 local centres that provide professional training and have extensive experience in the field of mobility projects (IES Comercio, IES La Laboral, IES Batalla de Clavijo, Colegio Paula Montal, Colegio Sagrado Corazón and IES Duques de Nájera).The consortium focused the project on a total of 36 young people (finally, the participation was of 35) of legal age and under 35 years old, students of Vocational education and training in one of the formative centers that conformed it, with the purpose that these carried out their Training in Working Centers (FCT) outside of Spain.The professional sectors that were involved in the project were:- Administrative management: 11 participants.- Microcomputer systems and networks: 5 participants.- Commercial activities: 5 participants.- Pharmacy and parapharmacy: 4 participants.- Health emergencies: 3 participants.- Laboratory practices: 3 participants.- Electrical and automatic installations: 2 participants.- Care for dependent persons: 1 participant.- Hairdressing and hair cosmetics: 1 participant.- Nursing auxiliary care technician: 1 participant.The 35 selected participants received an online language course in which they would develop their professional practices in European companies related to their respective areas of study, the duration of which was a total of 85 days.In each of the destination cities, the Consortium had the collaboration of an intermediary partner, thus consolidating the quality of the project: Accademia Europea di Firenze (Italy), Euroyouth (Portugal), Amadeus Association (Austria) and Foyle International (Ireland).In relation to the specific objectives of the project:- Participants have been able to complete the process of acquiring quality training and have been promoted to carry out effective and specialized professional internships abroad.- The lack of connection between the world of business and education and their respective needs has been contested, building bridges and synergies between the two.- A better recognition of the competences acquired by the participants during their respective stays abroad has been ensured.- The participants' entrepreneurial capacity for the creation of more autonomous and sustainable societies within Europe has been fostered.- Young people have been made aware of the opportunities offered by new sources of employment.The results have also been positive for the 35 participants:- They have gained professional experience within their working sector.- They have developed transversal competences (entrepreneurship, digital competences).- They have trained their personal skills (autonomy, sense of responsibility and communication skills, among others).- They have improved a second language (English) or have learned a new one (Italian, Portuguese and even German).- They have enjoyed several social and cultural experiences in an environment different from that of their country of origin.LOGRO-EUROPE III has also offered, as an added value, a programme of itineraries for labour insertion, making available to all participants, on their return from their respective mobilities, the services of employment orientation by the local partners of the consortium.

"Over the past 20 years, the technical and vocational education has been subject to numerous reforms and changes that had weakened the training offer. Add to this the phenomenon of widespread Italic ""genericism"" that, pushing students towards a choice of extensive and generic studies, is actually the main reason of demotivation towards studies and school drop-out.These elements move in contrast with the needs of the labor market for technical-professional and in particular in tourism and hotel sector. Similarly, the demand for labor, in conjunction with the technological development and competitiveness of the market, requires increasingly specific skills and the same employers recognize that the preparation of the staff coming out of the training course is not always adequate.To complete the picture, it is estimated that in the near future, at the conclusion of the current economic crisis, the demand for labor will greatly increase, with particular reference to its technical and professional fields. In this context the institutes IFOM, Varalli, Bertarelli and Besta have found the common need to compensate the mismatch between training offer and the needs of enterprises, reducing the mismatch between demand and supply of labor, reduce early school leaving and improving integration between schools and business. The realization of this general objective went through the achievement of the following specific results:- For students, to strengthen their professional skills, transversal and personal, enhancing their career prospects and their motivation, creating a sense of entrepreneurship, emancipation, European and intercultural awareness;- For the staff involved, to improve their professional and linguistic skills, to understand the practices related to the world of education and its links with the world of work, to understand the social, linguistic and cultural differences, to increase the ability to address the needs of the most disadvantaged and to strengthen the capacity to sustain their motivation to work; - For the organizations involved, to learn to operate internationally, to understand how to provide the most stimulating educational activities, to create a modern and dynamic working environment, to develop activities good for the whole civil society.For this reason, the project ""Learning in hospitality Europe by undergoing a traineeship VET"" promoted the development of internships abroad for students of the consortium schools. The project included two activities:1) Mobility of 92 students and 17 accompaying persons for an internship abroad lasting one month;2) Mobility of 19 neo-graduates for an internship abroad lasting 10 weeksThe activities included the selection and preparation of students, the organization of the mobilities, activities abroad, evaluations, dissemination and follow-up activities.Between the participants were involved 33 students with fewer opportunities, including 11 with special needs (DSA or BES). The impact of the proposed actions was wide and involved multiple levels of recipients in direct and indirect manner:STUDENTS:- Competitiveness on the labor market;- Improving their social skills;- The acquisition of transversal skills (self-esteem, responsibility, ability to take tasks, ...) will also bring benefits to emancipation and employability;- Peers of the students are indirect beneficiaries, through the experiences of the participants in the action. TEACHERS:- The renewed interest in teaching will bring greater efficiency in learning of the students;- Sharing a common experience with the students will produce a greater understanding of their difficulties and more effective communication between teachers and students;- A better understanding of the labor market in Europe will offer more precise knowledge in supporting the education of students. SCHOOLS:- Increased ability to manage projects;- Increased understanding of the training gaps of students who are entering the world of work;- Development of ECVET as tools for the recognition and validation of students' Learning Outcomes;- Increased understanding of the tourist business processes in Europe;- Increased ability to intervene on motivation and orientation of students, particularly those with fewer opportunities;- Increased competitiveness of vocational schools, compared to other training institutions, crediting the institutions involved at the local level;- Refinement of the offer of training based on the skills and specific needs of the students, thanks to new contacts with foreign companies;- Training of students in line with market requirements;- Increased internationalization of training institutions, in line with European standards of education.The project's impact has been disseminated by the Europe Direct Regione Lombardia among citizens, schoold and local companies."