This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

"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.

"AICE-IZEA is an association, created in 1984,of official private centres from the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. AICE-IZEA is made up of 42 Educational Institutions, teaching at every compulsory level, as well as in Technical and Vocational, Occupational and Further Training. AICE-IZEA association is a member of The Spanish Confederation of Teaching Centres (CECE) and, through them, member of EFVET, European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training. During the 2007- 2013 period the Consortium has developed Mobilities for High Degree Students who wanted to do their internships in other countries of the program. Through the project developed in the 2014 Call, AICE- IZEA has increased its participation in the ERASMUS + programme, including teaching and training mobilities for the staff. Within the objectives of the project, we highlight INTERNATIONALIZATION. INTERNATIONALIZATION is marked as one of the strategic objectives of the Action Plan of the AICE-IZEA Consortium and it has been achieved through the following activities that we have carried out in the 2015 Call: - The number of associated schools that have the ERASMUS Charter has increased.THE EXTENSION OF THE MOBILITY PROJECT 2015, a total of 45 mobilities were managed, which meant an INCREASE OF 58% OF MOBILITIES compared to 2014.In the 2016 Call, the objective was to maintain or expand the number of mobilities of the previous project but this situation did not materialize.In the 2016 Call, A total of 16 people have participated. The boost of INTERNATIONALIZATION has had results in the following objectives: - Promote the competencial and attitudinal abilities of the pupils and the staff of our associated schools. - Offer a quality education to students, and ultimately, to society. Hereafter, we indicate a description of the number and the profile of the participants: In the Student´s Mobilities to do internships in a country of the programme, 14 pupils have taken part who were learning the 2º course of a High Degree of different kind of studies. All of them were at their second year of different higher level training cycles. Over a period of 12 weeks, they have had the opportunity to put into practice and increase the abilities and attitudes acquired during their studies. With reference to the Staff Mobilities, 2 members of different schools have participated and they have carried out a ""Job shadowing"" or a training activity and through this one they have had the opportunity to increase their knowledge about other educative systems, other quality systems in the educational field, other training management systems and new methodologies of teaching andlearning. Finally, we can sum up that in the 2015 Call, 43 people have participated, 16 pupils and 27 staff members of different schools. THE IMPACT OF THE PROJECT - IMPACT ON THE CONSORTIUM: The project has had a positive impact because it has contributed to the Consortium´s INTERNATIONALIZATION, activity that is contemplated in its Action Plan. We detect the following benefits: - The project´s magnitude in relation to the previous calls has increased. - The relations between companies, institutions and participating schools have increased and strengthened. - The institutions involved have exchanged impressions, good practices and experiences. - The institutions have proposed future collaborations in the present project and in other kind of interesting educational projects. - IMPACT ON THE PUPILS: The project has contributed to their professional and personal development, it has contributed to their employability and their linguistic skills, and it has also encouraged team work and an improvement of their CV. - IMPACT ON THE STAFF OF THE ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS: The impact has been positive because this one has contributed to their personal and professional development. The project has achieved that the staff have become involved and has stimulated the importance of the further training. It has also created the opportunity to carry out activities based on good practices, exchange of knowledge, teaching materials and teaching - learning methodologies among the staff of different institutions. The project has contributed to improve their cultural and linguistic skills. - IMPACT ON SOCIETY: The activities developed benefit our society to be more competitive to face the challenges that appear both in the personal and professional life."