The Town Hall of Jerez, in partnership with the following vocational education centres - IES Andrés Benitez, IES la Granja, IES Francisco Romero Vargas and C.E. Manuel Lora Tamayo - have created a Consortium and submit this European mobility program proposal.At the origin of this proposal is our concern for the labour situation that suffer our young people nowadays, those that are actually studying and those who have recently finished their studies. Besides, their situation is worsened by the shortage of entrepreneurship in our city. 79 young students have participated in this project. These students have different professional profiles: Car bodywork, Commerce, Auxiliary nursery care, Car mechanics and electricity, Electronic equipment and facilities, Aesthetics, Pharmacy and parapharmacy, Administration, Telecommunications, Air conditioning/ heating systems fitting and repair, Gardening, Photographic laboratory, Automation, Hairdressing and Hair Cosmetics, Welding. Students have previously completed a theoretical training period in one of our Consortium centres, and now complete their education with a training period in companies of the EU, and some of them have already finished their studies. Destiny countries have been: Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal , and the UK. There have been 4 different flows: From March to June 2015, from September to December 2015, from February to May 2016, from March to June 2016. The training period has lasted for 84 days, which has been reinforced with a language course completed before the mobilities took place. In order to prepare each flow, the following actions were completed: •Before departure: Dissemination of the program, giving information to potential participants, motivation, selection of participants, counseling for writing the cvs, companies searching in the destiny countries according to candidates profiles, preparation of the learning agreements, designing of the educational program, linguistic and cultural preparation, mobility arrangements. •Mobility: Informative sessions, departure, students follow up, sorting out problems or incidents. •Evaluation and dissemination of results: Meeting with the students once they have come back, evaluation on job insertion rates, project results, quality report, financial reports, and dissemination of results. Results and outcomes for the Participants:- Achieving practical experience as a complement to the theoretical education that they have received so far during their formation. For the students this training was the FCT (Training in the jobs) what is necessary to get the degree.- Most of them have had a professional experience for the first time.- Acquiring practical methodologies and innovative learning techniques in their professional sectors. - To gain language and socio-cultural abilities - Completion of the technical qualifying program. - obtaining the EUROPASS.Expected results for the sending and hosting partners to this project: - Contribute to the enrichment of participants education rising their possibilities when entering into the labour market. - To improve European mobility programs management, collecting best practices for its application in future projects. - Apply new practical approaches to selected sectors - Improve professional training by the exchange of experiences that move theory to practice. - Enlarging networking of enterprises and companies to a European level strengthening bonds between members.In the long term, Encouraging occupational mobility will promote a new spirit and interest among young people towards training regarding not only professional competences but also including language competences. Youngsters will have access to educational training and will discover new employment opportunities, will see the benefits that this experience has had in former participants to this program and school absenteeism will be reduced.

The implementation of this project has allowed us to continue with the internationalisation strategy of our school. It is a centre located in a rural environment where the offer of appropriate companies for students to complete the OJT module is quite limited. The main objectives set out were to achieve work training for students in accordance with the times of globalisation in which we find ourselves, as well as the professional development of the Institute's staff, which will be of benefit to the whole educational community. In order to achieve these objectives, 13 student mobilities and 4 staff mobilities have been carried out. Initially, 10 student mobilities had been planned, but a reduction in the duration of some of them has made it possible to increase the number, giving opportunities to more students. Of these 13 students, 7 belonged to the Telecommunications Installations Intermediate Cycle and 6 to the Administrative Management Intermediate Cycle. The destination countries were: Portugal (2), Poland (3), United Kingdom (3), Italy (2), Malta (2) and the Netherlands (1).As for the mobilities of staff for job shadowing, they have been carried out by teachers from the Department of Electronics and Administration, who were also involved in the coordination of OJT and international programmes. The destination countries were Italy and Portugal. In both countries we have had the collaboration of counterpart centres IIS MICHELE GIUA - CAGLIARI in Sardinia (Italy) and AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE BARCELOS in Barcelos (Portugal).The mobilities of students and staff are framed in the academic years 2018/2019 and 2020/2021. The implementation of this project has been affected by the COVID-19 health crisis, hence its duration has been extended to 36 months, instead of the initially planned 24. In addition, during the 2019/2020 academic year it was not possible to carry out any of the planned mobilities after the selection of students following the criteria established in the call. Fortunately, no payments had been made, which facilitated the financial management. What we regret the most is that many students have lost a unique opportunity because, although they had the option of a mobility as recent graduates, as they are enrolled in a Higher Cycle, they can no longer enjoy it.The mobilities of students for internships during the academic year 2020/2021 have been implemented with the support of the organisation Intern Xperience SC, which has facilitated the search for companies and accommodation for the 2 students from Italy and 2 from Malta. The decision to ask for their help was taken taking into account that these were uncertain times in which the experience of a support organisation was essential.As a result, 8 students have been able to complete their training by doing the OJT module entirely in the host companies, 3 have done it partially because they wanted to contact companies in the area before finishing, 1 has done voluntary work experience and 1 has done it as a recent graduate. On returning from the placements, a clear impact on the personal development of the students has been noted, visible in the personal interviews held with them at the end, while at the same time they have increased their professional skills, as stated by the respective placement tutors. In the long term, an increase in the number of applicants is expected, encouraged by the excellent results of the project, both from students and staff. This will allow us to have more and more people each year who decide to become part of a European community interested in professional and personal development with open-mindedness, respect and tolerance.The dissemination of the project has been carried out through different channels, mainly through informative talks in which the participants have shared their experiences with the rest of their classmates, through our website and through social networks such as Facebook and Instagram.

The project Jóvenes de Almendralejo is the result of our concern for the difficult working situation of our youngsters, either students and recent graduates, which is increased by the lack of businesses in our town. For that reason, the main objective of this project is to encourage the labour insertion of the participants in this project. The project has been developed by a Consortium of partners lead by Almendralejo Town Hall together with 3 Vocational Centers which have acted as Sending Organisations to this project. These are: ES Carolina Coronado, IES Santiago Apóstol e IES Arroyo Harnina. After a Selection Process which was transparent and open to the public, the Project allowed that 35 participants (17 women and 18 men) – aged 18-43- completed a qualifying training period in Eurpean companies form different countries including Italy and Portugal. The profiles of the participants were: Auxiliary Nursery Care, Business Administration, Animation of Physical and Sport activities in natural environment, Proficiency certificate (2nd level) and Oxy-gas welding and and mig-mag welding, Basic laboratory Operations; Mechanics, Telecommunication Installation; Proficiency certificate (3rd level) on Information and Visitors Care (tourism). By implementing this Project, we have coped with the following needs:- Acquiring the knowledge, (theoretical and practical) that actual market demands and that are needed for developing their professional tasks in different countries of the EU: - Obtaining the Europass Mobility certification by the validation and recognition of the competences that participants have acquired during the training period. - Possibility to complete a variety of activities regarding both, content and difficulty, during the training period, enabling the participants to develop the skills and competences inherent to their professional profiles and obtaining the certification for those that have completed the compulsory training modules that correspond to their studies. - Developing language skills by improving Portuguese and Italian, which will increase their competitiveness when developing their professional careers. - Those students with less economic resources have received financial support so that they have been able to complete the programs, and have improved their competences minimizing at the same time the gap of opportunities with other students with more resources- Acquisition of values such as respect, tolerance and intercultural appreciation. - Students have grown up, especially those Youngers who hadn´t lived away from their background before. They have acquired greater autonomy and have learnt to overcome situations (like problems of coexistence) and to sort problems out. - Personal training, they have realized that they are able to face other realities, know other cultures and insert themselves into them. The activities that have been done were: - Preparatory phase: (Oct 15 - August 16). Draft of the proposal, Signature of the Agreement, Activity Plan. - Publishing and Dissemination of the Proposal, Selection of the Participants for each of the destination countries. - Formative sessions and informative meetings prior to each departure- Organization of the documentation according to the different flows- Mobilities: 5 different flows: Jan-Apr 17 / Mar-Jun 17 / Jul-Sept 17 / Oct-Dec 17 / Jan-Apr 18 / Apr-Jun 18. Monitoring and evaluation for each flow-Evaluation and dissemination (17- Oct 18). Throughout the project, as well as the dissemination phase.The results and impacts achieved have been:For students: Acquisition of new skills at professional and linguistic level as well as and other transversal competences such as personal development, maturity, independence, etc., acquisition of a more versatile professional profile, knowledge and use of the different applications of new technologies in the environment in which they perform their work experience, knowledge of the productive and organizational system of their sector, realisation of a quality training period that will allow them to be competitive, obtaining the EUROPASS, obtaining the corresponding vocational school degree, being differentiated when they try to enter the labour market. For the consortium: Expansion of the European work network. The Town Hall is very focused on the management of all types of European projects, because this is increasing the interest of our citizens in Europe. In the long term, the revitalization of mobility among our students will promote a new spirit and interest in training education, since they will see new training opportunities for employment, they will see the benefits that the training program has meant for those who have already participated. School absenteeism rates will be reduced too.

The Town Hall of Jerez together with the following Vocational Schools of this town: IES Andrés Benítez, C.C La Salle Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, IES La Granja, IES Fernando Quiñones, IES Francisco Romero Vargas y el C.E. Manuel Lora Tamayo has promoted this European mobility proposal.This proposal is the result of the concern for the actual situtation of our youngsters, either students or recent graduates , who face a difficult working situation increased for the lack of businesses network in the city. To respond to this reality, our consortium has created a network of partner organisations and receiving companies who will participate in this project offering the paricipants the possibility to complete a qualifying training period in different countries of Euope, such as Italy, United Kingdom and France.This multiprofessional project ihas been designed to meet the educational needs of young people who are actually studying or recently graduated in any of the participating vocational centres that offers courses such us: Management and Administration, Electronic and Automatic Devices, Telecommunication Facilities, Microcomputer Systems, Nursing Assistants, Restoration, Image Laboratory, Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, Gardening, Trade, Electromechanical Vehicles, Bodywork, Welding, Personal Aesthetics Decorative, Haridressing, Automation, Air conditioning, Electricity, Electronic and Machining.The basic activies that has been developed during the project lifetime were: Describing target group needs, creating the Consortium, contacting receiving partners, submitting the proposal, giving project information to potential participants and feedback, selection and preparation of participants, preparation of program logistics, describing training intinerary of particpants, administrative and financial management, agreements, financing and contracts, follow up of the students in the host countries, validation of the training, evaluation and dissemination of results, follow up and evaluation of the trainingship, evaluation of the project, justification and disemination of the results.Finally 34 young students from Jerez could enjoyed the mobility experience in Italy United Kingdom and France, during 76 days, from the 5th of April until the 21st of June of 2017.Main objetives reached:#For participants# - Practical training as a complement to the theoretical knowledge they gained during their studies. - Professional mobility to get new practical and learning methodologies - Language and socio-cultural skills improved that have enriched their competences. - Certificates of the experience- More possibilities to get into the labor market#For sending and hosting institutions#- Contribution to the quality of participants' training and incrementation of their employability chances.- Improvement of European mobility projects management for future calls of proposals. - Introducction new approaches in the selected sectors- Improvement of vocational training with the exchange of experiences that bringed theory and practice together. - Increasement of networking between companies and European organizations and strengthen the relationship among its members.Expected outcomes in the long term: boosting the mobility between our students will promote a new spirit and interest in training in terms of acquiring language skills and professional competences for young people from Jerez, so they will see new training opportunities for employment, will be aware of the benefits that this kind of experience have had in previous participants, and school drop off will be reduced.