"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 TASTE IT (Training Agrifood Students Through European InTernships) bases its foundations on an in-depth knowledge of the territory, its products and on the concept of valorisation, with a strong connotation in the areas of marketing, e-communication and e-commerce, with pragmatic references to operational tools, including ICT and social media, which allowed, through European comparison, to best develop the performance to be immediately spent in the labor market, raising the levels of employability of the participants.The project, promoted by a large National Consortium led by the ""Angelo Motti"" VET school of Reggio Emilia, gave 120 participants (90 students and 30 newly graduated and newly qualified) the opportunity to carry out a professional training experience in Europe in the tourism, agricultural, hotel and catering sectors.TASTE IT was implemented from November 2017 to February 2019, a period in which the participants carried out their mobility experiences in various European destinations: London and Cardiff (UK), Tralee (Ireland), Bordeaux (France), Lisbon (Portugal), La Coruña and Jerez de la Frontera (Spain), Leipzig (Germany) and Malta.The young participants (17-20 years old), selected from VET schools (Motti, Zanelli, Convitto Corso, Mandela, Magnaghi-Solari, Galilei-Bocchialini, Zappa Fermi, Spallanzani and Calvi) and training agencies (ENAIP Reggio Emilia, La Cremeria, ENAIP PR, FormaFuturo, IAL Serramazzoni) have thus had the opportunity to improve their technical, linguistic and transversal skills, in a path of professional and personal growth full of challenges and satisfactions.Typical agri-food productions and rural development represent a distinctive binomial for the Emilia area. With this project, the Emilia-Romagna Region and, in particular, the Provinces of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Modena could exploit the great heritage of agri-food production traditions and excellence in this area, focusing on the effective effects that TASTE IT has guaranteed in terms of protection and promotion of the Emilia food and wine excellences, at the same time favoring the knowledge and the affirmation of the typical specialties of the territory, in order to increase their diffusion, appreciation and consumption.In this way, the project has contributed to satisfying the competitiveness and internationalization needs of the Emilia companies in the sector, offering to young participants the tools to grow as individuals and to enter the world of work with better prospects and with a portfolio of experiences and validated skills, recognizable and legible in the contexts of education, training and work."

"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."