"This mobility project enables expand integration into the European and national labor market, both students who are completing their training and recent graduates, due to the difficult labor market situation in Spain, with a high rate of youth unemployment, that difficult them to find their first job.The project is to provide students the opportunity to expand and improve the quality of their training a trainee at European companies allowing them to get in touch with the reality of the European labor market. The close collaboration of the VET schools consortium has enabled the development of this project. The consortium comprises 6 institutes Valencia coordinated by IES Lluis Simarro.The VET schools of the consortium need to establish European quality networks with companies and schools, this will allow them to get in touch with innovation, share best practices and knowledge of European policies, improving the quality of their teaching and combating youth unemployment .The project is designed for 60 students a who are running the 2nd year of the intermediate level of Hostel and Tourism, computer and communications or administration; or graduates in the last year: middle-level technicians in these specialties. During the project will be conducted 8 flows; 4 to Italy, 1 to France, 1 to Poland and 2 to UK. Each VET institute will select 2 ex-students and 8 students. Italy will receive 4 flows because the profile of the partners and the different geographical areas will enable students to do their training in different fields due to companies, even of the same sectors are very different.Moreover, there has been written one project of the same characteristics in Italy which will give the Spanish consortium the possibility of hosting students from other European schools, to meet, share experiences and foster a spirit of active European citizenship.The main activities that will be carried out by the project partners are:-Preparation mobility. Including: Selection of participants, initial assessment of their skills , previous training participants , logistical and contractual issues , coordination ...-Realization of mobility. Working on enterprises and making cultural activities.-Monitoring . A tracing of the evolution participants will be will be made by the means established in the project.-Evaluation of the participants. The skills acquired during the period shall be certified using ECVET and Europass defined from an initial evaluation. The activities within the company will aim to achieve these skills and will be adapted for each of them.-Evaluation of the project results and report of the dissemination activities.-Dissemination. The dissemination activities are planned throughout the entire project. During the project ""Jornada de la cocina mediterranea"" in and ""Sagra della polentai"" will be developed. A final dissemination conference for showing the results of the project. Besides the impact on the participants, the project will affect the partners promoting European cooperation and approchement between enterprises and VET schools.Dissemination activities and mobility itself will create an impact at the local, regional and national levels. Although they are not involved in the project, other entities at the local, regional and national levels will benefit from the project results:-Creation of a quality network integrating schools and enterprises.-Improving youth employment rates. -Improvement of young people skills.-Creation of new collaborative networks at regional level-Increase the possibilities of internationalization of other institutions who could participate in European projects. Increasing the number of the partners in the consortium.-Better knowledge of the Erasmus + program and EU values (tolerance, equity,equality and inclusion).-Improving the sense of active European citizenship and respect for other cultures-Improvement of language and ICT skills in students and teachers-Possibility of creating new enterprises and new business models-To Encourage social inclusionThe project is directly linked with the 2020 strategy and strategic priorities agrees to help the EU and its Member States to generate higher levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion."

The project responds to the need that VET schools have to provide their students with the chance to increase and improve the quality of vocational training, by taking internships in European companies, and getting in contact with the single European labour market.This project stems from the successful cooperation of the previous partnership promoted by the IES Simarro, from the high rate of students’ employment that has been achieved (80%), from the interest and high level of satisfaction that have been expressed by both students and coordinating teachers that participated in the previous project as well as from the smooth and close cooperation, developed by partnership’s VET schools. It has propitiated the present project that has meet the demands of educational VET Schools, enhancing better relationships among them and national and European companies.The project has been addressed to 72 VET students and former students: second-year students of middle level vocational training of Tourism and Gastronomy, Computer Science and Administration or recent graduated (who graduated the last year), like mid-level technician of the mentioned professional sectors. The project has organized 9 mobility flows: 5 to Italy, 1 to France, 1 to Poland and 2 to United Kingdom. IES Enguera has selected 8 students, CIPFP Xeste has selected 15 students,CIPFP Ciudad del aprendiz has selected 8 students, el IES LLuis Simarro has selected 23 students, el IES Maria Enriquez has selected 9 students y el IES LLopis Marí has selected 8 students.In the project has participated 35 students of hospitality and tourism, 30 students of IT, 7 students of administration.The main objective of the ODEE project has been to promote student’s development of skills and competences through internships in companies in order to integrate the vocational competences they have already acquired and to efficiently enter the single European labour market. Therefore, students need, from one hand, to develop specific and technical skills in their professional sector, and from another hand, they also need to acquire and improve other key competencies, like cultural, linguistic, entrepreneurship, personal initiative, team, as well as to acquire knowledge about new different work environments. All these competences has enhanced student’s access to the EU labour market, both as self-employee and/or hired worker.The main ACTIVITIES that partners of the project will carry out are:- PREPARATION - IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOBILITY.- EVALUATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS. - MONITORING.- EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT. - DISSEMINATION. The DISSEMINATION activities and the mobility itself has generated an IMPACT at local, regional and national level. The impact on the partnership’s VET schools has been:- Improving qualifications and competitiveness of youngsters, enabling them to adapt to the digital era’s demands and to a global knowledge-based economy, enhancing , at the same time, the increase of the youth employment and a sustainable growth.- Consolidating and increasing contacts with European entities to modernise education, to share good practices and to develop new projects in the field of European cooperation- Improving the quality of the training, delivered in the school, and adapted to linguistic, social and cultural diversity. This has allowed schools to meet disadvantaged people’s needs in a more efficient way and to understand better what active European citizenship is.- Improving knowledge and the use of evaluation and certification tools (ECVET and EUROPASS). - Increasing the attractiveness of vocational training education, to make it the first selected option for students and enhancing the prestige of the participating VET schools.The project has been strictly related to the 2020 Strategy and the New Skills Agenda for Europe 2016; it is consistent with the strategic priorities for contributing the increase in employment, productivity and social cohesion in the EU and its member states.

Due to the digitalization and technological progress of the labor market, the high rates of youth unemployment in Spain and the large number of students who drop out of school without professional qualification, the consortium's of VET schools were aware to face the challenge of improving the professional development of VET students for their participation as active citizens in society and to improve their opportunities to join the European labor market. The project imed at providing VET students with the chance to deepen and improve the quality of their training, by carrying out internships in European companies, and getting in contact with European labour market. The good results and the close cooperation among the VET Schools that have been members of the consortium, set the basis for the development of this project.The consortium has been composed by 8 VET schools of the Valencian Region, coordinated by the IES Lluis Simarro. The VET schools consortim needed to establish European quality networks with companies and other educational centres throughout Europe, in order to stay update on innovations, to share good practices and to get informed on European policies, improving the quality of the provided teaching and trainings, thus fighting youth unemployment. The project has been adressed to 84 students and former students who are attending the 2nd course of school-based intermediate VET programme of IT, construction and civil engineering, electronics and electricity, hospitality and tourism and administration or graduates in the last year: mid-level technicians of these specialties. CIPFP Xeste has selected 16 students, CIPFP Ciutat del aprenent has selected 7 , CIPFP LLuis Suñer 4, IES Lluis Simarro 25, IES Enguera 9, IES LLopis Marí 7, IES Marcos Zaragozá 3 and IES María Enriquez 9, four of them will be ErasmusPro It is worth mentioning that relations with Istituto Elsa Morante in Italy has fostered reciprocity, it has also submitted a mobility project in which Spanish consortium has received their students. The reciprocity has enhanced the promotion of the European active citizenship. The 14 months project that has been developed from the 1st of June 2018 to the 30th of July 2019 has been structured in 5 phases: E1- Activities for communicating and spreading information to promote the students’ participation, planning tasks (including participants’ selection), establishing Learning Agreements, reviewing of ECVET documents, logistics and organization (insurance, lights and accommodation), determining contract-related issues, selecting hosting companies, tutors and accompanying teachers, setting up a common dissemination plan. E2-Preparation of the mobilities. Information Meeting, signing contracts, cultural and professional preparation, OLS language courses. E3- Implementation of mobilities. Follow-up, evaluation and certification of participants. Competences have been determined in the Learning Agreement and have been evaluated, using the ECVET instruments and them have been certified by Europass. E4- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the overall project’s results. E5- Dissemination. The dissemination activities have been carried out during all the project In addition to the impact on the participants, the project also has benefit all the partners, by fostering European cooperation and the relationships between companies and educational centres. Both dissemination activities and the mobility experience itself have produced an impact at local, regional and national level. Other local, regional and national entities have been able to to benefit from the project’s results (even though they are not partners of the project): - Creation of a quality network that includes educational centres and companies - Decrease in youth unemployment rate - Improvement of youth qualifications - Increase in VET enrollment - Creation of new collaborative networks at regional level - Widening the possibility of internationalization for other centres, and their chance to be part to other European projects - Better knowledge of the Erasmus+ programme and EU values (tolerance, equity, equality and inclusion). - Fostering the sense of European active citizenship and respect of other cultures - Possibility to create new companies and new business models - Promotion of social inclusion The project has been in accordance with the 2020 strategy, with the 20 principles of the European Pillar of social rights, with the goals of Erasmus + to improve the professional development of VET students, their participation as active citizens in society and their employability inside and outside the European Labour market