"""TirolerInnen auf der Walz 2018"" - „Tyroleans on the Road 2018“ The project objective was to promote the transfer of Tyrolean students in vocational education and Tyrolean apprentices to European companies, offering them possibilities to gain work experience and to improve language skills. During their vocational training learners have increased their professional qualification and employability.We´ve sent 143 VET students and 19 apprentices and one young employee of Tyrol to companies in Europe. The average training period was 10 weeks. During their placements trainees have improved their language skills, professional and social competences such as flexibility, persuasiveness, ability to handle work pressure, contact to colleagues/senior staff/external people. They have also obtained an insight in other cultures, mentalities and enterprises. The project partnership consists of a network of European intermediaries, receiving enterprises, sending partners of regional companies and vocational education schools (e.g.: secondary schools and colleges) such as the Ferrarischule, HLWest, HLW Reutte, HLW Kufstein, Villa Blanka, Tourismuskolleg Innsbruck, Eurak Hall, Zillertaler Tourismusschulen, Technisches Gymnasium Telfs and Tyrolean companies such as Werkzeugbau Wörgartner.The project was a long-term strategy in order to offer ongoing EU-granted placements to young Tyroleans. The demand on the part of students in vocational education is increasing, also the number of apprentices taking part. The project is managed and coordinated by the Local Agency Tyrol and it´s experienced staff, in close with the sending institutions as well as with the regional Chamber of Labour and the Tyrolean Government. The special character of the project is the use of expertise of previous projects and established links with social and regional partners. The projects´ information and awareness activities will continue all over the project period, in form of e.g.: press releases, facebook www.facebook.at/bewegdeinleben, entries in (partner) websites etc."

F.O.O.D. AND. W.IN.E. – Fitting cOoking Offer and DemAND Working IN Europe”is created to help new graduates from Calabria Region to enter the labour market and and to be successful in the gourmet kitchen. The projects also aim at increasing the knowledge of food products from the Calabria region (it has 207 typical products but only a few are known abroad). A young guy, who wishes to be successful in food and beverage sector, should have these following features: practical and teorical knowledge; specialization on a specific field, quantity and quality of international experiences, flexibility in working contexts, good ability to communicate their professionalism to the end user. At the same time, the food and wine sector represents a field with very important employment opportunities. Restaurant sector needs professional figures and not only chefs or attendants but also people with a deep knowledge of digitalization that can help in the promotion of dishes also using the tecnique of storytelling describing it and producting emotions between clients also before the tasting. F.O.O.D. AND. W.IN.E. will allow the mobility to 100 new graduates from school years 2017/18 and 2018/19 from food and wine, tourism and marketing schools of Calabria Region, which will have the opportunity to carry out a period of training of 120 days (plus two traveling ones ) in United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Malta, will get trained in one of the following professional figures: kitchen attendant; restaurant operator; waiter; sommelier, and Expert in food and wine communication. The project will have a positive impact on the participants, on the National Consortium and on the European partners. The learners, at the end of the mobility, will have increased their professionalism, both in terms of language skills, in disciplinary sector (related to the food and wine, tourism and marketing sectors) and personal development. They will increase their employment potential, the project plans that the 25% of participants will find work in Italy returning from the mobility experience and 15% in the country where they will have completed the Erasmus + experience. For the Consortium, the mobility action will be an important opportunity for enhancing and improving staff skills and the ability to communicate and maintain constructive dialogue with organizations of a different nature. The international comparison, in fact, will allow the staff to know different company and association structures and to better understand global trends in the restaurant sector. All this will increase the knowledge of company needs in personnel, translating into the opportunity to develop training programs more in line with what is required by the employment market. The project will have a positive impact on companies that from medium to long term will have more qualified personnel, no longer being forced to hire certified staff, ready to change jobs in the face of better contractual conditions. The greater availability of professionals (also trained on the use of digital tools for promotional purposes), moreover, will result in a greater ability of companies to use storytelling techniques, to tell the experience of a dish even before tasting it. This will increase the online visibility of companies according to the 5% , favoring the arrival of new customers and tourists (mainly tourists interested in the food and wine sector and wishing to visit villages and little-known villages, but still linked to the culinary traditions of the past). Through F.O.O.D. AND. W.IN.E, moreover, the participants will be able to increase the knowledge abroad of some Calabrian food and wine products. Finally, at a European level, the project will contribute to consolidating the efforts undertaken in the political arena for the recognition and validation of professional qualifications, making it increasingly easier for those who want to leave their country of origin to move to a different member state in search of employment opportunities..

"The ""Escuela de Hostelería Álvaro Cunqueiro"" (Galicia/Spain) fosters this project with the goal of offering a first work experience in an EU country to its recent graduates. The European mobility is a great opportunity for young people that have just finished their studies and are about to look for a job. The mobility can provide them with technical and organisational skills as well as language and intercultural competences. The projects is aimed at 20 recent graduates with the following profiles: • Cooking• Basic operations of cooking, including bakery • Basic operations for bars and restaurants• Bar and coffee services• Reception, events, communication and marketing• Basic operations for room servicesThe host countries are Malta, Italy, United Kingdom and Portugal and the length of each work placement are 2 months. The project will take place from December 2016 until November 2018 with a length of 24 months.The objectives and expected results of the project are as follows:• Improving professional skills and competences in the catering and tourist industry, having as a result a higher employability and improved career prospects• Improving language skills, having as a result a greater ability to understand and communicate with foreign customers• Increasing motivation to take part in future education or training, having as a result an increase in the number of participants that decide to continue their studies/training or more motivation to do it in the near future• Developing transversal and intercultural competences as well as an European awareness, having as a result a greater intercultural and European understanding • Fostering entrepreneurial spirit, having as a result an increase in the number of participants that become self-employed• Enhancing mobility, having as a result more interest in working/studying in an EU country at present or in the near futureThe mobility expects to have impacts on:• Labour market, by reducing the unemployment of participants when they return• Mobility, by increasing their participation in another European programme• Qualification, by increasing the number of participants who decide to take part in education/training after the mobility and improving language skills• Values, by enhancing their intercultural and European awarenessTo sum up, the project aims at getting young Galician students from the catering and tourist sector an opportunity to work in international companies, which will improve their career prospects. The mobility drives the European values and enhances intercultural awareness and, furthermore, strengthen the Galician economic and social fabric due to the transfer of innovation and good practices."

The project OnGoing to Europe -Master Minds Mobility -Part II aims to continue the development of the previous project of necessity provision of innovation, modernization and internationalization of the candidate organization, ACB – Associação Comercial de Braga, through the cooperation with transnational partnerships for acquiring, improving and consolidating skills, knowledge and aptitudes of the management and organization of the teaching staff and the candidates trainees, by integrating new practices and knowledge, attitudes and techniques, in an international vision, in the organisation and in the national and international work market. The global economy demands for aptitudes suited to all levels and sectors, the access to information, updating and global communication, reveals itself crucial for a complete insertion in the work market. Society in an exponential changing process demands the creation of versatile economic agents, gifted with cross and essential skills, able to perform uncertain professional performance in an unstable work market, being the resort to VET training the bridge between the formal training and the work market. The project is addressed to 47 trainees/3 graduates of the technical courses of Restaurant, Cook and Pastry, Bar/Restaurant and Car Mechatronic, of the 4th Level of the Learning Courses ( ordinance 149/2008) and for 6 teaching staff members for training - practice and observation/jobshadowing, all of them for companies in Germany, Slovenia, Malta, Greece and Italy. We expect, with these opportunities, contribute for the lowering of earlier school dropout numbers, promote studies graduation equal opportunities and social inclusion, through practical multinational internships and introduce innovative methods and methodologies in organizational management of national and international projects. In the mobilities, the participants will execute practical work plans for the development and consolidation of knowledge in their study area, aptitudes, languages and cultural skills: Cook/Pastery:Create and set up cook and desert dishes, recognize the diversity in gastronomy and foreign traditional recipes; Restaurant/Bar: Plan, set up and execute the table/bar service, drinks/welcoming of the client/billing/market research; Car Mechatronic: Analyse cars mechanical, electrical and electronic systems, maintenance and anomaly diagnosis, repairs and substitution of components in multiplex systems, using cutting edge technological skills. The teaching staff in acquiring innovative methods and methodologies for use in the classrooms facing the diversity also for future UE mobilities. The trainee candidates are social-economically disadvantaged, from poor rural and suburban areas, some are institutionalized others with learning difficulties, with unemployed or emigrant parents. We expect a strong impact and positive and lasting results, both in the participants, organization and staholders: TRAINEES Better learning performance; better career perspectives and employability; initiative and business spirit; self-capacitation and self-esteem, sensibilization for interculturality, active participation in society; improvement of the linguistic skills; a bigger conscience of the European project e EU values; access to the transparent tool of skill validation Teaching staff – improvement of the skills in the professional profiles, work quality and activities in favour of the trainees, skills regarding foreign languages; a bigger understanding and the ability to approach the needs of the unfavoured, diversity and interculturality, support and promotion of trainee mobilities, personal development and evolution in career and linguistic skills. Organization A bigger visibility of the profile and standing out amongst its pears, through the acknowledgment of their participation by the local companies and authorities; building up and strengthen partnerships between them, allowing a growing number of professional and formative internships and a bigger employability of the graduates of the organization, bigger support and orientation for entrepreneurship and funding and sponsorship for managing national and international projects; increase in the participation in European projects and the search in the formative demand; bigger attractiveness by the EFP to select youngsters in school age and parents, by the quality directed for the future and beyond the borders of international quality. STAKEHOLDERS, Stdents, teachers, employers The sustainability in thepresent and ifuture of the project, is ensured through the disclosure, dissemination and availability of the results of the project, through suited channels by the partner organizations, participants and other stakeholders, to get an impact and influency in political measures at national and international levels. Durability of its use by stakeholders around the world by the access to the Erasmus+ Platform of Results, EPALE and E-Twinning.

The EUROSKILLS-PROANDI MOBILITIES project aims to suppress the needs that the organization Proandi, Associated Consultants LTD presents, through innovation, modernization and internationalization, in cooperation with partners and multinational organizations for the acquiring, improvement and consolidation of skills, knowledge and aptitudes of the organization management, teaching staff and applicant trainees and the introduction of new practices and knowledge, attitudes and techniques in an international vision of integration in the work market, national and international. The global economy demands aptitudes suited to levels and sectors, the access to information, updating and global communication, and it reveals crucial for the insertion in the work market. Society in an exponential changing process demands for the training of versatile economic agents, gifted with essential and cross skills able for uncertain professional performance in an unstable work market, being the resort to VET training the bridge between the formal training and the work market. The project is addressed to 50 trainees of the technical courses in Restaurants, Cook and Bakery, Restaurant and Bar and multimedia of the 4th level of the Learning Courses (ordinance 149/2008) and for 8 elements of the teaching staff for training in observation/jobshadowing for companies in Slovenia, Malta, Greece and Italy. We expect with these opportunities contribute to the reduction of the precocious school dropout, increasing youth graduations, promote equal opportunities and social inclusion through practical multinational internships and introduce innovative methods and methodologies in the organizational management of national and international projects. In the mobilities, the participants will execute practical workplans to develop and consolidate knowledge in their study area, and language and cultural aptitudes: Cook & Bakery: Create and setup plates of kitchen and bakery, acknowledge the diversity in gastronomy and traditional foreign recipes; Restaurant & Bar: Plan, setup and execute the waiting/bar service, beverage/reception/billing/market research. Multimedia: conceive interactive multimedia products, use 3D image creation software. The educational staff: Acquire new methods to integrate in the organization and training, project management, more effective solutions towards the unfavoured and classroom diversification, know the evaluation system and acknowledge the ECVT skills. The trainees are social and economically unfavoured, from poor suburban and rural areas, some with learning difficulties, with unemployed or emigrant parents, therefor, given to third-party mentoring. We expect a strong impact and long lasting and positive outcome in the participants and organization. Participants: Trainees – better learning performance, better employability and better career perspectives, initiative spirit and entrepreneurship, self-capacitation and self-esteem, awareness for interculturality, active participation in society, improvement in linguistic skills; bigger awareness of the European project and values; access to the transparent instrument of acknowledgement and skill validation, europass mobility. Teaching staff – improvement of the skills in the professional profiles, work quality and activities in favour of the trainees, skills regarding the foreign languages and culture levels; bigger understanding and capacity of approach to the needs of the unfavoured, social and cultural diversification, support and promotion of trainee mobilities, professional development and career evolution. Organization: Improving visibility in its profile and prominency between its pairs through the acknowledgement of the participation, once again, in E+ projects by the authorities and local companies; reinforcement of partnerships between them, allowing more professional and formative internships and bigger employability of the organization graduates, bigger support and orientation for entrepreneurship and capitation of funding and sponsorship in national/international projects management; increase the participation in European projects and the search of formative offers; larger attractiveness, of the EFP, electing youngsters in school age and tutors, for the quality directed for the future and beyond the border of international quality. The sustainability of the project in present and future, is assured by the disclosure, dissemination and making the results of the project available through proper and suitable channels by the partner organizations, participants and other stakeholders, expecting an impact in the educational policy able to influence decisions and national and international political measures. We intend the durability of the use of the results in the country and in the world, through the simple access to the Erasmus+ Platform of Results and EPALE and E-Twinning by users around the world