In the Europpean Union, the youth unemployment rate is 21,6%, in Germany 7,7%. According to the regional statistical office in Baden - Württemberg 4,7% of all students and trainees are without school - leaving qualification from "Hauptschule" in the year 2013.With the introduction of a new training course AV Dual Baden - Württemberg has gone new paths in the vocational education and so reacted to the guide - lines required by the European Commission to support intelligent and integrative growth (Strategy Europe 2020 / Education and Training 2020).The Vocational school Backnang has an multiplier fuunction in the AV Dual-training system in Baden - Württemberg, but also in Europe with the AVDUE 2020 - Project. In this new cooperation network schools in France (Annonay), Spain (Barcelona), Finland (Oulu and in Turkey (Bursa / Izmir) are incorporated.Altogether 18 teachers will tak part in this 2-year Erasmus+ / key action 1 - project and attend the following further vocational training measures: job - shadowing, observations / "Hospitation", structured training courses and training events.The teachers are to-find new educational and curricular paths of the dual training preparation with the partner schools,- develop new educational contents in a cooperation network, - push their own innovative AVDUE 2020-initiatives,- integrate released synergy effects into their own teaching design,- guarantee a regular flow of information and exchange of ideas by eTwinning.The staff, the school community, stakeholders and the public will be informed through regular information about the progress of the project. The knowledge gained in AVDUE 2020 should lead into an Erasmus+ key action 2 - project in a second phase. The existing cooperation network is to be expanded.

"General objectives : The project was focused on Quality Assurance and validation of Learning Outcomes in the framework of EQF en ECVET. Teachers played an important role in this process of describing Learning Outcomes for students. We had good experiences with our partners in Italy (Istituto di Istruzione Stanga Cremona) for Lifesciences, in Germany (Eduard Maurer Oberstufenzentrum Henningsdorf) for Engineering and Denmark (Techcollege in Aalborg) for Media Design.We also increased the number of mobilities of students throughout Europe and beyond. Our goal was to create more awareness of globalisation and its impact on our daily life and awareness of the European values, to make them realize that a good cooperation between the member states was (and still is) crucial for the economic development in Europe. The impact was shown through international projects within the school (s.a. Day of European Citizenship, Day of World Citizenship, Day of the Refugees). More specific: 1. The teachers made arrangements with partner institutes abroad for the description of Learning outcomes, in relation to the Dutch qualification framework which is mandatory in the national educational system for VET in the Netherlands. They compared curricula and exchanged information. We had good experiences in Germany, Italy and Denmark, although only the description direcly related to the coretasks and workprocess was accepted as a learning outcome.2. Activities of teachers and staff training in structured courses and jobshadowing supporting their professional development and their language skills. Guest lectures by teachers at partner schools abroad for exchanging knowledge and good practices. 3. We had an expansion of the number of mobilities in Europe and beyond of several educational institutes within Friesland College by adapting the curriculum and redesigning the time period of the workplacements in order to enable students to do an internship abroad. 4. Level 2 students from Facility Services with a low social background have participated in a three-week placement on Malta. That was a life changing experience for them. It strenghtened their selfesteem and had a positive impact on the employability and transition to the labour market in the region.5. We kept the quality of workplacements at a high level by cooperating with solid and well-known training companies and through our network of educational partners abroad. The placement coordinators and teachers described the content, monitoring, recognition and evaluation in the Placement Agreement of Friesland College. Validation of the experiences abroad remained the responsibility of the exam committee within the educational institutes. 6. There has been a special focus on subjects as Quality assurance, social inclusion of our level 2 students, sustainable energy, social entrepreneurship, watertechnology and Healthy Ageing.7. We made a start with international mobilities within the theme of Leeuwarden Capital of Culture 2018 in combination with Malta Valletta 2018We offered challenging education to our students, improving their flexibility, independancy and self confidence.The mobility also had a high impact on the personal and professional development of our teachers and staff members, They worked in a different context, out of their comfort zone and they improved their knowledge of foreign cultures and languages. Some of them had a better understanding of the advantages of a European cooperation. Others were rather sceptic about the possibilities of exchanging curricula and information because of the differences in educational systems in the European countries, being a national responsibility. Exchange of knowledge and good practices and the comparison of curricula had a positive and enriching impact on Friesland College and its partners abroad. New methods were explored and shared. Our international partners were very impressed by our method of Practice oriented education within the field of work. Validation of Learning outcomes was an issue as the Dutch regulations set by the government and the inspection did not allow many detours in the description of the tasks and work processes within the Dutch Qualification Framework. The experience abroad offered more perspective on the labour market in the region. The methods and activities developed in Friesland College are described in the Policy Document for Internationalisation 2015 - 2018 ( see enclosure).The impact of international exposure can be found in the ""Trendrapportage 2016"" (see enclosure)."

<< Background >>As Nilüfer Atatürk Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, our needs in the field of quality improvement and internationalization have been determined, and our project has been prepared to meet these needs. Our project; It is about Industry 4.0 technology, the preparations of which have been started long ago in Europe and expected to be completed soon, but for which no serious preparation has been made in our country yet and which is not known enough. With the project prepared for the students and teachers of Electrical-Electronic Technologies, Machine Technologies and Industrial Automation Technologies, it is aimed that our participants get to know Industry 4.0 closely and increase their professional knowledge, skills and competencies in this field.<< Objectives >>Thanks to this project, our students will first get to know Industry 4.0 technology and it is aimed to develop their professional knowledge, skills and equipment on this subject. Thus, they had the advantage of having learned about Industry 4.0, whose effects have not yet been seen in our country. Thanks to the awareness of our participants about Industry 4.0 with this project, they were able to follow the global developments in this field more closely and adapt to the process very quickly. Thus, our participant students successfully completed their vocational training with great desire and motivation, and when they graduated, they had priority in the employment phase. Some of our students will continue to progress on this path opened by the Erasmus+ project, will expand their horizons thanks to this project, and will lead the way in the development and establishment of this technology in our country by going to higher education after high school education.<< Implementation >>After the approval of our project, necessary promotional activities were carried out. After the promotional activities, applications were received and the participants were determined after the interview. Pre-mobility preparatory trainings were given. It was tried to prevent the communication problem by giving foreign language education. During the internship activity, the participating students and teachers made practices with the experiences they gained from the training and internship activities they received. Necessary documentation was made after the mobility. Dissemination efforts continued in and around our school.<< Results >>We can say that our project has achieved its goals. With the activities carried out within the scope of the project, we have increased the quality and quality of the vocational education we provide as a school. Our school's Electrical-Electronic Technologies, Machine Technologies and Industrial Automation Technologies teachers and students have emerged in Europe and have increased their knowledge and experience on Industry 4.0, which provides great gains to businesses with its applications. The quality of the education given by our teachers has increased. Our students' ability to be employed has increased. Our school has taken another step in terms of internationalization. Our students have increased their employability both at home and abroad by adding European quality internships to their vocational education. He has advanced in language development with the opportunity to study and use a foreign language.

According to analysis under the scope of vocational training situational analysis, we have revealed that youth who just enter labour market have very low employment rate or they have never employed since lack of experience in field. Besides, it has been also revealed that vocational high school graduates have very low employability. When we look at European education system and their employment opportunities, we see that big portion of vocational school graduates can be employed. One of the primary reason for that we want to do our project was meeting with these lacks and problems. We consider the project that we operate, as not only a project that will increase employment rates of our graduates and develop quality of our vocational education, but also as a project that will increase our cross-cultural interactions, a project that will enable us to deeply know the European culture which we hope to be a part of it and lastly a project that will help us to develop ourselves individually. We have accomplished our project in this context. We determined our project subjects as Computer Assisted Design and Production (CAD/CAM systems) for Industrial automatization Department; programming and sub-programming for in CNC systems for Machine Department and PLC and Process Control Systems for Electric-Electronic Department. Primary reason for these internship subject decisions was that our quest for becoming capable of training qualified professional personal who is competent at computer assisted integrated production modal which have been widespread trough industry. Coordinator institution of our project is Nilüfer Atatürk Vocational and Technical High School (NAMTAL), local partners are Bursa Osmangazi Hürriyet Technical and Industrial High School (BOHTEML) and İlhan Parseker Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (İPMAL). Our abroad partners are Stredni Prumyslova Skola in Czech Republic, Zespol Szkol Technicznych i Ogolnoksztalcacych w Bytomiu in Poland and lastly, Polo Ediliziait in Italy.When choosing the participants, vocational infrastructure, foreign language skills, eagerness and volunteering have been taken into account. Each school has formed a management team consisted by 8 people by appointing one participant for each mobility. Other school personnel has also contributed management team in preparation, mobility, dissemination stages.Our project has been launched in 09.01.2015 and starting from this date, we have arranged regual evaluation meetings. In these meetings we have kept reports.In order to increase efficiency that has been derived from participants, we have operated linguistic, pedagogic and cultural preparation activities before the mobility. Mobilities of our project and their dates;10 people from Industrial Automatization Department participated in our mobility in Czech Republic between the dates of 03.026.2016 – 04.10.2016. As local partners, 4 people from Nilüfer Atatürk Vocational and Technical High School 5 people from Bursa Osmangazi Hürriyet Technical and Industrial High School and 1 person from İlhan Parseker Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School .10 people from Machinery Department have participated in our mobility in Poland between dates of 04.09.2016 – 04.24.2016. . As local partners, 6 people from Nilüfer Atatürk Vocational and Technical High School 2 people from Bursa Osmangazi Hürriyet Technical and Industrial High School and 2 people from İlhan Parseker Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School .10 people from Electric Electronic Department have participated in our mobility in Italy between dates of 05.14.2016– 05.29.2016. As local partners, 5 people from Nilüfer Atatürk Vocational and Technical High School 3 people from Bursa Osmangazi Hürriyet Technical and Industrial High School and 2 people from İlhan Parseker Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School .After the mobility, we have cooperated with variety of institutions and organisations and used variety of mass comminication tools in order to do dissemination activities.With our project, our participants become individuals who can tolerate different cultures, who can closely follow new developments and who are proffessional vocational personnel. Thanks to our projects, we are expecting that in the long run, we can provide progress in our industries and thus, we can contribute membership process of Turkey to European Union.

Our Project theme which is about Biyomechatronics and Robotic Technology in Industrial Automation, covers teachers from Hürriyet Technical and Vocational high school in Industrial Automation Technology department, Festo Industry and Trade Co. Ltd. (FESTO Turkey), Technical Training Foundation (TEKEV), Kayseri National Educational Directorate, Tekirdag Çerkezköy OSB Private Anatolian Technical high School, Kayseri Private Vocational Training center, Technological Education Development Foundation (TEGEV), Konya Selcuklu Adil Vocational and Technical High School, a private high school in Tekirdag Cerkezkoy OSB Technically Anatolia, Bursa Ataturk Vocational and Technical High School, Denizli - Honaz - 75th Year Special Provincial Administration Vocational and Technical High School, Konya Adil Karaagac Vocational and Technical High School, a private Tekirdag Cerkezkoy OSB Technicall Anatolia high school, Bursa Ataturk Vocational and Technical High School, Denizli - Honaz - 75th Year Special Provincial Administration Vocational and Technical High School and Festo Industry and Trade INC (Festo Turkey). The General Directorate of Technical Education for boys in Turkey and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) founded an Anatolian Technical high school in the field of Industrial Automation Technologies in Kayseri Hürriyet Technical and Vocational high school between 2001 and 2006.36 teachers and educational staffs from 10 different institutions and 6 cities will participate in this Project.They will specialize in Biyomechatronics and Robotic Technology, automation field in Vocational schools and University . They will experience the Biyomechatronics and Robotic Technology equipments , get training in this field in the highest level and these participants will lead the other staffs in this field in their instituitions. Automation; is a work which is being shared between Human Being and machines. If the manpower is being used in higher percentage in the work, it means the automotion systems are in half automotions; If the the machines are being used in higher percentages , it means the system is in full Automations.It is obligatory to use Automation to produce the productions fast, in standarts and secure. Mechatronics; is synergistic combination of machine, electronical and computer systems; Its function is about a branch which is based on integration of the computer and software technology and develope products which set up the products of process and systems. And Biyomechatronics is a sub-domain of Mechatronics engineering which is related to byology,mechanic, electronical and computering science.The institutions which the beneficiaries of the Project are working have Automation , Mechatronics and Robotics laboratories. This laboratories had been created with a big amount of costs. The laboratories of the coordinator school- Hürriyet Technical and Vocational high school- are equipped by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and UMEM(Specialized Vocational Training Centers) and with the projects funds. There is a strong need to update the educational staffs’ knowledge and experiences of high technological systems, transfer the latest developments in this field to their institutions, organisations in industrial sector and universities. We have cooperation with Festo/Didactic GmbH&Co.KG in Denkendorf(Esslingen)/Germany. We conclude that it will be beter to continue our Project as a staff educational mobility in abroad (VETPRO) according to our objectives and priorities. The participants will have the training in the following areas in Festo/Didactic GmbH&Co.KG;-The applications area of Mechatronics and its meaning,- Pneumatic and Hydraulic Systems-Robots-Industrial Communication Systems- Biyomechatronics And Robotic Systems And Applications- Biyomechatronics And Robotic technological system modulles which are developed in R & D department. There is going to be a development in Biyomechatronics And Robotic technology which is a new in our country. So the controle on Human behavious, orthotics-prosthetic and movement supporters designs, the rehabilition of people who has body disorders, interface design, biological and mechanical sensor development,external skeletal robot, gait analysis, electrical stimulation, artificial organs, biological signal processing…etc will be developed and studied in R & D department in our Universities. The development of Biyomechatronics And Robotic acceleration will be provided effectively in Turkey. The Project mobility will take place in Denkendorf(Esslingen)/Germany in Festo/Didactic GmbH&Co.KG between 15/01/2017-28/01/2017 for fourteen days. The schools and universities are on midterm Vacation thats why the Project will be successfully accomplished as there will be no obstackles for education.