"This consortium has been created in order to align the concerns from vocational education schools in the Valencian Autonomous Community that offer the professional degree on fashion and textiles (GM en Confección y Moda) and Aesthetics and Beauty (GM en Estética y Belleza). The T.R.E.N.D.Y. project (Trends in dressmaking, design and beauty), is about pushing the sector, moving it closer to the European market, to make it possible to incorporate knowledge, materials, trends, working methods and any other innovations. It is mainly focused on the students and their need of increasing their hands-on experience. It also aims to promote their personal skills via self development by letting them face different environments and get the best out of themselves; they will harvest the fruits from their efforts and achieve personal autonomy. Getting them out of their country will help students to place themselves in an European context and to expand their professional horizons. It is also focused on vocational education schools by offering them the opportunity to update and enrich their vocational programs, their pedagogical methods and the qualifications of their teachers.The destination selected with this purpose is Italy, cradle of fashion, personal care and styling and referent of the sector. Two mobility activities are defined:1. Student mobility for placement in companies abroad. Focussed on the following two groups of students that will carry out a 4-week placement: - just graduated: 23 grants are requested for students to carry out their placement within 12 months of their graduation; no later than September to allow them to continue higher degree studies. - students on 2nd course: 27 grants are requested for students who will carry out this placement in March, such that these 4 weeks will be the first ones of his obligatory FCT. 2. Mobility for training teachers. 3 grants are requested for teachers in the sector of professional training in textiles and fashion (GM en Confección y Moda) to learn from teachers in a similar vocational education school in Italy for 1 week, and 3 grants for teachers of GM Aesthetics and Beauty (GM Estética y Belleza) to learn in a Companies in Italy as Job-shadowing for 1 week.In the project development stage, members of the consortium meet to define the project and to introduce it to the students and teachers of every school. The mobility stage needs meticulous preparation and an exhaustive follow-up from the consortium. In the final dissemination stage, every school announces its results, and works at internal level to incorporate the lessons learned to the methodology and training contents of the school.For all this activities, the consortium has defined the following network:- Consortium Coordinator: IES Sivera Font acts as consortium coordinator; it centralizes the management of the project, relationship between partners, calendar of activities for pre and post-mobility, as well as for placements (mobilities), trip organization, dissemination seminars, etc..- Sending partners: IES Siver Font, IES Serra Mariola and CIPFP Ciutat de l'Aprenent will send participants of the professional degree on fashion and textiles (GM en Confección y Moda) and CIPFP Ciutat de l'Aprenent and IES Francesc Tàrrega will send participants of the professonal degree on Aesthetics and Beauty (GM en Estética y Belleza). Every centre is individually responsible of publishing the summons of grants, selecting its participants and of the assignment of grants according to previously published common criteria. During the mobility, the person in charge of every school will realize a follow-up of the placement development.- Intermediary hosting partner: Essenia, with its experience in training and in European mobility projects, will contact the consortium and Italian hosting partners, will collaborate in the assignment of companies according to the profile of every student and it will carry out an exhaustive follow-ups of the placement development. They offer daily support both to students and teachers on mobility.- Hosting partners: ISSIS ""GB. Novelli"" Marcianise is a vocational education school with degree in textiles and fashion, will host teachers on job-shadowing and will contact the consortium with well-known companies working in this sector; And companies as La Fonte del Benessere di Pulignano Ilaria will receive our participants of the professional degree on Aesthetics and Beauty.The expected mid and long term results are, in summary, from one side the integration of the students in the European market via upskilling and improving their personal and professional development; and in the other side, the improvement of vocational educational training offer in the the Valencian Autonomous Community; leading to a long term in boost in both sectors (textil and Fashion and Aesthetics and Beauty)."

"S.T.Y.LE. - Supporting Traineeship for Young LEARners is a mobility project lasting 24 months, promoted by a National Consortium coordinated by the ""ISIS Novelli"" of Marcianise and composed, in addition to it, by the ""F. Trani"" Institutes of Salerno, ""F Orioli ""from Viterbo, and from Essenia UETP.Thanks to Style, 20 new graduates (in 2016 and 2017) and 30 students from the"" Clothing and Fashion / Textile-tailoring ""studies, coming primarily from the Consortium's partner institutes , have been doing traineeships in European companies in the fashion industry located in the United Kingdom, Spain and Lithuania. For graduates, the mobility action took place within 12 months from the graduation and their internship lasted 120 days (plus 2 days), a period of time considered necessary to achieve an educational experience. and complete professional. For the students the internship lasted 21 days (plus 2 days) and provided for the presence of 4 escorts. The promoters have realized this project to provide an answer to the training and employment needs present in the territories to which they belong, where the fashion industry is an important driving force of the territorial economy and has enormous potential for development. On the other hand, this sector consists of very innovative companies with great economic potential, and is one of the most dynamic in Europe, contributing 7% to the EU's GDP. It has a high growth rate and offers quality employment to 5 million people in the 27 EU member states (Study on the economy of culture in Europe, 2006, ""Creative Economy - the Challenge of the Assessing the Creative Economy"" -making "", 2008). However, the fashion industry requires highly professional operators, equipped with adequate practical-operational skills, and transversal skills, including linguistic skills. The project's objective was therefore to qualify local human resources. through the creation of international mobility, focusing on the acquisition of skills, technical and transversal skills required by the fashion industry, to make the professional profiles of the participants more competitive, increase their employability and combat the phenomenon of massive migration of young people from the areas geographical origin. In fact, the realization of an internship in foreign companies in the fashion sector allowed the participants to integrate the theoretical studies with practical activities, according to the ""learning by doing"" methodology. During the internship they have been followed and assisted constantly by tutors, both in Italy and abroad, who have evaluated progress in progress and the learning outcomes achieved at the end of the internship, releasing the appropriate certifications of skills. The experience contributed to the achievement of the following results: - improvement of practical and operational skills in the Fashion sector and consolidation of technical-professional knowledge- improvement of general linguistic knowledge and of the micro-language of the fashion sector - knowledge of other labor markets and other economies , new methodologies and working practices of the reference sector - familiarization with socio-cultural contexts of other EU countries, and enhancement of the sense of European citizenship - development of relational, communicative, organizational and problem solving skills - acquisition of national certifications and Europeans that can be spent on the labor market - updating and integrating one's own curriculum vitae with new skills and experiences - opportunities to recognize skills acquired abroad (ECVET) - improving the ability to identify and evaluate opportunities in the labor marketThe project is already I also have a positive impact on the members of the Consortium, in terms of: improving the ability to organize and manage international activities with local and foreign partners; strengthening strategies for internationalization and development, introduction of transnational mobility as a ""systemic"" activity; updating of school curricula with respect to the needs of the territory and the world of work. Finally, the long-term benefits of the project are represented by the potential of the best qualified local human capital, able to operate in the fashion sector."