"The European automation and automotive industry has been able to produce the safest, the most silent, the most efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles and products in the world. Its production accounts for a fifth of the world market and employs more than 12.1 million people. It is obvious that this sector is one of the most important field of investment, with 41.5 billion yearly expense for research and development. Nevertheless, the industry needs to modernize constantly, in order to be always competitive.With this purpose, ICT may play a significant role in maintaining the position of automotive industry in the world market. As a matter of fact, both are characterized by the need of increasing the competences of internal resources - from top Manager to qualified employee - and investing, in a process of continuous update and training of its staff, as regards non only the operational activities, but the development of wide competences as well.In this contest, the project “TECH in VET - Technology in Vocational and Educational Training” aimed at promoting mobility experiences abroad for 100 recent graduates in the field of automotive and ICT industry, which had the opportunity of carrying out a 122 - day internship abroad, more precisely in Belgium, United Kingdom and Ireland. In order to facilitate their entrance in the labour market, the participants had the opportunity to participate in professional experiences in hosting companies abroad, characterized by: - the use of innovative learning methods and tools based on the “learning by doing”; - the cooperation and connection between the School and the labour market, in order to have a real and concrete exchange.""TECH in VET"" has achieved the specific objectives set, producing a positive impact on the participants, measurable both in qualitative and quantitative terms:- 30% of the participants received a job offer/continued professional training in the host company abroad;- 35% found work opportunity in Italy on return, in companies operating in the sector of reference;- 25% opted for the continuation of the higher education (University, advanced training courses) in order to complete the personal job profile;- 10% is made up of those who intended to carry out other professional experiences to enrich the technical and practical skills before finding a job (some participants have, for example, taken part in other Erasmus + mobility projects);- moreover, 85% of the participants declared that they have improved their technical and professional skills through mobility, considering, moreover, increasing the chances of finding work both in Italy and in an international context;- the mobility experience served to clarify future expectations and professional goals for approximately 90% of participants;- 80% of participants said to have improved transversal skills (critical thinking, flexibility, spirit of initiative, problem solving, team working), in addition to communication and expression skills in the foreign language.The achievement of these percentages, together with a medium-high level of satisfaction expressed by the totality of the participants, is indicative of a generally positive impact of ""TECH in VET"". As for participating organizations (Educational Institutions, the Municipality of Bologna, Unindustria Bologna, Formamentis Srl, Confimi and the companies involved), the partnership has obtained an improvement in the ability to cooperate at a European level by strengthening the collaboration with some institutions and establishing new contacts with foreign actors; the acquisition of new working methods to improve the training offer in the field of vocational training and the adoption of an innovative working modus operandi, in line with the European proposals and the international context; the development and implementation of the internationalization strategies of the single entities; the improvement of training evaluation and verification methods together with the collection of inputs for the integration of learning and teaching approaches adapted to the professional needs of the local companies."

"The project “S.E.E.D.S. - Strengthening knowlEdge and compEtences to Develop new Skills ""(2018-1-IT01-KA102-006370) was developed by UNCI Agroalimentare with the help of the national Consortium and its varied foreign partnership. Agri-food and Tourism, Trade and Marketing, represented the reference sectors of the project and its VET actions. The project actions were aimed at 111 young graduates from school curricula related to the sectors above mentioned: Agriculture, Agri-food and Agro-industry; Administration, Finance and Marketing, Tourism, Food and Wine Services, and Hotel Hospitality. The mobility experiences promoted were long-term (4 months - ErasmusPro). In total, 52 male and 59 female candidates, aged between 19 and 22, were selected, coming from different Italian regions: Campania, Veneto, Tuscany, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Liguria, Sicily, Molise and Marche. The training activities developed under the form of an internship in host companies chosen on the VET learners’ specific features (aptitude, as well as professional needs).The objectives and impacts achieved by “S.E.E.D.S.” were the following:- consolidation of an organized and defined VET cooperation made up of the right social actors (VET schools, public authorities, trade associations) capable of supporting young people in their accessing the labor market.- implementation of 111 mobility experiences in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Malta, and Spain, for the enhancement of technical-scientific skills relating to the professional sectors of reference (100% of internships, in fact, were perfectly in line with the profile of the selected participants).- growth in the employability level of the young graduates who took part in the mobility (15% of beneficiaries entered the labor market following their Erasmus internship by securing a job position either in their host companies or new businesses belonging to the same professional sectors).- enrichment of linguistic and managerial skills for the Consortium members and all the representatives engaged in the project design and implementation; improvement of the language skills of direct participants through the OLS platform (more than 95% of learners declared an improved language knowledge in a second European language).- acquisition of more in-depth knowledge about the European funding mechanisms (many consortium schools, during the months of management of ""S.E.E.D.S."", participated in the Erasmus+ Program for the promotion of initiatives related to Key Action 1 - Mobility for school staff; UNCI Agroalimentare itself has obtained the Accreditation to the new Erasmus 2020-2027 Program under the Key Action 1 to continue supporting the mobility of VET Learners.- greater integration of the operating systems of different organizations related to VET with the aim of increasing the quality of training courses and feeding pedagogical research activities (the foreign receiving organizations were able to better investigate the management dynamics underlying the Learning Outcomes monitoring, evaluation and recognition mechanisms; on the other hand, the companies hosting the internships gave its internal teams a crucial contribution towards their internationalization)."

"""IN.TE.R.N.AT.IONAL. S.M.E. - INternational inTErnships foR iNnovATive educatIONAL activitieS in labor MarkEt ""(n. 2018-1-IT01-KA102-006424) was a project developed over 35 months. The project promoted the mobility of 104 VET Learners to improve their orientation and insertion into the labor market, fostering their European openness as professionals and citizens of tomorrow. The Project was also created to respond to the European development goals of the 4 schools involved and the improvement objectives set at the basis of the European Development Plan jointly developed to increase the level of internationalization of their educational plans.The leader of the action was the vocational school ""Bachelet-Galilei"" who coordinated a national consortium made up of 3 other Apulian vocational centres (I.I.S.S. ""Lotti-Umberto I"" of Andria; I.I.S.S. ""Colamonico-Chiarulli"" of Acquaviva delle Fonti; I.T.E.T ""De Viti-De Marco"" of Triggiano). These educational institutions were united by specific vocational curricula: tourism and economic-commercial services, hence sharing the same needs and development objectives. The operating context of reference was the Apulian territory, with its needs to face new employment and production pressures to face the emerging challenges of innovation and globalization of local medium and small enterprises.Through “IN.TE.R.N.AT.IONAL. S.M.E."" and the transnational activities carried out in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, France and Germany, the Consortium addressed 2 types of VET Learners:1. students attending the final courses (corresponding to the classes IV and V in the Italian system) of their vocational curriculum, who participated in a short-term transnational mobility paths (32 days) to develop technical and transversal skills necessary to complete their educational background, to better orient themselves and enter the labor market immediately after their diploma; they experimented professional practices within a real business abroad, developing the ""professional attitude"" required by employers (they were also accompanied by 2 teachers for each destination);2. recent graduates in tourism, technical-commercial and marketing who have carried out an ErasmusPro work experience (122 days, equal to approximately 4 months) within host companies in line with their VET profile. Long-term mobility has proved effective with respect to the project objectives of facilitating the transition from school to work, especially regarding the experimentation of professional profiles aligned with the Italian (and Apulian) and European employment market.Some of the mobilities have necessarily undergone changes in the peak of the recent Covid pandemic.The Mobility had a central work-based component, according to a matching based on the combination of learners’ profile, their professional aptitudes and aspirations and type of host companies. The Consortium had previously identified specific Competence Units for mobility (EQF 3 for students, 4 for recent graduates), drawn from the Regional Qualifications Framework to ensure coherence and adherence of the training courses with the learning outcomes expected for each participant.Transversely, the mobility experience has allowed the development of better autonomy, intercultural dialogue, organization, the ability to communicate in the workplace, to solve problems and perform the assigned tasks respecting deadlines. These skills, combined with technical-practical competences, linguistic improvement and knowledge of company organizational procedures and behavioral dynamics, helped participants make their profile more appealing for their employability.Positive impact was also recorded on the Consortium's schools which had the opportunity to interact with other European organizations, exchanging ideas and experiences, acquiring new methodologies and tools to update, modernize and internationalize their training offer, as well as curricular and extra-curricular activities, focusing their attention on a competence-based curriculum and a deeper interaction with local and European professional stakeholders."

F.O.O.D. AND. W.IN.E. – Fitting cOoking Offer and DemAND Working IN Europe”is created to help new graduates from Calabria Region to enter the labour market and and to be successful in the gourmet kitchen. The projects also aim at increasing the knowledge of food products from the Calabria region (it has 207 typical products but only a few are known abroad). A young guy, who wishes to be successful in food and beverage sector, should have these following features: practical and teorical knowledge; specialization on a specific field, quantity and quality of international experiences, flexibility in working contexts, good ability to communicate their professionalism to the end user. At the same time, the food and wine sector represents a field with very important employment opportunities. Restaurant sector needs professional figures and not only chefs or attendants but also people with a deep knowledge of digitalization that can help in the promotion of dishes also using the tecnique of storytelling describing it and producting emotions between clients also before the tasting. F.O.O.D. AND. W.IN.E. will allow the mobility to 100 new graduates from school years 2017/18 and 2018/19 from food and wine, tourism and marketing schools of Calabria Region, which will have the opportunity to carry out a period of training of 120 days (plus two traveling ones ) in United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Malta, will get trained in one of the following professional figures: kitchen attendant; restaurant operator; waiter; sommelier, and Expert in food and wine communication. The project will have a positive impact on the participants, on the National Consortium and on the European partners. The learners, at the end of the mobility, will have increased their professionalism, both in terms of language skills, in disciplinary sector (related to the food and wine, tourism and marketing sectors) and personal development. They will increase their employment potential, the project plans that the 25% of participants will find work in Italy returning from the mobility experience and 15% in the country where they will have completed the Erasmus + experience. For the Consortium, the mobility action will be an important opportunity for enhancing and improving staff skills and the ability to communicate and maintain constructive dialogue with organizations of a different nature. The international comparison, in fact, will allow the staff to know different company and association structures and to better understand global trends in the restaurant sector. All this will increase the knowledge of company needs in personnel, translating into the opportunity to develop training programs more in line with what is required by the employment market. The project will have a positive impact on companies that from medium to long term will have more qualified personnel, no longer being forced to hire certified staff, ready to change jobs in the face of better contractual conditions. The greater availability of professionals (also trained on the use of digital tools for promotional purposes), moreover, will result in a greater ability of companies to use storytelling techniques, to tell the experience of a dish even before tasting it. This will increase the online visibility of companies according to the 5% , favoring the arrival of new customers and tourists (mainly tourists interested in the food and wine sector and wishing to visit villages and little-known villages, but still linked to the culinary traditions of the past). Through F.O.O.D. AND. W.IN.E, moreover, the participants will be able to increase the knowledge abroad of some Calabrian food and wine products. Finally, at a European level, the project will contribute to consolidating the efforts undertaken in the political arena for the recognition and validation of professional qualifications, making it increasingly easier for those who want to leave their country of origin to move to a different member state in search of employment opportunities..

"The project ""JOIN US, SupPORT Me! - Join Opportunities of Inclusion through SPORT and Music!"" was presented by the Egidi IC and born from the need to develop an inclusive education model, as described by the guidelines set by the European Commission and, above all, by the European Agency for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education. The focus of the activities was centered on two disciplines, which are well suited to the adoption of inclusive methodologies: Music and Sport. The general objectives were:- improve the inclusive profiles of partner organizations, gain experience in international cooperation and strengthen their capacity to produce high quality innovative results- achieve strategic cooperation between operators in the formal and non-formal / informal education sector in order to develop experimental tools for social innovation and inclusion- implement new forms of learning for SEN students, also thanks to virtual mobility, OER and better use of ICT- develop new tools and methods for professional development of teachers and Heads, for better initial education and continuing trainingThe specific objectives were:- implement an inclusive learning approach focused on the learner, where personalization starts from the needs and interests of all the students, with music and sport as focus- directly train 30 teachers and 5 Heads from the partner schools- codify two new profiles of inclusive teaching for music and PE teachers, useful for both initial and in-service training (big- OER), which can be obtained through attendance at two training courses (small-OER), both IOs of the project- launch a permanent mixed operational task force composed by school / experts / stakeholders that organize the internal functional structure and lay the foundations for a constant structured dialogue with parents and institutionsThe project proved to be a substantial success and the achievement of the objectives was guaranteed by a very broad and heterogeneous partnership, composed of 5 schools (Italy, coordinator, Slovakia, Estonia, Romania and Turkey, the latter leaving the project at the end of the first year due to force majeure causes) and 5 scientific partners from the world of private social (Italy, Lithuania, Belgium, Sweden and UK). For the duration of the 36 months, schools have involved pupils - also SEN pupils - aged between 11 and 13 years, teachers and Heads, while non-school partners have participated with their own trainers and researchers. The following activities have been implemented:1. Research, elaboration and codification of the 4 Intellectual Outputs approved by the National Agency:1.1. An e-learning training course for the learning of inclusive methodologies through music, designed to transmit skills and abilities to all teachers (working with students aged 11-13) who wish to enrich their lessons with music elements aimed at the inclusion of disabled students. It is be made available as a ""small-OER"";1.2. An e-learning training course for the learning of inclusive methodologies through sport and movement. It is be made available as a ""small-OER"";1.3 Profile of the Teacher Included - Music, made available in the form of ""Big-OER"".1.4. Profile of the Inclusive Teacher - Physical Education, made available in the form of ""Big-OER"".These intellectual products have been the subject of two multiplier events, held respectively in Italy (26/05/2017) and in Brussels (26/09/2017) at the European Parliament, with the participation of the Czech European Commissioner Věra Jourová and Petra Goran, Member of the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the EC and editor of the report ""Structural Indicators for Inclusive Systems in and around Schools"".2. 8 mobility activities, of which:- 2 joint training events for teachers in the UK and Sweden, leading to the development and exchange of good practices on inclusive methodologies through music and sport- 5 blended mobility for learners (with virtual and physical parts), which have had the main purposes of allowing students with special needs to participate and teachers to experiment the methodologies learned- 1 short term exchange for pupils that took place in Brussels, at the European Institutions with the involvement of the highest representatives.An important impact has been achieved at local, national and European level; the project has brought and will bring long-term benefits as it aims to build a structured dialogue with stakeholders and policy-makers and focused on the learning processes of the school staff."