"The project ""Modernization of the family of Personal Image"" had as main objective the improvement of the professional and linguistic competences of our students and professors of the Formative Cycles of Hairdressing and Aesthetics. However, our National Agency only granted the mobilities of the students, which were based on the following arguments:- The growing demand for professionals who have a working command of second languages (specially English and/or German) is seen more and more as necessary condition all along a heavily touristic area as Costa del Sol.- The lack of opportunities that the hairdressing and personal image students have traditionally had to get public funds to travel abroad and the conviction that having those opportunities would increase the possibility of finding jobs and improving their education.- To provide ourselves with opportunities to continue working on the topics dealt with in our Leonardo 2013-1-DK-LEO04054385 project as well as maintaining the already established links with our Leonardo partners. All the work done, all the synergies created would be become more fruitful.- Our total conviction of the need to promote Ecological beauty parlours to protect the health of the professionals working there and the customers while we contribute to protecting the environment.- Promoting entrepreneurship through the acquisition of new business ideas.This project has been running for two years and the participants have been 6 students of different promotions of the training cycle of Hairdressing and Hair Cosmetics. All of them have had internships in company for 3 months, prior to obtaining their degree of Technician, realizing the number of hours established in their curriculum in the Training Module in Work Placements in order to be able to do so.Except in the case of Scotland where the students have shared their internship in the Green Salon owned by our host partner (Fife College) with the work in other traditional hairdressing salons, in the other cases (Germany and Malta) the whole training period has taken place in private Hairdressing Salons selected by our partners (BBS BAD HArzburg and Paragon Limited respectively).As a sending partner we have been in charge of managing all mobility: selection and preparation of candidates, contacts with partners, processing of mobility documents, budgetary control, organization of the trip, issuance of the Europass supplement and communication and monitoring of students.The host partners have provided help with logistical issues such as lodging, transportation, language classes and finding adequate workplaces for the students. They have also facilitated the participation of the students in formal lessons and training for the first week of their stay. They have named a tutor/supervisor to act as an intermediary between the students and the firms and with whom we have communicated permanently to know the integration and evolution of our students . At the end of the stay, the partner has also assessed the students's work according to the guidelines agreed on the L.A..The benefits arised from this project in the short, medium and long term have been the following:1- The participating students have a much better chance to find jobs through having improved their use of the second language as well as their professional, social and personal skills. All of that is considered an absolute must in the Costa del Sol which receive millions of tourists every year. At the moment all of them are working in Malaga and 3 of them even rejected job offers in the same place where they did their internship. However they don´t reject to come back.2- Students benefit too from personal growth and self-esteem, empowering their ability to cooperate, to team working and to integrate in a different society.3- Greater motivation towards entrepreneurship, by wanting to import ideas and projects that they have observed abroad, and towards the perfectioning of another foreign language.4- We have observed how the enthusiasm of the participants and their telling experiences have ""infected"" other school mates to participating in future mobilities and in taking English classes offered by our School.5- We have given a great impulse to the modernization and Europeanization of our center and we have taken advantage of the synergy that we created with our previous Project Leonardo Da Vinci.6- We have consolidated and strengthened our relations with our host partners and have improved our website to make our international activities more visible.Thanks to all this, our Institution is currently a regional reference in the Personal Image sector, as an Erasmus + Center where the VET students have real possibilities to complete their training in Europe and to promote an awareness on sustainability, respect for the environment and improvement of the Health, in line with the standards of European countries."

"This project has promoted passing on traditional building skills (TBS) to young people and perpetuating the skills needed to repair the historic built environment. The ambitious projected outputs have been delivered; an impressive range of new learning materials for young people at high school level. The wider outcomes and aims of sharing experience and learning lessons on how to further education initiatives and promote traditional building skills have also been successfully addressed by the the project. The intangible outcomes, the participation of the young people, the different approaches at each school and the links with the strategic partners and with businesses and employers in some of the project activities and the networking developed and continuing has raised awareness of the issue and added to the debate on traditional building skills.The project experience has shown that there are skills shortages in all three participating regions and that there is a need to introduce high school pupils to the possibility of traditional building skills. The issues arising from a general shift away from vocational education and the general demise of the apprenticeship system that were evident to some extent in all three regions, but more so in Fife and less so in Hordaland. At each of the partner High Schools of St Andrews High School (and Fife College), both in Fife and Voss Vidaregaande Skule (VVS) in Hordaland, Norway, and Zaklad Doskonalenia Zawodowego (ZDZ) in Torun, Poland, new courses were developed in TBS. The schools in Voss and Torun were not directly comparable with that in Fife, being technical upper schools which catered for an older age-group of 16-19 year olds, more comparable with colleges in Scotland. They also already had construction courses with work experience and craft skills as part of their courses, but not focussing on traditional buildings and skills. The input of the strategic and national partners Historic Environment Scotland and The Scottish Lime Centre Trust proved invaluable in helping the Fife school and college to design and deliver TBC construction crafts training. Innovation has been the main aim and a suite of new educational resources have been created that in each region are ground-breaking. The new O.2 course also used innovative digital technology in scanning buildings and taking drone footage from above as part of the repairs assessment exercise set. The pilot courses and other resources created can be used by other schools and supported by the new video resources produced, which are again the first of their kind. Networking has been an important aim of the project- to build up a support network for the pupils and schools with employers engaged in TBS. Torun and Voss both include work experience extending up to one year. The TBS project experience has highlighted further opportunities and the new courses are linked in each case to a craft centre and folk museum as well as local employers. In the UK, the specialist assistance was required to support the development and delivery of the courses, over and above the practical sessions and videos. The Scottish Lime Centre Trust and Historic Environment scotland donated much additional time and resource in supporting the school and college. Links made with Fife College, the Scottish Lime Centre Trust and Historic Environment Scotland and with crafts people who led craft workshops may prove useful in that respect. The Train the Trainers course has however up-skilled the teachers to continue to deliver the O.1 course. The three mobilities were completed successfully and the Norwegian and Scottish visitor left Poland only hours before the first lockdown.The project prioritised the participation of any under-represented groups. The exchanges included girls (from Fife and Torun, but Norway had no girls in their construction course), young people from disadvantaged families and ""early school leavers"" who not going on to further education. In addition there were a small number of participants from ethnic minorities and pupils with learning difficulties. Some pupils were travelling abroad for the first time. The COVID-19 outbreak has affected the project. An extension of one year was granted but no extra finance. The schools were periodically closed. Pupils in Scotland are still wearing masks in school and external visitors are at the time of writing still not allowed in school. With construction courses already in place, the schools in Voss and Torun were able to deliver their pilot courses before Lockdown. In Fife, the O.1 and I.O.5 courses were 50% complete (for approximately 100 pupils) but the O.2 had not begun yet-it had been scheduled for March-June 2020. Both were eventually re-run but the all-important craft sessions for the O.1 course were delivered partly by the teachers and partly by specialists via zoom but had to be to one class only -25 pupils due to COVID restrictions and the challenges faced at school."

The project entitled ’Close Connection’ – Labour-market Cooperation for the VET System Reacting to Economic Demands in a Flexible Way was successfully implemented by the cooperation of the Government Office for Békés County, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Békés County, the ALFA KISOSZ Advocacy and Adult Education Institution and the Scottish, German, Spanish and Italian partner organisations. The necessity of the project was justified by the fact that the labour-market situation in Békés county is more unfavourable than that of the national average. The VET system does not adapt to economic demands in a flexible way and rapidly enough. There are shortage occupations demanded by the economy but cannot be satisfied by the VET system. The labour-market cooperation forms established according to fields and branches linking the actors of VET and employment are missing, which could operate a VET system reacting to economic demands rapidly.For the improvement of Békés county’s economic situation the collaboration of labour-market actors, VET institutions, local authorities, the employment organisation, employers and organisations responsible for improving employment emerged as a key demand. The special aim of the project was to operate a VET system reacting to economic demands in a flexible way, to establish partnerships linking the actors of training and employment, within the frameworks of which the supply of companies and businesses with a labour-force having the appropriate qualification and competence could be available, the information related to the expected employer demands and labour-force demands of economic development initiatives could be provided and shortage occupations could become more attractive. The direct target group of the project was consisted of leaders and professionals dealing with career counselling, training counselling and VET at the organisations belonging to the three-member consortium.In order to create the complex, multi-actor labour-market VET system the professionals studied those best practices, methods – in the frame of four study visits, each with 14 people, in Scotland, Spain, Germany and Italy – which are operated successfully in host countries to operate the career orientation and VET system meeting the needs of economy. The chosen countries had extensive experience and exemplary models concerning the specific professional field.During study visits those professionals participated from the organisations of the consortium, who are dealing with specific professional tasks related to the areas studied and due to their activities they were able to utilize the experiences of the study visit the in the most effective way, and built these into the cooperation system. At the end of the project a final completion study was developed taking into account the suggestions of national and foreign partners, which includes those labour-market cooperation systems, best practices that are operated successfully in the host countries. As the main result of the project the labour-market cooperation system’s county model was developed in the context of a workshop by all professionals involved in the implementation of the project. The project results have been widely disseminated at, amongst others, the closing conference, on Internet websites of organisations forming the consortium and at professional forums. The final study – including the county model – have been sent to all the government offices within the country, the Ministry of National Economy, the National VET and Adult Educational Institution and VET organisations operating within the county. As a result of the widespread dissemination activity project results are utilised in other counties of Hungary as well. The results of the project have been integrated into the operation of the consortium’s organisations, including the new element called Innovative Technologies Island applied during the Career Job Fair of 2015 on the basis of the Italian example, where innovative employers presented their activities, based on the Scottish example we extend our career orientation activities for preschoolers as well. In order to promote a stronger cooperation with employers an ”Employer HR Club” have been implemented at Orosháza district. The methods described in the final study are expected to be applied at more and more organisations. By the operation of the developed county model new partnerships can be established between organisations dealing with training and employment. The model is also a good basis for establishing well-operating employment partnerships within the framework of the Regional Operational Programme, both on county and local levels, to ensure that activities among regional labour-market actors are harmonised. By operating the cooperation system - as an impact of the project - the level of employment will increase and the human resources needed for economic growth will be ensured.