"Name of the project: Internationalization of Escola del Treball - III Start of the project: 01/10 /2018 Duration of the project: 24 months Mobility: 1 teacher, 19 students + 1 accompanying person Partner countries of the project: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and United Kingdom. IET-III is the third edition of the Erasmus+ project of Escola del Treball de Barcelona (EdT), framed in the Center's Internationalization Strategy, aim to strengthen our structure, the human resources and the procedures of the international mobility program that endow the EdT of an international dimension from which the whole educational community (students and teachers) could benefit. With this project we have intended that our school, one of the most important in vocational training in the whole country, improves the quality of their educational programs, introducing activities that benefit in their educational work, making it more attractive, innovative and in context with the European labor market. As a reference center in vocational eduation and training (for its variety of specialties, its size and its potential), we have bet on keeping participating in the projects developed in the European common area of education, recognizing the merits acquired by students in training schools through the participation in internships in foreign companies. We believe that this project is clearly committed to strengthe the employability of our students. The project, managed by an international coordination team of Escola del Treball, has had the support of different national and international partners that have helped in the realization of short internship mobilities for students and mobilities for teachers (job shadowing).The pandemic situation has led us to reduce the number of mobilities we considered in the initial project. Finally, 19 student mobilities have been carried out - one of which had to be terminated earlier than planned due to force majeure - and regarding of the four planned teachers mobilities, only one has been able to materialize; likewise, regardingof the two planned accompaniments, only one could be performed. Despite these changes, we consider it has been a success to have been able to carry out the whole project despite the pandemic situation. Regarding the teaching staff of Escola del Treball, IET-III has achieved: -To give them the opportunity to gain experience with new methodologies of foreign companies. -To establish new cooperation strategies with international organizations, companies and training centers. -To encourage the exchange of good practices in educational management and pedagogical methodologies with organizations in the local (Mundus) and international environment. -To educate the teaching staff about the importance of intercultural dialogue, and the learning of foreign languages, to develop an awareness of European identity. -To prepare in a coordinated way actions with the participation of young learners. -To create synergies between students and teachers from different departments. - To bring ""Europe"" to the educational community. Regarding the students, the project has allowed them: -To live the European business context, in order to acquire professional experience putting into practice the knowledge acquired during their professional training. -To develop transversal competences (8 key competences identified by the European Commission) that allow them to acquire basic skills at a personal level. -To encourage critical thinking, breaking stereotypes through activities that foster intercultural dialogue in the educational community. -To help them improve their job opportunitties at the end of their studies. -To reinforce their self-esteem and confidence, empowering them through experiences in international environments outside of their comfort zone. -To develop themselves as European citizens, opening up their minds to other cultures, languages and traditions of the common space. -To bring Erasmus + European mobility programs as well as non-formal and informal education to the students. In total, 19 students from the different professional families of Escola del Treball de Barcelona (+1 companion) and 1 teacher have participated in the project with mobilities that have been executed between 2019 and 2021 in 8 countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and United Kingdom ). Regarding of students, they have carried out VET-SHORT mobilities, doing 1-month internships in companies. Regarding of the teacher, he has carried a job shadowing mobility for 5 days, in order to improve their preparation by visiting educational centers foreign companies and institutions."

The IERF, founded in 1995, an organisation providing training, career guidance and mobility accompaniment, proposes for consideration the CEDRES.S project – “European Careers for Recent Graduates of Secondary and Higher Education” – whose goal is to offer 100 participants from the Ile de France region a mobility road-map enabling them to acquire professional skills and improve their employability.The underlying methodology of its implementation derives from our previous experience on Leonardo, certified since 2009, and particularly MERIT, designed for young people of 18-25 years old with social integration problems, as well as CAMEP, designed for candidates for professional retraining. Of great benefit also is the experience gained in the context of CEDRE.S first presented for Leonardo 2013. This allowed us to develop programmes specifically for a post-student public, coming out higher education, not a priority group in our previous programmes. It has also inspired the title given to this 2014 project, which seems to fit our target group.Whilst CEDRE.S is clearly structured in terms of phases and apprenticeship units, its overriding purpose is to encompass and improve the professional capacities of participants of level V to I, who have left either secondary education, higher education or full-time training of any sort within the past year. It would offer them an “à la carte” programme of qualification, embracing different job skills, technical linguistic capacities and intercultural exposure, all designed to meet the individual’s specific needs at the time.One of the principal advantages of the teaching programme resides in the cross-fertilisation between these 3 aspects which make up the whole experience. To help the students attain this goal, we have devised two mobility “road-maps”: the first lasting 6 weeks, particularly geared to young people in integration from level V to II, the second of 12 weeks targeted at participants of a higher level, either older or with longer professional experience. Whilst the periods of mobility can vary, the teaching plan contains the same stages and objectives:1. Pre-departure: collective socioprofessional guidance sessions accompanied by individual assessments. Intercultural and language preparation.2. Abroad (outside France): practical internship in a company meeting the profile or personal project of each participant, with constant monitoring to measure linguistic and professional progress, certified by Europass and level tests.3. On return to France: session to assess what has been learnt from this experience, followed by accompaniment during 3 to 6 months to allow the participants to:- Develop their capacity to summarise and explain in their own words the key skills acquired in relation to the specific professional context they have chosen.- Learn to identify what experience and training is most relevant to maintaining a competitive professional profile on the job market, this in a logic of “Long Life Learning”.- Acquire a continuous ability to judge their own progress, their technical, linguistic and intercultural skills, hence enabling them to position themselves to advantage vis-à-vis European or international recruiters.- Identify concrete employment opportunities: a major indicator of the impact of our project is integration in the job market within 6 months.We have built a partnership network with 9 experienced intermediate organizations in 8 different countries to ensure optimum welcome and logistics for participants. Clear specifications are drawn up with appropriate norms against which performance is measured, supervised by the IERF and a Piloting committee. Choice of the partners reflects level of demand by country; English and Spanish-speaking destinations tend to dominate language-based requests, but other countries are selected as a function of specific sectors.To encourage initiative, evaluate results and publish them, we have created a federation of 25 centres located throughout the Ile de France region, which in turn embraces 150 organisations, whose vocation it is to assist this public in obtaining employment. The Region itself is also an active partner in the project: its involvement since our foundation, “guarantees” the quality of our services and will help us to enlarge still further our partnership networks to other teaching organizations or local authorities. It will accompany us in the renewal of our request for certification of the project in May. It should also support the creation of a Consortium within which IERF will be the coordinator for the category of New graduates of higher education and full-time training. This is ongoing and should be accredited by the end of the year.

"The need for Tuscan turistic entrepreneurs is to maintain a high standard of services offered, with a level of quality that will satisfy demanding and well prepared customers (national and international), in order to fight the global economic crisis. The needs of recent graduates from VET schools is to specialize, to acquire new skills on turistic sector by consequence of the potential of job opportunities offered by the sector. These two worlds are the demand and supply to meet that need to find a mutual benefit and profit. For these reasons, the Regional Council of Tuscany, since 2001, has been promoting the programme ""VETRINA TOSCANA"" (Network of enhancement of the typical Tuscan products that involve different economic and institutional actors) and that from three yeras ago included in the Special Programme of Regional Development (PRSE) and considered as an excellent model of communication and promotion of tourism. The project ""Vetrina Toscana in Europa"" (VET -EU) aims to be connected to this regional programme, promoted by the Regional Council of Tuscany, in order to offer the opportunity of an internship abroad to the students of Tuscan Tourism and Catering VET schools, participating to some dedicated training courses carried out within the farmework of ""Vetrina Toscana"" Programme. The VET-EU project is promoted by an articulated partnership of local actors (Tourism and Catering VET Schools institutional bodies, trade associations) and foreign partners. It aims to offer students and recent graduates from VET schools in the turism industry of the provinces of Siena, Florence and Prato, a great opportunity to provide more and more qualified sector services by performing a high quality mobility experience at European level. Participants follow a path of education in the tourism and hospitality industry and be selected from the target group who has already participated in the training activities of the Project SCUOLE VETRINA TOSCANA (sub-programme of Vetrina Toscana). The Project VET-EU, in fact, aims to complete with a foreign mobility experience the training path of a a target of participants, who, having acquired knowledge and professional skills in turism sector, have also carried out an intra-curriculum training path on the valorization of the characteristic of the local products of the the region (elements of Vetrina Toscana Programme). Participants, after their selection carried out by the 7 vocational schools, sending partners of the project, will receive an intercultural preparation as well as being stimulated to self-study on the host country, to improve their language skills and to actively participate throughout the international path. The preparation, therefore, involves multi-disciplinary pedagogical, linguistic and cultural preparation aimed to provide information, even of a practical nature, including various aspects of an internship abroad as well as knowledge and skills useful to a full integration into the context of the host country (e.g. highlights on the cultural aspects of the host country, lifestyles and working conditions). Participants will also be called before departure to deepen their language skills (comprehension , but also oral and written skills). The main expected results from the implementation of the VET-EU project affect not only its marketability within the job market, but also its positive influences on the development of human potential through its features of formal, non-formal (on the job) and informal learning."

The fifth edition of our Erasmus+ program « Carrières Européennes pour les Diplômés Récents de l’Enseignement Secondaire & Supérieur » concludes with really positif results as we reached the projected objectives announced in the application.First of all, instead of the 100 internships initially scheduled, we organised 103 placements for vocational trainees from the Ile-de-France region. We organised 1274 mobility weeks, overall type of departures. These on demand pathways lasting from 4 to 26 weeks could answer more efficiently to the professional and personal needs of the candidates. In total, this project represents more than 1500 hours of information, orientation, departure preparation, monitoring and capitalisation of the experience. To enable candidates to leave on the most appropriate moment in their integration pathway, our proposition forecasted group departures and individual mobilities. In line with the propostion’s projection, 24 candidates joined 3 group departures from 12 to 16 weeks: 2 in the United-Kingdom and one in Spain, with the collaboration of three intermediary organisations. 79 candidates departed individually with direct host companies contractualisation. The only change regarding our recommendation can be found in the type of mobility: we initially planned only short mobilities. However, during the project, we were able to save, as we carried out mobilities shorter than 91 days. These new available means were redistributed and 14 candidates could integrate the « ErasmusPro » path.Just like for the 2017 edition, the 103 grants were allocated in only 18 months, instead of the contractual 24-months. These results are very positive as it shows that Erasmus+ is more and more famous and suggested. Applicants are more willing to enter the program and employment counsellors to advise it.In our application, we mentioned a main objective: boost candidates’ professionalisation, giving them the opportunity to improve their linguistics and professional skills and their professional capacity in work situations, and to participate in the development of competitive professional profiles, adjusted to the evolution of the labour market and the companies of the territory. The relevant results can be presented as follows: 77% are working and among them 15% in the country of their internship (Spain, Italy, Tcheque Republic, Portugal and United Kingdom). 11% of the participants chose a mobility path to improve their linguistic skills and gain in experience to continue their studies. Only 12% of the participants are working on short-term missions and/or are still looking for a permanent position. This is really positive, if we consider that about 30% of the participants back in France were confronted to an economical stagnation due to the health crisis in Europe, during the first 2020 semester.To finish, a last word on the objective we are targeting since 2015, thanks to the impact of the CEDRES project, the simplified procedures for the renewals, and the institutional legitimation born with the Erasmus+ Charter. Since 2018, IERF coordinates the Consortium JEEME. This project which is already in its second edition aims at offering targeted mobility schemes to candidates working on their integration pathway, living in the conurbation of Est Ensemble, in the Seine-Saint-Denis departement.The impact of these two projects is above what we expected: since november 2019, a new Erasmus+ Consortium under the aegis of the DIRECCTE 93 is in its first phase. To conduct this implementation, IERF gave up on the reconduction of the Erasmus+ Charter in simplified procedures and applied for a new Charter in October 2020. This new Consortium will express the needs of the coordinator and of more than 10 member organisations, targeting usual candidates, vocational trainees and new one: young people in pre-apprenticeship, young people and adults in apprenticeship and qualification contracts. The first step is taken. We now hope that this demand will be accepted to then apply to the Erasmus+ call for projects in 2021.

"Within ""Logistics throughout Europe"" project, the school sent 20 pupils for short-term and 4 graduates for long-term mobility ErasmusPro. These were students of study fields Transport operation&Economics plus a field Logistics&Financial services. By the project we wanted to show participants opportunities which their profession offers in the EU because the school's focus on logistics, transport and financial services determines that our graduates will be involved in international business activities. There was great interest in participating in the mobilities, our pupils left gradually in groups with an accompanying person. 2 pre-departure visits were planned, of which we carried out only one and transferred the saved funds to short-term mobilities, thus enabling more pupils to leave.The project partner Tellus College UK provided our students with an internship in logistics using ECVET. Pupils were deployed to workplaces in sales+distribution companies, where they worked mainly in warehouses and stores. At workplaces they seamlessly integrated into work teams and actively participated in work process. They performed activities related to physical and information flow of stocks during purchase, sale, storage and complaints using modern technology and programs. A mentor was available at workplaces, monitored by a Tellus employee. Participants in long-term mobility took advantage of Online Language Support and worked in warehouses of distribution company The Range. 2 short-term trips and long-term mobility took place in the period from spring to autumn 2019. We no longer implemented the trip planned for spring 2020. Strict epidemic measures, school closures and travel restrictions due to the C19 disease meant the suspension of project activities and cooperation with Tellus. Based on the DZS call we requested an extension of the project to 35 months. Only after a partial dismantling in May 2021 did the opportunity arise to complete the project with a new partner in Malta. After the pupils returned to face-to-face learning, the interest in mobility was still great. The requirement to complete vaccination for a trip to Malta limited the selection of participants. In the end we managed to realize the mobility before the end of the project.A new partner Falcon Tourist LTD through its subsidiary NSTS Malta provided internships for pupils partly at the workplace and in the form of online lectures in logistics. Assigned online tasks - case studies in field of storage, handling of goods, disposal, recycling of packaging materials and complaints of goods, processed by stds in groups and consulted with an assigned mentor. Despite all the limitations when they could not perform work in normal operation, they gained valuable experience, as the nature of logistics work is unified and takes place almost the same all over the world, using similar tech means and programs, which made it easier for participants to perform assigned tasks and increase benefit of internships. During mobilities they became acquainted with history and cultural heritage of the country, improved their language skills and expanded intercultural competences.To confirm the acquired professional competencies, they received a Certificate of work experience and Europass mobility. Certified units of learning were recognized in the school in the subjects of professional practice. Based on the self-assessment of language skills, mobility participants were recommended to fill in the EUpass - Language Passport and to include the obtained documents in the European Skills Passport.The experience of the internship is spread mainly by its participants informally among their classmates, friends, parents and teachers, personally and through social networks. The school presented its experience and summary of the project to professional public at a meeting of the Secondary School Association, in the field group for transport and logistics and to its social partners. The implementation of foreign mobilities has become a motivating tool for recruitment of new students at Open days, the Schola Pragensis exhibition and the school's promo materials. The expected result is an increase in pupils' interest in the fields studied and creation of a healthy competitive environment at school. The promotion of the program is part of a broadcast documentary about the school on TV Prague and a radio program on a radio Kiss.The implementation of the program was carried out in accordance with the rules of Erasmus+ program and the protection of health of all participants. The project fulfilled the set goal - development of pupils' work competencies, partnerships between the school and labor market entities within the EU, increasing pupils' work competencies using ECVET and last but not least pupils' personal development and making new friendships. In the field of logistics, professionals require flexibility in mobility and readiness to work in another country within the EU region."