"""E.A.S.Y. VET - Experiences Abroad for Staff and Young graduates in VET"", promoted by Essenia UETP, has foreseen the carrying out of: N°70 mobilities lasting 122 days (120 of traineeship and 2 of travel) addressed to recent graduates that have performed a traineeship in companies located in: United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland; No. 20 mobilities lasting 14 days (12 of training and 2 of travel) addressed to the staff of VET Institutes and organizations. They have carried out the jobshadowing in companies located in Spain. The professional sectors in which the traineeships and the training/job shadowing activities have been performed are: Tourism Fashion Industry; ICT, Communication&New media; Marketing, Commercial Services, Administration Electronics Mechanics/Mechatronics; Socio-sanitary field; Engineering, Environment&Territory. Therefore, beneficiaries of the mobilities have been, respectively, recent graduates that have obtained the school diploma in one of the aforementioned sectors, and staff members from Institutes, entities and VET organizations operating in those fields. The projects was born to meet the training needs- in terms of practical experience- of recent graduates, and to favour the entry (and the permanence, in the case of the staff) in a globalized labor market that requires the mastery and the updating of knowledge, competences and abilities both sectorial and personal as well as transversal (intercultural, linguistic, IT, entrepreneurial).The needs of the VET world and of the job market have been noticed by Essenia UETP starting from the debates occurred during the informative and training meeting that the company periodically realizes at National level. The analysis made highlighted the need of implementing actions of transnational mobility for strengthening and updating competences, both of recent graduates and staff, in the sectors identified in the project. The sectors chosen are: extremely relevant for the Italian economy (tourism, fashion, commerce), constantly increasing (ICT, electronics/electrotechnics, marketing), and in which the request of specific competences has grown (social field, environment and territory). Objectives of the project were: improve the technical and professional skills of new graduates by offering them the opportunity to experiment ""on the field"" what they learned during their school path, by carrying out a traineeship abroad; update the skills of the staff of VET institutions, giving them the opportunity to carry out job shadowing activities within Institutes and companies; reinforce, in both graduates and staff, the EU identity and improve intercultural, linguistic and digital skills, allowing the development of a set of personal and transversal skills indispensable in the current labour market. At the end of the project, there was a positive impact on all participants, in terms of: strengthening of sectorial skills and soft skills, enhancement of the competitiveness of the professional profile and increased opportunities of job inclusion. The carrying out of the project is part of the internationalization strategy of Essenia UETP, that foresees the implementation and the development of activities aimed at improving the quality and increasing the quantity of transnational mobility projects.Besides the transversal phases of monitoring and dissemination, the project has seen the implementation of the following management activities, carried out according to procedures and methodologies already experimented over the years, and that have guaranteed high quality standards: Information and sensitization; Selection of participants; Linguistic and pedagogical preparation; Logistic and practical organization of mobilities; Evaluation of the Learning Outcomes and of the project; Dissemination of project results. The quality procedures adopted are constantly improved and updated, also thanks to the use of new technologies and to the professional retraining of Essenia UETP’s human resources, that occurs also through the participation in training activities held in the framework of Erasmus+ KA2 projects. Over the years, Essenia UETP has further broadened its already wide network of European partners, identifying entities and companies able to offer mobility experiences meeting high quality standards and preferring, among them, the ones of proved experience. All over the National territory relationships with VET Institutes, public and private entities, companies have been consolidated to assure congruence and coherence between the activities proposed and the needs of the users. At local level, Essenia UETP has enhanced the cooperation with the bodies in charge of implementing the approaches and of adopting European methodologies and tools for the certification and validation of the competences (ECVET), in order to make the formal and informal competences acquired during the mobility more spendable on the labour market"

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‘S.T.A.R.- Supporting Traineeships Activities abroad’ is a biennial (2018-2020) transnational mobility project that has involved: n. 74 recent graduates (within 12 months from graduation) involved in mobility lasted 120 days (+ 2 travel); n. 2 recent graduates (within 12 months from graduation) involved in short-term mobility lasting 25 days (+2 of travel) and 87 days (+2 of travel) each; n.31 staff members of VET Institutes and organizations, of which: n.30 involved in mobility lasting 12 days (+2 of travel) and n.1 involved in mobility lasting 10 days (+2 of travel). Recent graduates have performed internship experiences in companies located in Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland. Staff of VET Institutes and organizations performed a period of job-shadowing in schools or other relevant organizations active in the VET sector in Spain. S.T.A.R.’s objectives have been: bridging education and the world of work for the professional sectors identified for the traineeships and the job shadowing activities; support people in Europe to gain the skills and experience they need to succeed in today's increasingly internationalized knowledge-based economy; encourage and facilitate a wider participation in the political and social life of the EU. Essenia UETP, project’s Applicant, carried out a demand and needs analysis with the aim to identify the main areas of intervention according to the necessity of develop key-competences, hard and soft skills relevant for employers and for the job market as a whole. The professional sectors identified, both for recent graduates and staff, has been the following: tourism and catering; commercial, marketing, administration and accounting; electronics and electrotechnics, mechanics and mechatronics; social, health and chemical; construction, environment and territory; fashion and textile production; ICT, communication, new media; transport and logistics; agricultural sector; optical sector. These sectors are: growing and/or emerging sectors (i.e. ICT, electronics and electrotechnics, mechanics and mechatronics, marketing); sectors characterizing the Italian national economy (i.e. tourism, fashion, commercial); sectors that require updated skills to meet the technological evolution which is changing both the behavior and the expectations of employers and employees (i.e. social, construction, environment and territory). Recent graduates have performed a traineeship in companies located in: Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland and the staff of VET Institutes and organizations have performed their job-shadowing in schools and organizations located in Spain. Thanks to the demand and needs analysis carried out by Essenia UETP, the transnational mobility experiences have concretely encouraged the strengthening of the key-competences as well as hard and soft skills; encouraged a better dialogue between the needs expressed by the labor market with employees (and future employees) better aware about skills and competences needed and required; promoted the employability of recent graduates; gave opportunity for personal and professional growth; strengthened the sense of belonging to the European Union. Moreover: the positive impact reached with S.T.A.R. project also depends on a regular and rigorous management that covered all project phases: proposal, implementation, dissemination. They have been: information and awareness; selection; linguistic, pedagogical, intercultural and professional preparations; logistics and organization; dissemination of results; evaluation of impact and learning outcomes. The activities carried out have promoted not only the achievement of the highest quality standards and therefore the reach of a positive impact on all participants directed involved but, also, a positive impact for the partnership as a whole, thanks to: further collaboration and relations between Essenia UETP and various European partners; consolidation and enhancement of good practices defined in previous partnerships of Erasmus+ KA2 projects (Essenia UETP was coordinator or partner of such projects); adoption of methodologies for certification, validation and recognition of skills (ECVET methodology).

"S.T.Y.LE. - Supporting Traineeship for Young LEARners is a mobility project lasting 24 months, promoted by a National Consortium coordinated by the ""ISIS Novelli"" of Marcianise and composed, in addition to it, by the ""F. Trani"" Institutes of Salerno, ""F Orioli ""from Viterbo, and from Essenia UETP.Thanks to Style, 20 new graduates (in 2016 and 2017) and 30 students from the"" Clothing and Fashion / Textile-tailoring ""studies, coming primarily from the Consortium's partner institutes , have been doing traineeships in European companies in the fashion industry located in the United Kingdom, Spain and Lithuania. For graduates, the mobility action took place within 12 months from the graduation and their internship lasted 120 days (plus 2 days), a period of time considered necessary to achieve an educational experience. and complete professional. For the students the internship lasted 21 days (plus 2 days) and provided for the presence of 4 escorts. The promoters have realized this project to provide an answer to the training and employment needs present in the territories to which they belong, where the fashion industry is an important driving force of the territorial economy and has enormous potential for development. On the other hand, this sector consists of very innovative companies with great economic potential, and is one of the most dynamic in Europe, contributing 7% to the EU's GDP. It has a high growth rate and offers quality employment to 5 million people in the 27 EU member states (Study on the economy of culture in Europe, 2006, ""Creative Economy - the Challenge of the Assessing the Creative Economy"" -making "", 2008). However, the fashion industry requires highly professional operators, equipped with adequate practical-operational skills, and transversal skills, including linguistic skills. The project's objective was therefore to qualify local human resources. through the creation of international mobility, focusing on the acquisition of skills, technical and transversal skills required by the fashion industry, to make the professional profiles of the participants more competitive, increase their employability and combat the phenomenon of massive migration of young people from the areas geographical origin. In fact, the realization of an internship in foreign companies in the fashion sector allowed the participants to integrate the theoretical studies with practical activities, according to the ""learning by doing"" methodology. During the internship they have been followed and assisted constantly by tutors, both in Italy and abroad, who have evaluated progress in progress and the learning outcomes achieved at the end of the internship, releasing the appropriate certifications of skills. The experience contributed to the achievement of the following results: - improvement of practical and operational skills in the Fashion sector and consolidation of technical-professional knowledge- improvement of general linguistic knowledge and of the micro-language of the fashion sector - knowledge of other labor markets and other economies , new methodologies and working practices of the reference sector - familiarization with socio-cultural contexts of other EU countries, and enhancement of the sense of European citizenship - development of relational, communicative, organizational and problem solving skills - acquisition of national certifications and Europeans that can be spent on the labor market - updating and integrating one's own curriculum vitae with new skills and experiences - opportunities to recognize skills acquired abroad (ECVET) - improving the ability to identify and evaluate opportunities in the labor marketThe project is already I also have a positive impact on the members of the Consortium, in terms of: improving the ability to organize and manage international activities with local and foreign partners; strengthening strategies for internationalization and development, introduction of transnational mobility as a ""systemic"" activity; updating of school curricula with respect to the needs of the territory and the world of work. Finally, the long-term benefits of the project are represented by the potential of the best qualified local human capital, able to operate in the fashion sector."