The LOGRO-EUROPA project was born with the idea of reducing the pressing needs of the young population of Logroño in terms of lack of experience and job opportunities, with the main objective of promoting their employment through improving their personal development possibilities and their employability levels.To do this, the Logroño City Council created a Consortium consisting of three Vocational Training schools with extensive experience in mobility projects (IES Comercio, IES Batalla de Clavijo and IES La Laboral).The project has been aimed at 30 young people between the ages of 17 and 35 years old, students of a VET course in any of the centers that make up the Consortium, either to perform the FCT abroad in Europe or as recent graduates.The professional sectors to which the project has been directed have been:- management administration: 5 participants- chemistry laboratory: 4 participants- microcomputer systems and networks: 6 participants- assistance to people in need of care: 8 participants- commercial activities: 4 participants- graphics: 2 participants- laboratory operations: 1 participantThe 30 selected participants have received an online course in the language of their internship (English or Italian) or a Portuguese course in the hosting country, in the case of students who have been in Portugal. In addition, they have completed quality internships in European companies related to their field of study for 90 days.In each of the hosting countries, the consortium had the support of a set of intermediary partners that ensured the project quality: Amadeus in Vienna (Austria), AEF in Florence (Italy), Euroyouth in Lisbon (Portugal) and Intern Europe in Belfast (United Kingdom).In relation to the specific objectives, the project:- has enabled participants to complete the process of acquiring a training of quality and has promoted the realization of effective and specialized professional internships abroad,- has fought the lack of connection between the business and educational world and their respective needs, establishing bridges and synergies,- has provided participants with an opportunity to improve a second language with a stay abroad,- has ensured a better recognition of the competences acquired by the participants in their stays abroad- has developed the capacity of entrepreneurship in the participants to create more autonomous and sustainable societies,- has made young people aware of the opportunities offered by new sources of employment.The results have also been positive:- The 30 young people have acquired professional experience in their work sector,- they have acquired transversal competences (entrepreneurship, digital competences)- they have trained their personal skills (autonomy, sense of responsibility and communication skills, among others)- they have improved a second language (English) or they have learned a new one (Italian, Portuguese or even German)- they have enjoyed social and cultural experiences in a different environment from that of the mother country. Besides its own mobility, LOGRO-EUROPA, offers as additional value, comprehensive custom program employability pathways, making employment guidance services managed by local partners available to the participants upon their return. These results are directly impacting the participant and indirectly in Logroño and the surrounding area, contributing to social and economic development in the area of operation.

The LOGRO-EUROPE III project has sought to go a step further than what has been done in the past. In addition to providing training support to recent VET graduates for the performance of quality training practices in a working environment in other European countries, through providing them with the tools to face their access to the labour market in the best possible way, it has also been intended to promote among the participants the values that make up the spirit of a common European citizenship through their respective mobilities, as well as the inclusion and social integration of all its citizens.To this end, Logroño City Council created a Consortium made up of 6 local centres that provide professional training and have extensive experience in the field of mobility projects (IES Comercio, IES La Laboral, IES Batalla de Clavijo, Colegio Paula Montal, Colegio Sagrado Corazón and IES Duques de Nájera).The consortium focused the project on a total of 36 young people (finally, the participation was of 35) of legal age and under 35 years old, students of Vocational education and training in one of the formative centers that conformed it, with the purpose that these carried out their Training in Working Centers (FCT) outside of Spain.The professional sectors that were involved in the project were:- Administrative management: 11 participants.- Microcomputer systems and networks: 5 participants.- Commercial activities: 5 participants.- Pharmacy and parapharmacy: 4 participants.- Health emergencies: 3 participants.- Laboratory practices: 3 participants.- Electrical and automatic installations: 2 participants.- Care for dependent persons: 1 participant.- Hairdressing and hair cosmetics: 1 participant.- Nursing auxiliary care technician: 1 participant.The 35 selected participants received an online language course in which they would develop their professional practices in European companies related to their respective areas of study, the duration of which was a total of 85 days.In each of the destination cities, the Consortium had the collaboration of an intermediary partner, thus consolidating the quality of the project: Accademia Europea di Firenze (Italy), Euroyouth (Portugal), Amadeus Association (Austria) and Foyle International (Ireland).In relation to the specific objectives of the project:- Participants have been able to complete the process of acquiring quality training and have been promoted to carry out effective and specialized professional internships abroad.- The lack of connection between the world of business and education and their respective needs has been contested, building bridges and synergies between the two.- A better recognition of the competences acquired by the participants during their respective stays abroad has been ensured.- The participants' entrepreneurial capacity for the creation of more autonomous and sustainable societies within Europe has been fostered.- Young people have been made aware of the opportunities offered by new sources of employment.The results have also been positive for the 35 participants:- They have gained professional experience within their working sector.- They have developed transversal competences (entrepreneurship, digital competences).- They have trained their personal skills (autonomy, sense of responsibility and communication skills, among others).- They have improved a second language (English) or have learned a new one (Italian, Portuguese and even German).- They have enjoyed several social and cultural experiences in an environment different from that of their country of origin.LOGRO-EUROPE III has also offered, as an added value, a programme of itineraries for labour insertion, making available to all participants, on their return from their respective mobilities, the services of employment orientation by the local partners of the consortium.

Accredited projects for mobility of learners and staff are implemented by organisations holding an Erasmus accreditation. Each accredited project represents a step in the implementation of the organisation's long-term Erasmus Plan.

"<< Objectives >>Volunteers for Brescia was established to foster youth activism and promote youth participation through volunteering. On the occasion of BergamoBrescia Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023 (BGBS2023) VxBS hassigned a memorandum of understanding with the City of Brescia and is implementing a strategy to promote active citizenship and civic volunteering. The project idea was born in October during a meeting with CSV Bergamo-which plays the same role as VxBS for the province of Bergamo-at BGBS2023. From an initial discussion between these two realities that deal with volunteering and in particular with youth activation, the opportunity emerged to build a project capable of addressing and include Europe and capable of offering good practices present in the field of youth and volunteering in Europe and give the participants a space for comparison, growth and reference for future developments and training.The project promotes new models of youth participation through the ""VXBS model"", which is based on the promotion of time-limited and targeted volunteering for specific events or initiatives in whose goals and objectives the individual person recognizes himself/helself, gets active and makes him/herself useful. The project aims to analyze through comparison and testimonies of different European experiences how social activation becomes a process in which part of the youth population questions and moves toward change. Young people are activated to ""care"" for the community, to take care of the needs of the territory. Young people become protagonists and develop their ideas, where they highlight that change is possible and that they can be part of this change: this leads them to feel more responsible and involved in the things that happen. It is a process, and as such it requires a gradual transition: - Being part of something - Feeling a part of something- ActIn summary, ACTIVATION means being and feeling part of community and within it make ""actions"" The primary objective of ""Volunteers for Europe"" is to provide a SHARING SPACE that can become a REFERENCE point for all entities (public and private) that believe that the younger generations are interested in participation and want to make themselves available to the community. Secondly, the project aims to create a TOOLKIT that collects best practices, value-generating experiences, and integrated development processes and that can be used by entities interested in building spaces where young people can express themselves.Specifically, participants will develop the following:ATTITUDES:- Incentivized to continue training- Encouraged to ""contaminate"" themselves by confrontation with others, welcoming new visions and questioning outdated working methods- Supported to think in an INTEGRATED way and to propose pathways that view youth in a SYSTEMIC wayKNOWLEDGE- Improved communication (both in English and in their native language)- management and coordination skills related to design, event planning, and group management- new models of youth engagement SKILLS:- Analyze the needs of youth and know how to involve them in co-programming activities- Develop programs and models that can motivate and engage youth<< Implementation >>The project consists of:- KNOWLEDGE-THEORETICAL PART, based on learning by doing and exchange of good practices. According to the attached program, there are several sessions in which participants will be able to learn more about the E+ Youth program, Youthpass, and experiences of youth participation in volunteering. Volunteers for Brescia will present the model that is based on the promotion of time-limited volunteering aimed at specific events or initiatives in whose goals and objectives the individual person recognizes himself, gets active and makes himself useful. The Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation will exhibit ""The Build-up,"" a systemic capacity building (skills strengthening) program for socio-cultural workers. The Volunteer Open Culture 2019 Association will tell about its birth and evolution, particularly the role of young people in the association's development process, and how strengthening cultural citizenship activities can make culture and creative expression an essential part of everyday life; how activating training processes and cultural citizenship exchanges, mixing and making generations of different ages interact can generate development and foster access to culture for all and everyone. The Serbian partner will present the OPENS model, which involves the existence of local youth budgets, safe spaces for young people, cooperation of all youth policy actors at the local level, and services designed to provide support to young people in their development. In Novi Sad, OPENS has established a model of youth support through the OPENS Youth Center, which brings together in one place all the main youth service providers, making them easily accessible to young people through various services that will be explained. The association ""Kulturistai"" will illustrate its own -recent- founding process and how young people have been drivers of this process.-EXPERIENTIAL PART-VISITSSeveral meetings, interviews and presentations are planned with local associations, social cooperatives and institutions, both Brescia and Bergamo. Participants will be protagonists for two days of Brescia Bergamo Capital of Culture and will work alongside young Italian volunteers to learn about their motivations, developments and expectations and to learn the management model that makes the engagement of these young people possible. Recall: Comicon of Bergamo, Music Festival of Brescia, WeLoveCastle of Brescia, Mo.Ca and Informagiovani of Brescia, Municipality of Brescia and Bergamo.-REFLECTION-EVALUATION PARTAt the end of each day, moments of reflection and evaluation of what has been done during the day will be promoted: in small groups or in plenary, the techniques learned, the experiences lived. Individually, an interactive whiteboard (Padlet) will be compiled by the participants and it will represents their learning journey. In particular, there will be a space dedicated to ""tips for youthworkers"" in which participants will be able to jot down practical youthwork advice, useful for developing their daily activities and promoting the transfer of what they have learned even within their own institution.A toolkit ""You're the star: empower yourself and connect to your community!"" will be compiled on the 5th day of the mobility, which aims to gather the motivations that lead young people to approach short-term cultural volunteering models and reports some successful experiences that have evolved from precisely short-term volunteeringThere will be 18 participants, and they will have different profiles, complementing each other and representing three figures both able to bring their own experiences, instances and needs, and able on return to ensure effective transferability of the good practices acquired during the mobility.The particularity of the partners involved is that they have close relationships and agreements already in place with the municipalities of afferent or are the project partners themselves.The participants will be for each partner:1 YOUTH OFFICERS1 YOUTH WORKER active in the field of local cultural volunteering. Alongside the youth officers, there will be professional Youth Workers who support young people at the level of professional growth, education, social inclusion and especially participation in democratic life. 1 VOLUNTEER/WORKER active in the past year in one of the project partner institutions. << Results >>Project beneficiaries (youth workers, municipal officials and their partners who want to improve their youth policies, structures and programs involving youth in volunteering, and volunteer team leaders):- They will improve their knowledge of their role and the system in which they work- They will increase their capacity to work synergistically with each other both locally and at the European level- They will be able to initiate integrated youth policy programs that both respond to the real needs of young people and know how to coordinate to institutions- They will come into contact with the Erasmus + program and experience firsthand what it means to take part in a mobility project- They will improve their English, ability to work in groups, and express their opinions in non-formal learning contexts- They will be able to compare themselves with colleagues in the same roles, but in different countries, exchanging tips, tools and methodsOrganizations:- Will become part of a European network focused on fostering youth participation, gaining new contacts and opportunities - They will be able to count on a more QUALIFIED staff thanks to ongoing training and continuous exchange of skills and more STIMULATED, thus able to accommodate more needs- They will be able to OFFER new possibilities and opportunities to young people, both by connecting them with their European peers through experiences carried out in other countries and by applying what they have learned through the project- They will strengthen their European identityRESULTS:- Deepened models of youth participation and fostered civic activism and youth volunteering- built a European project network- improved the skills and professional profile of participants"