ACOREUROPA VI is a new edition of the Erasmus + programme promoted by the City Council of A Coruña that has coordinated a local Consortium integrated by the Provincial Council, 11 public and private VET centers and the two associations of young entrepreneurs in the city.This project had two strategic objectives: 1.Strengthen the international dimension of education and training in the VET cycles taught at the City Council, through mobilities of three months in different European countries.2.Complete and improve the level of skills and key competences of recent graduates in VET cycles in order to ensure a rapid transition from the field of education and training to the labor market.For this reason, this project has been aimed at young people over 18 years old, recently graduated from VET cycles of one of the centers of the Consortium, who lacked a transnational dimension in their work experience and needed a highly qualified professional competence, a good level in a foreign language for specific purposes in their profession, and an entrepreneurial mentality and culture to find or generate their own work.This project has tried to respond to the demand of highly qualified professionals in economic activities that have a place in A Coruña, offering 50 mobilities (46 were covered) for an internship of three months, in three outflows, in companies of five European countries (France, Ireland, Italy, Austria and Portugal) from the following professional sectors:- Cooking and gastronomy- Administrative management- Laboratory operations- Pharmacy and parapharmacy- Nursing Assistant- Care for people in situations of dependency- Electromechanical maintenance- Commercial activities- Digital prepress- Facilities and furnishing- Microcomputer systems and networks- Production of food productsThe graduates received, before their departure, a linguistic, pedagogical and cultural preparation with a total of three meetings (two group meetings and an individual one). In addition, the participants, whose destination was Portugal, received a face-to-face course in A Coruña, before departure. The rest of the participants took a language course in the language of the hosting country, through OLS.The 46 recent graduates, who participated in the programme, were supervised, from the beginning of their mobility, through tutors appointed for that purpose, both in their home towns and hosting countries. The follow up of the stays were carried out through email, phone calls and Skype.As regards as the learning outcomes, the selected VET technicians have acquired and consolidated new technical and scientific knowledge, new skills and attitudes that have allowed them to achieve a significant qualitative improvement of the key competences in their profession. In addition, young people have improved a series of key competences: maturity, social skills, communication, adaptability and flexibility for change, autonomy, confidence, security, initiative and innovation, among others.All the participants have received the recognition of the internship through the Europass Mobility Document, and a company’s certificate, issued by the host companies detailing the tasks developed by the participants, their training and duration.Regarding the long-term impact and benefits, this project means the consolidation of the Consortium institutional focus towards quality in the training of VET graduates of the city due to the professional competence acquired and the acquisition of level of a foreign language. It is also important because of the substantial increase of its employability when administering immediate information that relates the professional competences acquired with the needs of the companies, and for the update and innovation of the teaching of VET cycles in the city which enables to provide centers with a direct experience of the key competences demanded in Europe. For students, it means providing their professional competence with European added value, by incorporating the transnational component and the international recognition of their competences into their CVs by means of a European certificate such as the Europass.

"This Project is a follow up to the OSCUS DUAL project that was approved in the last Leonardo da Vinci call of proposal, whose aim is to help our students differentiating their curriculum which is essential when entering the labour market today. The main objective of this Project has been to facilitate that our students enter the labor market and to create a professional network at a European level to improve the quality of education and training amongst our students. 40 students of the following educational fields have been involved:- Administration, Hairdressing and hair cosmetics, Nursing Assistants, Personal image and aesthetics , Characterization, Pharmacy and Parapharmacy, Home Care Assistants.These students had previously completed a theoretical training period in our center and have completed now with this training period on other organizations from different countries of the EU, and more specifically in Italy, Portugal, France, Ireland and Malta. Mobilities have been divided into 3 flows: From March to June 2015, from September to December 2015 and from March to June 2016. The mobility period has lasted for 90 days, supplemented with a language course that was done before departure. These have been the activities completed by each flow: 1)First phase: Before departure: Opening and Information day, encouraging students to participate in the program, selecting candidates, looking for companies in destination countries according to candidates profiles, language course and cultural preparation, , defining training agreements, writing training agreements, cv, mobility logistics2)Second phase: Mobility: Information meeting, departure to destinations, students follow up, solving eventual problems and incidents. 3)Third phase: Evaluation and dissemination of project results: Meeting with participants once they come back to analyze results and impact, labour market insertion, evaluate program as a whole, writing a quality report and financial justification, closing day, and dissemination of resultsThe results of this program have been:For the students: gaining professional competences that are specific to their labour sector, completing a fist professional experience, acquiring a versatile professional profile with the capacity to adapt to the specific needs of each enterprise, developing language and cultural skills, knowing and using different applications and new technologies in the working environment, getting to know production and organization systems, increasing the quality of their education and training to be more competitive, obtaining the EUROPASS, differentiating their cv in order to have more chances when entering the labour market, obtaining the corresponding academic degree. For our training center: Enlarging our ""Working Network in Europe"". Developing this project has reinforced the relationship between our Centre with other training centers and international companies, which has enabled us to get new agreements that focus to the internationalization of our training center. The impact of our project among our students can be clearly appreciated in the interest they show for their own education, as the academic path is essential when applying for the grant. Besides , in the long term we expect to integrate these programs in our educational program, so that we can offer it to future generation of students, which will be a benefit for our students."

ACOREUROPA IV is the institutional project of the town council of A Coruña which coordinated a local integrated Consortium through the provincial council office, 12 Public Training Centres and the city’s two associations of young business owners.This project had two strategic objectives:1. To create training opportunities in European countries which take-up the offer of professional technical training, delivered in the town council.2. To complete and amplify with practical training of three months duration in a European business, the professional competence and the work experience which the recently qualified specialists in Professional Technical Training received in their originating centres, in order to provide them with the necessary skills which will make it possible for them to make the transition from the field of education and training to the job market. A Coruña is a city in the Northwest of Spain with 246,146 inhabitants. It has more than 11 million square metros of industrial space where you can find sectors such as textile, construction, food, transport, new technologies, the sale and repair of vehicles, the financial sector, legal, insurance and business and renting services, which are their most important economic activities. However, the city stands-out in the tourism sector as being the most visited of Galicia and one of the most visited in the north of Spain. The hotel industry, business, an excellent choice of hotels with high annual occupation, the traffic crossings in clear peak and the oil refineries, now with entrance and exit by the external gate, conclude an economic activity with enormous potential and which demands highly-qualified jobs.Consequently, this project sought to respond to the demand for highly-qualified professionals in these professional sectors and in other emerging sectors. As such, it was aimed at students with an average age of 18 years, recently qualified in Professional Technical Training, which lacked a transnational dimension in their work experience and they needed a highly qualified professional ability, a good level in a foreign language for special purposes in their profession and a mentality and entrepreneurial culture in order to find and produce their own work.Consequently the programme offered 50 mobility placements, to carry out three months duration practical work experience in three different flows, in businesses from five European countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Austria and Portugal. The recently qualified in Technical work participants received, before their departure, 100 hours linguistic training and cultural training in the language of the destination country. This preparation was completed along with 20 hours of specific socio-professional training which was adapted to the professional sector of the destination country.The reference of this institutional project is the strategic European framework “Education and Training 2020” and the results which they wished to achieve were the following: 1. To consolidate the institutional focus towards quality in the training of students in Professional Technical Training of the town based on the creation of opportunities for the acquisition of a high professional ability and a significant command of a second European language.2. To increase the employability of these students, as well as establishing stronger links between the world of work, complementing formal education with the not formal and the informal.3. To update and innovate the teaching of Professional Training in the town, to the power available to the centres to provide direct experience of the key competencies which they demand in Europe in the different professional areas.4. To incorporate in the CV the important number of students taking Professional Training, the transnational components and the international recognition of their professional ability, by way of European certificates (EUROPASS) as well as the command of a foreign language according to the Common European Framework of Qualifications.5. To consolidate the inter-sector cooperation as an effective work tool for establishing a stable and continued link between the world of education, training and the world of work and the consistent joint application of the different synergies.

The MOVINVET project targeted two main groups: training center's staff (short-time job shadowing in training centers) and young graduates that have obtained an accredited training certificate during the previous year to the departure (3 month internships). Hosting countries are Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Job shadowing activities for staff took place in the Netherlands and addressed themes such as the integration of migrants and other groups facing social exclusion through professional training.48 mobility actions were undertaken. Participants' mobility were in the summer of 2015, and spring and summer 2016. Several activity areas encompassed by the MOVINVET project: Administration and Finance, ICT, Trade, Industry, Health and Social Services. MOVINVET benefited 6 professional training centers located in Seville that are part of the consortium as well as the Teacher Training Center of Seville, a public entity responsible for continuous training activities for teacher in the province of Seville. The project is divided in several stages, namely:- selection,- preparation;- mobility period;- evaluation;- dissemination.The project's main goal is to improve the participant's employability skills through the development of a broad training itinerary that upgrades trainee's professional, language and personal skills. Furthermore, the project addressed the quality improvement of training supply, bridging the gap between participants and the corporate world, the European entity knowledge and the establishment of international working networks.The consortium created strengthens sustainability. Plus, including reference teacher training centers in this project ensures that its outcomes will impact on other training centers. This presents the need for strong communication activities and the transfer of acquired knowledge.MOVINVET project emphasizes on the quality of procedures and results. The project includes the use of several tools previously developed through research projects and that emphasize key competences such as interculturality or the use of languages through efficient resources. Furthermore, INCOMA has developed a platform aiming to manage participant's mobility, which will ease the processes of communication, follow-up and evaluation.

PROXIMA ESTACIÓN: EUROPA is a project promoted by the VET school IES ALMUDEYNE, located in the small rural town of Los Palacios y Villafranca (province of Seville, Spain). The project’s aims: • To strengthen and expand the internationalization of the centre. • To offer new activities to VET students with profound impact on their learning pathway and on the quality of their training. • To acquire skills for a successful implementation of the DUAL system in the centre. The main activities of the projects are: 1. Long-term mobilities (15 weeks) to Ireland, Italy or Poland for 10 students who have just completed the EFQ level 3 of Administrative Management and EFQ level 3 of Microcomputer Systems and Networks. They will do an internship in a foreign company to improve their employability on the Labour Market. 2. Short-term mobilities (2 weeks) to Italy for 5 students of EQF level 2 in Computing and Communications. They will a training experience in a different VET school in order to broaden their training and world view, thus fighting the abandonment early school. 3. Job-shadowing to Germany for 3 staff members (teachers and management team) with the aim of visiting a VET school where the DUAL training system is offered and thus be able to acquire and learn new instruments, methodologies and techniques for a successful implementation. The main results of the project are the increase of the technical, professional, linguistic, social and cultural competences of the participants and strengthening the relations between the VET school and the European business / organizational partners. In the long term, IES ALMUDEYNE expect to consolidate an stable mobility program, since the educational community will raise awareness of the importance and benefits of having a broad European dimension.