"The project "" Scuola Lavoro Europa "" has been promoted by a varied and complementary consortium: 5 institutes ( IFOM , Istituto Cattaneo - Deledda , Institute Elsa Morante , ITCS Rosa Luxemburg , Meucci IISS ) the Emilia-Romagna region through the information desk Europe Direct and CNA Bologna, the association representing the SMEs of Bologna. The consortium has been assembled considering the need to ensure an educational success of the economic - administrative students, reducing dropouts, improving skills and concrete employment opportunities for learners. The consortium has identified on one hand a discrepancy between the number of students enrolled in vocational schools and, on the other, between graduated students competencies and the ones demanded by labor market. Consortium’s schools are facing two major risks of the labor market: - The skill-mismatch between specific and transversal competencies of the students that are finishing their education and the skills requested by the labor market; - The mismatch between the demand and offer of occupation in the administrative and commercial sector. The project ""Scuola Lavoro Europa"" aimed to overcome these problems. The project lasted 17 months (from 01/09/2017 to the 31/01/2019) and included two activities: 1) Mobility of 80 students and 22 teachers for internships abroad , divided into five flows of 1 month each. 2) Mobility of 20 newly graduates for internship abroad divided into four flows of three months each.Among the students will be included at least 24 (30%) students with fewer opportunities and 10 students with special needs (DSA and BES).The mobilities have been organized in 3 phases (May 2018, June/July 2018 and September/November 2018) The objectives achieved by the consortium with these activities are: - Strengthening student’s motivation and orientation into labor market, through internships abroad; - Develop the recognition and validation of learners' Learning Outcomes with ECVET; - Extend to the abroad, the territorial limits of carrying out the training programs, in order to improve school-work combination’s capacity and skills; - Promote students’ personal growth through discussion and widening of cultural horizons, social and human rights; - Strengthen linguistic and multicultural skills of learners; - Provide a European awareness and education to internationalization to students and school staff; - Expanding students labor market’s knowledge, through a varied awareness, diverse and transnational; - Enhancing training quality, by identifying an inner linguistic competencies development plan, to include in training programs; - Develop, considering large number of consortium’s members, a collective consciousness on practical work placements abroad, involving local and international companies, civil society, policy makers and public bodies; - Improve the ability to ensure internships abroad in a cohesive and efficient manner, sharing good practices, creating a complementary skills and contacts system, centralizing services related to the organization and management of mobility; - Strengthen transnational relations numbers and quality of this consortium, developing new contacts and new opportunities for cooperation. The outcomes of the mobilities had a relevant impact on a wide number of actors:- Students, that improved their transversal and professional competencies and will be more competitive on labor’s market;- Schools, which started a process of modernization and internationalization of their educational offer, increasing their appeal and - Companies, which will satisfy their demand in terms of number and competencies.- Indirect beneficiaries, with dissemination activity, which will benefit by peers experience- Other stakeholders, that will benefit of new consortium competencies in terms of new relations and future projects."

The EPAR MOVE 3 project allowed EPAR’s international development (it started with the EPAR MOVE) to continue beyond its horizons, making it a school distinguished by the guarantee of an excellent offer and the good interpersonal relations it promotes by providing a healthy growth space for students and professional satisfaction among the school staff. Through this project, it was possible to send in mobility for curricular and extracurricular internships: 12 11th grade students from the following courses: Management - Human Resources, Tourism and Multimedia as well as 8 recent graduates from Tourism and Commerce courses.The destinations for the internships were: Spain (Bilbao), United Kingdom (Derry), Slovenia (Liubliana). Mobility for the job-shadowing programme was not implemented due to structural changes in the organisation in the second semester of 2017. The objectives of the project were: -To create training and personal development opportunities for EPAR students and alumni on a European leve,l aiming to enhance their employability skills, their affirmation and integration – Strengthen EPAR’s educational project through the creation of networks and actions aiming to train professionals and citizens with equal opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age , gender or geographical origin - Launch the basis for networks at European level for a greater dialogue and relationship between Vocational Training and the Labour Market. After completing this project, we can say that it was a great success for both EPAR and the students. The results achieved were as follows: Students - Consolidated CVs - Higher employability - Fluency in foreign languages - Domain of specific ICT and software - Knowing how to behave in a social and work context - Notion of the importance of lifelong participation in international mobility projects - Creation of social and professional networks - Adoption of healthy habits and behaviours - Reinforcement of European values - Reduction of failure rates and school drop out - Students with more structured life plans towards their future, (international mobility has become a goal for many to achieve) - Adoption of new, improved or adapted working methods in the organisation of the educational project – Promotion of EPAR’s participation in new international projects - Use of ICT as a tool for working and relationshi reinforcement between partners and work communities.

The EPAR MOVE IV project at the time of the application and now, at the end of its cycle, is an ambitious and stable project. We consider that, bearing in mind the general objectives of the program and the EPAR MOVE project, we have influenced not only the participating students but also the school community. We recognise the importance that this initiative has for young people and their families as well as the contribution it has generated among the educational community in order to reach a more autonomous, committed, communicative, creative and collaborative student. Its impact in the school community can be verfied in the positive influence that the project promotes among those who hope in the future to have the opportunity to participate in the ERASMUS + mobilities and thus build their present in a more comitted way to the school and the group.The participants’ backghround is based on the need for enrichment and personal development, which leads us to the desire of fostering social ties as well as opportunities of equality. This project wishes to equip younsters with tools that allow greater professional security, provide a sense of belonging and broaden their horizons to a European scale, allowing them to leave their neighborhoods and the difficulties that are often presented to them almost as inevitable.In terms of objectives, now, at the distance of a few months, we were able to ponder and reinforce our general objectives:-Create training and personal development opportunities for EPAR’s students and alumni at European level aiming to reinforce their employability and affirmation and integration skills;-To strengthen EPAR’s educational project in the creation of networks and actions aimed at training professionals and citizens with equal opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age, gender or geographical origin;- To lay the foundations for networks at European level for a greater dialogue and relationship between Vocational Training and the Labour Market.In this project we carry out the following mobility activities:(.) 6 young former graduates (diploma obtained in the 2017/2018 school year),(.) 14 graduates of the 2nd year of EPAR ‘s vocational courses,(.) 3 STAFF mobilities,The host countries were the United Kingdom, Spain and Slovenia. The destination country of job shadowing was Spain.The impacts and results that were expected and achieved in our target audience are as follows:STUDENTS AND EX-STUDENTS:- Consolidated professional curricula with practical work components;- Higher level of employability after completion of Vocational Training;- Fluency in foreign languages;- Mastery of ICT skills. - New behaviors on how to act in a social and working context;- Autonomy and ability to submit project proposals and / or services and products (entrepreneurship);- Adherence to lifelong learning strategies;- Development of a sense of belonging to Europe and the defense of its humanitarian values;- Creation of social and professional contacts networks, which are a source of opportunities and continuous updating;- Adoption of habits /behaviours that support mental and physical integrity and social integration;STAFF- Mastery of new teaching-learning methodologies;- Better capacity of teachers teams management in the context of professional training;- New management skills and innovative pedagogical practices taking into account the educational reality, namely the Autonomy and Curriculum Flexibility Project;- Feeling of both professional and personal recognition;- Adoption of new relationship methodologies encompassing school, business and family;- Experimentation with methodologies different from those applied in Portugal, especially when working in a higher rates of school failure context.EPAR AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY:- Creation of communication and exchange flows with several international partners;- Strengthening of the sense of training mission in the teaching and non-teaching staff- Reducing school failure and drop out rates;- Increase students’ motivation to study as well as their future expectations.- Greater dynamism in EPAR’s extracurricular activities;- Adoption of new, improved or adapted working methods in the organisation of the school’s educational project;- Interruption and weakening of cycles and social exclusion routes;- Participation in policies and best practices in education and training at European level.NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERS:- Adoption of new working methods, improved / adapted in the organisation of the school’s educational project;-- Strengthening and consolidating of the school’s network of work and intervention scope;- Partners network enlargement and future projects / initiatives.In conclusion, it seems to us that we continue to contribute to a greater balance between young people, their community, school and Europe.