"This mobility consortium “Goi Heziketa” is aimed at providing mobilities for practices in companies for young students of Higher Education, of any vocational training school and universities located in the Basque Country.The present mobility consortium led by Confebask, and with a large baggage, is made up of the fundamental actors in Higher Education at Basque Country level. Furthermore, it is aligned with the priority of the Erasmus+ program ""Education-Business Alliance"", as both the educational and business sectors, arerepresented. This cooperation between these sectors, is one of the main strengths of the Basque higher education system.This new proposal includes the following partners:• Confebask as consortium coordinator.• HEIs-Higher Education Institutions in Basque Country (high level vocational training schools and universities) both public and private, as sending organisations.• The Department of Education of the Basque Government, Provincial Councils as Institutional and co-financiers partners.• Receiving organisations (host companies) and partners in Europe.The objectives and expected results are the achievement of meeting the following needs of the participants covered by this proposal:- Improvement of practical training, in addition to theoretical training gained during their training period in their training schools. Provide participants with practical training through several months-stay in businesses in Europe, thus enabling the Technician qualification through recognition of the stay by the form of Training at Work or FCT or by the Credits agreed by the tutor in the university.- Improvement of their language skills: Learning and/or improvement of one or more languages (English/Italian / French /…): general knowledge and technical information relating to their professional field.- Improvement of Professional Skills: Participants acquire skills and abilities terminals set in the training program placement module, which enable them to carry out their profession. Development of a set of capabilities or skills necessary for incorporation into the workforce.- Improvement of Cultural and Personal Skills: It is, in many cases, the first experience and stay abroad, which implies personal maturity. To live in a multicultural environment, involves the acquisition of a spirit of adaptation to different social-cultural as well as a huge cultural enrichment.Confebask has been participating for over 25 years in European mobility projects, with a baggage accumulated over 3,000 participants from both vocational and university training. A process management is used, through a methodology of continuous improvement (PDCA) managed directly by Confebask, andapplied to all our projects.The Webpage ""European projects management” is established, as the fundamental axis in the management, being the main channel of communication between partners. Through this website, the sending centers send to Confebask their students-candidates. It is performed the selection of participants, and especially, becomes the key to monitoring and mentoring of the stages, once started stays abroad. Also, this tool is essential for economic management of the project itself led by the coordinator.Confebask as consortium coordinator, will support in its initial phase including supporting sending partners and their tutors, selecting participants and identifying skills to be developed in host companies.During the stay in the country of destination you will be monitored and supported by an intermediary partner/ host organization, who will manage the participants’ accommodation and arrival support, and who will perform direct follow-up work through a methodology defined by Confebask as “Learning to Learn”. In the final phase you will proceed to the global evaluation of the project and the participants carried out by the instructor (host partner) and tutor (sending centre)."

"This mobility consortium “Goi Heziketa 2015” is aimed at providing mobilities for practices in companies for young students of Higher Education, of any vocational training school and universities located in the Basque Country.The present mobility consortium led by Confebask, and with a large baggage, is made up of the fundamental actors in Higher Education at Basque Country level. Furthermore, it is aligned with the priority of the Erasmus+ program ""Education-Business Alliance"", as both the educational and business sectors, are represented. This cooperation between these sectors, is one of the main strengths of the Basque higher education system.This new proposal includes the following partners:•Confebask as consortium coordinator.•HEIs-Higher Education Institutions in Basque Country (high level vocational training schools and universities) both public and private, as sending organisations.•The Department of Education of the Basque Government, Provincial Councils as Institutional and co-financiers partners.•Receiving organisations (host companies) and Intermediary partners in Europe.The objectives and expected results are the achievement of meeting the following needs of the participants covered by this proposal: - Improvement of practical training, in addition to theoretical training gained during their training period in their training schools. Provide participants with practical training through several months-stay in businesses in Europe, thus enabling the Technician qualification through recognition of the stay by the form of Training at Work or FCT or by the Credits agreed by the tutor in the university. - Improvement of their language skills: Learning and/or improvement of one or more languages (English/ Italian / French /…): general knowledge and technical information relating to their professional field.- Improvement of Professional Skills: Participants acquire skills and abilities terminals set in the training program placement module, which enable them to carry out their profession. Development of a set of capabilities or skills necessary for incorporation into the workforce.- Improvement of Cultural and Personal Skills: It is, in many cases, the first experience and stay abroad, which implies personal maturity. To live in a multicultural environment, involves the acquisition of a spirit of adaptation to different social-cultural as well as a huge cultural enrichment. Confebask has been participating for over 25 years in European mobility projects, with a baggage accumulated over 3,000 participants from both vocational and university training. A process management is used, through a methodology of continuous improvement (PDCA) managed directly by Confebask, and applied to all our projects.The Webpage ""European projects management” is established, as the fundamental axis in the management, being the main channel of communication between partners. Through this website, the sending centers send to Confebask their students-candidates. It is performed the selection of participants, and especially, becomes the key to monitoring and mentoring of the stages, once started stays abroad. Also, this tool is essential for economic management of the project itself led by the coordinator.Confebask as consortium coordinator, will support in its initial phase including supporting sending partners and their tutors, selecting participants and identifying skills to be developed in host companies.During the stay in the country of destination you will be monitored and supported by an intermediary partner/ host organization, who will manage the participants’ accommodation and arrival support, and who will perform direct follow-up work through a methodology defined by Confebask as “Learning to Learn”. In the final phase you will proceed to the global evaluation of the project and the participants carried out by the instructor (host partner) and tutor (sending centre)."

ContextFollowing the internationalisation goals established by the IV Basque Vocational Education and Training Plan (it has now been substituted by the V Plan) a consortium composed by VET centres and TKnika, the Basque Centre of Research and Applied Innovation in VET was created with the aim of starting to work with Australia and Hong Kong. Before the presentation of the project, Memorandums of Understanding were signed between the consortium coordinator and the associated country partners. The project was submitted and approved for funding in 2017 with a duration of 26 months with two mobility grants for taking one person of Australia and one person from Hong Kong to the Basque Autonomous Community. ObjectivesThe main objectives of the project were to actually carry out both mobilities. Number and profile of the participantsThe project has had two participants: a teacher from Hong Kong and a teacher from Australia. Description of the activitiesBoth participants have been working hand by hand with higher VET teachers from here. Results and impactThe impact of the project has been rather low due to the fact that only two mobility grants were approved. It is complicated to generate a huge impact with such a small quantity of movement. Apart from that, the project has has a very positive impact and now a whole new universe of mobility opportunities has been opened.

The European Union has high levels of school drop-outs (with significant differences between countries), which in many cases are associated not only or exclusively with a problem of pupils' ability (i.e. pupils with learning difficulties), but also are closely related to social, motivational and even family factors that surpass a merely educational area. This situation occurs more frequently at certain levels, such as vocational training (especially the initial training), and training on professional certificates. The profile of students in initial professional training usually presents particular characteristics, which make them more vulnerable to school drop-out and which sometimes manifest in problematic behavior.This is because this level of education picks up a type of students that comes from failed studies, and that in many cases face learning problems, but also behavior and coexistence issues (school failure, low motivation, drugs consumption, violence, bullying ...). Furthermore, immigrant students at this VET level reach a high level of representation. In Spain, for example, it is situated around a 35% (for students 16-17 y.o.), adding other vulnerability factors, such as social integration, language issues, etc. There is a clear indicator when dealing with this group: 35% of immigrant students in Spain dropped out in 2018, in front of the 15.3% of the local students.The presence of students with these risk factors, and who respond to a profile of low motivation and who present behavioral problems, has a high qualitative impact in VET centers. This impact is direct on trainers, staff and other students, and can lead to a spiral of discomfort and conflict that greatly reduces the quality of training. Furthermore, those students are highly vulnerable and in risk of drop- out and an unsuccessful educational (and even) professional integration. We, therefore, face a problem that responds to a casuistic with multiple dimensions and that must be approached in an integral way.With our InVET project we want to contribute to improving this situation, by focusing on the development of a complete Pack of Resources addressed to i-VET centers, managers and trainers, and that would include:1. Specific references on successful initiatives developed at education centers to fight against conflict and pro difficult students’ inclusion. We would offer trainers and managers in VET centers with complete examples (in the form of video testimonies) where the protagonists of those initiatives can explain the contexts, the measures, the impact and assessment carried out.2. Guidelines (and recommendations) to implement concrete measures in the educational centers at different levels: from the pedagogical point of view, to organizational aspects, including logistics and models for the design of active learning environments, etc.3. Resources that would help trainers and managers at the centers to implement the proposed measures.Project objectives, thus, include:- To fight against the exclusion factors that lead young i-VET students to drop out of school.- To provide the VET centers, their managers, trainers and staff with success references and commented examples that allow them to transfer these initiatives to their own contexts.- To offer a complete analysis of a complex problem, in which multiple factors and dimensions intervene, and which must also be addressed from a comprehensive approach.- Create a set of tools and resources that, with a practical approach, offer intervention models at various levels: pedagogical, organizational, logistic, etc.- Contribute to a better understanding of the European reality in reference to school dropout and its causes, so that this vision can be used and transferred to other educational sectors.Addressing the problem of school dropout is a European need. Even if the contexts and realities may differ between the Member States, the problem is common. And in the case of the students of i-VET, it is clear the need to equip the centers and trainers with practical and contrasted tools that allow them to address the problem, since the consequences for them as professionals (influencing the quality of their work) and for their students leaving school (with unemployment rates clearly higher than those of other profiles) highlight an important failure of the education system.The partnership is led by Maristak Durango, and composed of a set of organizations experienced in the work with young disadvantaged students in the VET system, and includes experts, from public and private sectors, on drop-out and early school leaving, on the development of training programmes and ICT-based learning environments, and on training trainers initiatives. This mixed expertise joint together and addressed to common goals are considered the key factor for the successful development of the project.

"This proposal ?Erdi Heziketa 2014? is aimed at 20 young students, of VET of any professional training center located in the Basque Country.This new proposal includes the following partners:-Confebask as proposal's coordinator.-Vocational training schools included on the consortium, belonging to the Training Network of Centres of the Basque Country, as sending institutions.- The Department of Education of the Basque Government, Provincial Councils as Institutional and co-financiers partners.- Intermediary partners and Host organizations in Italy, Portugal and the UK.The objectives and expected results are the achievement of meeting the following needs of the participants covered by this proposal: - Improvement of practical training, in addition to theoretical training gained during their training period in their centers. Provide participants with practical training through the 3 months-stay in businesses in Italy, Portugal or the UK, thus enabling the Technician qualification through recognition of the stay by the form of Training at Work or FCT. These stays will be developed between March and June 2015. - Improvement of their language skills: Learning and/or improvement of one or more languages (Italian / Portuguese / English): general knowledge and technical information relating to their professional field.- Improvement of Professional Skills: Participants acquire skills and abilities terminals set in the training program placement module, which enable them to carry out their profession. Development of a set of capabilities or skills necessary for incorporation into the workforce.- Improvement of Cultural and Personal Skills: It is, in many cases, the first experience and stay abroad, which implies personal maturity. To live in a multicultural environment, involves the acquisition of a spirit of adaptation to different social-cultural as well as a huge cultural enrichment. Confebask has been participating for over 15 years in European mobility projects, with a baggage accumulated over 1500 participants so that vocational students are concerned. It uses a process management through a methodology of continuous improvement (PDCA) managed directly by Confebask, and applied to all our projects.The Webpage ""Professional Training Erasmus+ Grants? is established, as the fundamental axis in the management, being the main channel of communication between partners. Through this website, the training centers send to Confebask their students-candidates. It is performed the selection of participants, and especially, becomes the key to monitoring and mentoring of the stages, once started stays abroad. Also, this tool is essential for economic management of the project itself led by the coordinator.Confebask as project coordinator, supported in its initial phase (October 2014 - February 2015) including supporting sending partners and their tutors, selecting participants and identifying skills to be developed in host companies.During the stay in the country of destination (March-June 2015) the participants have been monitored and supported by an intermediary partner/ host organisation, who manageed the participants? accommodation and arrival support, and who performed direct follow-up work through a methodology defined by Confebask as ?Learning to Learn?. In the final phase (July - October 2015) Confebask proceed to the global evaluation of the project and the participants carried out by the instructor (host partner) and tutor (Professional Training sending centre).Regarding global dissemination of the project, highlighting the Awarding of diplomas to the students of VET during the course 2014/2015 have participated in the FCT in Europe through the Erasmus + program.With the presence of students who have developed the FCT in companies in the Community or in Europe, representatives of centers-whether tutors, coordinators or directors-practices, and the members of companies and different institutions and people related to vocational training, we are able to recognize each day the best development of this educational module with the synergy of the education and business worlds.The event will be held on December 3, 2015 in Bilbao, Spain, and will be inaugurated by the President of Confebask, Roberto Larrañaga and closed by Jorge Arevalo, Deputy Minister for Vocational Training, Education, Linguistic Policy and Culture of the Basque Government."