"The project ""Training in Europe to increase life skills and Employability of VET learNers"" (VET-TEEN) was carried out by an interprovincial consortium of public VET formed by: IISS Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (Montefiascone), IIS Stendhal (Civitavecchia) and ISIS Francesco Orioli (Viterbo), in collaboration with partners from five European countries (UK, Malta, Spain, France and Ireland). The project was born on the basis of a wide area reasoning that the Institutes, supported by the stakeholders of the various territories involved, built with the main purpose of creating a permanent placement service within the institutes, which accompany the students in the entrance to labour market through an international internship and a timely certification of the skills acquired. The context in which the project proposal is born is composed of territories linked by a territorial continuity, a common history that refers to the ancient Etruria, as well as a purely tourist vocation. VET-TEEN had and reached the following objectives: 1) increase the human capital of the students and create more opportunities for job placement, allowing continuous learning from experience 2) create a real placement service with the intention of reducing the time of entry into the labour market and increase the chances of finding employment in line with the studies carried out, impacting on the containment of job mismatch phenomena 3) disseminating the use of Europass devices and the use of EQARF indicators, to promote the development of mobility in the EU and guaranteeing the readability and visibility of the qualifications and skills acquired, increasing their quality and transparency. The target group of beneficiaries was represented by the students of class III and IV of the three institutes, with the following professional specializations: Touristic Technician CAT - Construction Environment and TerritoryMaintenance and Technical AssistanceServices Commercial / Admins Finance and Marketing Socio-Sanitary Services Textiles sartorial-fashionall sharing a personal background similar for age and degree of maturity achieved and a background of professional training, while respecting the specificities of the individual areas of specialization. VET-TEEN has been structured in 3 macro-phases: 1. Preparation, which consisted of selecting the participants and carrying out the preparatory meetings. The preparation of the participants was structured in 4 meetings during the month before each departure flow. The preparation meetings dealt with topics related to risk prevention, intercultural knowledge and linguistic deepening, logistical details, etc. During the meetings, a vademecum was given to the students and they were given instructions to carry on a successful mobility, as well as as indications regarding the use of the OSL2. Implementation, which consisted of the implementation of 208 internships (out of the 215 initially planned) lasting 30 days with foreign partners, structured in 6 flows (15 / 01-16 / 02 2017 // 12 / 03-13 / 04 2017 / / 21 / 05-22 / 06 2017 // 05 / 11-06 / 12 2017 // 14 / 01-14 / 02 2018 and 25 / 02-28 / 03 2018), one more than planned in order to take advantage of the greatest number of mobility possible. 3. Evaluation / Dissemination / Follow up, from April to May 2018 as it concerns the evaluation of the project as a whole, whilst the evaluation of each single mobility flow was done during the month following the return of the students.VET-TEEN has achieved all the ambitious expected learning outcomes, both in terms of the formal sphere (linguistic skills and specific skills of the sector of professional integration) and, above all, in the field of life skills (eg learning how to be in an organizational context, which formal and informal ""codes"" must be respected, how one relates to colleagues and superiors, greater awareness of one's own attitudes and limits, acquired a autonomy in learning by doing, relational competence and self-marketing etc.). The VET-TEEN project has achieved significant impact on participating students, sending organizations and school communities, host companies and indirect target groups (families, stakeholders). The project represented a fundamental added value for the creation of a new generation of European citizens, professionals and future entrepreneurs, which implies, in the not too distant future, a greater capacity for the whole of Europe to emerge from the crisis, creating work and stimulating innovation and competitiveness."

Considering the labour market’s functional changes and its modernization, as well as the very high youth unemployment rate (more tan 50%) and the dropout rate among VET students without any professional qualification, educational systems are clearly facing the challenge of improving student’s professional improvement, incrementing their participation as active citizens in the society, and their employability inside and outside the European labour market. The project aims have been to provide VET students with the chance to deepen and improve the quality of their training, by carrying out internships in European companies, and getting in contact with European labour market. The close cooperation among the VET Schools that are members of the consortium, set the basis for the development of this project. The consortium is composed by 9 VET schools of the Valencian Region, coordinated by the IES Ramón Esteve. The consortium VET schools needs have been to establish European quality networks with companies and other educational centres throughout Europe, in order to stay update on innovations, to share good practices and to get informed on European policies, improving the quality of the provided teaching and trainings, thus fighting youth unemployment. The project has been addressed to former students and students who are attending the 2nd course of school-based intermediate VET programme in Computer Science and Communication, and Administration, or to former students just graduated, i.e. technicians in the above mentioned professional sectors. The project foresees the participation of 72 VET students, 25 of them have had the internship during one month in UK, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Latvia and 37 in Italy. 58 of them have studied IT and communications and 14 of them administration. It is worth mentioning that relations with the European partners fostered reciprocity, as all the participating transnational centres have also submitted a mobility project in which Spanish consortium has received their students. The reciprocity has enhanced the promotion of the European active citizenship. The project will be developed form the 1st of July 2017 to the 30th of June 2018. The internships has been carried out in november-december, march-april, and may-june The following activities has been structured in 5 phases: E1- Activities for communicating and spreading information to promote the students’ participation, planning tasks (including participants’ selection), establishing Learning Agreements, reviewing of ECVET documents, logistics and organization (insurance, lights and accommodation), determining contract-related issues, selecting hosting companies, tutors and accompanying teachers, setting up a common dissemination plan. E2-Preparation of the mobilities. Information Meeting, signing contracts, linguistic, cultural and professional preparation, OLS registration for students. E3- Implementation of mobilities. Follow-up, evaluation and certification of participants. Competences have been determined in the Learning Agreement, they have been evaluated using the ECVET instruments and certified using Europass. E4- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the overall project’s results. E5- Dissemination. The dissemination activities have been during all the project. In addition to the impact on the participants, the project has also benefit all the partners, by fostering European cooperation and the relationships between companies and educational centres. Both dissemination activities and the mobility experience itself has produced an impact at local, regional and national level. Other local, regional and national entities have been able to to benefit from the project’s results (even though they are not partners of the project): - Creation of a quality network that include educational centres and companies - Decrease in youth unemployment rate - Improvement of youth qualifications - Increase in VET enrolment - Creation of new collaborative networks at regional level - Widening the possibility of internationalization for other centres, and their chance to be part to other European projects - Better knowledge of the Erasmus+ programme and EU values (tolerance, equity, equality and inclusion). - Fostering the sense of European active citizenship and respect of other cultures - Possibility to create new companies and new business models - Promotion of social inclusion The project has been in accordance with the Strategy 2020, the New Skills Agenda for Europe 2016 and the Erasmus+ objectives, improving the professional development of the students, their participation as active citizens in society and and their employability inside and outside the European Labour market

The project has responded to the need that VET schools have to provide their students with the chance to increase and improve the quality of vocational training, by taking internships in European companies, and getting in contact with the single European labour market. The success of the collaboration in the previous consortium integrated by 10 Public VET schools of the Valencian Region that was promoted by the IES Ramón Esteve, the high rate of insertion of the participant students to the labor market (90%), the great interest and the satisfaction of the students and the coordinators who participated in the previous project, as well as the close and fluid collaboration of the VET schools involved in the consortium, have fostered the present project that it has satisfied the demands of the VET schools, it has make possible the collaboration with enterprises at national and European level. The project has been integrated by 10 VET schools in Valencian Region has been adressed to 74 VET students and former students who are doing the 2nd year of the cycles of intermediate level in informatics and communications, agrarian and administration, phisical activivities in the rural area; or graduates in the last year: medium-level technicians from these specialties. 10 monthly flows (4 to Italy, 2 to Brussels, 1 to Latvia and 3 to UK) and 2 Erasmus Pro flows of three months (1 to Italy and 1 to UK). IES Ramón esteve has selected 8 students, IES Bernat Guinovart 5, CIPFP Xeste 23, CIPFP Mislata 3, IES Camp de Morverdre 3, IES Sant Vicent Ferrer 10, IES Serpis 3, IES Marcos Zaragoza 2, IES el quint and IES Serra Perenxisa 8, 8 of them Erasmus Pro.Of these 21 students have completed internships in Uk, 32 in Italy in different destinations, 4 in Latvia and 9 in Belgium. In addition, 2 pre-planning visits have been made - Erasmus Pro, one to Italy and one to the UKThe main OBJECTIVE of the project has been:To allow VET students to develop, through internships in European companies, the skills and abilities to complete, in a practical way, the skills acquired in VET to be incorporated efficiently into the European labor market, either on account own or for others. To do this, VET students have developed specific tecnical skills on the specialty that they have studied and transversal skills like social and intercultural that are necessary to face new challenges and become active citizens with values for the future. The main ACTIVITIES have been: - PREPARATION: selection of the participants, initial evaluation of their competences, pre-departure training of participants, logistics and agreements’ tasks definition, coordination, etc. - IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOBILITY. Implementation the internship programs in the companies. - EVALUATION AND CERTIFICATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS. The competences have been acquired during the stay abroad. They have been certified using Europass and they have been evaluated according to the ECVET. - MONITORING. The development of the internships has been monitored by all the tools and processes, previously agreed by the project. - EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT. The project has been evaluated using quantitative and qualitative tools - DISSEMINATION. The dissemination activities have been carried out during all the project . A final conference for the dissemination of the project’s results has been organized, Students have participated in conferences and training courses organized by CEFIRE and regional Ministery of education and in debates of regional and local radio and TV and radio even in the teachers meeting and in the pedagogical meetings of the schools consortiumBesides the impact on the participants, the project has benefit all partners, fostering the European cooperation and relationships between companies and VET schools. The DISSEMINATION activities and the mobility itself have generated an IMPACT at local, regional and national level. The IMPACT of the project has been:- The project has improved the opportunities for VET students to be actively incorporate national or European labor market, either on their own account or as an employee, in a more effective way- The collaboration among the participating organizations have allowed promoting European cooperation and internationalization and it has make it possible to bring companies closer to VET schools and it has improved too the collaboration with other VET schools, public authorities, etc. It has given to the participating institutions a vision about most demanded professional profiles and the skills that students must learn The project has been directly linked to the 2020 strategy, the skills agenda and the European priorities to help the EU and its Member States generate a higher level of employment, productivity ,social cohesion and development.