"There is no story without a wine, a work of art without the smell of typical food products, music without the aroma of a story.The Buds Budding Mobility Plus project has strengthened the collaboration between the IVF systems in Southern Tuscany, connected to the three Technical Professional Poles ""Agribusiness and cultural heritage"" of the areas of Grosseto, Siena and Arezzo, pursuing objectives dictated by the Europe 2020 strategy that aims to re-launch the EU economy in the next decade in a smart, sustainable and inclusive manner. The excellence of agribusiness in Tuscany, which are part of the very image of Tuscany in the world, and the valorisation strategies put in place by the territories, are in fact a way of how we can achieve them. In Tuscany indeed Quality, traceability and certifications, enhancement of typical and local productions are cornerstones of the economic and social development of our territories, they constitute a renewed employment lever for young people who have a growing desire and energy to reinterpret the traditions and riches of the territory keeping a firm sustainable growth model inherent in our culture, which finds further confirmation in the green economy. BBuM + has in fact developed actions to apply THE GREEN CONCEPT IN AGRIBUSINESS IN CONNECTION TO THE EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS.As indicated in the candidacy, we organized 90 mobility for students and 31 mobility for new graduates from all the already identified Technical and Professional Institutes that have implemented a personal and professional growth path useful for their employability.The structure of the project was this:- information actions and meetings with young people and families;- selection of recipients and their psycho-pedagogical and linguistic preparation (through the OLS platform);- experience and training / internship abroad in SMEs in Spain, Malta, France, Germany, Portugal, UK;- return to Italy and transparency / recognition of skills, knowledge and skills, also acquired as a training credit;- sharing of results with the territory and businesses.Students' experiences were configured as an alternation between school and work, while the experiences of newly graduated students have in fact anticipated the introduction of ErasmusPro, having a duration of over three months and being essentially oriented towards the employment of young people. Output competences have been identified with the Chambers of Commerce and partnership companies, taking care to enhance cross-cutting aspects of local development sustainability:- INNOVATIVE TECHNICAL-PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AGRICULTURE, AGRO-FOOD and TOURISM / CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTOR- GREEN SKILLS in reference to the agri-food / agribusiness sectors- KEY COMPETENCES for lifelong learning.BBuM + has thus contributed to responding to the competitiveness and internationalization needs of our businesses and, at the same time, offered young people tools to grow as individuals and enter the world of work with better prospects and with a portfolio of experiences and validated competences that are clear and recognizable, readable in the context of education, training and work. We have indeed identified, described and evaluated the learning outputs in harmony with the EU Recommendations, in particular EQF and ECVET.The objectives fully achieved by BBuM +, the very few deviations recorded with the design phase, have shown a stability and continuity over time of the Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus Plus projects carried out by the Province of Grosseto in synergy with the other two provinces of Southern Tuscany, Arezzo and Siena, and with the local Chambers of Commerce. The effects of the successful outcome of the project go on beyond the term of the Convention, they represent consolidated results achieved through a continuous work of the leader with schools, companies, institutions. We have acquired a 'habit' in considering transnational educational experiences as an integral part of the growth of our young people and their qualification pathways, an indispensable enrichment to foster the competitiveness of Tuscan agribusiness businesses and production chains.We are now so aware of the benefits that Erasmus + brings, that this project has constituted a key turning point in setting ourselves more structured and systemic objectives in the logic of a better European development plan and of the request of the VET Charter for the part that concerns precisely the professional training in European learning contexts."

"The Erasmus+ project TastER (Training agro-food students from Emilia-Romagna to Europe) stems from a deep knowledge of the Emilia-Romagna region and its needs, with an integrated approach aimed at promoting, enhancing and protecting biodiversity, food and wine excellence and regional agri-food businesses, with pragmatic references to operational tools which, through the European comparison, will allow participants to acquire professional skills that can be immediately used in the labour market.The project, carried out from November 2018 to February 2020, was promoted by a large National Consortium led by the ""Magnaghi-Solari"" school of Salsomaggiore Terme (PR) and composed of 18 other VET hospitality and agro-food schools and training centres of Emilia-Romagna: Bartolomeo Scappi, Arrigo Serpieri (BO), Lazzaro Spallanzani, Ignazio Calvi (MO), Motti, Convitto Corso, Zanelli, Mandela (RE), Galilei-Bocchialini, Zappa-Fermi (PR), O. Vergani - F.lli Navarra (FE), Pellegrino Artusi (RA), T. Guerra (RN), ENAIP Reggio Emilia, La Cremeria, ENAIP Parma, FormaFuturo, IAL Serramazzoni.TastER gave the opportunity to 195 young people (135 students and 60 newly graduated and newly qualified) to carry out a professional internship experience in the tourism, agricultural, hotel and catering sectors, in the following destinations: London (UK), Tralee (Ireland), Bordeaux (France), Lisbon and Braga (Portugal), La Coruña and Valencia (Spain), Leipzig (Germany), Prague (Czech Rep.), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Malta.The young participants (17-20 years), selected from the VET schools and training centres of the TastER Consortium, thus had the opportunity to improve their technical, linguistic and transversal skills, in a path of growth professional and staff full of challenges and satisfactions.Typical agro-food products and rural development represent a distinctive combination for the Emilia-Romagna Region, also a partner of the National Consortium, which, thanks to this project, has been able to enhance its great heritage of traditions and agro-food production excellence, focusing on the effective effects that TastER has been able to guarantee, in terms of protection and promotion of food and wine excellences, while promoting knowledge and affirmation of the typical specialties of the area, in order to increase their diffusion, appreciation and consumption.In this way, the project has contributed to meeting the competitiveness and internationalization needs of Emilia-Romagna companies in the sector, offering young participants useful tools to grow as individuals and enter the professional level, with better prospects and with a portfolio of experiences and clear, recognizable and legible validated competences in the contexts of education, training and work.TastER was in fact able to respond to the need to increase the quality of the individual members of the Consortium and mobility, facilitating the creation of an increasingly accessible European labour market and able to guarantee the recognition of the skills and qualifications owned."

CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT. Italy is the European country with the largest number of spas thanks to its unique geology volcanic phenomena. In fact the spa and wellness tourism in Italy host 4.2% of tourists in hotels or other types of accommodation, that means 15 million people every year. If we analyze the human capital skill in the sector, we understand that the demand for the professions, as restaurant and bar service but also staff in marketing and fitness, increased. These companies need to be equipped by the staff with different level of skill and competences to be able to meet the challenges presented by the market and to take advantage of the opportunities to grow . The project TE.BE. intends to respond to this need, by offering an opportunity to the students and graduates of Lazio, Tuscany, Lombardy, Puglia, Veneto and Piedmont region to obtain an educational and professional experience in foreign companies that operate in the tourism sector of spa and wellness in the following areas :- Tourist services: specific skill in restaurant, bar, kitchen and technical services for accommodation;- Marketing and communication: tourism marketing and communication skill - Health and fitness: spa and wellness skill;- Management and administration: management and administration skill .OBJECTIVES. The participants involved will be able to carry out a training and professionalizing experience in international environments, which will enable them to equip themselves with a mix of interdisciplinary and interconnected skill. The project also intends to use the methods and tools for skill and credits recognition through the use of Unit of learning to be capitalized and converted into the school and / or training credits by measuring, recognizing, validating the LO through linear and transparent procedures according the indications of the ECVET.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS80 STUDENTS. BACKGROUND. Young 16/19 years attending the 4th year of Secondary School from the regions that will participate in the project. 20 GRADUATES/NEW QUALIFIED. Young people who have obtained a qualification or diploma within last 12 months and is connected with the sector of tourism and wellness.The project will also give the opportunity of participation to disadvantaged persons.ACTIVITIES. Project activities are following:- Project management (divided into 4 main documents, which contain 4 main aspects of correct project management: Coordination and Control Plan, Plan for Learning and Evaluation, Plan of Management of the Communication, Dissemination and Valorization)- Preparing for the internship (linguistic, technical, educational, cultural, digital preparation)- Identification and activation of interns (following the selection of participants, the MATCHING of the candidate-company will be held in collaboration with foreign parties who will evaluate the profiles according to the availability of the enterprises)- Accompanying of the participants under 18 years and disadvantaged persons (mainly by professors of the institutes involved) adequately prepared.- Monitoring during and ex post- Final evaluation (outcomes, project, good practices)METHODOLOGY. The used methodologies are practices to achieve effective, efficient and repeatable activity.RESULTS AND IMPACT. In general, the project will have the main impact in education and training (VET) sector thanks to: training results of mobility participants; acquired skill (soft skill, professional skill, personal, cultural and ethical skill); recognition of training credits. The dissemination strategy will support the global objectives and specific project activities, in particular the publication of the project OUTPUT (materials, in particular the video made by the participants), but also the OUTCOMES (results) and OUTREACH (impact).LONG TERM BENEFITS. In the long term, we expect: greater involvement of Italian partners (institutional or non), the extension of the partnership abroad, from territorial and skill point of view; the possibility to carry out exchange projects and cooperation also thanks to the participation in other European programs (as COSME and other instruments that finance the social and wellness tourism etc.); the opportunity to become (as the Consortium) a prestigious partner in mobility management and the adoption of the logic EQAVET nd of the system of recognition of the credits ECVET.

"The Municipality of Correggio has made significant commitments with respect to European policies that can be implemented locally to promote a thorough European citizenship. The applicant is working at all levels of education, in cooperation with Europe Direct, and is partner of the Italian network for the transnational mobility of young people EURODESK.On the other hand it is the territory of the Parmesan cheese, traditional balsamic Vinegar of Reggio Emilia, Lambrusco Reggiano DOC and mortadella! It has the highest grape production in the province, it is the home of one of the most important schools of the territory in the food and agriculture sector, Convitto Corso.""EAT in Emilia 2"", as the first edition of the project ""EAT in Emilia"", born from these seeds, grows with the interests shared by the Provinces, the Enterpreneurial Organizations and the Emilia-Romagna Region, which has also set up its own collective mark QC (Controlled Quality), which identifies the products obtained by applying the techniques and methods of integrated production environment and health friendly.The partnership is completed by schools and vocational centers of the provinces of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Modena, business associations, promotion consortia, global enterprises and with a selection of the most appropriate receiving partners.When the project has been written, EXPO 2015 was just finished and there was the need to intercept the development opportunities related with the higher attention from the whole world towards our way of living and feeding in the respect of our territory.Therefore, the project EAT in Emilia 2 arises from the knowledge of the territory, its products and the concept of promotion, with a strong connotation in marketing, e-communication and e-commerce areas, with pragmatic references to operative tools, including ICT and social media, which allow, through the European benchmark, to develop the best possible performance to be spent on the labor market, raising the employability level of participants.The concept of “typical food product” has been defined and 'transferred' certainly not from a closing or defensive point of view, but as GLOCAL RESPONSE to the increasing search for quality. This in order to pursue competitiveness and sustainability, fostering the reconfiguration of production systems and giving more negotiation power to farmers and rural groups.EAT in Emilia 2 let us enrich our young learners with innovative skills, supporting both exploitation policies and SMEs willing to grow in value (and income), providing them with ideas and strategies to develop toward a real “glocalization”. It is no coincidence that the forms of marketing of the typical product proposed in the project, followed on one side the path of the short chain and on the other the openness to web 2.0 tools, e-business and social business.Every school/vocational center involved has been associated to training experiences characterized by the recognition of credit and able to provide learners with at least one specific skill/performance among those recognized in the Regional (or National) Qualification Framework, in order to produce new skills and improve local and European employability.We started from young people that, with ""EAT in Emilia 2"", have had EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH, through a linguistic-cultural preparation specific for the destination country and thanks to a 5-week/3-month work placement experience in European SMEs, respectively for 95 students and 32 newly graduates.Participants have been able to develop those life skills which are necessary to become a real citizen and to integrate quickly into the labor market.""EAT in Emilia 2"" has been a project in line with the objectives of the YOUTH WARRANTY, it responded to the competitiveness and internationalization needs of our enterprises and, at the same time, it offered to young people tools for growing as individuals and facing the labor market with better perspectives and with a portfolio of validated skills and experiences in a clear, recognizable and readable way.The destination countries were: Spain, Malta, UK, Portugal, France, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands."