"The mobility of young people to vocational training and personal and social development has been a strong focus of the actors of Torres Vedras.The Town Hall, the Escola de Serviços e Comércio do Oeste, the Escola Profissional Agrícola Fernando Barros Leal, the Externato Penafirme and Seminfor have promoted and participated in Leonardo da Vinci and Comenius projects. Over the years, they maintained a dialogue that allowed joints to forward candidates, disseminate projects and share information and reflections.Considering this background, the Erasmus + was the push that was needed to formalize this network, increase the collective capacity to participate and enhance the impact and integration of mobility in the territory.Despite the continuity, there are changes, hence the Mills image choice, which all have history, roots and past of Torres Vedras, but also the future development and sustainability.The MISSION is ""Training for Innovation"".The Objectives set for the project were:1 | TRAINING AND EMPLOYABILITY - To improve young people's access to the labor market through vocational training and specialized in EU2 | EUROPE ALL / A - Create professional exchanges and flows, cultural, social and citizens to encourage membership and integration of the participants and the region in Europe3 | TRAINING NETWORKS - Consolidating existing sectoral network through enablers projects and bridges creators4 | HUMAN POTENTIAL - contribute to the sustainable and integrated development of the region, enabling HR, bringing new tools, methodologies and best practicesThe project involved 30 students, 21 graduates and 9 level 4 finalists, from 18 to 30, mainly from the West zone and generally medium-low socioeconomic level. Mobilities lasted 14 weeks and sectors found themselves divided according to their representation in destinations and network quality assurance partners.Professional design sectors were: Management, Marketing, Agricultural Production (crop production, animal production), Forestry and Environmental Resources, Restoration (Kitchen / Confectionery; Restaurant / Bar), Tourism, Tourism Aambiental and Rural and Renewable Energy (Solar Systems) .THEMES AND NEEDS that was intended to respond to this project were:# Improve personal and professional skills of participants# Employability as a priority of post-diploma of the House-Schools network support# Mobility as a strategy for improving vocational training and the recovery# The need to promote mobility and cosmopolitanism among young people# Facilitate the initiative and business innovation# Encourage a greater, exchange and intercultural dialogue at European levelThe implemented ACTIVITY divided by: project management, trust management, dissemination, selection, preparation, mobility, project evaluation and mobility, continuous dissemination and product and final event.With these, the following impacts are assured:** PARTICIPANTS: Strengthening of personal and intercultural skills and technical and professional skills; Increase the employability of young people trained in vedras towers; Increase the number of young ""absorbed"" by the companies in the region; More young people to sustainable life plans; Increased participation in cultural life, healthier lifestyle.** CONSORTIUM: Creation and consolidation of new methods and ways of working together; Improve the training offer of the schools; Multiplication of intervention capacity; Consolidation of European networks; Increased future capacity of sustainability and follow-up; Training for international work** INTEREMDIARY PARTNERS: Training for international work; Extending its network of contacts and work; Knowledge of new educational strategies and territorial intervention** RECEPTION PARTNERS: Contact with new ways of doing, seeing and thinking about reality and to approach the work; Enlargement of the network of contacts; New potential partnerships and / or access to new markets** School Community: Awareness of the importance of solid training paths in creating opportunities; Student motivation to study; Opening horizons and expectations of life and work; Creating spaces for reflection and debate on Europe; Team Update on methods and forms of educational work and industry** General Population: Increase of contacts and international partnerships; Increased interest in mobility and LLLParticipants were the starting point and the central axis of this project, and only then may be because they are the people who make countries and regions, are the people that make competitive economies and are the people, especially and young people, of whom fall the consequences of our present choices and all our hopes of a more prosperous, cohesive and sustainable future"

"The FOODIES project was born and developed in the regional contexts of Piedmont, Lombardy and Liguria and within the framework of the ""Milan-Sanremo del Gusto"" Programme, promoted in 2016 by the three Regional Councils and aimed at enhancing local identities, discovering experience of the territories and their respective historical, artistic, eno-gastronomic and manufacturing quality attractiveness, to be realized with the involvement of public and private subjects, schools and universities of the territory. In this context, the project aims to meet a dual need: 1) on the one hand, the need to stimulate the innovation of local tourism enterprises in order to make them more competitive and visible at national and international level; 2) on the other hand, invest in the training of skilled and trained professionals and therefore employable and self-employable; attentive to tradition, but also to change and innovation. Through FOODIES, the ""Giolitti-Bellisario"" Institute, the other 6 sending Educational Institutes and the Consortium partners aim to provide adequate expertise in the tourism-receptive sector that can bring a boost to the tourism work market of the three regional basins, recovering knowledge and skills of tradition, bringing innovation and critical spirit in the creation and management of competitive tourism enterprises and in step with the global challenges and thus improve the quality of education and vocational training, giving a European dimension to the educational pathways and thus offering young participants the opportunity to verify and deepen their curricular skills: professionalism in specific areas of belonging (TOURISM), cultural and transversal knowledge and linguistic preparation. This general objective, in line with the ET2020 Strategy, is pursued through a mobility experience consisting of a 1-month internship abroad for 84 STUDENTS of the fourth classes and 3-month for 84 JUST GRADUATED of the 7 schools involved (Tourism VET school pathways). In summary, the activities envisaged by the project are: 1. Cross-cutting activities: Management; Dissemination and exploitation of results; Follow up; 2. Mobility preparation: Communication and cooperation plan; Selection and preparation of participants; Definition of learning plan; 3. Mobility: Internship in the company; Monitoring; Evaluation of traineeships and projects; transparency of the LOs. From the methodological point of view the project includes: - continuous and active involvement of all the project staff figures and supervision by the trainers and company mentors; accompaniment and tutoring; teaching methodologies based on involvement, participation, the high integration between theory and practice, the development of practical skills that can be immediately spent, the validation of acquired skills; - a system of mid-term and final checks to monitor progress in learning achieved by the participants, as well as to evaluate, certify, transfer and validate them in an ECVET-compatible framework; - the preparation of a final report focused on identifying the effective functioning of the activities and the elements that can be reproduced, transferred and integrated within the Consortium and in other contexts. For the participants, the main results expected from the realization of the FOODIES project concern not only its usability in the employment field, but also its positive influences on the development of human potential through its formal, informal and non-formal learning moments. Finally, FOODIES is expected to consolidate a network of European subjects with good practices and innovative training models in the areas of digital tourism, culture, creative industry and the promotion of food and wine of the territory and specific vocational training for the sector, laying the foundations for future collaborations. The project is therefore an important starting point to be followed up with updating and use of the results on a wider scale. These, therefore, the expected impacts: AT THE END OF THE PROJECT: -development of the specialized skills of the target groups involved (168 young people between students and new graduates); -realization of models and training tools of innovative value. IN THE MIDDLE TERM: - dissemination of the results and training models between the subjects of the relevant macro-sector and those of the vocational training; - making available results and training models for institutions and professionals of local / regional territories; IN LONG TERM: - orientation of the policies of the public partners involved based on the results of the project; - use of procedures as a standard model."

The SKIP2 Project has a total length of 20 months and is carried out within the framework of the initiatives promoted by EnAIP Piemonte aimed at structuring inclusive and integrated training paths which can increase the level of employability of learners and spread, among the staff (managers, trainers administrative and secretary staff), a higher awareness with regard to the central role of transnational mobility within a wider strategy aimed at ensuring the implementation of a sustainable economic growth, along with a higher social cohesion. The project consists of three main activities: two of them are addressed to learners and one to the staff. As for the learners, they are mainly weak individuals risking social marginalisation first, and then professional exclusion: in fact, they are primarily youngsters with few personal, cultural and economic resources - who often lack the tools to reply to the needs of a changing world, of a more and more multi and intercultural society, of an always more selective labour market with a scarce availability of posts – and thus need to be supported in the development of intercultural awareness, in the reinforcement of their language skills and, more in general of their social abilities which will be integrated to the technical competences. A first group of 58 learners, who attend initial vocational training courses carried out by EnAIP, in the tourist, leisure, hospitality and catering sector, will take part in mobility flows lasting 14 days in the following training agencies: Training Vision (UK), Malta Vocational Centre (Malta), European Career Evolution (Ireland), Cap Ulysse (France) and AIP Languages (Spain). Thanks to the collaboration that these institutions have with companies of the tourist, hospitality and restauration sectors, learners will be able to be directly in contact with the professional contexts. For this target group, we envisage the participation of a leader. This is required since some of the participants are under-18 youngsters, and this project represents the first significant experience abroad, away from their families, so the presence of an adult contributes to make it more sustainable and substantial for them. The second activity is addressed to a group of 30 learners, who have completed their qualification within 12 months or are attending a professional specialisation, for whom an experience in a European context helps reinforce the knowledge and skills acquired during the training course. These learners will take part in mobility flows lasting 28 days and will be welcome by Training Vision (UK), Malta Vocational Centre (Malta) and AIP Languages (Spain), who will organise and manage their internships in companies of the tourism, leisure, hospitality and catering sectors. They will attend online language preparation before departure. As for the staff, EnAIP commitment is aimed at improving, at an internationalisation level, the skills of the human resources involved, at different levels, in the provision of effective training processes which need to reply to the needs of the companies, which are in return also implied in internationalisation processes (decentralisation, systemic or sectorial network, partnerships, merging, etc.). The internationalisation development thus means for EnAIP the achievement of a higher ability to prepare their operators to sustain the motivations, ambitions and personal and professional projects in a European dimension of youngsters and make them able to reply to the needs of the companies and of the labour market, so to improve their employability and to act as active citizens through labour inclusion. 70 resources of EnAIP will be involved in updating training sessions abroad on the following topics: - UK: Cross cultural management – for trainers, guidance experts and VET designers - Malta: English language – for VET operators - Malta: Management of VET initiatives with companies - for tutors and career guidance experts - France: Labour services offer – for case managers, career guidance experts, project managers and VET designers - France: Cooperative learning - for trainers, guidance experts and VET designers - Spain: Diversity management – for trainers, career guidance experts, VET managers and VET designers.

The Eurovouzela 3 project was promoted by the Vocational School of Vouzela, in the academic year 2016/2017. This project allowed the sending of 14 students from the 11th grade and 6 students from the 12th grade to carry out the following courses: Industrial Maintenance - Electromechanical and Automotive Mechatronics; Mechatronics; Restoration - Kitchen-Pastry and Restaurant-Bar; Fashion Design and Commerce. Each group of students was accompanied by a person from EP Vouzela, during the first 3 days of mobility. The destinations were seven: Germany, Spain, Greece, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Ireland. The project also included job-shadowing programs for teaching and non-teaching staff, seven participants in total, for 7 days. The destinations were Denmark and France.The project had the support of intermediary partners for the logistical support to the students and with host partners, in the case of the students, the companies where they took the internships and, in the case of the staff, professional schools, similar to the EP Vouzela.The proposed objectives were:PREPARING STUDENTS FOR A LIVING LIFE: A TRANSITION FROM ACADEMIC LIFE TO THE LABOR MARKET• Improvement through deepening / acquisition of skills• Positive differentiation of the quality of CVs, based on the professional and personal competences specific to the international context• Development and deepening of professional skills• Improving language skills• Development of entrepreneurial skillsIMPROVING EPV'S EDUCATIONAL OFFER IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY, COMBATING ABANDONMENT AND SCHOOL SKILL VIA MOTIVATION AND ATTRACTIVENESS• Placing international mobility activities on the school agenda as a factor of (1) differentiation from other schools and (2) motivation and commitment of the students so that they can participate and take advantage of this opportunity• Prevent situations of dropping out and / or dropping out of school• Plan and create successful learning models to motivate learners to invest in their future• Bring to EPV new methodology and ideas that support the school's educational project, through the mobility of the teamAPPROACH THE EPV SCHOOL COMMUNITY TO THE EUROPEAN REALITY - CREATE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND SYNERGIES• Bring students and teams closer to the European reality• Allow contact with multicultural and humanistic Europe• Instil in students the importance of contacting new cultures, learning new languages and learning about new working contexts, in order to favour their commitment to a successful career that goes beyond professional training• Open horizons, expand ideas• Focus on internationalization and thematic debates with schools and companies on hospitality and advanced manufacturing, in order to create shared and sustainable agreements• Know the realities of the international labour market, with visits to the internship sites and European sharing of internship coordination experiencesThrough this project the following results were achieved:• On the part of the students, CVs strengthened and better prepared for the job market• On the part of the staff, greater dynamism in the team and acquisition / recycling of knowledge• On the part of EP Vouzela, improvement of the educational offer and new established international partnerships• By partner organizations, improvement of methods and techniques and consolidation of international partnerships• At the Local / national / international level, this project has brought to the region more qualified and better prepared human resources for the labour market, with enhanced skills and a greater spirit of initiative and autonomy.• At the international level, this project has contributed to achieving the goals proposed in the Europe 2020 strategy for education, innovation and development; increase the number of European mobilities, duly certified and accredited; greater cooperation between vocational training institutions and companies and increasing the number of partnerships and contacts at international level.All mobilities were duly certified through the Europass-Mobility, certificate of host organization and certificate of EP Vouzela.

"The need for Tuscan turistic entrepreneurs is to maintain a high standard of services offered, with a level of quality that will satisfy demanding and well prepared customers (national and international), in order to fight the global economic crisis. The needs of recent graduates from VET schools is to specialize, to acquire new skills on turistic sector by consequence of the potential of job opportunities offered by the sector. These two worlds are the demand and supply to meet that need to find a mutual benefit and profit. For these reasons, the Regional Council of Tuscany, since 2001, has been promoting the programme ""VETRINA TOSCANA"" (Network of enhancement of the typical Tuscan products that involve different economic and institutional actors) and that from three yeras ago included in the Special Programme of Regional Development (PRSE) and considered as an excellent model of communication and promotion of tourism. The project ""Vetrina Toscana in Europa"" (VET -EU) aims to be connected to this regional programme, promoted by the Regional Council of Tuscany, in order to offer the opportunity of an internship abroad to the students of Tuscan Tourism and Catering VET schools, participating to some dedicated training courses carried out within the farmework of ""Vetrina Toscana"" Programme. The VET-EU project is promoted by an articulated partnership of local actors (Tourism and Catering VET Schools institutional bodies, trade associations) and foreign partners. It aims to offer students and recent graduates from VET schools in the turism industry of the provinces of Siena, Florence and Prato, a great opportunity to provide more and more qualified sector services by performing a high quality mobility experience at European level. Participants follow a path of education in the tourism and hospitality industry and be selected from the target group who has already participated in the training activities of the Project SCUOLE VETRINA TOSCANA (sub-programme of Vetrina Toscana). The Project VET-EU, in fact, aims to complete with a foreign mobility experience the training path of a a target of participants, who, having acquired knowledge and professional skills in turism sector, have also carried out an intra-curriculum training path on the valorization of the characteristic of the local products of the the region (elements of Vetrina Toscana Programme). Participants, after their selection carried out by the 7 vocational schools, sending partners of the project, will receive an intercultural preparation as well as being stimulated to self-study on the host country, to improve their language skills and to actively participate throughout the international path. The preparation, therefore, involves multi-disciplinary pedagogical, linguistic and cultural preparation aimed to provide information, even of a practical nature, including various aspects of an internship abroad as well as knowledge and skills useful to a full integration into the context of the host country (e.g. highlights on the cultural aspects of the host country, lifestyles and working conditions). Participants will also be called before departure to deepen their language skills (comprehension , but also oral and written skills). The main expected results from the implementation of the VET-EU project affect not only its marketability within the job market, but also its positive influences on the development of human potential through its features of formal, non-formal (on the job) and informal learning."