"The project Training Activities for the Development of New Enterprises is designed starting from the needs of the area and the problems that young people from Calabria have to face with reference to the inclusion in the labor market. In this context, ""T.R.A.D.E"", it is a great opportunity for / the younger generation (VET learners) increasing professional skills in tourism and agribusiness fields for to allow the younger generation to create enterprise. In line with the European Development Plan Shared by All Members of the Consortium the project will increase the following skills: - Acquire knowledge of the hotel business reality, the optimization of accounting computerization and booking processes, marketing choices and management / organization of human resources; - Promoting rural development and encourage responsible management of resources; - Promoting awareness of the stages of creation of hotel and non-hotel business, analysis of the market and innovative business strategies; - To acquire problem-solving skills in all management and operational phases; - Acquire skills of analysis of financial feasibility, technical, economic and commercial enterprise; - Foster the development of transversal skills. The project targets are100 high school graduates (50% is reserved for women in 2017/2018 - 2018/2019) having residence in Calabria. They will apply those who, within a year after graduation, they will mast graduates of higher education institutions belonging to the following sectors: 1) the accounting, finance, marketing, accounting, management software development for administrations in the tourism sector; 2) tourist accommodation and hotel hospitality; 3) operational management of the service in the lounge, bar and plans, including sales and customer loyalty; 4) agriculture, rural development, processing, valuation and marketing of agricultural and food products. The internships, will last four months, will be completed with foreign companies related professional sectors mentioned, as their aim is to develop transversal skills aimed at the creation and management of enterprise, from holdings in Spain, UK, Ireland and Belgium. The experience offered by the project will change the perception of local opportunities, transferring best practices for solutions / management for innovative competitiveness through the internship to the return that will be offered at local farms listed in the paragraph C.1.3. of this form. During the project, the trainees will be supported by the Commission in co-ordinating the Team -working through the provision of the following services: • linguistic, cultural and pedagogical; • matching action between the companies in which it held internships; • identification of the flights, buying tickets and better housing accommodations; • insurance coverage for the entire period of mobility; • mentoring and constant monitoring; • practical support for any logistical and organizational problems and a monetary contribution, called ""Erasmus + pocket"" in order to contribute share to cover the cost of meals and local transportation to / from the workplace. The mobility experience abroad will have a major impact on the participants: 1. In the professional point of view: knowledge of other labor markets and other economies, methods, approaches and different work techniques; development of new professional skills, language and technology; 2. From the point of view of personal growth: to know the aspects of another culture, develop a sense of responsibility and autonomy, increasing self-esteem and, therefore, self-employment. The project T.R.A.D.E. will have an impact at local, regional, national and European level, thanks to the following benefits: • opening of new start-ups; • 45% of learners (25% in Italy and 10% abroad) will find a stable employment by reducing the regional unemployment rate; • increased availability and availability on the labor market of qualified personnel; • improving management skills and strategies of internationalization; • closer link between education and the business world; • easier recognition of competences at European level; • Development of the European labor market."

"""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"

T.A.LE.N.T.S. project allowed the realization of n. 50 journeys lasting 122 days (of which 120 are traineeships and 2 are journeys) for young graduates at vocational training institutes. They have had an internship experience in companies located in the following European countries: the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal. - n. 15 journeys lasting 23 days (of which 21 on-the-job training and 2 on-the-go), for the benefit of subjects belonging to the staff of VET Institutes and entities. These professionals carried out a training activity at companies located in Spain. The area in which the on-the-job training activities were carried out is the tourism sector, understood in the broadest sense of the word: tourist reception, catering and catering, organization of cultural and gastronomic events, marketing and territorial promotion, alternative tourism and eco-sustainable. In addition to the transversal management, dissemination and monitoring phases, the project envisaged the implementation of the following activities, carried out according to procedures and methodologies already tested over the years, and which guarantee high quality standards: -Information and awareness -Selection of participants - Linguistic and cultural preparation - Logistic organization of mobility - Evaluation of the project - Dissemination of results. The project has proved to be consistent with Essenia's internationalization strategy, which involves the implementation and development of activities aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of transnational mobility projects. The project idea was born from the constant contact and comparison with students, new graduates, staff of VET institutes and organizations, companies, stakeholders and public and private institutions. The intense activity of information on learning and mobility opportunities offered by the European programs, carried out at national level through seminars, infodays and meetings, has enabled Essenia to capture the needs of the world of Education and training and the needs of the job market. Starting from this action of comparison and awareness, an analysis of the needs was carried out, from which it emerged that the tourism sector, historically and structurally relevant for the Campania and Italian context, is still configured as a driving force for development, but is a with respect to which actions of strengthening and updating of the professional skills, both of the new graduates and of the staff of VET bodies, to be acquired through practical experiences of internship abroad are absolutely necessary. To ensure that the project met the needs identified and to help make the formal and informal skills acquired by the participants through the mobility period more expendable on the European labor market, Essenia consolidated the network of local partners, also strengthening the collaboration with the bodies involved in implementing the approaches and adopting the European methodologies and tools for certification, validation and recognition of skills (ECVET). In addition to the acquisition of professional skills related to the tourism sector, the project has contributed to strengthening the European identity and improving intercultural and linguistic skills, developing a set of personal and transversal skills that are indispensable for entering an increasingly globalized labor market. be in line with its constant evolution. In fact, Essenia has implemented specific linguistic training courses during the linguistic and cultural preparation phase to strengthen the knowledge of micro-languages. The partnership is made up of both members with whom Essenia has solid relationships, and with new subjects, included in the proposal to encourage the ever-increasing development of the European and international dimension of society. In fact, the project included Portugal, identified in the internationalization strategy as one of the European countries with which to activate synergies. The collaboration with new organizations and organizations has contributed and will contribute to increasing the quantity and quality of exchanges at European level, to promoting the sharing of good practices and experiences, to increasing the transfer and experimentation of innovative methodologies and processes, to the benefit of all the organizations involved and their staff.

"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."

“E.A.S.Y. LAB. - Entrepreneurship And Self-emploYment by real experiences in LABour market” has allowed 60 young graduates residing in Basilicata Region to carry out a 4 month training period abroad in the sectors of food and wine, tourism and hotel hospitality (20 in France, 20 in Spain and 20 in the United Kingdom). The project, raising from the cooperation among the members of the National Consortium led by EuForMed Srls, aimed at promoting employment and entrepreneurship in the strongest sectors of regional economy, supporting a development model that was able to respect its economic-productive vocation.The objectives of the project regarded the beneficiaries and partners’ perspectives of development, can be considered widely achieved in consideration of the following analysis:-the greater knowledge of job opportunities coming from tourism and food and wine industry has been achieved not only by the realization of the 60 mobility programs abroad but also through the information and dissemination actions implemented by the members of the Consortium;-the increase of hard skills in the project sectors involved the 60 participants who, through their work experience abroad, were able to acquire, in accordance with the Regional Framework of Qualifications, knowledge and skills associated with specific units of expertise;-the development of interpersonal, communicative, organizational and management skills of the participants who, thanks to the mobility experience, have been able to acquire a great deal of information on the culture and economy of the host country, as well as on the modalities of interaction within a professional context;-the development of the skills recognition systems was prompted by the use of the Europass and ECVET tools. Albeit without having an operative recognition system at regional level, the need to certify the experiences abroad has allowed the Consortium members to acquire a methodology that will facilitate a wider use of the European certification and validation systems.The National Consortium and the individual members have been able to reach objectives that concerned a better knowledge of the professional figures and related competences of the tourism and food and wine sector; the strengthening of language skills; the empowerment of transnational cooperation tools necessary to increase European mobility; the enhancement of the link between school/training and productive sectors.The project has reached impacts on the beneficiaries and the organizations involved, as well as at local, national and European level. With reference to the participants, some of the impacts could be observed immediately at the end of the mobility period:-achievement of a greater awareness of their professional opportunities (100% of the participants);-acquisition of professional skills related to their field of study (88% of participants);-acquisition of soft skills related to the ability to work responsibly and professionally (100% of participants);-strengthening of foreign language skills (95% of participants).The impacts on the participants’ competences and the support action carried out by EuForMed and the partner organizations are also producing positive impacts on the participants’ employment opportunities. EuForMed has already been able to assess that the 32% of the participants received a job offer from foreign companies (against the initial expectation of 10%).Furthermore, the project action represented an important tool for consolidating collaborations within the Consortium and with foreign partners, responding to the internationalization need that was at the basis of the project action. Through the development and sharing of collaborative skills/competences within the partnership there have been impacts on the capacity of management and coordination of joint activities and projects, including future ones. Thanks to the skills acquired, the Consortium has been creating the conditions to act at regional level by proposing a training and employment strategy meeting the specifics needs of the labour market.