"Created on the initiative of the Regional council of Ile de France in 2010, the program "" Eurostart "" is based largely on the program Erasmus + in conformance with the mobility of the learners of the vocational training, on the National Employment Agency “Pôle Emploi” in conformance with the ARE and on a contribution of the Regional council. The aim of this program is to allow young people ending an apprenticed academic cycle, and before beginning a new academic cycle, to dedicate a school year to perfect, their skills at the linguistic and professional levels by doing an internship of 6 months in a job in a company in Europe, under the supervision of the vocational training centre. The program takes place in 3 steps : 2 months of preparation of the mobility at the vocational training centre, 6 months of internship in Europe and 2 months of conclusion to prepare the next year. A kind of Erasmus program for apprentices…The program "" Eurostart "" aims at several objectives : to improve the linguistic levels and to acquire new technical skills, appropriate to the concerned country. These new techniques can, for example, concern gastronomy, wines, techniques of cutting and cooking and the organization of the work.The hotel and catering industry are permanently looking for multilingual staffs. A lot of international tourists come to our country every year, and in spite of numerous efforts, French still lag behind in the linguistic domain. It weakens our international reputation and our mission which consists, among others, in training of future professionals also in this domain. Besides, during their stay, the young people also have to take complete advantage of this opportunity to deepen other professional techniques and improve their cultural levelIn these jobs as said previously, to speak several foreign languages is a considerable asset to begin their career and occupy functions in contact with the public or jobs of responsibility. Our problem is relatively simple : how to improve the linguistic and technical level of our young apprentices with the aim of allowing them to obtain a job for which the current practice of English in particular has become essential today. The language level reached at the end of the middle school or the high school is very often insufficient. And even with the courses distributed within the framework of the alternation, this level can only with difficulty be sufficient to satisfy the professionals who want to welcome their clientele at their best.""Eurostart on 2014-2016"" took place over a period of 2 years. 4 trainees for the first year and 8 for the second. 3 participants went to the Republic of Ireland, 2 to Denmark, and 6 to England, and prestigious establishments were partner of the project : let us quote for example the Dorchester hotel and the Savoy hotel in London, or even the Merrion Hotel in Dublin...The CFA Médéric wished to offer to the apprentices the opportunity to improve their current practice of the languages in ideal conditions and to acquire new professional skills. In the day when they enter the labor market, this experience will increase their employability in responsible jobs. Finally, we also want to multiply our partnerships abroad, to make them fruitful and set up partners' network which will, where necessary, help to participate actively in exchanges of pupils or teachers within the framework of other international programs or of Ile-de-France"

"Every year, the CFA Médéric provides catering and hospitality training for 650 young people. For the fourth year running and in narrow association with the Regional council of Paris, the French employment agency and the agency "" Europe Éducation Formation France "", the CFA Médéric has wished to participate in the program "" Eurostart "".This program, which is based mainly on the program "" Erasmus + "", allows young apprentices who have just obtained a professional diploma, to dedicate a school year to improve their foreign language skills and to acquire in Europe other professional skills before resuming higher or complementary courses in alternative training.So, 12 young apprentices from 18 to 25 years old who will obtain in June, 2015 their professional diploma, will be mainly selected on their motivation to live one year ""Eurostart"". They will start this exceptional experience in September, 2015 and will begin with a period of 2 months in the CFA Médéric to prepare their stay, find their employer in Europe and take some language courses. Then they will go for 6 months in the European country of their choice and will occupy a full-time job in the company, in the kitchen, in the restaurant or in pastry department. This internship is followed by two other months at the CFA to conclude and formalize this experience and to prepare the following school year at a higher level.Organized under the supervision of the CFA Médéric and under the training agreements, with a status of "" trainee of the vocational training "", this experience allows the young people to improve their level in a tremendous way, to acquire an incomparable work experience and to enrich their CV with a valuable experience, so developing their employability in responsible jobs in a profession eager for multilingual collaborators.The professionals of the catering and the hotel industries, who receive very often foreign customers, know that the welcome of their guests in their language is fundamental for their development of customer loyalty and to bring them the best service. For our trainees, the employment is so widely favored... And in the long term, these young people can obtain responsibilities more quickly, and may be travel professionally in international hotel groups. ""Eurostart"" so aims to be a ""booster"" in their career !"

"The Erasmus+ project TastER (Training agro-food students from Emilia-Romagna to Europe) stems from a deep knowledge of the Emilia-Romagna region and its needs, with an integrated approach aimed at promoting, enhancing and protecting biodiversity, food and wine excellence and regional agri-food businesses, with pragmatic references to operational tools which, through the European comparison, will allow participants to acquire professional skills that can be immediately used in the labour market.The project, carried out from November 2018 to February 2020, was promoted by a large National Consortium led by the ""Magnaghi-Solari"" school of Salsomaggiore Terme (PR) and composed of 18 other VET hospitality and agro-food schools and training centres of Emilia-Romagna: Bartolomeo Scappi, Arrigo Serpieri (BO), Lazzaro Spallanzani, Ignazio Calvi (MO), Motti, Convitto Corso, Zanelli, Mandela (RE), Galilei-Bocchialini, Zappa-Fermi (PR), O. Vergani - F.lli Navarra (FE), Pellegrino Artusi (RA), T. Guerra (RN), ENAIP Reggio Emilia, La Cremeria, ENAIP Parma, FormaFuturo, IAL Serramazzoni.TastER gave the opportunity to 195 young people (135 students and 60 newly graduated and newly qualified) to carry out a professional internship experience in the tourism, agricultural, hotel and catering sectors, in the following destinations: London (UK), Tralee (Ireland), Bordeaux (France), Lisbon and Braga (Portugal), La Coruña and Valencia (Spain), Leipzig (Germany), Prague (Czech Rep.), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Malta.The young participants (17-20 years), selected from the VET schools and training centres of the TastER Consortium, thus had the opportunity to improve their technical, linguistic and transversal skills, in a path of growth professional and staff full of challenges and satisfactions.Typical agro-food products and rural development represent a distinctive combination for the Emilia-Romagna Region, also a partner of the National Consortium, which, thanks to this project, has been able to enhance its great heritage of traditions and agro-food production excellence, focusing on the effective effects that TastER has been able to guarantee, in terms of protection and promotion of food and wine excellences, while promoting knowledge and affirmation of the typical specialties of the area, in order to increase their diffusion, appreciation and consumption.In this way, the project has contributed to meeting the competitiveness and internationalization needs of Emilia-Romagna companies in the sector, offering young participants useful tools to grow as individuals and enter the professional level, with better prospects and with a portfolio of experiences and clear, recognizable and legible validated competences in the contexts of education, training and work.TastER was in fact able to respond to the need to increase the quality of the individual members of the Consortium and mobility, facilitating the creation of an increasingly accessible European labour market and able to guarantee the recognition of the skills and qualifications owned."

"Every year, the CFA Médéric trains 650 young people for jobs in catering and Hotel industry. For the fifth consecutive year and in close collaboration with the Regional council of Paris, the national employment agency and the agency "" Erasmus "", the CFA Médéric wishes to participate to the program "" Eurostart "". This program, which is based mainly on the program "" Erasmus + "", allows young apprentices who have just obtained a diploma, to dedicate a school year to perfect their level in a European foreign language and to acquire in Europe another professional skills before beginning higher or complementary education in a vocational intitution.So, in june 2016, 12 young apprentices between 18 and 25 years old who will obtain their CAP, BAC Pro, BTS or Complementary certificate will be selected based on their motivation, to live one year of ""Eurostart"". They will begin this exceptional experience in September, 2016 and will begin with a period of 2 months at the CFA Médéric to prepare their stay, find their employer in Europe and take some language courses. Then they will go to the European country of their choice for 6 months where they will occupy a full-time job in the company, in the kitchen, in the restaurant or in the pastry department. This internship is followed by two more months at the school to conclude and formalize this experience and to prepare for the following school year in a higher education.Organized under the supervision of the CFA Médéric and under the agreements of internships with a status of ""trainee of the vocational training "", this experience allows the young people to develop their language level quickly, to acquire an incomparable work experience and to enrich their CV with a consequent paragraph, so developing their employability in responsible jobs in a profession eager for multilingual collaborators.The professionals of the catering and Hotel industry, who receive frequently foreign customers, know that the welcome of these people in their language is fundamental for the development of customer loyalty and to offer them the best service. For our trainees, the employment is so widely favored... And in the long term, these young people can obtain responsibilities more quickly, and can be to travel professionally in international hotel groups.""Eurostart"" is aiming to be a ""ladder"" in their career..."

"The Municipality of Correggio has made significant commitments with respect to European policies that can be implemented locally to promote a thorough European citizenship. The applicant is working at all levels of education, in cooperation with Europe Direct, and is partner of the Italian network for the transnational mobility of young people EURODESK.On the other hand it is the territory of the Parmesan cheese, traditional balsamic Vinegar of Reggio Emilia, Lambrusco Reggiano DOC and mortadella! It has the highest grape production in the province, it is the home of one of the most important schools of the territory in the food and agriculture sector, Convitto Corso.""EAT in Emilia 2"", as the first edition of the project ""EAT in Emilia"", born from these seeds, grows with the interests shared by the Provinces, the Enterpreneurial Organizations and the Emilia-Romagna Region, which has also set up its own collective mark QC (Controlled Quality), which identifies the products obtained by applying the techniques and methods of integrated production environment and health friendly.The partnership is completed by schools and vocational centers of the provinces of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Modena, business associations, promotion consortia, global enterprises and with a selection of the most appropriate receiving partners.When the project has been written, EXPO 2015 was just finished and there was the need to intercept the development opportunities related with the higher attention from the whole world towards our way of living and feeding in the respect of our territory.Therefore, the project EAT in Emilia 2 arises from the knowledge of the territory, its products and the concept of promotion, with a strong connotation in marketing, e-communication and e-commerce areas, with pragmatic references to operative tools, including ICT and social media, which allow, through the European benchmark, to develop the best possible performance to be spent on the labor market, raising the employability level of participants.The concept of “typical food product” has been defined and 'transferred' certainly not from a closing or defensive point of view, but as GLOCAL RESPONSE to the increasing search for quality. This in order to pursue competitiveness and sustainability, fostering the reconfiguration of production systems and giving more negotiation power to farmers and rural groups.EAT in Emilia 2 let us enrich our young learners with innovative skills, supporting both exploitation policies and SMEs willing to grow in value (and income), providing them with ideas and strategies to develop toward a real “glocalization”. It is no coincidence that the forms of marketing of the typical product proposed in the project, followed on one side the path of the short chain and on the other the openness to web 2.0 tools, e-business and social business.Every school/vocational center involved has been associated to training experiences characterized by the recognition of credit and able to provide learners with at least one specific skill/performance among those recognized in the Regional (or National) Qualification Framework, in order to produce new skills and improve local and European employability.We started from young people that, with ""EAT in Emilia 2"", have had EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH, through a linguistic-cultural preparation specific for the destination country and thanks to a 5-week/3-month work placement experience in European SMEs, respectively for 95 students and 32 newly graduates.Participants have been able to develop those life skills which are necessary to become a real citizen and to integrate quickly into the labor market.""EAT in Emilia 2"" has been a project in line with the objectives of the YOUTH WARRANTY, it responded to the competitiveness and internationalization needs of our enterprises and, at the same time, it offered to young people tools for growing as individuals and facing the labor market with better perspectives and with a portfolio of validated skills and experiences in a clear, recognizable and readable way.The destination countries were: Spain, Malta, UK, Portugal, France, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands."