As stated in the Tourism Strategy of Turkey in 2023, education and training regarding tourism should focus on vocation and should contain measurable outcomes. The education and training in tourism should target at raising awareness on tourism sources, protecting the touristic values and maximizing touristic contribution to the national economy. The organizational capacities of the institutions that give training in tourism should be improved for better quality education and training. The reputation and profitability of the sector depends on maintaining the training quality. Training and education programs should be prepared through appropriate findings of analyses of current changes and possible future changes. “Quality awareness in education” should be raised in vocational training centers and the society. The main priorities of the sector are standardization, appropriate assessment and evaluation, productivity at international levels, the development of service quality and improvement in the skill levels for employment. While identifying the academic education policies that will lead the development of managers and researchers who will give direction to the sector, vocational training and education for highly qualified personnel should simultaneously be taken into consideration. The priority should be on creating the highly qualified and adequate labor force to the sector. The project called “Tourism Education Coordination in Turkey and Europe” was for 12 months and its effects will be spread over years through the dissemination activities. Training durations was realized as 2 weeks. The project was consist of 2 training mobilities: The 1st training mobility was realized between 16 April 2017 and 30 April 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania with the participation of 14 students from Accommodation and Travel Organization Department with 2 accompanying teachers in order to receive training of housekeeping organizations. The 2nd training mobility was realized between 07 May 2017 and 22 May 2017 in Budapest, Hungary with the participation of 10 teachers from Food and Beverages Services and Accommodation and Travel Management Departments in order to accomplish field trips and on the spot observations. Our school, which has an adopted notion of intermediate staff education and training with internationally accepted qualities, should always be in close cooperation with EU countries. Vocational Training Mobility projects are important opportunities to create cooperation between Turkey and Europe. Our students got the chance to improve their professional skills as well as their foreign language skills through these projects in practice hotels and observations at other companies. Their acquired knowledge and skills was lead to improvements not only at professional levels and also in personal and cultural levels. The fact that our staff was received training in abroad was created impacts that can be maintained and continued in the long term. Through this project, we are targeting to make our students and teachers to adopt the main philosophy of Lifelong Learning Program and to integrate this gain with the organizational capacity. The continuing interaction between our school and European vocational associations was added European dimension to our training standards and contribute to our capacity to become global. The methodology was realised for teachers can be listed as follows: observation on the spot, observation on the job, presentations, meetings, comparative data, statistical information, and etc. The methodology for students was included practical education and training, technical field trips, visual presentations, meetings, visits and evaluations.

The project was intended to graduate school to give the opportunity to look abroad if there were employment opportunities. During the project it became clear that the numbers for this group were not met. There were plenty of places and work abroad, but reaching the young people who also have the opportunity to go 2 weeks on labor market survey proved difficult. There are several presentations to classes that were just before graduation, but this saw it as vacation than as an opportunity to go to work. In addition, with the municipality of Leeuwarden and the UWV looked for opportunities to reach young people, this has not led to the desired result.With Boundless Arts, an organization that mediates jobs and internships abroad, worked together to let people go to France to see if there is seasonal work could be found. After a long search, there are ultimately three recent graduates went to Perpignan which one is going to also work in the season. The preparation consisted of hiring and language training site.In November 2015, the target group of the project in consultation with the NA broadened to also graduate students who were in school. Eventually, there have been 10 graduates and 29 graduate officers on labor market exploration.There are some groups went to Malta there to explore the labor market or to work on a project as part of the Capital of Culture in 2018. One of the participants found a job in Malta and has worked there more than one year. The others have been working mainly on improving language, English, and getting to know the culture in Malta.For water sports students from the CIOS there were three possibilities, Mallorca, Pescara and Malta. Mallorca and Pescara have the students experience at a school where the SUP Suppen at sea was a new experience, which increases their chances of employment in the rest of Europe. In addition, various events are supported by the students with whom they have built up an international network for their future career. One of the students has his experience in Mallorca found a job in Tarifa (Spain). In Malta, the focus was on the further development of the English language and the SUP sport.There are also three students went to Berlin after completion of their studies, there have been talks with potential employers and they all have a language course to improve their chances on the labor market there and in the Netherlands.For recent graduates with the opportunity to go abroad on employment exploration is much effort required to disclose the possibility. The relative obscurity leads to many questions. Which only after a lot of calls resulting in a final mobility.

"We have trained in Germany, Portugal and Lithuania as part of the Project on Teaching Reading and Teaching Policies and Practices in Europe to overcome the deficiencies of our teachers in the development of reading instruction and skills. We cooperated with our recipient host partners in Europe to develop our school teacher’s reading teaching skill and to learn about the factors that affect the acquisition of reading skills, the national and international policies applied, the systems of successful countries in practice, and the examples of good practice. Our recipient host partners are UAE ""Globalios idejos"" (Lithuania), dtz-bildung & qualifizierung gGmbH (Germany), BragaMob (Portugal). In the project, we have planned to train qualified and knowledgeable teachers in acquiring skills of reading instruction through our trainings. We can specify the project objectives that we have achieved in this context as follows: - Our teachers have learned innovative teaching methods in upgrading the reading skills. - We have improved our student’s reading achievement. - We have learned about the reading instruction approach in European countries. -We have learned about European education policies. - We have increased the quality of school and teachers in reading instruction. - We have found out-of-school factors that affect reading performance. - We have developed the measures to support students who are learning hard and need special education. - In the development of reading skills we have brought good practices and resources in Europe to our country. - We visited training institutions and conducted on-site researches. - Through our teachers who participated in the trainings, we have learned how to be successful in raising the reading levels of students on the European dimension to increase the success of our school. This project has achieved the above-mentioned goals. The target group of our project is the teachers and the administrators at primary school level. Indirectly, there are also the students among the target group. The effects of our project on the target audience are as follows:With the development of reading skills, the students have gained not only the ability to understand what they read but also the ability to interpret, criticize and evaluate what they understand. They have liked reading more and gained the reading culture. They succeeded in their lessons.Teachers have gained the skills of practice, analysis, synthesis and evaluation in the development of reading skills. They could make their lessons more enjoyable, their motivation and knowledge have increased. Their interests in foreign languages have increased and they have learned to investigate foreign resources. Thus, our school has become an institution that has adopted reading culture. Dialogue quality between teachers, administrators and students has improved.Three flows were made in our project. Flows were made in Germany, Portugal and Lithuania respectively. In Germany, Lithuania and Portugal, 10-day trainings were carried out except for the road times for teachers’ specialization and establishing relations between reading approaches. Institution / school visits and monitoring activities were also carried out during the trainings. Four people participated in each movement. Because of the number of school teachers and administrators being 6, 5 teachers participated in their activities. 1 of our teacher did not attend because of pregnancy. Our teachers have made dissemination activities at the end of the project and have organized project activities. Since the project communication language is English, our teachers have participated in EBA foreign language training in order to increase the teachers' language proficiency.Teacher and student seminars were held to disseminate and share information. At the end of the project, a booklet ""Developing Reading Skills in Schools"" was printed and distributed. Various activities were carried out in our school as dissemination activities A ""Project Management Team"" was established to organize activities and mobilities Expansion activities continued throughout the project and all kinds of news media were used.Our project is an open prospect of development that will love reading in the long term. Thus, it contributes to the development of the National Education Policy. It has also been launched as a project E-twinning project to collaborate with other schools and institutions in Europe to maintain project continuity."

-Our project “Professional Guidance at Europe” realized by Mustafa Kın Girls Technical Vocational High School. Our project is related towards 11th and 12th class students at the areas of Child Development and Education, Information Technologies and Food and Beverages Services.. The education abroad whichis the result of this project provided very important contributions in the view of our attendants, our town, our region and our country. As the project realized is about the raising up of our children, it shall have contributions in the meaning of understanding the children better and to gain a method in this subject. -In the context of our project, our students received training at Europe in the area of Child Development about “Child Mental Health” and by spreading widely the education they received to their towns, regions and country, they provided contributions to the needs of the country in this field. Meanwhile, at the other educational area, for the purpose of providing important contributions to the tourism sector which plays an important role in the development of turkey, to gain a vision to the tourism of our country and to attract more tourists by reaching to international variety, it provided them to receive desert making techniques education at Food and Beverages Services. The need for presenting more varieties to the tourists in our country is directly proportional with the increase at the number of tourists coming to Turkey. For the purpose of answering the needs of each tourist and to provide more investments to this sector, this subject is selected. Another subject which our country has to get along with together with the developing technology is Information Technologies. With the Internet applications to be dominant at all areas today, it became vitally important for every sector and it became mandatory to learn internet applications and current data to be competent in this area and to hold on at the international area. It is unavoidable for internet applications which became the main line of sectors such as banking, finance and international relations to crash in case current applications aren’t followed up closely. In order to be protected at virtual transactions and to realize the transactions in a quick and secure way, it is important for our country and all of our institutions to receive education at EU countries which have the highest information level at this field in the world. In this context, in the scope of this project which shall provide our students to be experts in this subject, to increase their information and to provide them cultural and professional gains, educations shall be given at the area of Information Technologies in the subject of Internet applications. -As a result, our project realized in the form of 3 educational movements. In the 1st educational movement, in order to receive in the subject if Internet applications at the area of Information Technologies, 15 students and 2 companions from Mustafa Kın Girls technical Vocational High School received education from the Stredni Prumyslova Skola institution at the country of Czech republic. In the 2nd educational movement, 15 students and 2 companions from Mustafa Kın Girls Technical Vocational High School received education at the UAB Globalios Idejos institution at the country of Lithuania at the area of Child Development and Education in the subject of Child Mental Health. Meanwhile, in the 3rd educational movement, at the area of Food and Beverages Services in the subject of desert making techniques, from Mustafa Kın Girls Technical Vocational High School, 15 students and 2 companions received education at Latvia’s Riga Technical School of Tourism and Creative Industry school.

"Audiovisuals sector has undergone an important process of evolution in the last decades: born with the film industry, the sector has expanded over time, going to first include the television industry and, subsequently, all the services deriving from the deep digital transformation (eg PC, Gaming Console, Smartphone e Tablet) based on non-linear fruition systems (EY, 2016). It is essential therefore to invest in the training of professional figures, able to move in a highly dynamic environment, who can also deal with international scenarios and ""open work"" contexts increasingly structured as co-working platforms on the web. Project specific objectives are: - To encourage WBL of students in audiovisuals companies, in order to develop institutional partnership in support of the definition and implementation of internationalization strategies related to WBL in all its forms; - To transfer learners, through work experience in companies, technical-productive and cross-cutting skills, useful to work in audiovisuals sector; - To preserve the anthropological and cultural heritage of which the audiovisulas are keepers, through the transfer of knowledge, skills and competences characterizing the individual crafts activities; - To promote transparency and recognition of competences and qualifications regarding the transition between world of formal education and world of work, thanks to ECVET methodology, used to implement the project, and to the Libretto del Cittadino, released by the Employment Centres at the end of the experience abroad. Thanks to the project 72 learners with carry on a 3 months WBL in an audiovisuals related company in BE, BG, DE, EL, ES, IE, LT, MT, PT, UK, taking the advantage of a long hands-on training that only an experience Erasmus+Pro can offer. Learning outcomes are developed through the ECVET methodology (knowledge, skills and competences) assuring so their transparency, evaluation, validation and recognition both nationally and Europe wide. At the end of the mobility, VET institutions with release students the work-linked training credits. Moreover, learners will be accompanied to Employment Centres, who will release the Libretto del Cittadino, assuring the regional recognition of competences acquired abroad. Learners will receive the Europass Mobility Certificate. ISCED sector of learners is: 0211 - Audio-visual techniques and media production. European hosting partners assure to transfer learners the competences to successfully reach the envisaged Learning Outcomes. The advance planning visits will allow on-the-spot verification of training quality offered to learners. Training plan in hosting enterprises will be organised in accordance with ECVET procedure: Units of Learning Outcomes (ULOs), with activities and Learning Outcomes (LOs) (knowledge, skills and competences). Bufalini has prepared Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed by all European partners. In line with MoU, ECVET-Las will be elaborated. At the end of training period, hosting tutors will evaluate LOs achievement of learners. Final evaluation will follow. Registers, daily signed by tutor and learners, will show the number of daily hours training. Once having reports, applicant will start procedures for having Europass Mobility Certificates validated in Italy. Once back, learners will be accompanied to Employment Centres for release of Libretto del Cittadino. Before departure, learners will attend OLS course in hosting country language. Regularly tutors and trainees will fulfil monitoring questionnaires. Online management software will allow exchange of documents and prompt management of all project phases, mitigating risks and delays. Activities are organised on 3 macro phases: mobility preparation, mobility realisation and follow up, cross-cutting activities. Project impact will be local, regional, national and European. It will: - Promote youth employment in audiovisuals sector; - Improve language skills of learners; - Improve quality of training offer, transparency and recognition of competences and qualification; - Transfer learners self-esteem, autonomy, self-empowerment, empathy and life skills. Dissemination plan will broaden project impact, improve sustainability and highlight European added value."