"The project, ""Internships in the European Union an opportunity for transnational career,"" was created for students attending our Complex of Secondary Schools in Technical Secondary Schools in such profiles as: Landscape Architecture, Economics, Freight Forwarding, Hospitality and Nutrition and Food Service.In the project 48 people (regardless of gender) will have a chance to take a 4 week internship in the UK, Italy or Spain earning valuable work experience in their vocation. Hoteliers in modern hotels and guesthouses, economists in the financial services sectors, and administrative or commercial departments, freight forwarders in forwarding companies and landscape architects who want to know the techniques and styles of green space design used by the Italian, English or Spanish landscape architects.The host countries of the internships were chosen in such a way that the trainees will be able to learn from the best. Spain and Italy and the United Kingdom have a great base of the hotel and tourism industry and have a huge experience and traditions in these sectors. Trainees will be able to learn how to prepare typical dishes for the chosen countries characteristic of their location (Italy ans Spain- Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle consistent with the movement of the ""Slow Food""). United Kingdom -a very rich and interesting English cuisine . These countries also have much to offer to ekonomists. Porsmouth is a port city where there are many companies specializing in commercial and financial operations. Rome and Sevilla are mainly the cities of touristic interest but also having a huge industrial and commercial infrastructure. All these countries are also very attractive for landscape architects because of its richness and diversity of plants and their arrangements.The main objectives of the project are:- Gaining Work experience in the chosen profession abroad- Improvement of foreign language skills with a focus on professional terminology- Getting to know European systems and methods of working- Facing foreign culture and customs of the country- Learning the principles of team work in a group different culturally and linguistically- Gain greater self-confidence by working in an international team- Improving the quality and increasing the volume of mobility for people who are in the initial stage of vocational education and training- Combating prejudices and stereotypes The project is also a response to the need of:1 increasing the vocational mobility of trainees in order to harmonize the standards and quality of work in Europe.2 increasing foreign language copetences of vocational staff in response to market demand3 the sending institution , due to the possibility of extending the content of vocational training with new elements observed during the practice and establishing international contacts4 the foreign partners who will be able to obtain well-prepared workers from Poland5 the local companies and businesses getting a chance to win workers trained abroad and speaking foreign languagesWithin the project, young people will go for three 4-week internships:Group I - March 2015. - (16 persons + 2 carers) - SpainGroup II - July 2015. - (16 persons + 2 carers) - United KingdomGroup III -October 2015. - (16 persons + 2 carers) - ItalyBefore departure, each participant will receive appropriate language training and cultural and pedagogical preparation."

"The Picardie region is one of the least favoured areas in France in terms of unemployment (with a rate of 12.6 %, third rank in France / 19.4 % among young people under 25, fourth rank in France).Our youth is known to be among the least ambitious in terms of education and career, while also greatly lacking mobility.The early school-leaving rate (the European goal for 2020 : 10 %) is among the highest in France (13.7 %, second rank in France) with nearly one in five youth (18.6 %) leaving school early in some parts of the region.This sad local assessment prompts us to come up with strong measures in order to stem this spiral of unemployment and early school leaving in our country . The MOPIC 14 Project form part of these measures.If we want our students have better employability, if we want they develop their propensity to mobility, if we want (educationnal academic aim) transnational labor mobility in education be a reality for the greater number of our young people, particularly those from the most disadvantaged socio-professional categories, a comprehensive academic project for professional mobility is required. MOPIC 14 project aims to achieve these objectives.It concerns, and this is an increase from the previous MOPIC 13 project, 18 schools of the academy and more than 200 students, students in professional sections, from any type of industrial specialties or services.Mobilities to the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Germany and Spain are planned with partners already known by all targeted institutions / schools with which exchanges are already a reality and quality of these exchanges is already proved.All students involved will live, through this project MOPIC 14, a period of training in company abroad, including work placements, host families, local transportation and cultural activities.A steering committee will be set up. It will include representatives from each schools involved in the project and representatives of GIP FORINVAL (applicant organization), ""DAREIC"" (international relationship dpt) and the school administration of the Academy of Amiens.This Steering Committee will design the main lines to follow in the purpose of carrying out this project, it will support each involved school.Each student, teacher, accounting manager, management staff member of the Steering Committee or GIP FORINVAL, Inspector, member of the DAREIC will be responsible, at its level, to communicate about the project and disseminate the results of this above.The impact of this project on the schools involved will be very important in terms of improving local and academic influence of these, as in terms of quantitative and qualitative orientation of young lower secondary schools students to these upper secondary schools.But the impact will be, above all, of particular importance to the students involved.Skills, whether linguistic, intercultural, interpersonal, social or professional will be expanded considerably. Their propensity to mobility will be as well and this will help to break down barriers to national or European job mobility, insuperable barriers for some.This improved propensity to mobility, combined with the increased competences/skills of the beneficiaries, will dramatically improve the ambition and the employability of the concerned students. Furthermore, it will contribute to reach the academic, national and European objectives in terms of employment-rate increase, improvement of the access rate to higher education, and reduction of the early school-leaving rate."

By means of this Students and Teachers Mobility Project for learning reasons, CPIFP Bajo Aragón from Alcañiz, aims at improving its educative offer providing formative training in EU companies, more specifically in UK companies (United Kingdom).Our students in Advanced-level VET courses haven been offered Erasmus training period for many years, and it is our intention now to offer this training opportunity to Intermediate-level VET students too, making use of Erasmus+ grants both for teachers and for students in Vocational Training. In total, we intend to accomplish several training mobility periods with a duration of one month in a company each. These are for fourteen students, six of them in Derry (Northern Ireland), and the rest of them in Plymouth (UK). These students are doing different VET courses: Cars Maintenance, Business Administration, Electrical Installations, Computing and Nursery VET courses. All of them are doing Intermediate-level VET courses and their level of English is Elementary/Pre-Intermediate. All of them are eighteen years old or over that age.We also intend to carry out four training periods of five days each. These addressed at teachers and in the job-shadowing modality. For these training periods, we count with the collaboration of two associated members, one in Derry and the other one in Plymouth. They will be in charge of managing the training and the accommodation in the already mentioned cities.For all this, a selection procedure will be made, and it will take into account three aspects: the students? school records, their command of English and their attitude and skill to carry out the training period, both of students and teachers. Afterwards, there will be a period in order to prepare the mobility training, and then, the training period will develop. In the case of students, these training period, will be part of what we call ?Module of Training in a Working Company?, which is compulsory for obtaining the official certificate for their course. We intend that participants ?both teachers and students- in these formative periods can attain the following aims:-Improve their professional skills.-Improve their social competences through integration in teamwork of multicultural and multilingual nature.-Improve the learning of a foreign language in a technical and professional environment. -Foster an entrepreneurial spirit. More specifically, for teachers doing the mobility we intend that they can:-Increase the management competence for projects and international initiatives.-Increase the tools and didactic possibilities by comparing other Vocational Education systems.We consider the participation in the project as extremely beneficial, both for teachers and students, and for all our educative community and hometown. It helps us in the long and in the short term to broaden the employability possibilities for our students, since they become aware of the possibility to develop professionally not only in our hometown, but also in other EU countries.Projects like these also help to increase the quality of our educative offer, and to improve the external image of our school, which is perceived as a modern and efficient institution that takes active place in European projects.

Background:Trefort Ágoston Vocational School and Student Dormitory of Békéscsaba Center of Vocational Training has been involved in international projects since 2003. First only one or two teachers acted as coordinators, but over the years more and more of their colleagues joined them in the execution of the projects. As the member school of Békéscsaba Center of Vocational Training we would like to withdraw all the speciality of vocational studies to the mobility programmes to be able to give vocational training to our students which suits to the labor market. We have been participating in LLP tenders and formed a reliable and well-functioning relationship with numerous partners. In the tenders the participants are the partners with whom we have already carried out several successful LLP projects and with whom we would like to continue the productive mobilities in the Erasmus+ programme with involving new partners and new professions.Aims:- to realize on-the-job trainings of 69 students with the help foreign vocational schools and companies,- developing foreign language, professional, personnel, digital, entrepreneurial, intercultural, social competences of the students;- implementation of successful study tour of 18 VET professionals/teachers in foreign vocational schools and companies,- developing foreign language, professional, personnel, methodological, digital, intercultural competences of the teachers/trainers/professionals;- to realize same procedures for assessment, documentation, validation and recognition of the learning outcomes achieved abroad;- utilization of the project outcomes and documents;- operating and growing active network consisting of European educational institutions and companies.Participants and professional background:1. Students:- trade-marketing, business administration (2 logistics assistants and 1 transport administrator)- engineering (4 central heating and pipe fitters, 13 building engineer technicians, 10 welders, 3 industrial mechanics, 3 mechanical chippers, 4 machine-production technology technicians)- transport (6 car electronics mechanics, 8 car mechanics, 1 car technicians)- electrotechnics-electronics (3 electrical technicians, 4 high-power current electricians)- informatics (3 CAD-CAM informatics, 3 ICT administrators, 1 IT system operator)- at least one year training experience, and at least basic level English/German language skills2. Teachers/trainers/professionals:- informatics (10 people)- building engineering, electronics, automatization (8 people- more years professional experience, and at least intermediate level English (and German) language skills.Main steps on the project:I. Completing the application for the tenderII. The continuous realization of the mobilities: 1. Making contact with the host institution (via phone calls, emails, reaching an agreement about the programs and schedules)2. Applications for the mobilities, collecting the letters of motivation, selecting the participants3. Preparation of the students (language, professionally, culturally, psychologically)4. Conducting the mobilities5. Evaluating the experiences6. Disseminating the experiences III. Final project evaluationIV. Making final reportOutcomes:Participants’ reports about their experiences. Photographs and videos made during the time of training/study visit. Minutes, work diaries, training aids and report made by the group of project participants. Development of the participants’ skills and abilities, strengthening of their professional motivation. Improvement of the quality of vocational training of the sending school, raising the quality level of the training. Increase in the number of students/teachers participating in vocational training/study visit abroad.Short-term effects: Gaining experiences during the mobility to fulfil the requirements described in the central program of the vocational training program, implementing professional training needs. As a proof of the successful completion of the training/study visit, participating student/teacher received a Europass Mobility Certificate.Long-term effects: We inform the public about the completed training through the channels of dissemination: the media and the press. As a result, the school can expect an increase in enrollment. The project helps increase the participant students’ chance of employment and give them an advantage in the job market through the experiences gained in an international work environment; through application of acquired modern knowledge, everyday and professional language skills and communication. Raising the quality level of the training with the help of the utilization of the project outcomes and documents.

The mobility project "AZUBI Plus" starts on 01.07.2013 and ends on 31.05.2016.The aim of the project is to offer its participants internships abroad in all EU program countries in order to improve their international, professional and foreign language competence and to expend their knowledge of the work processes of the target country. The project leader supports its participants through an intensive intercultural and language preparation and guidance throughout the whole internship duration. AZUBI Plus aims to provide internships and studies abroad for pupils in vocational training, graduates of vocational training (up to 12 months after training), teachers/ trainers of vocational institutions, school leaders and people in companies who are responsible for training.The learners should benefit by fostering the development of international vocational, intercultural and language skills, new cultures, experience on the international labor market during an internship lasting from 3 to 6 weeks.The teaching staff should benefit from 2 to 5 days job shadowing and study visit by exchanging working methods with their European colleagues within the education system as well as in the workplace. Furthermore, the target group should serve as promoter and disseminator on local as well as regional level by boosting mobility and free movement of the European Union.AZUBI Plus is open to all vocational areas and offers tailored internships abroad to suit the needs of every participant. All participants can chose the host organization (relevant to their profession), as well as the duration, the period of the internship, and the destination country (within the program countries) according to their individual professional needs. Every participant receives an Europass mobility after successfully finishing the internship as a tool for recognition of skills and competencies acquired abroad.Further information and application documents will be available on the website:http://www.bic-nordthueringen.de/projekte/azubiplus/