Fundación Inform (www.inform.es) is an organization dedicated to the management, coordination and implementation of different educational programs and projects applied to VET training in Spain. It has as members of its Board the municipalities of 17 municipalities in Catalonia: Sant Pere de Ribes, Vilafranca del Penedès, Molins de Rei, El Prat de Llobregat, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Manlleu, the Mancomunitat de Municipis de la Vall del Tenes, Lleida , Tortosa, Reus, Rubí, El Vendrell, Barcelona, Tarragona, Sabadell, Valls and Girona and the Escola Pia de Catalunya and establishes collaboration agreements with each of the VET training centers where the SEFED Program is applied (Simulation of Companies with Educational Aims) throughout Catalonia and Spain.Our vision is to find and apply pedagogical tools to adapt the training of people to the needs of the labor market, to contribute to a qualitative improvement of the society in which we develop. Our mission is to create, consolidate and transfer training products that facilitate the labor insertion and the continuous improvement of different groups, preferably using the methodology of business simulation. Our values are the capacity for innovation, transnationality, transparency, quality and networking.Since 1987 Fundación Inform manages and applies the SEFED Program in VET training for administration staff for SMEs in VET medium-level, in VET higher-level and in professional VET certificates related to the Administrative and Commercial VET family.The transnationality of the SEFED Program has always been a key point in Inform's strategic plans and for this reason we have participated in European programs since 1987 (Leonardo and Erasmus since 2014) to try to internationalize the training received by our students and adapt it to the labour market. Since 1994, Inform is a founding member of the international network Europen-Pen International (http://www.penworldwide.org/), which brings together all the educational organizations in the world that manage simulation projects like ours. The Europen Network has 40 countries and 8,000 simulated companies in VET schools, universities, secondary schools, etc .; and we work together in various projects to advance towards common models of learning, the improvement of the professional skills of students and teachers and the development of the European labor market. We achieved the Erasmus accreditation in the VET field last year. The project has been open to two types of students, people carrying out the level 2 VET certificate ADGD0308 Administrative management activities (students belonging to our Foundation), mostly unemployed women over 30/35 years old and with basic training and /or secondary studies. And VET students in studies in the administrative and / or commercial family that implement the SEFED methodology. These are young people from 16 to 18 years old in search of work experience abroad to try to get their first job in Spain, with different socioeconomic levels and from urban and / or rural areas. The national consortium of this project consists of 56 entities that are VET schools and organizations in which the SEFED methodology is taught in part of the curriculum of VET middle level, from the VET Administrative and Commercial family, 13 of these 56 are organizations that belong to the board of Fundación Inform and in which the VET project ADGD0308 is delivered. All these VET centers need to improve the linguistic, social and professional / technical skills of their students. We need skills and competencies of high quality and excellence so that our students can compete in the labor market. Participation and common work in European projects in a consortium coordinated by the Foundation is part of our vision and mission as an organization. We believe that transnationality must be a way of being, of working and of understanding things. And with this premise we have been working since 1987 when we started our journey in training. Transnationality is an essential point in the Foundation's strategic plan since its inception. This mission and vision is also constantly transferred to all our students and professionals who participate in the training we offer.

"This Project is a follow up to the OSCUS DUAL project that was approved in the last Leonardo da Vinci call of proposal, whose aim is to help our students differentiating their curriculum which is essential when entering the labour market today. The main objective of this Project has been to facilitate that our students enter the labor market and to create a professional network at a European level to improve the quality of education and training amongst our students. 40 students of the following educational fields have been involved:- Administration, Hairdressing and hair cosmetics, Nursing Assistants, Personal image and aesthetics , Characterization, Pharmacy and Parapharmacy, Home Care Assistants.These students had previously completed a theoretical training period in our center and have completed now with this training period on other organizations from different countries of the EU, and more specifically in Italy, Portugal, France, Ireland and Malta. Mobilities have been divided into 3 flows: From March to June 2015, from September to December 2015 and from March to June 2016. The mobility period has lasted for 90 days, supplemented with a language course that was done before departure. These have been the activities completed by each flow: 1)First phase: Before departure: Opening and Information day, encouraging students to participate in the program, selecting candidates, looking for companies in destination countries according to candidates profiles, language course and cultural preparation, , defining training agreements, writing training agreements, cv, mobility logistics2)Second phase: Mobility: Information meeting, departure to destinations, students follow up, solving eventual problems and incidents. 3)Third phase: Evaluation and dissemination of project results: Meeting with participants once they come back to analyze results and impact, labour market insertion, evaluate program as a whole, writing a quality report and financial justification, closing day, and dissemination of resultsThe results of this program have been:For the students: gaining professional competences that are specific to their labour sector, completing a fist professional experience, acquiring a versatile professional profile with the capacity to adapt to the specific needs of each enterprise, developing language and cultural skills, knowing and using different applications and new technologies in the working environment, getting to know production and organization systems, increasing the quality of their education and training to be more competitive, obtaining the EUROPASS, differentiating their cv in order to have more chances when entering the labour market, obtaining the corresponding academic degree. For our training center: Enlarging our ""Working Network in Europe"". Developing this project has reinforced the relationship between our Centre with other training centers and international companies, which has enabled us to get new agreements that focus to the internationalization of our training center. The impact of our project among our students can be clearly appreciated in the interest they show for their own education, as the academic path is essential when applying for the grant. Besides , in the long term we expect to integrate these programs in our educational program, so that we can offer it to future generation of students, which will be a benefit for our students."

FRECHE PROJECT IV: Collaborative European Network Training for a Hotel Industry of Excellence, 4th edition. OBJECTIVES: Placement of 84 hotel students in European companies (England, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria) for the acquisition of professional, linguistic, intercultural and behavioural skills to facilitate their professional integration or further studies. DURATION: 24 months, from 01/06/2018 to 31/05/2020. MANAGEMENT: Steering Committee: 2 headmasters, 1 supervisor, 1 manager, 8 language and vocational teachers, 1 very experienced coordinator (9 Leonardo, 3rd Erasmus+). PARTICIPANTS: 4 groups are planned: September/October 2018 and 2019 (final year of vocational baccalaureate in cooking and service, 7 weeks + Catering, 8 weeks), January/February 2019 and 2020 (Reception Reception Reception, 6 weeks), and March/April 2019 and 2020 (1st technological baccalaureate in hotel management, 4 weeks). They have a pressing need to face the reality of mobility to check their professional and linguistic skills, acquire new ones, approach the notion of European citizenship through immersion in local life to make them future European workers. But we also hope that the pupils will benefit from the contributions of mobility, because they will have the opportunity to discover and analyse a new culture thanks to the immersion and the quality support offered to them, to rub shoulders with the local youth thanks to the European partner schools, all this contributing to the acquisition of the intercultural and behavioural notions and competences necessary for their full development. They need to master codes of behaviour and language registers. They also need to open up, to value themselves and to acquire more self-confidence when facing the labour market. All these professional, linguistic, cultural and personal contributions combined are assets that constitute a rewarding and reassuring experience for their skills and facilitate their professional integration. The project also provides for the immersion of 12 teachers in schools or companies. The school project is strongly based on international openness, on the establishment of solid partnerships to facilitate student mobility, to encourage the exchange of good practice between European teachers and to optimise student training. An important place is given to languages (ETOILE label, Cervantes, Cambridge and Goethe language certifications). We are also in line with the logic of tourism development in our Languedoc-Roussillon region, which is increasingly in need of highly qualified hotel staff to meet the growing needs of tourism. PARTNERSHIP: A project based on a quality partnership, high schools, a university school, numerous companies, educational institutions, all experienced in welcoming, supervising, monitoring and evaluating students, the host companies offer a level of excellence in their services, as do the intermediary establishments which carry out an enormous amount of liaison work. The high quality cultural environments allow for an exceptional cultural preparation plan (e.g. the cultivation of saffron, El Greco, Cervantes, Don Quixote in Toledo, Dalí and Picasso in Spain, Guinness Distillery in Dublin, William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings in England). DESTINATIONS : Spain : Toledo (Castilla la Mancha), Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands), Poland : Lublin (Lublinie). England : Hastings (East Sussex). Ireland: Dublin. EVALUATION: We will be able to verify that the targeted results are achieved through post-mobility assessment meetings, questionnaires to be completed by students and companies, debriefing interviews, oral language tests and specific tests of European sections.

This project has been run by the Hotel- and Tourism programme at Sundsvalls gymnasium, Sundsvall, Sweden. Our reason for running this project within Erasmus+ work practise abroad is because we want the students to grow in the profession and on a personal level but we also want them to develop a good command of english.As the hotel- and restaurant industry have problems in finding trained staff we find it important to encourage young people to train for work in the industry. The opportunity to do some of the work practise abroad is one part of encouraging students to apply for the Hotel- and tourism programme (HT).The students who were offered work practise abroad were in their last year. We chose third year students because they usually have come of age, have already done workplace practise in Sweden and have come far within the respective subjects. Also the possibility to go abroad has proved to encourage some students to put more effort into their studies of the english language.When it was time to go in the spring of 2018 it turned out that several of the previously so interested students now had other plans. We had also lost some students who have moved out of town and some that hade changed programmes. We contacted the Food- and Resturant management programme (RL) and offered them to send three students to Cyprus with students from the HT programme. It turned out to be a successful combination and the students got on well together.In the spring of 2019 we went to Dublin, Ireland, with four students who stayed eight weeks and one special needs student who stayed two weeks with support of staff from school. The latter student worked at a hotel and it worked out well for her.Six students went to Limassol, Cyprus, and five students went to Dublin, Ireland, during this project. Both male and female and swedish bord as well as students born in other countries. All students worked in hotels where the Food and restaurant management students worked in galleys and restaurants and the Hotel and tourism students worked in the hotel and with breakfasts and some service with lunches and buffes. The students went on outings and study visits on their own as well as with teachers who visited them during their time abroad.Our two programmes worked well together during the first part of the project and we are looking forward to continuing out cooperation. Since we have worked with our partner hotels for many years we have been able to develop and secure the quality of the training. However nothing is as good that it cannot be improved and we are continually working on improvement and development. An advantage with a long internship is that the students make themselves at home and become comfortable with work mates and asigned tasks. They also improve their english and get a little more confident in talking to people that speak an other language than their own. We are very pleased that our partner hotels are there for our students if they need assistance with health care an so forth. To sum up we haved noticed that the students have grown both in self-esteem and self-confidence. To spend eight weeks away from homecan prove to be difficult for some students but upon returnn everybody is happy to have managed without family and are happy for the experience.And the social media makes it easy to keep in touch – with family as well with new friends after returning home.

We intend to continually accomplish the international APL/work experience programme for our Restaurant and Tourism students. To enable this we hereby apply for scholarships from the Erasmus+. We would like to further develop our previous contacts with Ireland and Cyprus. The aim of the vocational training in a foreign country, is to offer students an international outlook, including the fields of culture, work, social events and language. Students are then encouraged to realise their vocational skills in their work environment and take part in cultural events within the service sector of their host country.The expected outcome of a completed vocational training for the student in a foreign country would be increased confidence, a better insight and merits which are beneficial when applying for work after graduation. Because of a negative trend currently, we believe that vocational training in a foreign country would be an advantage to increase the number of applicants to the educations in the study fields we offer. Thereby making vocational education more attractive. Our partner organisation is responsible for giving students the necessary competence in their field of work, eg restaurant, kitchen, serving, reception, tourism, information and service. It is mainly third year students who will be offered to apply for a work experience programme on Cyprus or in Ireland. During these weeks the students will work at a hotel, either in the restaurant/ restaurant kitchen or in the reception/ at the service desk.The reason we primarily offer this to our third year students is the fact that they have turned 18 years old and they have gained the necessary competence.The Hotell- and tourism programme aims to send twelve students to Dublin and four to Limassol during a two-year period.The Restaurant Programme aims to send four students to Limassol during a two-year period.