"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 project GUADALAJARA EN EUROPA+, has been promoted from the town council of Guadalajara through the Youth Centre (Department of Youth). The town council of Guadalajara, aware of the importance of young people in the life and future of the city, stated the necessity of concentrating its efforts on them. It’s for that reason that the town council believed it indispensable to offer young people quality training which was complemented with a training stay in another country in the EU. It provided them with the necessary competencies and abilities for their personal enrichment and professional future.With this premise, the town council of Guadalajara, set-up a consortium with 3 Educative Institutions from the city so that they unified efforts in favour of the young people from the local area and worked together on this project in a collaborative way. These institutions have been: IES José Luis Sampedro, IES Buero Vallejo and IES Aguas Vivas. The Consortium created offered 19 young people between the ages of 17 and 35 years old, the possibility of undertaking a training period of 90 days in a hosting organisation in an EU country. The participants were recently qualified. All the participants undertook a linguistic training course at the destination lasting one week during the first days of the stay simultaneously with the internship. The stays have been between January and April 2016.GUADALAJARA EN EUROPA+ had the support of international organisations which helped us in the monitoring and management of the training in each one of the country’s involved in the project: United Kingdom (Belfast), Ireland (Cork), Italy (Padua and Florence) and Austria (Vienna).The main activities carried out have been:- Publicity campaign for the project- Receiving of applications- Process of selection of candidates- Preparatory meetings, linguistic training during the first week of the stay simultaneously with the practical training- January – April 2016: Period of training stays. The duration was 90 days of practical training and two trip days- Welcome reception upon the return of participants- Analysis of the evaluations of the program - Delivery of the final reportThe members of the GUADALARA EN EUROPA+ consortium have worked together. They have stayed in telephone contact and through email and they have met-up regularly in order to study the course of the project, providing solutions to possible problems and be able to apply corrective actions when it was necessary. The sending and receiving organisations have worked together in producing some of the training programs adapted to each participant. The intermediary and receiving organisations have monitored and evaluated the participants and have ensured the compliance with all of the established agreements. There has been constant contact between the International organisations and the coordinator of the project.The evaluation of the stays have included the questionnaires sent to the participants by email, the evaluations of the participants on the part of the international organisations, as well as the intern’s evaluations of the participating organisations.The impact on the participants is related to the improvement in TIC´s and linguistic knowledge, better professionalism, better social skills and cultural knowledge, etc. Additionally, in the participating organisations the impact has been positive due to the enrichment which it provides to work with European organisations, being able to learn new methods from them which they will be able to apply to their own organisations.Some of the long-term benefits will be: greater quality of the educative system, development of the entrepreneurial culture, innovation in the different sectors, development of new technologies, increase in the awareness of European citizenship etc.