"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 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