This project aims to enhance employability of young graduated via a training period in Europe.This training period has been composed of 2 stages :A first period of preparation in France including workshops' preparation before the training stage in companies. These workshops has been leaded by Welcoma, the Mission Locale (youth job center) and the Department for young people of the city of Amiens. The participants has also been benefited from a linguistic preparation via the Linguistic Service of the European Commission.Then, the second part of the project has been the 6 week training period in Ireland, in Spain and in Malta providing an internship in an Irish or Spanish or Maltese company.The mobility's flows has been organized as follow : Eight participants has done a 6 week internship in Ireland, one in Spain and 3 other in Malta.This project aimed less young post graduated of less than one year, in priority aged from 18 to 25 years old.The groups has been composed of students with different backgrounds. Indeed, the programme will be open to levels of study from II to V (with a priority given to level IV and V ).This diversity has given an asset to the groups which brings young people together with same objectives :-To train themselves to a European level enabling them to acquire strong skills to get a motivating job.-To become independent and discover another reality : some of them live again with their parents, sometimes in difficult areas of the city that they barely leave.The steering committee has been composed of different professionals of mobility in France and abroad. They are specialised in enhancing the employability of young people and in animation. The partners working on this project want to open themselves to Europe being active in the European area of education and training.They rely on complementary roles of each partner in order to ensure a smooth run of the programme :Welcoma is a non profit association aiming to develop international exchanges of young people, promoting training activities, mobility, socio professional integration and taking part to European programmes. The association already participated in various mobility, especially through the Leonardo Mobility programme, as a promoter sending partner and intermediary partner.Welcoma developed a wide-ranging network of European partners, of tools and skills in management of European mobility projects.We relied on a large networks of partners in Europe to send the young participants. These intermediary partners are responsible for providing suitable internships to the trainees, and to ensure their follow-up.The project is leaded in cooperation with the Mission Locale (Job center for young people) and the Youth Department of the city of Amiens FRANCE.The intermediary partners have been an effective relay contributing to a smooth run of the participants' stay, ensuring their integration, a suitable internship, accommodation and follow-up in Ireland in Spain and in Malta. We had to add a new intermediary partner from Malta to the project. Ou Irish partner couldn't provide for 3 of our participants an internship linked to their sector of activity (ecology, tourism and multimedia sector). Since the Maltese partner could offer this opportunity we have decided to include them in the project which has had very positive impacts on the project, especially for the participants.Unfortunately we only sent one participant in Spain since we didn't receive much applications for this destination.The participants benefited from a strong support from different structures. The different partners gave to them a reinforced mentorship and an important logistical support. This way, they could focus on their professional, linguistic and cultural objectives.It appears that sometimes it could have been difficult for some participants to be followed by different structures, so we tried to explain as much as possible the role of each partner of the project.We can say that he results of the structure have been very positives. All the participants could improve their English level; especially oral, and could gain a significative professional experience in an English speaking country. The benefits, from a personal point of view, has also been very important. The large majority of the participanst has never been abroad before : this experience allowed them to gain a better self-confidence and opened new perspectives on a national and on an international level, something they weren't considering before.

The Professional School Almirante Reis (EPAR) is a cooperative, founded in 1992, whose MISSION is to “promote the cultural, social and professional integration of People, fostering Diversity and Multiculturalism as a value-added and a factor of relational reinforcement between people, organizations and their spaces in a sustainable way”.The EDUCATIONAL PROJECT is based on the following ideas:(*) the sustainability of the society requires trained people, active citizens and valorization of the interdependence; (*) the school is the protagonist in the building of the societies; and (*) the education is a project that involves commitments and the affirmation of core values.THE PROJECT “EPAR MOVE” aims to send 10 young ex-trainees and 10 graduates of the 3rd year to Spain, UK and Ireland for 11 weeks, where they will attend a 1 week language course, followed by a 10-weeks internshipWith the project they will work their personal, social, linguistic and professional skills, that will be certified with the Europass Mobility, Certificate of Language, Internship and ECVET.THE NEEDS to be addressed are connected with the trainees, characterized by the lack of study habits, absence of solid knowledge, prevalence of harmful behaviors that make difficult their integration and their personal and professional fulfillment, lack of expectations and low self esteem.Secondly, it is fundamental to the EPAR provide the best possible professional training, which is connected with the consolidation of pedagogies. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE “EPAR MOVE” IS FUNDAMENTAL FOR THE EDUCATIONAL PROJECT'S SUCCESS AND TO COMPENSATE THE NEEDS AND DEFICIENCIES OF THE TARGET AUDIENCES that derive from its geographical context, social-family structure, economic status and social marginalization. The idea of rewarding the best students at the level of pathways, performance, grades and school participation will allow to achieve the objectives established to meet the diagnosed needs, because they will impress new habits and perspectives in students about the value of training and the professional horizons they can aspire to.1 - Create opportunities for training and personal development to former graduates of the EPAR European level with a view to their employability and their affirmation and integration;That said, the general OBJECTIVES of the project are:1- Create opportunities for training and personal development to ex-trainees of EPAR at an European level, aiming their employability and their affirmation and integration;2- Strengthen the educational project of EPAR on creating networks and actions aiming the training of professionals and citizens with equal opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age, gender or geographical origin;3- Paving the way to establishing work networks at an European level for a greater dialogue and relationship between the world of Vocational Training and the Labor Market;The expected impacts are:- FOR PARTICIPANTS: consolidates professional Curriculums; greater employability; fluency in foreign languages; mastering ICT and software; learn new behaviors; autonomy and entrepreneurship; adherence to lifelong training strategies; feeling of belonging to Europe; creation of contact networks; adopting healthy habits and behaviors.- FOR EPAR AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY: flows of communication and international exchanges; sense of training mission; reduction of failure rates and dropouts; motivation and expectations of the trainees; dynamism in the extracurricular activities; new methods of work; disruption and weakening of cycles and routes of social exclusion; participation in the policies and best practices at the European level, rooting of ICT as a working tool.- FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERS: techniques and working methods; partners network; good practice in the management of internships, mobility and relationship with the labor market; new projects; participation in the construction of Europe; knowledge/access to new markets/cultures; contact with other ways of thinking and doing.This project contributes to the EU politics in relation to: young graduates, ECVET and Europass; mobility; togetherness and cohesion across borders, identity and European values; youth unemployment.The divulgation will undergo through a space in the project's website boosted with testimonials, videos, articles and photos, also disseminated via Facebook, twitter, linked-in, video channel EPAR, newsletter and mailings. The targeted audiences are the school community, potential trainees, families and communities, national and international partnerships network, which includes businesses, other schools, public institutes and local authorities. The goal is to raise awareness for the school project EPAR, for the programmes, policies and opportunities that the European Union offers and how the mobility, interexchange and partnerships are ways to ensure the progress of societies and economies.

In 2014 the first project was presented in the scope of the XPTO + Consortium and the success that demosntrated its implementation was born the desire to give it continuity, presenting a new project in 2015. The entities that participated as sending entities in this new project were: Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André, a Escola Profissional de Fafe, a Escola Profissional de Rio Maior e a Academia Total-IEDP. EUROYOUTH acted as a mediator between schools, providing the human resources and expertise needed to coordinate an ERASMUS + project.The project was defined around 4 objectives:- FAVOR EMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED AND QUALIFIED CAREERS OF NEWLY-DIPLOMATED PERSONS IN THE SEARCH OF THE FIRST EMPLOYMENT- GUARANTEE THE QUALITY AND UPDATE OF THE TRAINING OFFER AND VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION- PROMOTING ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONALIZATION- CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF PORTUGAL AND EUROPEThe participants of this project were 60 graduates of the sending schools: Grouping of Schools of Santo André, IEDP - Total Academy, Professional School of Fafe and Professional School of Rio Maior, of the following training courses, level 4:Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André - Management Informatics, Graphic Design; Receiving; Child Support- Academia Total-IEDP - Tourism; Electro-technology; Child Support- Escola Profissional de Fafe - Multimedia; Electronics, Automation and Computers;- Escola Profissional de Rio Maior - Renewable Energies; Health Assistant; Environmental and rural tourism; Electronics, Automation & Computers & Transportation & LogisticsThe students were between the ages of 18 and 24 and were mostly males (33), compared to 27 females. The students came from the municipalities or from the bordering municipalities of the sending schools, being, in the majority, students with a medium-low socioeconomic strata.Through this project, students performed their first professional internship with a duration of 68 days, with the students of the group 1 countries having access to the OLS courses and the participants who went to the countries of group 2, allowed the accomplishment of a Language course at the destination.The host countries were: the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Malta, Germany, Austria, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.The impacts achieved were:The impacts achieved with this project were as follows:Participants- Strengthening of language, personal and professional skills- Knowledge / approach to the European labour market-Opportunity to know new cultures and acquire a greater cultural awareness- Higher entrepreneurial skills and competences- Approaching Europe by strengthening the sense of European citizenship, participation and identity and the interest in what happens in the different countries of Europe and the worldEducational and school communities- Greater proximity to the international market- Increased motivation and dynamism of work teams that acquired competences in the scope of the capacity of teamwork, ICT domain, structuring and planning of work- Coordination between institutions or organizations offering learning opportunities- Greater appreciation of the benefits inherent to professional, personal and linguistic experiences in an international context;- Knowledge of the opportunities and advantages of mobility in Europe;- Improvement in the quality of activities to be carried out and projects to combat school drop-out- New and different ideas to complement the training of graduates with European-level programs of excellenceConsortium partners- Reinforcement of skills at international level through networking and constant cooperation- Reinforcement of knowledge at the level of international projects, for example with the introduction of the ECVET recognition system in the XPTO + IV project, approved in 2017- Increased networking between vocational training schoolsInternational partners:- Increasing the network and networking at international level- Higher working capacity- Updating of working methods and techniques

Nowadays there is a certain awareness about the length of certain processes of development of digital innovation. Some companies are finding it difficult to bring forward certain modern and digital projects due to: - Lack of digital culture inside the company.- Lack of professionally trained workers who may take care of digital strategies and procedures. The Province of Pesaro and Urbino, promoter organisation of the INDIGGY project is trying to face and to find a solution to what we shall call ?digital divide? and to do so, the Province has decided to implement and support this Erasmus+ project. The aims of the project are mainly: 1) Alignment of strategies for local development of the economy, but also at regional and National levels;2) Grow chances of professional training of VET Learners in another European country in order to acquire those skills necessary for a better participation in a real work environment;3) Promote linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness within the EU;4) Promote partnerships between the school and the labour market. The INDIGGY project will involve 48 students who are following the last years of the courses organised by all VET providers of the net: 1. Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale ?E. Mattei? di Urbino ? Course for Information Technology;2. Liceo Scientifico ?G. Marconi? di Pesaro- Course for Applied Sciences for Technological Empowerment; 3. Istituto Tecnico Industriale "Don Luigi Orione" di Fano (PU) ? Course for Information Technology;4. Provincia di Pesaro r Urbino-Centro per l?Impiego, l?Orientamento e la Formazione di Pesaro - IeFP 3 year Course: Electronic Operator (Digital and Domotics).Considering the type of VET Learners, the project also has the following aims and objectives: ? Improve the level of secondary school training; ? Reduce the number of school leavers.United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Czech Republic are the destination countries. The project will last one year and participants will leave in groups of 8 beneficiaries each with an accompanying person for each group. There are the main activities of the project: 1. Preparation of participants: About the project management, about spreading the news of the project, linguistic, cultural and tecnica preparation. 2. Activities relating to professional development: Training on the job and work-based learning activities per 30 days in the receiving companies of the project and in the different project destinations. 3. Follow-up:Impact This is the expected impact for the beneficiaries of the project: Acquisition of new knowledge and skills that may enhance employability processes. For the partners of the net, the project will strengthen the existing net and partnership and will help cooperation in the IFP sector. Description of results: Project activities shall bring to the following results: - Basic and Transversal Competences;- Technical and Professional Competences. These competences will be mainly: 1. Interact with a work group adopting common means of communication in order to reach the same objective: Competence relating to relationship with colleague and working environment.2. Behave in a way that will ensure an efficient fulfilment of all activities: Competence relating to the management area. 3. Develop new solution for multimedia communication: Competence relating to the Technical and Professional area. 4. Strategically plan each aspect of marketing and of digital communication (Digital Strategy): Competence relating to the Technical and Professional area.Receiving organisations will support the National partners in recognizing the credits and competences acquired during the period of professional traineeship. All participants will be given a Europass Mobility Certificate which will contain details of the competences acquired and the aims and objectives of the project itself. Other project phases will take care of disseminating the results and of evaluating them.

The goal of the project was to improve employability of graduating students in the social sector. Often they face difficulties in obtaining decent work in line with their qualifications and they aredisadvantaged on the labour market due to their lack of professional experience, practical working habits and usually their language skills are not very high. The project proposal was compliant with theNational employability plan, which envisages support for better employment opportunities of young persons and reducing unemployment rates.Within the project realization there were two groups of participant in each destination (Spain/UK).¨The quality of services within the social sphere in Czech Republic is gradually rising and the whole territory of NGO´s is showing from the long-term perspective a certain progress. However, one ofthe sore spot is still a very weak link between this area and the state authorities on one hand and the commercial sphere on the other hand.Cooperation between these worlds is painfully insufficient in the Czech Republic. In Spain, and even more distinctly in the UK these different sectors are much more connected and the NGO spheredraws clear benefits from this symbiosis.One of the main purposes of the project was therefore experiencing this aspect and at lest partial transfer of this know-how form the destination countries to our national context.The project attended to the following educational and professional needs of the participants: improving language skills in the natural speaking environment, acquiring further knowledge inprofessional context - gaining practical work experience in a social oriented institution ot NGO, acquiring new competences and improving their language skills.The final beneficeries of the project were selected in close cooperation between Vyšší Odborná Škola Sociální a Pedagogická (Upper-secondary school of social area) and VUSTE ENVIS. Theparticipants were recruited from the last-year and last but one year classes of the school.The destinations chosen for the project were Spain and Great Britain, in both cases EU member states with dynamic economy, where the placement possibilities in the social sector could fully meet theparticipants needs. The selected intermediary organizations ONECO (Spain, Sevilla) a TELLUS (Great Britain – Plymouth) have developed a large network of cooperating institutions (placementcompanies) in both commercial and NGO sphere and they can guarantee high quality internship tailored to the participants´ requirements and preferences.The added value of the project resided in the evaluation tools. As an integral part of the validation of the work placement we will use ECVET - the European system of credit asignment andrecognition.In total 21 students participated in the project. All of them were first and second year students of the partner school VOŠ Sociální a Pedagogická. There were 2 different terms for each destination:1)22.2.-22.3.2015. 9 participants - 3 for Spain (Sevilla) 6 for England (Plymouth). 2)22.3.-19.4.2015. The same destination as with the first term. 8 participants for Spain and 4 for England - 12 in total in theis term.All the work placements were realised in social and pedagogical sector. The internships were carried out in 3 types of institutions:1)Kindergartens: 17 placements (10 x Spain, 7x England)2)Nursing homes for the elderly: 3 placements (3x England)3)Center for handiccaped children: 1 placement (1x Spain)In the larger context we consider that the realization of the proposed project resulted in a valid contribution to the vocational training in the Czech Republic and to the European dimension of theEuropean citizenship.