"The project Training Activities for the Development of New Enterprises is designed starting from the needs of the area and the problems that young people from Calabria have to face with reference to the inclusion in the labor market. In this context, ""T.R.A.D.E"", it is a great opportunity for / the younger generation (VET learners) increasing professional skills in tourism and agribusiness fields for to allow the younger generation to create enterprise. In line with the European Development Plan Shared by All Members of the Consortium the project will increase the following skills: - Acquire knowledge of the hotel business reality, the optimization of accounting computerization and booking processes, marketing choices and management / organization of human resources; - Promoting rural development and encourage responsible management of resources; - Promoting awareness of the stages of creation of hotel and non-hotel business, analysis of the market and innovative business strategies; - To acquire problem-solving skills in all management and operational phases; - Acquire skills of analysis of financial feasibility, technical, economic and commercial enterprise; - Foster the development of transversal skills. The project targets are100 high school graduates (50% is reserved for women in 2017/2018 - 2018/2019) having residence in Calabria. They will apply those who, within a year after graduation, they will mast graduates of higher education institutions belonging to the following sectors: 1) the accounting, finance, marketing, accounting, management software development for administrations in the tourism sector; 2) tourist accommodation and hotel hospitality; 3) operational management of the service in the lounge, bar and plans, including sales and customer loyalty; 4) agriculture, rural development, processing, valuation and marketing of agricultural and food products. The internships, will last four months, will be completed with foreign companies related professional sectors mentioned, as their aim is to develop transversal skills aimed at the creation and management of enterprise, from holdings in Spain, UK, Ireland and Belgium. The experience offered by the project will change the perception of local opportunities, transferring best practices for solutions / management for innovative competitiveness through the internship to the return that will be offered at local farms listed in the paragraph C.1.3. of this form. During the project, the trainees will be supported by the Commission in co-ordinating the Team -working through the provision of the following services: • linguistic, cultural and pedagogical; • matching action between the companies in which it held internships; • identification of the flights, buying tickets and better housing accommodations; • insurance coverage for the entire period of mobility; • mentoring and constant monitoring; • practical support for any logistical and organizational problems and a monetary contribution, called ""Erasmus + pocket"" in order to contribute share to cover the cost of meals and local transportation to / from the workplace. The mobility experience abroad will have a major impact on the participants: 1. In the professional point of view: knowledge of other labor markets and other economies, methods, approaches and different work techniques; development of new professional skills, language and technology; 2. From the point of view of personal growth: to know the aspects of another culture, develop a sense of responsibility and autonomy, increasing self-esteem and, therefore, self-employment. The project T.R.A.D.E. will have an impact at local, regional, national and European level, thanks to the following benefits: • opening of new start-ups; • 45% of learners (25% in Italy and 10% abroad) will find a stable employment by reducing the regional unemployment rate; • increased availability and availability on the labor market of qualified personnel; • improving management skills and strategies of internationalization; • closer link between education and the business world; • easier recognition of competences at European level; • Development of the European labor market."

"The Social Cooperative Society ""Eudemonia"" ONLUS, with the support of the National Union composed of Campania Region, Municipality of Salerno, Municipality of Pellezzano, Sele-Picentini Tourist District, 8 Welfare Associations and 7 High Schools from Campania Region, interested in the project, intended to propose the project action ""Wo.M.En. - Women's Mobility ExperieNce” focused on transnational mobility for learning purposes in the VET framework, approved in the framework of Erasmus+ Project Call of 2017 and ended on July 2nd 2019, project code n ° 2017-1-IT01-KA102-005639, CUP code G57H17000690006.""Wo.M.En."" project was born with the general objective of contributing to the social, economic and cultural development in the regional context. In a dynamic, open-minded and innovative society, strongly inserted in the European and international dimension, it becomes necessary to operate in a European context and to expand the knowledge of European policies and systems. Thanks to the project, it will be possible to plan and implement interventions that will produce efficacy and efficiency on the local social fabric in favour of the employment growth of young women.The project is linked to a social context where the negative effects of the economic and labor market crisis, have been perceived as problems to be faced in a vivid way. The reasons behind “Wo.M.En.” project, exclusively intended to a young female target, derive from the overall figure of female employment (recorded in the 2008-2014 seven-year period) that reflects a strong territorial difference: a significant growth in the Central-Northern regions (+135,000 units equal to + 1.9%) and an important and really ""exceptional"" drop - in the Southern Part of Italy (71,000 fewer units, equal to -3.2%). From the overall view, it clearly emerged that the female question in the Italian labor market has essentially a territorial connotation. The data, collected by the Social Cooperative Society Eudemonia ONLUS, are added to a particularly alarming ""structural"" condition for the South that can be shown by the results of the comparison of female employment rates, before and after the crisis, with the European average. The alarming data concerns young women, within an age range between 15 and 34, whose employment rate in the South is only at 20.8%, over 20 percentage points less than the Center-Northern Part of Italy and 30 percentage points less than the European average.In this context, the project allowed 50 female new-graduates, resident in Campania Region, to live a 120 days internship abroad, carried out in companies, institutions and organizations in Ireland, United Kingdom and Spain, in the following sectors: social, cultural, tourism, volunteering and hospitality.The project has pursued and achieved the specific objectives, in particular:- to improve the level of competences and ""key"" skills for the creation of ""practical"" curricula, useful for the development of the national and European labour market; to allow the strengthening, for all the participants, of highly requested soft skills in the modern labour market, such as problem solving, team working, time management, planning, creative resolution, sense of responsibility and maturity, flexibility, adaptability, open mindedness and inclination to intercultural dialogue;- to create benefits for the youth target in terms of growth of ""professional"" skills, knowledge and enhancement of their potentialities;- to support the integration into foreign working realities and in wider terms, the social integration of the participants in different European countries; to contribute to the improvement of Language Learning and to the ""sectorial"" deepening of the used languages,such as Spanish and English. This also happened thanks to the support granted by the Erasmus + Online Linguistic Support (OLS) platform, which all the beneficiaries benefited from, being able to attend, in e-learning, a language course throughout their stay abroad and measuring the level of specialization achieved by comparing the initial assessment test with the final one; - to contribute to the process of validation and recognition of professional skills, in line with the provisions of the ECVET system, through the provision of recognition tools used at European level such as the Europass Mobility Document, whose official recognition is based on the methods and established timing that are shared in the Memorandum of Understanding, a document signed by the partners who have actively contributed to the project dynamics;- to develop new skills able to improve social integration and in general young women life, according to a gender perspective, that promotes the whole enjoyment of the rights and equality per each person."

"The Technical Institute “Enzo Ferrari”, located in Castellammare di Stabia, has entered, with the project “RA.TE. - RAmpant TEachers” (2017-1-IT02-KA101-036175), a modernization and internationalization process aimed at reinforce the quality of its teaching methods. This process becomes even more necessary because of the territorial context and the high rates referred to the early school-leaving. The data shows, in fact, a high level of dropout that should be the subject of detailed analysis aimed at the identification of methodologies that can be more motivational, attractive and immersive. As a response to these needs and from the screening carried out about the training needs of the teachers, was planned the project “RA.TE.” that allowed 15 teachers to participate in 17 days training activities in United Kingdom. The teachers has attended structural courses (7 participants) and has participated in job shadowing activities (8 participants) acquiring new teaching, linguistic and digital skills, in response to the need to introduce individualized and student-focused learning approaches, optimize the use of new technologies in teaching (skills necessary for the proper development of the laboratory approach) and encourage the acquisition of communication skills in a foreign language. The project objectives have been defined in coherence with the need to pursue an improvement of the teaching that could have a positive impact on improving the performance of the students. Currently, the Institute has achieved a part of the objectives defined in the drafting phase of the project proposal and will continue in the path that will lead it to the achievement of the macro objective linked to the reduction of the early school leaving rate.In particular, the following objectives have already been successfully achieved:-exploration and evaluation of the teaching ""best practices"" for the introduction of innovative learning methodologies using the technology;-achievement of a level of language proficiency equal to B2 for the 15 teachers participating in the activities, essential for the introduction of CLIL methodology in the School; -acquisition of a language level that could allow teachers to face professional discussions and create interactive teaching materials and tools appropriate to students' learning needs.The participants in the job shadowing activities were able to:-acquire and develop the skills necessary for the use of the modern teaching technologies, in order to improve the level of participation of students in the lessons and make them more dynamic and interactive;-acquire strategies and methodologies aimed at combating the growing phenomenon of dropout in ""vocational"" higher education, through the use of communication techniques able to convey the student's attention and make him the protagonist of his own learning;-improve and develop the ability to adapt the teaching methodologies to the specific needs of the class and of the individual student, varying the contents and the techniques according to the learning ability. Participants in the structured course activities were able to:-improve the level of English proficiency in order to facilitate contacts with foreign schools and organizations, aimed at promoting the internationalization of the educational institution;-acquire a greater knowledge of the technical language related to their teaching subject, in order to start the experimentation of the CLIL methodology;-observe alternative teaching methods and also take cue for the development of their teaching techniques.Compared to the European Development Plan, the ""RA.TE."" project has allowed to influence the improvement areas identified as priorities by the Institute, enabling the integration of new tools for teacher training that can directly impact on the following factors:-introduction of new teaching / learning methods and techniques for teaching staff;-increase of the percentage of participation and involvement of teaching staff in professional training activities.The active involvement of teachers who have not participated in the mobility training (involvement that has been started but which represents an activity in progress) will allow the transmission of skills learned abroad in order to generate important repercussions on the training system of I.I.S. ""Enzo Ferrari""."

"The project ""MOB.Y.D.I.C.K.- MOBilitY for Development of International Competences and Knowledge"" was born from the analysis of the needs of the partnership’s members and from the examination of the potential economic growth of which Calabria region could be the protagonist of through a more efficient training of its human resources and a better marketing placement of its agri-food products: that is also due to a high rate of unemployment in the region, existing despite the cultural and artistic heritage.The “MOB.Y.D.I.C.K.” project has therefore intervened by creating appropriate resources able to face the challenges and the opportunities of the global market and to manage agricultural, agri-food and touristic companies.The achieved objectives are:1.promoting a better knowledge of the agri-food and touristic sectors’ potential for the Calabrian territory development;2.training human resources able to embody the needs that will come from the European and Global market;3.operating a progressive adaptation of the training systems in line with the real business needs, also operating a comparison with other receiving countries realities, keeping in mind the European certification system ECVET;4.acquiring good practices within business and marketing management through the cooperation with foreign partners;5.Promoting a better dialogue among Calabrian stakeholders involved in order to deal with the link between practicing and working;“MOB.Y.D.I.C.K.” fostered mobility paths of 4 months in Spain, United Kingdom, Belgium and Ireland addressed to 100 young new-graduates in the following fields of studies: Agriculture and the Rural Development, Administration and Finance, Marketing and Communication, Tourism.Before leaving, the learners received a training articulated on the following points:•support on the usage of the linguistic training platform - OLS;•individual drafting of a development plan of professional skills;•pedagogical and cultural Erasmus+ Training.Those who took part in the program improved their technical and linguistic skills, with a more concrete possibility to be employed.Meeting with foreign realities and different working methodologies compared to the original ones, they had the chance to develop international skills to fit the foreign labor market. Their curriculum has been enriched by the Europass Mobility and both European and national certifications.The impact in the region has been significant since here, unlike others from other regions, young people suffered the lack of proper training opportunities or where to use the obtained professional knowledge.Moreover, the Project also promoted the cooperation between the various stakeholders who found a new synergy to promote and develop the regional agri-food products. The learners also had the chance to understand how companies and regions operate on their own brand promotion, realizing the importance of creating a system to cooperate for a proper development of the region.About the 20% of the trainees received a job offer once returned. The 30% received a job offer from the abroad hosting companies or other similar companies. The 3% started a business while a further 20% went to a university or attended a professional training course. The 5% went to foreign universities. The rest of the attendee are still active on the business market to search for their first employment in line with the activities done within the project."

"Unindustria Calabria and the Union of Industrialists and Companies of Catanzaro, Cosenza, Crotone, Reggio Calabria and Vibo Valentia promoted the project ""E.Y.E. 2017 - European Young in Enterprises 2017"" which lasted 24 months, from 1st Sep. 2017 to 21st Aug. 2019. The project has been part of the Consortium local and European development strategy in terms of its internationalization. The core of the project consisted of a 90-day transnational mobility of 100 newly graduates from Calabria towards different European countries: United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland and Belgium. The project aimed at maximizing the results achieved through the realization of a previous KA1 VET project proposal and called “E.Y.E. - European Youngs in Enterprises"" (no. 2015-1-IT01-KA102-004241), coordinated by Confindustria Vibo Valentia, which was later merged into Unindustria. The Consortium managed to give it further continuity by establishing a close partnership among local authorities, training centres, associations and stakeholders from agri-food, tourism and catering sectors, which were the focus of the project “E.Y.E. 2017”. The objectives achieved by in the 24 months of management were:- greater consolidation and integration of the project management team, which also included staff coming from the Consortium's schools;- expansion of the interconnections between formal and non-formal education, professional training and labour market through the cooperation activated among schools, national and European companies, VET organisations; - extension of the regional educational offer and empowerment of schools’ outgoing guidance services addressing newly graduates thanks to the collaboration with the VET organizations;- improvement of the language skills of the project management staff and, above all, of the participants that took part in the mobility and developed a work experience in a native language context.In this regard, 100 graduates from Technical and Professional schools (specialized in Food and Wine; Hotel Hospitality; Administration, Finance and Marketing; Tourism; Agriculture) took part in a 3-month transnational mobility, which helped them learn new professional and soft skills, as well as language awareness, ""on the job"". In total, the project saw the participation of 41 male and 59 female participants, from different areas of Calabria and varied socio-cultural backgrounds. The short-term impacts produced by the project were:- 40% of the learners received a job offer from their host company or from another company located in the foreign country where the internship took place. Of this percentage recorded, 15% returned abroad only for the summer period. A further 50% came back to Italy to continue the work experience in family or local companies, enriching them with the skills acquired abroad; a smaller part (about 10%) decided to enrol in a university course in order to pursue a higher qualification;- about 90% of participants stated that they are fully satisfied with the training received abroad;- more than 80% of participants believe that they have increased their chances of finding further professional opportunities;- 91% affirmed to have improved their professional and linguistic skills;- the members of the Consortium and the European partner managed to promote further Erasmus+ projects for the VET system and the partner schools launched new cross-board work based learning experiences for students;- European VET providers had the chance to look more closely at the management dynamics underlying the monitoring, evaluation and recognition mechanisms of such projects, while the hosting companies gave a boost to the internal internationalization process of their own staff."