"The project “EXMO 2016 – Let’s experience mobility” is submitted by the Secondary Education Institute “Garfagnana” (http://www.isigarfagnana.gov.it/),. The Institute was created on September 1st, 2013 and brought together four existing secondary schools located in Castelnuovo: the VET institute (IPSIA) “Simoni”, the Institute for commerce, accountancy and surveying (ITCG) “Campedelli”, the Technical institute (ITI) “Vecchiacchi” and the Scientific high school (Liceo Scientifico) “Galilei”. Currently approximately 1000 students are enrolled and 141 staff members are employed.The project aims at expanding the opportunities offered to students in terms of education and training, professional practice, individual learning and development, so to boost school achievement and success and improve one’s own employability. The international mobility experiences contribute to increase individual autonomy and the acquisition of knowledge and competences that will make up the “toolbox” for students. They will be then able to take informed decisions concerning their training and work conditions, fully playing their ""active citizen"" role. EXMO 2016 plans mobility programmes for 50 students to be spent in French, British and Maltese companies.The Garfagnana Institute considers the EXMO 2016 project as an opportunity to enhance its quality training and education supply and to take a step further:- To experiment a rotation system which complement study and work at international scale, so to adapt and improve its training programmes and curricula consistently with students’ and companies’ needs.- To have an impact on students’ motivation to achieve learning goals and overall school success, fighting back early school leaving phenomena and other forms of youth vulnerability.- To develop the competences of the Institute’s staff with respect to administration, finance and organisation of European mobility programmes, building on the hands-on practice resulting from EXMO 2016.- To enrich the in-service training opportunities for the Istitute’s staff with particular regard to soft skills (e.g. problem solving, group work).- To raise awareness among the Institute’s staff about the opportunities that “Europe can offer” .- To implement the tools to recognize, validate and certify competences, e.g. by means of the ECVET system and the Europass Mobility and CV tools.- To improve the capability to create meaningful networks with local and international partners. The ability to “listen to” requests expressed by economic and social actors allow to design innovative training programmes that are aligned with the needs of the labour market and of the local contexts.As regards students’ needs and expectations, the EXMO 2016 project meets the following necessities: - To improve their professional and technical backgrounds putting their knowledge to the test in novel and challenging working settings which also require adaptation to different cultures and working approaches and the use of a foreign language.- To acquire or refine relational skills and the so-called soft skills, considered as key competences in the EU. The experience of living and working far from home determines great changes in each participant, in terms of individual flexibility, adaptability, ability to work in team, problem solving skills, stress and time management, management of intercultural relations. It is indeed a crucial and valuable stage for an individual’s development process.- To open the Garfagnana area to broader, EU-wide dynamics, fighting back isolation and enhancing the possibility to get to know in a direct way new ways of living, studying and working.- To further study a EU language to be used as working language in different contexts, so to improve one’s own employability.The project, lasting 24 months, will be carried out in the school years 2016-17 and 2017-18."

The project was addressed to 75 students from the 4th and 3rd year of different courses of the High School (Mechanics, Electrics and Electrotecnics, IT, Chemistry) and to 5 teachers. Students spent 37 days abroad in Spain, United Kingdom and Czech Republic ; teachers spent 9 days in Spain and UK. All the partecipants was from the city of Siena. The industrial sector of the local economy is not well developped, and project MOVE gave the opportunity to increase and develop different kind of skills to the participants, such as: technical and professional skills related to the sector and courses of study, throught the internship (for students) or job shadowing experience (for teachers); personal and key skills (flexibility, self confidence, punctuality, capacity of problem solving, teamworking, leadership, authonomy, time management); language skills (through the OLS course and the mobility abroad). Project MOVE has given to the promoter the chance to improve skills of the staff, to follow the European Develompent Plan and to increase the relations between its local and international partners, and also to know more about management and organisation of learning programmes abroad. During the project both the partners and the promoter had the chanche to enhance learning tools and partner's network, to develop and share good practices, to increase the interactions between school and job market, even mentoring and using evaluation and assessment tools from T-Tactic@School, promoted by the partner Accademia Europea di Firenze.Project MOVE has been 18 months long, from July 2016 to the end of December 2017, and mobilites have been managed in different flows:24 students went to Belfast in 2 flows (group 1 in June 2017 and group 2 in September 2017); 18 students went to Prague (group 1 in June 2017 and group 2 in September 2017); 23 students went to Valencia (group 1 in July 2017 and group 2 in September 2017); 6 students went to Londonderry (in September 2017); 4 students went to Wolverhampton (in June 2017); Staff mobilities have been managed in November 2017, 2 teachers went to Valencia and 3 teachers went to Belfast.

"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 second edition of MOVINVET project targeted two main groups: the training centre staff (short-term job-shadowing activity in training centres and other bodies) and Young graduates who have obtained an accredited training certificate during the year preceding the departure (three-month internships). The hosting countries were Italy, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and the United Kingdom.The job shadowing activities for the staff took place in Germany and mainly addressed themes such as the integration of migrants, foreigners from EU countries, and other groups facing social exclusion in the field of vocational training.The project has accomplished with the 100% of the grants allocated. Fifty-three participants benefited from this experience. The mobility took place in summer 2016 and 2017, with regard to the recent graduates (43 participants), while the staff mobility in November 2016 (10 participants). Several activities areas have been encompassed by the MOVINVET project: Administration and Finance, ICTs, Trade, Industry, Health and Social Services.MOVINVET benefited 8 professional training centers located in the Seville province that are part of the consortium, as well as the Teacher Training Center of Seville, a public entity responsible for continuous teacher training activities in the province. This is already a good result of the 2014 edition dissemination, as the consortium has been extended from 5 to 8 vocational training centers even if it is at early stage of development.The project was divided in several stages, namely:• Call and selection,• Preparation;• 13-week internship;• Evaluation;• Dissemination.The project's main goal was to improve the participant's employability skills through the development of a broad training itinerary that would have upgraded the trainee's professional, language and personal skills. Furthermore, the project addressed the quality improvement of training supply, bridging the gap between participants and the corporate world, the European entity knowledge and the establishment of international working networks.The consortium created strengthened sustainability. Result-dissemination tasks have been essential to attract other local and international partners for the project. In this respect, the inclusion of three new teacher training centres in this project, compared to the 2014 edition, proved the impact dissemination had on its early stages.On the other hand, the inclusion of a reference centre in teacher’s permanent training (CEP) has guaranteed its impact in all centres, through a continuous activity of communication and transfer of acquired knowledge.