The Professional School Almirante Reis (EPAR) is a cooperative, founded in 1992, whose MISSION is to “promote the cultural, social and professional integration of People, fostering Diversity and Multiculturalism as a value-added and a factor of relational reinforcement between people, organizations and their spaces in a sustainable way”.The EDUCATIONAL PROJECT is based on the following ideas:(*) the sustainability of the society requires trained people, active citizens and valorization of the interdependence; (*) the school is the protagonist in the building of the societies; and (*) the education is a project that involves commitments and the affirmation of core values.THE PROJECT “EPAR MOVE” aims to send 10 young ex-trainees and 10 graduates of the 3rd year to Spain, UK and Ireland for 11 weeks, where they will attend a 1 week language course, followed by a 10-weeks internshipWith the project they will work their personal, social, linguistic and professional skills, that will be certified with the Europass Mobility, Certificate of Language, Internship and ECVET.THE NEEDS to be addressed are connected with the trainees, characterized by the lack of study habits, absence of solid knowledge, prevalence of harmful behaviors that make difficult their integration and their personal and professional fulfillment, lack of expectations and low self esteem.Secondly, it is fundamental to the EPAR provide the best possible professional training, which is connected with the consolidation of pedagogies. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE “EPAR MOVE” IS FUNDAMENTAL FOR THE EDUCATIONAL PROJECT'S SUCCESS AND TO COMPENSATE THE NEEDS AND DEFICIENCIES OF THE TARGET AUDIENCES that derive from its geographical context, social-family structure, economic status and social marginalization. The idea of rewarding the best students at the level of pathways, performance, grades and school participation will allow to achieve the objectives established to meet the diagnosed needs, because they will impress new habits and perspectives in students about the value of training and the professional horizons they can aspire to.1 - Create opportunities for training and personal development to former graduates of the EPAR European level with a view to their employability and their affirmation and integration;That said, the general OBJECTIVES of the project are:1- Create opportunities for training and personal development to ex-trainees of EPAR at an European level, aiming their employability and their affirmation and integration;2- Strengthen the educational project of EPAR on creating networks and actions aiming the training of professionals and citizens with equal opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age, gender or geographical origin;3- Paving the way to establishing work networks at an European level for a greater dialogue and relationship between the world of Vocational Training and the Labor Market;The expected impacts are:- FOR PARTICIPANTS: consolidates professional Curriculums; greater employability; fluency in foreign languages; mastering ICT and software; learn new behaviors; autonomy and entrepreneurship; adherence to lifelong training strategies; feeling of belonging to Europe; creation of contact networks; adopting healthy habits and behaviors.- FOR EPAR AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY: flows of communication and international exchanges; sense of training mission; reduction of failure rates and dropouts; motivation and expectations of the trainees; dynamism in the extracurricular activities; new methods of work; disruption and weakening of cycles and routes of social exclusion; participation in the policies and best practices at the European level, rooting of ICT as a working tool.- FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERS: techniques and working methods; partners network; good practice in the management of internships, mobility and relationship with the labor market; new projects; participation in the construction of Europe; knowledge/access to new markets/cultures; contact with other ways of thinking and doing.This project contributes to the EU politics in relation to: young graduates, ECVET and Europass; mobility; togetherness and cohesion across borders, identity and European values; youth unemployment.The divulgation will undergo through a space in the project's website boosted with testimonials, videos, articles and photos, also disseminated via Facebook, twitter, linked-in, video channel EPAR, newsletter and mailings. The targeted audiences are the school community, potential trainees, families and communities, national and international partnerships network, which includes businesses, other schools, public institutes and local authorities. The goal is to raise awareness for the school project EPAR, for the programmes, policies and opportunities that the European Union offers and how the mobility, interexchange and partnerships are ways to ensure the progress of societies and economies.

LET’S NOT STOP LEARNING: Addressing absenteeism and increasing enrolment numbers in adult language education. Sevilla-Macarena Official School of Languages is a state language school for adults. The school is run by the regional education authority, Junta de Andalucía. English, French, German and Italian are taught and certified following the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: from A1 to C1 levels. Over the last years there has been an increase in absenteeism and our enrolment numbers have not grown at our school. The teaching staff, via our Department for Counselling, Professional Development, Assessment and Educational Innovation have started to research the situation and become aware of the school’s need for training and innovation in certain areas. Thus setting as an objective teacher training activities for three participants; two teachers of English and teacher of French who is also the deputy head-teacher.The three teachers selected meet the selection criteria established by the Pedagogical Coordination Team to take part in this project (see project summary section in application form). The activities that have taken place are:• A job-shadowing activity in a language teaching centre for adults in France, focusing on strategies and tools to fight absenteeism and boost language learning. • Two teacher-training courses in the UK which contributed to updating language teaching methodology and hence to increasing student motivation.The Pedagogical Coordination Team and European institutions supervised the development of this project via e-mail before and during the mobilities. Also, the participants and partners reported on the learning that took place. After the mobilities, the dissemination stage took place through meetings between the participants and the Pedagogical Coordination Team. In these meetings the following decisions were taken: 1) to design a school policy to prevent absenteeism and dropouts. This policy should aim to support students as well as newly qualified teachers. 2) to boost teacher training and extracurricular activities in the school. 3) to implement a campaign to increase enrolment numbers and to improve information regarding the enrolment procedure. 4) to improve contacts with teachers from other countries. The whole process and its results have been disseminated inside the school digitally (school website, Erasmus + blog, Facebook and e-mail) as well as outside the school through activities organised with the Teacher Training Centre in Seville (CEP) in their III Jornadas de Exposición y Difusión de Proyectos Erasmus+ (5th June 2019). Regarding outcomes, an effort has been made to decrease dropout numbers (through teacher training and personalisation), to increase enrolment numbers thanks to new school approaches to promoting the school. • Locally and regionally we have tried to improve quality of teaching. • At a national and European level, the contact among teachers and institutions from different countries has been immensely beneficial, given that we are a language school. It is essential to understand teaching and learning as a life-long learning experience and by updating teaching skills and methodology we intend to improve the quality of teaching in our country so as to facilitate the integration of our students in Europe, break linguistic barriers and enable them to compete in the European job market.

"The Agrarian Vocational School of Vagos was founded in September 1989 by program contract concluded between the Municipality of Vagos, Vagos Agricultural Cooperative and Agricultural Secondary School of Vagos. In the year 2000 it takes the designation of Vocational School of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vagos (in Portuguese, EPADRV), assuming the status of public authority and moves to Gafanha da Boa Hora, where occupies an area of approximately 10 hectares.EPADRV, investing and developing their work in proximity with the region in which it operates, is today a center of development in the areas of Agropecuary, restoration, environmental and rural tourism and renewable energies with the HelioAgro project. It also promotes contests, events, catering services. It produces daily hundreds of liters of milk and annually tons of vegetables.Under the slogan ""A school for everyone, qualifying each one"", it has responded to dozens of youngsters, who annually seek for a qualified training of excellence. In the constant encouragement to youngsters to complete their school careers successfully, the school instituted awards for the best students in different courses, thus recognizing individual merit and the action of every student in school and in extra-school community activities.A school is not only done by students and therefore the training body has not been neglected. All the training body members have training available to them, through the training center or partner companies. This training is always an asset and, in some cases, a requirement for the reviews. For EPADRV it means leveraging and maximizing the potential of each professional trainer and teacher, in order to ensure the greatest success of their students.EPADRV defined their project through the identified needs, taking as general objectives: ➲ Promote new experiences and life-experiences in international territory ➲ Promote the interest of learning other languages ➲ Provide training skills to youngsters that enable them to be co-responsible in the economic recovery of the region and the country ➲ Provide visits and international internships of reference ➲ Fight school abandonment➲ Promote the employability of its students, with a target of 75% ➲ Increase the mechanisms of internal management, planning and monitoring of activities ➲ Promote a continuous training plan based on the needs detected by teaching and non-teaching staff ➲ Promote stability among teaching and non teaching staff, with updated skills and more ability to respond to the challenges posed by a student body in constant changeFor this project we propose the involvement of several participants, covering all the bodies of the school: ➲ 15 students from vocational training: 4 from Agricultural Production; 4 from Equine Management; 4 of Restoration 4 of Industrial Maintenance ➲ 5 teachers of Portuguese, Mathematics, Philosophy, English and ICT. ➲ 5 (technical/ operational) professionals: 2 Administrative, 1 Librarian, 1 Operational Assistant and 1 Coordination of School Administration ServicesThe activities planned to take place during the project are: STUDENTS - Academic Internship (12 weeks) and language and cultural training course (1 week) EXPECTED TIMETABLE - June to September 2015STAFF – Activities of job shadowing (2 weeks)EXPECTED TIMETABLE – April and May 2015Destination of the mobilities:France / Spain / Germany➲ 15 students from the courses of Agrarian Production; Equine Management; Restoration (Cooking&Bakery/Restaurant Industrial MaintenanceSpain➲ 2 teachers – Mathematics and Philosophy➲ 3 staff - SAE Coordination; Librarian; Operational AssistantItaly➲ 3 teachers– ICT, Portuguese and English➲ 2 staff – administrativeThe desired impacts in the PARTICIPANTS are: ➲ Strengthening the personal profile of the participants ➲ Improved self-esteem➲ Solid European experience and knowledge of European dynamics ➲ Master of strategic European languages ➲ Increased motivation for the studies ➲ New entrepreneurial attitudes and of personal investment ➲ Attitudes to enhance human rights, citizenship and gender equality ➲ Consolidation of the certified Skills in the training path ➲ Up to date and competent teaching and non-teaching staff ➲ Competent technicians in school management and relationship with students ➲ New methods of fighting failure in core subjects ➲ Setting a larger network of peer contacts at the European levelThe disclosure and dissemination of the project will take place at the beginning, middle and end, using Internet, press and radio, and with the following target-audience: ➲ School community ➲ Population of the county ➲ Companies and prospective employers in the region ➲ International network of partners ➲ Partners / international investors – promotion of the regionThe international partners will promote the project in their networks.All the documents will be included in the final report."

EPARMOVE 5 is an international mobility project promoted by EPAR. The EPARMOVE project creates opportunities of training and personal development, as well as as an element that strengthens the exchange of experiences, know-how and international cooperation networks, either by the students' experiences or by enrichment in the management of EPAR training team involved in all the programme. GENERAL OBJECTIVES - To create opportunities for training and personal development of the students and former students of EPAR at an European level, aiming to enhance their employability and their affirmation and integration -Strengthen the educational project of EPAR in the creation of active networks aiming the training of professionals and citizens with equal opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age, nationality, gender or geographical origin -To establish the groundwork for networking at a European level for a greater dialogue and relationship among Vocational Trainingand the Labour Market This project has planned the following mobility activities: (.) 10 former young trainees (diploma obtained in the school year 2018/2019), 3 of them in ErasmusPro mobilaty (.) 10 students of 2nd year of EPAR vocational courses The hosting countries are the United Kingdom, Spain and Hungary. In addition to the students and recent graduates, the project foresees the participation of 7 staff members doing job shadowing activities in partner schools in the following countries: Hungary, Netherlands, Italy and Poland. The expected impacts and results for each target audience are the following: STUDENTS AND FORMER STUDENTS: -Professionals consolidated CVs with practical working components -Higher level of employability after completion of the Vocational Training -Fluency in foreign languages -Domain at the advanced level of the new ICT and of specific software -New behaviours 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 continuous training strategies for lifelong learning -Feelings of belonging to Europe and defence of its humanitarian values -Creation of social and professional networks, which are a source of opportunities and continuous update -Adoption of habits and behaviours that support mental and physical integrity and social integration STAFF - Control of new teaching and learning methodologies - Better ability of team management of teachers in a vocational training context - New skills at the management and innovative teaching practices level, taking into account the educational reality. - Get in touch with classrooms where the autonomy and flexibility are applied. - Promoting a sense of professional and personal appreciation and recognition. - Adoption of new methodologies in the relationship between school-company and family - Experimenting different methodologies to those applied in Portugal, especially classroom related (teacher/student) in order to diminish higher rates of school failure. EPAR AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY (part of the target group): -Creation of communication and interchange flows with various international partners - Strengthening of the sense of training mission in the teaching and non-teaching staff - Reduction of the failure and dropout school rates - Increase the motivation of students to study and of their expectations for the future - More drive in the extracurricular activities of EPAR - Adoption of new, improved or adapted working methods in the organisation of the educational project - Interruption and weakening of social exclusion cycles and routes - Participation in the policies of best practices in education and training at a European level - Rooting of ICT as a working tool and relationship between partners and working communities NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERS: - Adoption of new, improved or adapted working methods in the organisation of the educational project - Strengthening and consolidating of its network of work and intervention - Enlargement of the partners' network - Identification and access to good practices in the management of internships and of mobility and of relationship with the labour market. - Creating new mobility projects and other types of partnerships - Participation in the making of a Europe based on competitiveness, sustainable development and social cohesion HOSTING PARTNERS - Enlargement of the contacts network and knowledge/access to new markets/cultures - Contact with other ways of thinking and working. - Interchange of techniques and working methods - Interchange of good teaching practices and of school management - Contact with other ways of training and curricula management