"The ECVET technical framework allows the recognition of learning outcomes in many and varied cases, particularly in the case of the European mobility of apprentices or dual system’s trainees. The CCCA BTP has been using it for several years and wishes to extend its scope of application in its European mobility actions. To this end, it wishes to conduct the Easy ECVET project transnationally in order to strengthen the formal recognition of learning outcomes in other European countries, and that it be integrated into the processes of validation of competences that can lead to national qualifications.Due to more or less well-founded reluctances and/or to various misunderstandings, we have been able to observe that the ECVET framework is only used by a limited number of the partners with whom the CCCA BTP has been cooperating for several years. Our objective is therefore to develop, even trivialise its use, in the course of mobility of apprentices’ actions. We wish to ensure that the ECVET framework is implemented as widely as possible until it can be taken into account in the certification of training path in the various countries concerned.Five vocational and educational training organisations or centers from five different countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France and Spain) will be involved in this project. They have been chosen on the basis of their reliability, seriousness and motivation. Each of them has a particular interest in ECVET either because they have already implemented it and wish to go further, or because they wish to implement it and need the help from more experienced organisations.This mixture of experience and novitiate seems to us to be conducive to the quality of a common reflection. This project will be carried out over a period of three years and will be punctuated by the alternation of six transnational meetings (two per year) and two learning activities.- The transnational meetings are intended to be the ""think tank"" (analysis of practices, exploration of other contexts, training engineering) of the project and to support the steering committee, which will be responsible for producing technical guides and recommendations. Each country will mobilise two participants, for a total of ten people.- The learning activities will rather be ""exchange of practices and production workshops"" (pedagogical engineering, production of tools and protocols) in which two participants per country (pedagogical staff of the training institutions concerned) will collaborate. The 2 usual referents of each partner will also take part. That is to say 20 people for each activity.These two working groups will produce, in close collaboration and synergy, protocols and tools necessary for carrying out ECVET assessments.The aim is not to model a single procedure, but to facilitate the implementation of the ECVET framework, based on a common understanding and co-constructed arrangements.In a more operational phase that will follow, these supports will be tested during mobility actions that will be carried out during the last fifteen months of the Easy ECVET project, to test the reliability of these tools in the field and to improve them if necessary. Apprentices or trainees and company tutors will also ultimately benefit from the project.An ECVET expert will intervene at the very beginning of the project to give or give back to all the partners the same degree of information and answer their questions. He or she may be mobilised during the project if needed.Each partner will be responsible for relaying the decisions taken and the work to be carried out in its country. They will supervise the work, lead the educational teams mobilised and ensure the implementation of mobility actions which will allow the tools and protocols produced to be tested. Confrontations between participants from different countries will promote a mutual understanding of their different national contexts in order to facilitate collaboration.The production of appropriate guides, materials and recommendations, as well as their implementation in the field, should enhance the skills of the teaching teams in transnational evaluation issues and disinhibit the use of the ECVET framework in the context of apprentice mobility.Beyond the project, we aim to develop our partnership and our bilateral links with all our European partners, to contribute to the dissemination of the ECVET system and to set up or strengthen internationalisation strategies within our organisations.The state of mind of the project can be summarised as follows: ""confront in order to understand, compare in order to question, collaborate in order to co-construct, cooperate in order to implement""."

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CONTEXT The demand of equal opportunities is one of the main focus to improve as a society. However, the construction industry remains a predominantly male enclave, despite the efforts made to make it inclusive. Today, there are signs of a cultural shift in the industry and women can be found in high-skilled occupations, such as engineers or architects, being still scarce the percentage of women working on construction-site (9% average UE). What are the real obstacles to women entering and remaining in different construction occupations? Some individual, market and social difficulties have been identified: *Intrinsic barriers: women don’t see themselves as construction workers.*Labour market barriers: low recruitment of women; poor visibility of women's professionals. *Sectoral barriers: sector's inability to attract women and young people. In addition to above blockades, it could be also mentioned the inappropriate provision of training, as well as employment and working conditions, which also determine the male-oriented shape of the construction industry. OBJECTIVES In order to contribute to overcome the barriers explained above, Women can Build tries to re-envision the vocational training towards an equal construction industry by achieving the following objectives: *To provide gender-oriented measures to main actors involved. *To enhance women sensitivity towards this sector.*To re-envision the training focus approach in VET providers and trainers. *To establish guidance measures to enterprises towards a gender awareness-raising and balance. ACTIVITIESVarious activities have been carried out to achieve project's objectives and contribute to remove existing barriers to women's access to the construction sector: 1. VET trainers' overview on gender-equality status quo and gender-sensitive MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)2. Learning by-doing: immersive experience for women to attract women to the construction sector3. Role models/testimonies of women in construction sector, as a fundamental element to change social imaginary4. Guidelines for VET centres to provide a training offer better addressed to women5. Definition of an action plan for companies to encourage the recruitment of women in the sector6. Dissemination actions for awareness raising (social networks, events, media, etc.)PARTICIPANTSThe project has addressed 4 direct target groups and 1 indirect: 1 Women: testimonies and course (100+43)2 Trainers of construction sector: survey and MOOC (500+90) 3 VET centres: survey (292)4 Enterprises: survey (60)5 Stakeholders and society in general: dissemination (4.187.174) All in all, we have addresed 1.085 participants directly benefited by project activities, as well as 4.187.174 potential recipients. METHODOLOGY The project has used a participatory methodology, aimed to target and involve, on the one hand main beneficiaries that have participated directly in the activities, and on the other hand relevant key players that provide feedback and endorse results. Also, the combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques has gotten the most out of different sources, allowing sound and supported conclusions and recommendations. Besides, the holistic approach of the project based on the three pillars recommended by the European Insitute for Gender Equality (EIGE), which are education, sensitizacion and dissemination, allows its transfer to others sectors alike and countries with similar difficulties. RESULTS *Provision of new educational approaches with a gender-oriented approach*Encancing access to training for all: MOOC for trainers and immersive training experience for women*Dissemination of inspirational stories of women in the sector (role models). *Awareness raising among constrution enterprises and sector in general for women recruitment*Favour social inclusion, especially the labour integration of women in the construction market*Valorisation of the construction sector and improvement of its social image. IMPACT The project has obtained a very high impact, with many relevant stakeholders interested in the project and its results and with many news and references on media (press, radio and even TV), as well as a lot of participation in dissemination events and professional fora. This high project’s impact within the sector and its organisations has been possible due to the presence of large and relevant VET providers, which are mainly formed by employers' associations and trade unions and/or public institutions. Moreover, the European dimension of action has fostered social innovation and impact at EU level exceeding the initial expectations. POTENTIAL LONG-TERM BENEFITSThe findings may guide organisations to develop and implement policies, strategies and initiatives geared towards attracting, integrating, supporting and motivating women who are, or wish to be, employed in historically male-dominated occupations in the construction industry.

"Unfortunately we haven't completed all planned activities due to COVID 19 During the period 9 teachers, 45 students and 6 accompagning teachers have taken part in mobiliy funded by Erasmus KA 1 grantsSome of the students from the food education is part of this, but in the last minute they didn't go. Even thouh everything was planned . Both flights, hotel and activities were planned, but had to be cancelled due to Covid 19. The reason why they are listed i the activity flow is, that we had som expences to be covered, We also planned a 2 week mobility with 12 EUX Tech students to Dublin for workplacement. Unfortunatelys this was also canceled because of Covid 19. Finally we planned that 10 business and 12 HHX student should take part in 2 or 3 weeks school or/and workplacement in London during autumn 2020.This was also canceled due to COVID 19However we succeded with mobility during 2019 (before the COVID 19 epidemi,). We had a group of Business and HHX students who took part in a mobility project to London and Brighton during autumn 2019:The students' workplaces were based on the students priorities in detail or administration. They lived with private families and hosts - and were responsible for their everyday life with job, pratical work and spare time. Also the students participated in seminars about english culture - and they had time to discover Brighton and London as tourists. The students' language competences were developed a lot during the visit and they found tjhat it had a great impact on their results in English language test. In the evaluation they also mention, that they developed both personal and academic skills by ""standing on theier own feet. They felt welcome and learned how to handle differences in culture.Students from Tech education had a mobility project with a partner in Iceland 2019. The students produced a portfolio during the stay - and they had a good experience. It was a team of students from both the painter and carpenter education, who took part in the mobility. The students participated in a project with students from the Technical school in Iceland, where they bulit a house together . During the weekend they discovered both the culture and the exciting nature of Iceland.We find that the mobility has contributed to give the students a more open and reflected view of how to act in a vocationael context . The students, who took part in the mobility programme, have developed new competences, which will qualify them in relation to their personal development and autonomy - and also in relation to find an apprenticeship or job.The teachers have got a chance to meet other teachers and enterprises, where they have got new inspiration and a rooom to discuss both professional and pedagogical issues. It has also given teachers an oppeortunity to visit partner schools and enterprises , where students will take part in mobility later - and this has really improved the quality of the student mobility and learning outcome. Finally the teacers have extended their network and for some also developed thier language competences."

Project BUILDING THE FUTURE turn sto 40 professional experts that works in the sector of building trade VET training, keeping in consideration the needs of construction sector. The consortium is composed by boards that works in training in the reference sectors in the area of Siena, Arezzo and Grosseto and that have already collaborated in local and International projects. 3 boards decided to create a consortium to respond to training needs of a big area (South of the Tuscany) with the aim to have a wider impact to reboost construction at regional level. In support of executive actions of the project the consortium started a collaboration with Accademia Europea di Firenze, an organisation that works in Vet and International mobility since more than 20 years. In order to curb employment and training critical flaws in the construction sector, through a “dropping” impact, participants will be able to: Acquire new technical skills in the sector of sustainable building construction and low impact Energy systems to improve their competitiveness Acquire new education and pedagogical skills to develop on the job learning systems in the companies and to encourage permanent learning and training of other craftmanships Acquire more skills about the dual system to improve the number of apprentices employed in the sector and promote turn over of employees Create and International network in order to exchange good praxis and job opportunities Project BTF will be 2 years long (from November 2018 to October 2020) and is going to involve International partners in EU countries that represent excellences in the professional sector and dual system. Participants will be divided in 4 flows per year (from 4 to 6 participants) and will carry out their mobilities in Germany, France, Austria, Spain and Ireland. Mobilities abroad will be 7 days long (5+2 travel days) and during the mobility participants will take part in job shadowing/sharing activities in companies selected in order to answer to the project’s aims. Presence of International partners is necessary to the good success of the project: once that the participants’ training needs will be defined (as written in the MoU), International partners will identify the hosting companies and will support the consortium in management, mentoring, evaluation and dissemination of the outcomes of the project. International partners will help with logistics and organisation of the mobilities and will ensure a constant support for the participants in the hosting countries. During the project the promoters will monitor learning outcomes and level of satisfaction of the participants and the stakeholders. Datas of the evalutation processes will be then elaborated and systematized to define the project outcomes and then will be published through dissemination activities in the consortium stakeholders network in order to reach the highest number of target groups. Short-term impacts of the project will concern participants that will learn from this experience acquiring new technical and professional skills and improving their soft skills. Medium-term impacts fot participants will be about improving performances in the companies through the implementation of good practices and foste ring mobilities of other experts. At regional level the project will have a strong impact, since the consortium is going to involve participants coming from a specific but wide area of Tuscany, making possible creation and transfer of a model of upgrade and awareness that has in the mobility on of the features of its development even as incentive to promote dual system.The project will have also a long-term impact, being included in iniziative promoted by Formedil (at National and International level) about definition and development of specific technical and professional skills of the staff in the building sector, at european level (see projects ITOWN e BRICKS).