Mobility project is carried out from 01.10.2014 to 30.09.2015. In current mobility project are the following participants, partners and time periods:Tailoring speciality has 4 students on practical training in Spain, Tenerife with host partner’s IES Las Indias partner companies. Cook speciality has 2 students on practical training in Spain, Valencia with the host partner’s Esmovia partner companies, 2 students in Spain, Malaga with host partner’s SERVICE INTERNSHIP CONSULTING S.L partner companies and 2 students in Sweden, Gimo with the host partner Bruksgymnasiet partner companies. Social care speciality has 3 students on practical training in Spain, Valencia with the host partner’s Esmovia partner companies. Logistics speciality has students on practical training in Bulgaria, Sofia with host partner’s Bulgaria Gateway Ltd partner companies. Car technician speciality has 2 students on practical training in Spain, Malaga with host partner’s SERVICE CONSULTING S.L partner companies and 3 students in Sweden, Õstersund with host partner’s Jämtlands Gymnasieförbund partner companies. Logistics speciality has students on practical training in Malta with host partner’s MCAST partner companies. In this project are participating total 26 students and seven hosting organizations.The main objective of the project is to promote the mobility of vocational training establishment students and its quality through having practical training abroad. Practical training gives young students the possibility to get more knowledge and acquire practical vocational skills in different culture, language and work environment.Participants have the possibility to work with modern equipment and highly developed working cultures while doing their practical training. This creates new study possibilities and improves study motivation for continuing studies and becomes the basis of lifelong learning experience. Possibility to acquire new working methods and technologies brings forth the increase of work related competitiveness. Managing with foreign culture and work environment develops greater communication skills and improves adaptability. Participants can practise their foreign language skill in work and casual environment and acquire the language terminology related to speciality. Young people’s foreign language skill increases in communication and also in professional level.The outcomes of the project are the students’ professional vocational skills improvements and development of work culture which helps them better to manage in real life work environment situations. Entrepreneurs get workers with better professional skills. School acquires new experience and knowledge through organizing and conducting.

It is a major concern of the Hans-Böckler Berufskolleg to ensure a work-orientated education and encourage open-mindedness, tolerance and interest in cultural diversity. The following projects will prepare students from the business, media and science department adequately for the European job market. Approximately 60 students have the opportunity to gain work experience in countries like Poland, Great Britain, Spain, Malta, Iceland, and Norway by being part of international teams, and collaborating on common tasks and projects. Language skills as well social, cultural and content-based competences will be developed and advanced. The students will benefit from this projects by gaining a competitive advantage on the job market because they are acquainted to a variety of innovative work techniques and routines. Teachers will benefit from this project equally in terms of further methodical training and the exposure to a variety of languages in order to ensure bilingualism at school. A further goal is the initiation and deepening of collaborations of fellow organisations, companies and schools within Europe to lay foundations for further projects in the future.

According to current mobility project, 76 students from Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus participate in the project. Students did an apprenticeship period at foreign companies (68 mobilitys) or at school workshops (8 mobilitys).The participants of current project are carefully chosen according to each one individuaal training needs. Activities of mobility project will grow the learning motivation of the students, enable the precious experience of gaining new professional skills and knowledge abroad, develope the social skills, team work and independent work skills, grow initiative and self-confident. The mobilities are efficient tool to enable the foreign language skills improvement. The apprenticeship period done at enterprises will recognized as practice, set in the school curricula by using ECVET principles. The mobilities of the employees will be recognized as official employee practice outside the school. All mobility learning outcomes are set according to the individual training needs of the participants.The main aims of the project:1. Develop, deepen and determine the professional skills, competences and knowledge of the participants through the mobilities; ensure the accordance of the qualifications and knowledge with the labour market needs;2. Determine the theoretical knowledge and skills to practice through practical tasks and works3. Support the development of 8 key competences, social skills and improvement on personal skills among the participants through the mobilities;4. Grow the work- and learning motivation of the participants and improve their attractiveness at labour market.5. To promote the conformation of VET in European levelThe aims of the project are directly linked with the development plans and priorities of Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus and the present problems in vocational education. The project will give the first step for solving these problems – make the vocational education more directly linked to the labour market needs, raise the professionals skills of the employees at school, ensure the high quality of provided education and the study materials.The project team set together with professional teachers, leaders of the vocational fields and management members the aims of the planned mobilities, target groups and learning outcomes in order to ensure the high quality mobilities. Project managers and project coordinator searched for the most appropriate partner institutions according to the set learning outcomes and signed the co-operation agreements. The aims of the mobilities, learning outcomes and timing are agreed with all of the partners and documented with letters of intent and memorandum of understanding. The learning outcomes of each mobilities are set in the memorandum of understandings. The learning outcomes will be negotiated once again before the mobilities, including the recieving enterprise in order to ensure its fulfillment. The project will support the aim set in development plans of Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus and Pärnu city – to offer the vocational education in accordance with labour market needs. The aim is also set in development plan of Pärnu city for years 2004-2015 and development plan of Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus. The participants of the mobilties will improve their professional skills and competences and apply these in everyday work at labour market. The learning outcomes and aims of the project are set in accordance with the labour market needs. The participants of the mobilities will bring the innovative knowledge, skills and competences to the home school, enterprises in the city and region, where these will be applied and used.The participation of the mobilities will helop to acquire the variety of professional skills and competences, innovative working methods. The participants will share their knowlehde and skills with colleagues and co-students from home institutions, among other schools and partners, in order to improve the quality of vocational education in regional and state level. The project will give the measure of International co-operation and gives an opportunity to improve the International co-operation field. The school will be a part of International practice network. The internationalization is the priority of Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus, set also in development plans.

The role of YA – Vocational College of Ostrobothnia is to educate and train both students and staff for a society with focus on constant development. With emphasis on the educational program Aktivt lärande (Active learning) YA strives to provide opportunities for students to achieve their individual goals. To be able to develop active learning in practice the organization needs common goals, with a staff who are willing and able to help each student to develop their potential, their self-knowledge and achieve their individual goals in terms of training, qualification, employment or continued studies. The 2015 revised national qualifications, and the forthcoming national VET reform in 2018, has contributed to key changes for both students and staff. These changes has resulted in a need to develop studies in different learning environments and at the same time the teacher’s role is shifting towards a more coaching role. A significant part of the students learning is expected to take place in work places during on-the-job learning periods, and in certain competence areas the students are expected to conduct up to 50 competence points through on-the job-learning. YA has also introduced a non-graded (or ungraded) learning where students can acquire their skills at their own pace, so that learning is not tied to a specific grade or year. The non-grade learning system facilitates personalized learning so that students are able to plan and influence their own study paths. This has resulted in an increased demand for on-the-job learning placements abroad. These periods are unique opportunities through which students can improve key skills such as problem solving, collaboration, professional ethics, initiative and entrepreneurship. While there is an increased need for the work placements, there is also a clear development need to strengthen the role of teachers as coaches in different learning environments. The focus should be on learning outcomes and objectives, not on study hours. Staff exchanges represents an opportunity to compare and exchange experience through job shadowing European colleagues and carrying out study visits. There is also a need to test learning models and tools for learning in different learning environments in accordance of ECVET. These reforms promote internationalization in vocational education whilst it also causes development needs both for the staff, the students and for the partner’s cooperation. This also places greater demand on management, coordination and application of ECVET routines. Through the Erasmus + KA102 project COACHING - Coaching Competencies and Routines for VET mobility following objectives are expected to be met: a. Strengthening the competencies of the staff in their new coaching role in different learning environments and enhanced experience of recognition of skills acquired in other learning environment according to ECVET. b. Increased learning in different learning environments and strengthened key competences for students (active and entrepreneurial learning). c. Stronger partnerships and increased access to work placements and job shadowing places – amongst European partners. d. Strengthened application of ECVET routines, as a quality assurance measure to ensure the quality of learning in different learning environments. The project's main method to meet objectives is carried out through the following activities: 1. Exchange of knowledge for staff (one -week job shadowing or 2-3 days as accompanying person/study visit). 2. Competency boosting work placement periods of four weeks abroad for students. During the period of two years a total of 70 student mobilities, 16 accompanying teachers / study visits and 16 job shadowing periods will take place in Sweden, Austria, France, Portugal, Spain and Malta. YA also plans to invite two guest speakers from partners in Malta and Spain to disseminate valuable knowledge and experience to staff and students about international - and multicultural competencies.

"AIDP CALABRIA - Italian Association for the Personnel Management has developed and managed the project ""V.I.E.W. - Vocational International experiences Working in Europe"" in a context where together with the lack of an economic-productive fabric that turns out to be widely competitive and widespread throughout the Calabrian territory, the presence of entrepreneurship is often exclusively addressed to the Italian market and with insufficient appeal on a transnational circuit. In addition to this, there is the lack of the development of an entrepreneurial culture that brings different but deeply connected sectors into synergy and dialogues among such as school, political-institutional and association world (not only trade associations). “V.I.E.W.” has allowed 100 Calabrian recent graduates to carry out a 120-days internship in Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta in crucial areas for the local economy: marketing and business management, applied to the tourism-cultural sector, internationalization and the export of agri-food products. The overall objective was to provide new graduates with skills that can be used in the labour market and that can, at the same time, help the local business community to internationalize.Graduates, within one year of the acquisition of the high school degree, took part in the mobility action.The specific purposes established in the project proposal were: - create and entrench synergies between school and world of work;- promote an acknowledged and guaranteed mobility, in order to strengthen the internazionalization of training and employment opportunities; - enrich the reflection of decision-makers at national and European level on the concrete contribution of the recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning (definition of the ECVET implementation process in Calabria), on the implementation and development of lifelong learning policies;- improve the employability of young Calabrian graduates by supporting the recognition of skills and knowledge;- implement strategic countermeasures focusing on the qualification of tourism marketing to boost small and medium-sized businesses in Calabria;- acquire and/or update skills and technical-professional knowledge for participants.The plan of the activities, besides the Core activity constituted from the mobility routes to the foreign country, has foreseen:- finding and identification of the foreign entrepreneurial fabric hosting training placement;- identification of logistics and accommodation solutions for trainees;- insurance benefits for periods of mobility abroad;-planning and preparation, in cooperation with the foreign partnership, of contractual documents (Conventions, Learning Agreement, etc.);-mentoring/monitoring of participants through tutorial figures throughout their stay abroad;-dissemination of results and use through various dissemination channels.With regard to the results, the impact of the project concerned:-acquisition by participants not only of knowledge, but skills in specific areas an important cross-cutting skills, which are particularly needed in the labor market;-increase of the individual employment opportunities in the national and European labour market;-raising awareness, at institutional level too , of the application in the Calabrian training system of the validation and recognition process of skills acquired in mobility actions, attributable to the ECVET system."