StagePassImagine Molly (15 years and 4 months old) who is strumming her guitar in her bedroom in Inishowen or Daan (16 years of age) who is beating a drum to a different beat in Friesland. They are tuned out from their peer group - the people in their classroom, those walking outside in the school yard, those on the school bus. They are watching their peers on snapchat, glancing at their feeds on Instagram or locating them on SnapMaps - but they are not connecting. They feel they have little in common with the InstaQueens, the team shots from the football club, the birthday gatherings or the nights out at local disco.StagePass is all about tapping into their creativity and growing and polishing their skill set so they can connect, record, play together and perform together for us all to enjoy. Using digital connections, for now because of COVID-19, and building capacity and the ‘virtual’ infrastructure as a digital readiness element, StagePass will be a space where they will participate, grow their confidence and share in intercultural learning. StagePass is targeting – teens who are in education - they are predominantly tuned out from their peers but tuned into the sound of music. At risk from isolation and being disconnected and engaging only with a virtual world of too many unknowns – too many disconnects - too many broken promises. StagePass offers a chance to put a spotlight onto promoting their positive mental health and well-being and taking it forward as they connect and reconnect.In line with the Erasmus+ goals StagePass will be about improving a core set of key competences and skills in tandem with promoting European values - respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. The partners involved will engage with the young people (aged 14-17yrs old x 12+ students per partner = 60+), educators (primarily schools through Transition Year (TY) but also VET - Leaving Cert Applied or YouthReach x #8), industry and employers to develop a pathway through school to employment be that in performance arts or otherwise. These are young people who have a passion for music or a glimmering interest at the very least. StagePass will reinforce creativity in education and take this opportunity to develop learning tools, resources, or training that foster creativity, culture and multiculturalism through the sound of music. Young people will be engaged as active citizens in their own destiny and future through the arts. They will learn the skills delivered by their creative educators (Music, Art, Design, Technology, Woodwork, Technical drawing, fabrication) alongside the music industry performance and production experts. There will be curriculum, training and education packs developed in core hands on arenas such as:- 1.Social Media and young influencers2.Digital skills and production3.Communications and PR4.Performance skillset 5.Commercialisation - user experience6.Entrepreneurship mindset (‘gig’ economy synergies with session musicianship)Their music will be developed, practiced, performed, produced and aired. This will be supported by a series of Masterclasses delivered by industry experts in areas such as music production, sound and songwriting as examples. There will be five mini events to showcase their work in development - 5Tunes5Countries. They will work towards a pan European performance at a festival/concerts – #TuneIn #StagePass. There will be outputs such as StagePass lanyards, wellies, Ponchos, branded hoodies, beanie hats, etc, all the things young people would need for a festival. StagePass will establish virtual networks and collaboration models to stimulate intercultural engagement and encourage creative mind-sets. COVID-19 permitting a team of educators and learners will travel to partner countries to promote learning opportunities in creative spaces and cultural heritage sites. This will include creative residencies for musicians, producers and influencers. StagePass will be using digital ways of creating, managing, and delivering creative products, cultural goods and events.The project will be approached as a pilot test/proof of concept and will have a radical difference approach to previous ErasmusPlus projects by delivering outputs to the students at each stage of their development to be implemented using a UX (user experience approach). StagePass will be a test bed from which StagePass can be replicated and scaled and further projects can develop to a wider target audience of school children. Work Packages with Intellectual Outputs (IO)IO1 Proof of Concept Parameters and Regional Engagement IO2 Teachers Programmes and Student Digital Learning Packs IO3 Totaliser Platform IO4 Curriculum DevelopmentIO5 Community and Performances PlatformStagePass values are intercultural learning, participation and confidence. We will grow these in the students participating in this innovative project.

"The project ""PROJECTION OF THE VET THROUGH EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS"" was created in response to the need for vocational schools to provide their students with the opportunity to expand and improve the quality of their practices in the workplace in European companies. The difficult employment situation in Spain, where youth unemployment exceeds 50%, makes it difficult for many young people to find their first job: mobility projects facilitate and expand the expectations of entering the labor market. The project, with a duration of 12 months, has been designed so that 74 students or recent graduates of middle grade from the professional families of administration, health, commerce and electrical and automatic installations, enjoy a one-month internship that has allowed, in the case of students, integrate it into their cycles of internships undertaken within the module “labor practices” (FCT). Workplace locations have been made in Italy, UK, Malta, France and Portugal. Also for 19 IES Teachers who have completed their training (Job Shadowing practices) and UK, Mala, Italy. The main objective of the project has been to allow participants to develop, through internships in European companies, skills that practically complete the skills acquired during their professional training. The main activities carried out by the project partners are: preparation of mobility, including the selection of participants, their initial evaluation, their previous training, logistical and contractual aspects and coordination; the stay and the start of the program in the companies. Mobility has also included cultural activities. Dissemination activities and mobility itself have had an impact at local, regional and national levels. Although not involved in the project, other organizations at the local, regional and labor levels have benefited from the results of the project: an improvement in the skills of young people. An increase in young employment rates. The possibility of contacting other European institutions to share their best practices. Improve the quality of education given in schools, decrease school dropout, expand their language skills and their ability to receive foreign students. Know the new models of ECTV certification and how to use them. Apart from the impact on the participants. The project has also affected the partners, promoting the approach and cooperation between businesses and schools. Monitoring The evolution of the participants has been monitored by the means established in the project. Project evaluation. Dissemination. Dissemination skills have been planned throughout the project. The participants have been evaluated. The entire process has been certified with ECVET and has been clearly defined since an initial evaluation. The project is directly linked to the 2020 strategic priorities and will help the EU and its member states to generate greater employability, productivity and social cohesion."

The project was realized by a consortium whose sending members are 6 technical and vocational education institutes located in Veneto, in the provinces of Rovigo, Padua, Vicenza and Verona.The 129 learners who took part into it were mostly at the end of the fourth year of upper secondary school and some graduates.In the Northeast economic context where the internationalization process undertaken by many companies has enabled a crisis survival, companies competing in world markets require workers who besides being able to master foreign languages have also acquired multi- cultural skills allowing them to interact with international partners.Therefore the project aimed at developing the skills needed to enter an internationalized company; indeed, the Learning Outcomes (LO) covered the scope of both key and soft skills (self-learning, initiative, cultural awareness, autonomy, sense of responsibility and adaptability, ability to deal with and solve problems, build up constructive relationships, work in groups) related to the vocational skills of the students’ course of studies. The course of study involved were those focused on the economic sector and its interrelated services: Administration Finance and Marketing, Corporate IT Systems, Tourism, but also Business and Social Care Services.Corporate Social Responsibility was the main focus of the project; that is the new perception of the impact of business behaviors at an economic, social and environmental level. A growing number of Venetian companies, most concerned with the challenges of the future, are adhering to CSR; this project, alongside the school opening to Europe and the world, aimed at giving students the opportunity to improve their knowledge through lectures made by consortium partners and field visits to companies that work ethically according to the principles of CSR.The 5 week mobility, accomplished in UK, IE, ES, FR, DE, included a full time internship of 4 weeks following a first week of language training and cultural introduction to the foreign work environment that completed the Linguistic and pedagogical training phase carried out in Italy.The internship abroad has been designed as a Learning Unit accredited as ‘Alternanza scuola-Lavoro. It has been outlined according to ECVET procedures so as to be accepted and validated through the assignment of specific credits by each sending school.Participants were given the required certificates, including the Certificate of Competence and the Europass Mobility. These are certifications that enhance the individual portfolio and, possibly, employability.The project was carried out according to a plan that included a schedule, steps and actions; all deadlines have been met and results constantly monitored.The final feedback, carried out on the various subjects/stakeholders involved, shown a high degree of satisfaction.The project, as expected, has improved language skills, which constitute a resource that can be immediately spent in school, but also later on in future studies and job; It has provided knowledge and developed professional skills; it has increased participants’ self-esteem, awareness and autonomy, but above all, it has widened their cultural horizons and increased their European citizenship awareness.The project has also strengthened the consortium with regard to non-sending partners who shared with schools the interest in spreading the knowledge and importance of CSR, reinforcing the cooperation between the world of education and the world of work.

Due to:-The difficult labor market situation in Spain where youth unemployment exceeds 50% , and to the high dropout rates--The Changes in the Spanish VET state regulations -The Changes in the production system, which requires new teaching methods that include a good understanding of work practices and that the labor market is no longer confined to national territory but expands to neighboring countries.This mobility project for teachers and management staff is needed so they can be aware of the needs of the European labor market, make contact with new approaches and take a more active and participatory role in the places where they perform their teaching work.Moreover, teachers and management staff need to establish long-term European networks of knowledge that will allow them to reach:-Companies.-Educative centers.-Social agents.-Local authorities.This will give them the opportunity to be in touch with innovation, know about other educational and productive systems, share the best practices, and improve their knowledge on what European policies are being implemented. All that will lead to an improvement in the quality of the work being done in schools to help combat youth unemployment and early school leaving.The project Teaching and innovation for VET in current Europe is directly linked with the 2020 strategy and agrees on the strategic priorities to help the EU and its Member States to generate higher employment, productivity and social cohesion. With that goal in mind, we propose:- Knowing about the workings of VET schools.- Knowing about how thre training process in the workplace is done in other European countries- Knowing which are the most demanded professional profiles in the unique European labor market.- Knowing the procedures followed by other teachers and management staff to assess, monitor and evaluate these VET schools. This, in turn, will improve their performance.- Understanding and analyzing the relationship between business and educational center. - Establishing a network where both trainees and teachers can make training visits. - Knowing the employment and education policies of other European countries.- Getting first hand knwoledge on new models of competency certification. Model ECVET- Improving language skills- Improving ICT skills- Knowing the true meaning of an active European Dimension.The project is designed for 30 teachers and management teams who develop their professional activity: integrated centers, nationally recognized VET schools and high schools with VET programs, and the mobility will be made in three shifts: two to July thirty.The main activities to be carried out by the project partners are:- Mobility preparation: including, participants' selection, participants' previous training, logistical and contractual issues, coordination...- Participants' evaluation. The skills acquired during the mobility will be certified with Europass Mobility.- Monitoring . The participants' evolution will be evaluated through the means established I the project.- Project evaluation.- Dissemination . Outreach activities are planned throughout all the project. A final diffusion conference where the results will be presented will be held.After the training period, different proposals will be made in order to present them to the public administrations, and training activities will be conducted with management teams and teachers who were not able to directly take part in the project.Besides the impact on the participants, the project will affect the schools in which they work, encouraging European cooperation and an rapprochement between business and schools.Dissemination activities and the mobility itself will create an impact at the local, regional and national levels. Although not involved in the project, other entities at the local, regional and national levels will benefit from the project results.

"""""ACQUIRING SKILLS AND COMPETENCES: A NEW EUROPEAN VET EXPERIENCE"""" "" project responds to the need to strengthen the European dimension of vocational training through mobility between countries. It intends to strengthen the role of transnational mobility and strength the EU dimension in vocational training, orienting the target group (young people with no previous work experience , who are looking for their first job or recent graduates and people with few or non formal education, unemployed people who would like to do an experience abroad) to contribute to the development of this idea of a more tangible Europe. We will select 70 participants belonging to this categories and send them abroad for a period of 4weeks to do an internship in a sector according to their background and interest. That would allow them to gain valuable work experience that would allow them to be more competitive in the labour market. The project is aimed to give the participant target group the opportunity to acquire new skills through an experience abroad that will enrich them with new working skills, together with a cultural heritage that they will gain through living and working in a foreign country. The Spanish consortium is made up of ten high schools of the Valencian Region and ESFMB to act as coordinator and the partners ,(from Ireland, Malta and Portugal have a huge experience in mobilities in their countries. Through this project, students can integrate into their training practices undertaken as part of the module ""Training at Work"" (FCT). The main objective of is that participants develop through training practices in European companies, skills and abilities to complete, in a practical way, the skills already acquired in VET and efficiently incorporate the common European labour market. They need to develop not only specific and technical skills on the specialty they have studied but also other key skills such as cultural, linguistic, entrepreneurship and personal initiative, ability to work in teams and knowledge of other working environments to facilitate insertion in the European labor market, either self-employed or employed by others. The main activities carried out by the project partners are: -Preparation of mobility. Including: Selection of participants, initial assessment of their skills, previous training of participants, logistical and contractual aspects, coordination ... -Execution of the stay. Starting the program in companies. Mobility also includes cultural activities. -Evaluation of the participants. The skills acquired during the project will be certified with ECVET and will be defined from an initial evaluation. The activities within the company will aim to achieve these skills and will be customized for each participant. -Monitoring. Monitoring of the evolution of the participants by the means established in the project will be performed. -Evaluation of the project. -Dissemination. Dissemination activities are planned throughout the whole project. A final dissemination conference of the results will be performed. Besides the impact on the participants, the project will affect the partners promoting European cooperation and rapprochement between business and schools and dissemination activities and mobility itself will create an impact at local, regional and national levels. The project is directly linked to the 2020 strategic priorities and agrees to help the EU and its Member States to generate higher employment, productivity and social cohesion."