"The mobility of young people to vocational training and personal and social development has been a strong focus of the actors of Torres Vedras.The Town Hall, the Escola de Serviços e Comércio do Oeste, the Escola Profissional Agrícola Fernando Barros Leal, the Externato Penafirme and Seminfor have promoted and participated in Leonardo da Vinci and Comenius projects. Over the years, they maintained a dialogue that allowed joints to forward candidates, disseminate projects and share information and reflections.Considering this background, the Erasmus + was the push that was needed to formalize this network, increase the collective capacity to participate and enhance the impact and integration of mobility in the territory.Despite the continuity, there are changes, hence the Mills image choice, which all have history, roots and past of Torres Vedras, but also the future development and sustainability.The MISSION is ""Training for Innovation"".The Objectives set for the project were:1 | TRAINING AND EMPLOYABILITY - To improve young people's access to the labor market through vocational training and specialized in EU2 | EUROPE ALL / A - Create professional exchanges and flows, cultural, social and citizens to encourage membership and integration of the participants and the region in Europe3 | TRAINING NETWORKS - Consolidating existing sectoral network through enablers projects and bridges creators4 | HUMAN POTENTIAL - contribute to the sustainable and integrated development of the region, enabling HR, bringing new tools, methodologies and best practicesThe project involved 30 students, 21 graduates and 9 level 4 finalists, from 18 to 30, mainly from the West zone and generally medium-low socioeconomic level. Mobilities lasted 14 weeks and sectors found themselves divided according to their representation in destinations and network quality assurance partners.Professional design sectors were: Management, Marketing, Agricultural Production (crop production, animal production), Forestry and Environmental Resources, Restoration (Kitchen / Confectionery; Restaurant / Bar), Tourism, Tourism Aambiental and Rural and Renewable Energy (Solar Systems) .THEMES AND NEEDS that was intended to respond to this project were:# Improve personal and professional skills of participants# Employability as a priority of post-diploma of the House-Schools network support# Mobility as a strategy for improving vocational training and the recovery# The need to promote mobility and cosmopolitanism among young people# Facilitate the initiative and business innovation# Encourage a greater, exchange and intercultural dialogue at European levelThe implemented ACTIVITY divided by: project management, trust management, dissemination, selection, preparation, mobility, project evaluation and mobility, continuous dissemination and product and final event.With these, the following impacts are assured:** PARTICIPANTS: Strengthening of personal and intercultural skills and technical and professional skills; Increase the employability of young people trained in vedras towers; Increase the number of young ""absorbed"" by the companies in the region; More young people to sustainable life plans; Increased participation in cultural life, healthier lifestyle.** CONSORTIUM: Creation and consolidation of new methods and ways of working together; Improve the training offer of the schools; Multiplication of intervention capacity; Consolidation of European networks; Increased future capacity of sustainability and follow-up; Training for international work** INTEREMDIARY PARTNERS: Training for international work; Extending its network of contacts and work; Knowledge of new educational strategies and territorial intervention** RECEPTION PARTNERS: Contact with new ways of doing, seeing and thinking about reality and to approach the work; Enlargement of the network of contacts; New potential partnerships and / or access to new markets** School Community: Awareness of the importance of solid training paths in creating opportunities; Student motivation to study; Opening horizons and expectations of life and work; Creating spaces for reflection and debate on Europe; Team Update on methods and forms of educational work and industry** General Population: Increase of contacts and international partnerships; Increased interest in mobility and LLLParticipants were the starting point and the central axis of this project, and only then may be because they are the people who make countries and regions, are the people that make competitive economies and are the people, especially and young people, of whom fall the consequences of our present choices and all our hopes of a more prosperous, cohesive and sustainable future"

"The project “JAÉN+: Formación Profesional con Plus en Europa” is an initiative of the Provincial Council of Jaén, which acts as promoter and principal beneficiary, together with 10 educational institutions in the province (from 7 to 10 after an expansion of partners of the consortium in the 1st amendment). Furthermore, the Provincial Council collaborates with the Delegación Provincial de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía (Education Regional Ministry) to make “Jaén+”, with a mid term view and after consecutive future projects, a provincial project for the improvement of personal, professional and linguistic skills of the students of middle-level training program and those with training leading to obtaining certificates of professional qualification of level 2. The main objective is the increase of their employability in the provincial labour market. Thanks to this international mobility, students will be able to carry out professional internships in companies of Europe, both in training in work centres (FCT) and extracurricular internships. For that reason, the mobility of graduates is prioritised.After an analysis of the labour demand of the provincial companies and those professions with greater perspectives (where there is a need for the development of linguistic and personal competences –autonomy, conflict resolution, maturity…-) together with an analysis of the educative offer in professional training centres, the professional groups which will be the core of the project were identified: Plastic sector; Administrative management; Administration and finance; Trade and marketing; Electricity and electronics; Computing; Communications; Nurse assistant; Kitchen and catering.The project was approved with a total of 70 mobilities of 9 weeks to the following destinations: Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and the United Kingdom. Both the number of requests (36) and the effective mobilities (19) were lower; principally due to fears and lack of referents in the rural context of the potential participants and their families (17 of the 36 requests were abandoned or renounced before the mobility). These results should be contextualized as a first step in the mid-term improvement towards the change of awareness about the opportunities of the professional training internationalization, taking into account that in a province where there is a majority of rural municipalities, they are traditionally isolated and lack of habits and awareness about these kinds of competitive opportunities.Precisely for this reason, high quality mobilities have been made for the satisfaction of these first participants, as they are the fundamental base for the growth of participants in future projects. After a common selection process in all the centres through public call for selection of participants and grants; that was previously agreed in the Mobility Committee created by the Provincial Council and all partner centres for this purpose, and according to the project presented, different training and complementary activities have been developed: -Informative seminar for applicants, previous to the mobility, with the collaboration of Provincial Counsellor EURES, that will inform both about the project and the professional mobility opportunities in Europe;-Previous intensive training both on-site and online for the beneficiaries, financed by the Provincial Council’s own funds: linguistics (English); intercultural; and information about Erasmus+ and practical issues about each destination;-Concluding round after the mobility, about job orientation and entrepreneurship, with technical staff from the Área de Emeplo de Diputación y Provincial Counsellor EURES, in which students have received provincial resources in order to make an active search of employment, together with information about the support lines of the Provincial Council of Jaén, both for the entrepreneurial and companies for the recruitment of qualified staff (see in Área de Empleo, Diputación de Jaén https://www.dipujaen.es/conoce-diputacion/areas-organismos-empresas/areaJ ). In its idea of continuity, the Provincial Council has opted for this program by making available a series of human resources to the project (previous hiring of a technician), own materials and economic, that have complemented the funding received from ERASMUS+. This continuity has been achieved with a second ERASMUS+ project, approved in the 2017 call: “JAÉN+II: FP con Plus en Europa"" (2017 – 1 – KA102 - 036871), in which it can be appreciated both the high level of satisfaction achieved by the participants and the results of the dissemination in the incorporation of 28 centres to the new consortium.More information about “JAÉN+” in: https://www.dipujaen.es/conoce-diputacion/areas-organismos-empresas/areaJ/proyectos-europeos/jaen-plus/ , with links to news, partners websites, call for papers, files and videos about the project and participant’s experiences."

"The XPTO + project was promoted by the ""Consortium XPTO +"", which was coordinated EUROYOUTH and composed by the sending schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André (AESA), Escola Profissional de Fafe (EP Fafe) and Instituto da Soldadura e Qualidade (ISQ).XPTO + The result of a convergence of ideas and wills between all partners, for, in consortium, send graduates of vocational training of national partners, individually, could not participate in the new program for lack of logistical support, existing lack of human and financial resources and the necessary know-how in international mobility management. The Consortium was based on the methodology enrolled in Manual TTactic @ School, to ensure quality in the process and in order to enable national and European partners in the implementation of international mobility programs.Participants were students and alumni of AESA, the EPFafe and ISQ, from 18 to 27 years, the following areas of training, distributed by three sending schools: Management Computer Technician (14). Technical Graphic Design (8), Technical Sales (8), Multimedia Technician (8), Electronics Technician, Automation and Control (5) and Gas Technical (2).Mobilities had durations between 90 to 99 days with 1 week language course, in the destination country. Host countries were: Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, the UK and Austria. The project had the support of intermediary partners to logistical issues and organization of the mobility program.The project was structured in 8 Workpackages: Project Management; Coordination of the Consortium; Project dissemination; Selection of Participants; Preparation of Participants; Mobility of participants, Evaluation and Certification and Earnings Release.The project presented as OBJECTIVES:NEWLY GRADUATES- Contribute to the professional training, personal and social development of the newly formed- To support the integration of graduates in the working world- Improving social and language skills- Contribute to the development of self-esteem and self-efficacy- Increase the participation of Portuguese youth in European programs- To foster a sense of entrepreneurship and innovation- Consolidate mobility and experience of mobility experiences as an essential element in personal and professional trainingPARTNERS- Increase the mobility supply network to younger- Engage and empower organizations involved in mobility management- Create a group of reflection and work on the issues of education, training and youth within a framework of European mobility and internationalREGIONAL / NATIONAL- Start a real dialogue between the society and the labor market- To contribute to a knowledge society and socially cohesive- Develop a network of teaching-employers-community partnerships - key institutions for the integration of young people in the labor market- Combating the isolation of the inner regions- To contribute to greater equality of opportunity in the award of grants at national level- Raise awareness of businesses, schools and public institutions to the importance of supporting young people in entering the labor market- Strengthening European network of partners and respective exchange of good practice- Contribute to building and EU awarenessThe results achieved were:NEWLY GRADUATES- Increased levels of maturity, autonomy, social participation, well-being and employability in 45 young people participating in mobility actions- Theoretical training of graduates complemented with practical experience in EU companies- Better employment opportunities for graduates, decreasing unemployment rates and facilitating mobility between vocational training and the labor market- Increase in skilled young people numbers in training mobility, duly accredited and certified to national and European level- Language skills, improved personal and social-Young with skills and higher entrepreneurial skills through professional development, personal and social participants as European citizens through the promotion of interculturalPARTNERS- Development of good practice in the management of partnerships / consortia to two scales: national and international- Consolidation of a working network that integrates different types of organizations and skills in action in Education, Training and Youth at national and international level.GENERAL SOCIETY- Sensitization of actors of civil society and socio-economic fabric of the importance and added value of the results of mobility competitiveness and social integrationAll participants received the Europass Mobility certificate, language course certificate, internship certificate and the Consortium certificate."

The Project EUROVOUZELA will be promoted by Escola Profissionalde Vouzela, during the year 2015. It will be a milestone for the development of the educational offer of the School, given students one more opportunity to acquire professional knowledge, contributing to a better transition between school and the labour market. On the other hand, they will get to know new cultures, lead EP Vouzela across borders and establish international partnerships that will be fruitful not only for their personal and social development, as well as for the development of the school itself. The project also foresees the mobility of teachers from technical areas: Pedagogical Department and Course Coordinators, with the aim to contact with new methodologies e exchange ideas and good practices with their pears in France and the United Kingdom, contributing to a better educative offer in the school.The project will represent a strong contribution to the students’ motivation and the school community, but also to secure the population, renew and create new local projects and overcome the current crisis.The participants will be 20 trainees of level 4 from EP Vouzela (2nd and 3rd years), from the following professional training courses: Industrial Electromechanical Maintenance Technician; Industrial Mechatronics Maintenance Technician; Mechatronics Technician; Kitchen-Bakery Restoration Technician; Restaurant-Bar Restoration Technician and Secretarial Technician.Through this programme, whose mobility period will have the duration of 7 weeks for the2nd year trainees and 10 weeks for the 3rd year trainees, the participants will develop their curricular internships.The job shadowing programme will happen in VET schools in France and United Kingdom, lasting 1 week,The countries of destination are: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and France. The project will involve intermediary partners at the destination countries to support the implementation of the project.In terms of certification, the participants will receive a Certificate of the Promoter, Language Course Certificate, Internship Certificate and the ECVET Recognition, which will be for the first time implemented by the School.The identified NEEDS in the students were:• Persisting high numbers of ABANDONMENT/ DROPOUT AND SCHOOL INSUCCESS • POOR KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES, even of English language • LITTLE EXPERIENCE OF THE STUDENTS IN PRACTICAL WORK CONTEXT• LITTLE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS • POOR OR VERY LITTLE CIVIC PARTICIPATION • DESENSITIZATION / LOW AWARENESS OF THE EUROPEAN REALITY• INTERIORIZATION AND DESERTIFICATION• LACK OF GOALS IN LIFEThe proposed Objectives are:1-PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE ACTIVE LIFE – LIFE TRANSTION FROM THE ACADEMIC LIFE TO THE LABOUR MARKET2-IMPROVING EP VOUZELA’S EDUCATIONAL OFFER IN A SUSTAINABLE MANNER, FIGTHING SCHOOL ABANDONMENT AND DROPOUT BY MOTIVATION AND ATRACTIVENESS3- NEARING THE EP VOUZELA’S SCHOOL COMMUNITY TO THE EUROPEAN REALITY – CREATE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND SYNERGIESThe expected outcomes for the students are:1. STUDENTS WITH STRENGTHENED CVs AND WITH QUALITY, WHICH WILL ALLOW THEM A GREATER LIKELIHOOD TO ENTER IN THE LABOUR MARKET (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL) AFTER THE END OF THE COURSES.2. IMPROVEMENT OF EP VOUZELA’S EDUCATIONAL OFFER AND CONSEQUENTLY REDUCED LEVELS OF SCHOOL ABANDONMENT AND/OR WITHDRAW3. CONSOLIDATION OF STRATEGIC INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS BOTH FOR EP VOUZELA, THE REGION AND ITS ENTREPRENEURS, WHO EMPLOY THE STUDENTSIn terms of partner organizations, the expected OUTCOMES and IMPACTS are:• Increased ability to work at a transnational level• Creation of new methods and channels of communication• Increased level of IT skills • Improvement of language skills • Understanding and acceptance of new ways of working, which differ from culture to culture• Creation and/or strengthening of international partnerships• Greater likelihood of involvement in other initiatives at the international levelThus, at the Regional/Local level the project will contribute to:• The sustainable development of the Region • The qualification of the Human Resources in the Region • Higher levels of entrepreneurship• Proximity of the Region to the European sphere At the European and International level, the project will contribute to:• Achieve the proposed targets at the EU 2020 Strategy, in the fields of education, innovation and development• Increase the number of European mobilities, duly certified and recognized, through the mechanisms of the European Union• The qualification of Human Resources, able to work in other countries• A greater cooperation between vocational training institutions and companies that will promote the access to the European labour market• Increase the number of partnerships and contacts at the international level – higher ability of transnational work that will allow the ability to join other international partnerships

"The Consortium MOINHOS was established in 2014 by the Municipality of Torres Vedras and several vocational schools in the municipality, following the unofficial collaboration that already existed in the programme Leonardo da Vinci, in order to participate in the programme Erasmus +. In 2015, given the success and acceptance by the community of MOINHOS I, the Consortium has been extended by integrating two schools of regular teaching and vocational training, also motivated and interested in participating in this ambitious new consortium / project. The entities that are part of this consortium are: »THE MUNICIPALITY OF TORRES VEDRAS»The GROUP OF SCHOOLS HENRIQUES NOGUEIRA»The GROUP OF SCHOOLS MADEIRA TORRES» THE SCHOOL OF SERVICES AND COMMERCE OF WEST » THE VOCATIONAL AND AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL FERNANDO BARROS LEAL »THE SCHOOL PENAFIRME Penafirme »SEMINFOR - Vocational School of PenafirmeAs a Consortium, they have a consolidated experience of working together around the international mobility, as a result of the approval of two projects “MOINHOS – Formar para Inovar I e II”. There is, therefore, a relationship of trust and cooperation that ensures to the project, a strong partnership with experienced people and entities. This will be, therefore, the 3rd edition of the project MOINHOS, started in 2014, with a network of six schools in the municipality of Torres Vedras, which will send 50 students (28 students and 22 recent graduates) and previous students to do internships in 9 different countries. These students, attending any of the 19 courses offered by the schools, are mainly from the West region. They are generally from a medium-low socio-economic level. Through this project, 50 students will then have the opportunity to make their mobility in the following countries:- Germany - Cyprus - Spain - France - Greece - Ireland - Italy - Malta - UKThe Objectives are: For CONSORTIUM and SCHOOLS»CONSOLIDATE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS»CONTACT WITH DIFFERENT REALITIES»ACQUISITION OF SKILLS IN MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL MOBILITIESFor the MUNICIPAL CHAMBER, MUNICIPALITY OF TORRES VEDRAS and WEST REGION:»STRENGTHEN A NETWORK OF LOCAL AGENTS""CONTRIBUTE TO THE EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION»TRAINING NETWORKS»EUROPE OF ALL»HUMAN POTENTIAL For PARTICIPANTS:»TRAINING AND EMPLOYABILITY»PROMOTION OF PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND INTERCULTURAL SKILLS»IMPROVING LANGUAGE SKILLS Thus through this project we intend to give continuity to the strategy of improvement of the educational offer in the region, as well as modernize the working methods of each entity and of the Consortium, create and strengthen working networks at local and international level, aiming to the welfare and needs of the students, previous students and the general population of the region. The following instruments / certificates will be used:- Curriculum Vitae (CV) Europass- Europass Mobility Document- The European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET)** EXPECTED IMPACTS **1| PARTICIPANTS» Strengthening of personal and intercultural skills» Strengthening of technical and professional skills» Increasing the employability of the youngsters » Increase of the number of youngsters 'absorbed' by companies in the region» Increased number of youngsters with concrete and sustainable life plans » Increased participation in cultural life, healthier lifestyle2| CONSORTIUM, CMTV AND SCHOOLS» Creation and consolidation of new methods and ways of working together at the regional level» Improvement of the training offer of the schools» Multiplication of the intervention capacity» Consolidation of European working networks» Greater participation in international projects» Increase of the future ability to provide sustainability and follow-up»Capacity for the international work3| HOSTING PARTNERS» Contact with participants that have new ways of doing, seeing and thinking about reality and approach to the job» Expansion of the network of professional contacts» New potential of partnerships creation and/or access to new markets/audiences» Possibility of increasing/renewing the team4| PARCEIROS INTERMEDIÁRIOS» Capacity for the international work» Extending work and contacts networkIt is expected that the LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL IMPACTS will be integrated and pass by, among others: » Reduction of precarious, temporary and seasonal work» Increase the youth participation in political and public life» Bosting the economic and social fabric, with new projects to fight the unemployment» Stimulate the regional human potential, able to recover growth rates» Recognition and give visibility to the inner regions and the ones most devoted to the primary sector» Increase of contacts and international partnerships in the region» Increase the interest of the population in international mobility projects and lifelong learning"