ABB Training Center GmbH & Co.KG is planning mobility projects for trainees of ABB and affiliated companies in Wales, Malta, and Denmark. English is the language that will be used in all three countries. Owing to differing schedules in the vocational colleges in Germany the length of the various stays abroad differ - 9 weeks in Wales, 4 weeks in Malta, and 3 weeks in Denmark. Our trainees in business admin will go to Wales, whereas our technical trainees are earmarked for Malta and Denmark.German industry and ABB in particular are in need of superbly trained employees with good language skills (at least one foreign language) and a high level of personal skills. They wull additionally have experience in working abroad and thus have no problem to work and live abroad if necessary. The main aims of our projects are the improvement of the language skills (English) and personal skills. All in all there will be 54 trainees enrolled in this mobility project:1) 20 trainees in business administration, who will work in Swansea in SMEs and local retailers. 2) 34 technical trainees (elelctronics/mechatronics) :a) 14 participants to Denmark and the vocational college Mercantek in Viborg. BWithin the scope of this activity there will also be a mobility project by our Danish partner with Danish trainees coming to ABB in Heidelberg.b) 20 participants to Malta, where they will work in SMEs in electronis/mechatronics. ABB does intentionally not send our trainees to other ABB organisations to ensure that the experience our apprentice have is very widespread and not influenced by the ABB way of doing things.The projects in Wales and Malta are insofar similar as the participants will be working in selected organisations (shops/offices/local authorities). Additionally there will be several sightseeing visits with a historical and cultural background. Twice weekly there will be English courses in the evening including cultural information and discussions, and there stay will then terminate with theexam SEFIC) of the LCCIEB which is recognised worldwide. The compentency levels are C1/C2 for the business admin trainees and b1/B2 for the technical apprentices.In both countries they will be accommodated in holiday apartments/flats which will add to the further development of their personal skills as they have to organise themselves (organise cohabitating, rules, cvosts, planning, etc). In Denmark the trainees will be attending courses and workshops with their Danish counterparts (who will also come to ABB Heidelberg on their own ERASMUS+ project). They will also work-shadow in local enterprises. They are accommodated on the college premises (boarding). The long-term benefist of this project are better qualified employees with "European work experience" who can integrate more easily in multinational teams and can availthemselves of cultural and foreign langauge skills - employees German industry is in need of. Additionally 14 of our own trainers will go for their own learning experience to Denmark (4) and Wales (10). These will be technical trainers. Just as the trainees the trainers will have work experience in Welsh organisations and also additional cultural and English courses. In Denmark they will be fully integrated into the vocational college, but also work-shadow in local enterprises. The working language in both cases is English.Whenever possible we plan to send our trainers at different times from the trainees (this might also create bottle necks regarding placements, but in particular in Wales slight overlaps might occur due to the fact that our trainees are in Wales for 9 weeks.Arbeitssprache ist auch hier Englisch.Also here we aim at having better qualified training staff who then can also prepare and advise the trainees better and more easily for their stay abroad. Trainers alwasy set an example, and when trainees realise that also their trainers have taken the plunge (not that this is really a problem with our trainees) and stayed abroad for a learning experience, they are more readily prepared to do the same.

Our school aims to establish a solid cooperation with European Vocational organizations. This will raise the image of our School, promote staff competence, improve students' learning, help students to understand and come closer to a European multicultural environment and improve students' employability. As stated in school's development plan one of the main goals is the encouragement of all educators to be involved in European mobility programmes. Furthermore, taking part in such programme will give students a great opportunity to develop their personality, self-esteem, competence and skills. The participants are educators and students. The management administration of our school, having in mind the need for further personal and professional development of the educators, staff and students of the school, has decided that 2 members of the administration, 10 educators and 39 students should take advantage of the benefits that Erasmus+ Programme offers. The participants will be students attending a catering course in Culinary Arts, computer engineering and students attending Apply Arts. The students of the Catering department, during their second year in school, they must undergo a practical training in hotel and catering establishments for 20 weeks, a prerequisite for obtaining their school certificate. The same applies to the students of the Computer engineering and Apply Arts. On their 3rd year, they have to undergo a practical training of 180 hours. All teaching and administration staff have work experience within their fields. Especially, the instructors of the Hotel and Catering department work closely with the industry since, during the training program of the students (20 weeks training period), which is compulsory work experience, the educators inspect and evaluate their students. The educators and the students of the Hotel and Catering have participated in similar projects and the results were very beneficial and enjoyable to all. This mobility project consists of three main activities: Activity A1 Flow 1: 13 students from the Hotel and Catering department will attend a two week period training in hotels and restaurants in Riga Latvia, in the area of service and cooking. Our analytical curriculum includes International Cuisine, so this exercise will be part of it. Flow 2 : 13 students from the Computer and network department will attend 2 weeks working placements(internship) in computer business in Madrid, Spain. Our analytical curriculum includes a practical training, so this will be part of it. Flow 3 :13 students from the Apply Arts department will attend 2 weeks working placements(internship) in computer business in Viborg, Denmark . Flow 4 : 4 students from Civil Engineering and Architecture department will attend 2 weeks working placements in drywall and insulation issues Activity A2 Flow1 : 4 teachers from Civil Engineering and Architecture and Carpentry - Furniture Design department. The training is about drywall and insulation issues . Note that the program will be operated parallel with two other technical schools from Cyprus (B Technical School Limassol and Paphos Technical School) and in total students sixteen (16 ) and(14) teachers will be meet at Thessaloniki. Our Institution will carry out the management of the project, as explained in section F of this application. Our school will work closely with our partners in order to set up the learning agreements, concerning the procedures that both partners will follow and set up the standards for meeting the desired learning outcomes of the project. Furthermore, in cooperation with our partner organizations . As it is previously mentioned, one of the main objectives of this project for our school is to establish a solid cooperation with European Institutions in the field of VET. Upon meeting the objectives of this project an important result would be the improvement of qualification of teaching personnel as well as the establishment of processes regarding validation of experience gained during learning (for students) and teaching (for educators) periods in another country. Students, by improving their language skills, will improve their learning performance; upgrading students’ awareness of the European Union values and European Mobility projects will eventually upgrade the students' inter-cultural awareness and finally increase their self-esteem and employability. Educators and administration staff would, in the future, support the promotion of such mobility actions; upgrading their competences in teaching and training. All the above aim, at the end of day, to assist students to accomplish their smooth induction in the professional and social life, their competition for a place in the Tertiary Educational Institutions in Cyprus or abroad, their share in the lifelong Education and training, so as to be able to view and implement innovations in a fast changing world.

The project's overall objective is to ensure that students, teachers and education managers achieve subject-related and intercultural competence through an individually planned and qualitative cooperation with the international partners.With this project we aim to help strengthen our VET-students' progress from being a student to enter the labour market by giving them access to practice-oriented education and training in an intercultural context . We focus on the student's individual education plan, when we plan and implement the study and/or work placement abroad.Furthermore, we want to give teachers and educational managers the opportunity of going through a study and/or work placement at one of the partner institutions and/or their local partners. This project´s partner institutions would like to learn from each other in relation to individual study plans, the academic and theoretical content of the VET educations and general exchange experiences on the dual education system.It is important that the students experience coherence in their education and that they learn units of their educational program during their stay abroad. We will therefore make use of Units of Learning Outcome within ECVET in order to qualify the academic content.The students will spent 3 weeks abroad going through a work placement or a combined study and work placement at one of the partners. The teachers and educational managers will spent 4 days at one of the partner institutions and/or their local partners. We will make use of Europass Mobility Certificate. We are applying for a total of 95 mobilities; 14 placements, 64 combined study and work placements and 17 staff mobilities.The participants will acquire intercultural skills and improve their language skills.

In the project Rakvere Vocational School carried out mobility activities for students and staff members.All together Rakvere Vocational School carried out 94 mobilities for students and 2 mobilities for recent school graduates studying on following curriculum groups ICT; building and civil engineering; tourism, catering and accommodation services; food processing; materials (wood); mechanics and metal processing. To reach the aims of the project Rakvere Vocational School involved partners in following countries: Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Denmark, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia. With many of the partners school has long-term and mutual cooperation, but project involved also new partners interested in developing cooperation on students’ exchange. The aim of the project was to enhance the employability of the students in Rakvere Vocational School by supporting the development of professional and social skills and competences (like teamwork, adaptability, independence, problem-solving) by through organizing mobilities to other EU countries which have different (working)culture compared to Estonia, which in addition supports the development of foreign language skills and intercultural competencies in multicultural Europe. The project has supported reaching the set aim of the project as participants feedback is positive, students bring out that they have not only improved their professional and technical skills (including learning about new technologies, methods, materials, tools), they have also improved their foreign language and communication skills abroad when they had to communicate with their contact-persons, supervisors, colleagues, other students and new friends they found in other countries they still keep contact with, teamwork-ability, adaptability, decision-making and problem solving skills, they have better understanding of cultural differences and they are more opened to new challenges. Students participating in the project were 17-25 years old and for many of them it was also opportunity to acquire and develop essential skills needed in independent life like planning and managing their budget, basic household skills like cooking, doing laundry and cleaning their accommodation by themselves, many of them got the first time independent travelling or at all travelling abroad experience. All of it has also influenced positively students’ self-confidence and esteem. Mobility project activities and results support achieving the mission of Rakvere Vocational School to offer opportunities for students’ personal development as well as for managing their professional lives with the help of an up-to-date learning environment and friendly, motivated and qualified staff. Project involved also 6 mobilities of teachers with the aim to improve their professional and pedagogical skills by offering opportunities for practical training and/or job-shadowing at hosting partners, also to support their foreign language skills and give opportunity to expand their professional network. One of the teachers worked at smithy in Finland to learn work-technologies to use at home-school; one teacher worked in study restaurant in France learning not only about French cuisine, used ingredients and methods, but also organization of practical training for cook students in French school; 2 construction department teachers had programme combining taking part of practical activities in school workshops and job-shadowing in school of construction-sepcialities in France where one of them was focusing more on finishing and surveying studies and other one on woodworking studies. Project also involved two teachers for mobility activities for the first time: an IT-teacher had a job-shadowing in VET-school in Kaunas and a young teacher of automotive department in Spain, these two teachers observed theoretical and practical lessons, learned about study materials and –methods used, discussed the organization of study process and evaluation of students, visited the practical training companies. All teacher gave very positiive feedback to mobilities, which also helps to rise their work-motivation. Teachers use the knowledge and skills acquired in their lessons and based on their experiences give their contribution to develop the study materials, -methods and –proccess in school, they also contribute to school development plans. By carrying out the mobility project Rakvere Vocational school has also supported aim of EU's strategic framework Education and Training 2020 which states that the mobility of students and teachers has to become regular and integral part of VET, which helps people to develop their professional and intercultural skills and get over the language barriers, supports the employment and free movement of labour on EU career-market and in long perspective has influence on the development of VET, international cooperation, development of professional sectors and regions.

The requirements to work in a multicultural society increases continuously and the labor market is more and more looking for workers who have good self-awareness, good self-confidence and who are tolerant , flexible , stress resistant and able to handle the challenges of working life today. The characteristics mentioned above are developed during an international mobility in a way that would not happen if they did their placements in Finland.All hosting organizations, representing 11 different countries, are familiar with Axxell since before. This makes the cooperation and communication easier. LearnMob offers mobilities for youth and adult learners at the basic, further vocational and specialist vocational qualification (109 mobilities) and staff working in VET (53 mobilities) in the academic years 2014-2015 & 2015-2016 .Axxell strives for equality in international mobilities. Until now, only students of basic VET participated in international mobilities at Axxell . Through LearnMob Axxell wants to improve the equality in regards to international mobilities by including students at further vocational and specialist vocational qualification in the mobilities. In order to increase the equality of learner and staff mobilities, each unit/sector will be encouraged to send participants on mobilities. When selecting the participants focus is on who has the most to gain by taking part in a LearnMob mobility. Of the 102 mobilities reserved for students, 18 will be reserved for students who have fewer opportunities to participate in international mobilities.Already at the application stage, the objectives, expected results, dissemination etc. have been discussed by Axxell and the hosting partners. A Letter of Intent has been signed by Axxell and the hosting partners. The project has a cost account/project number for costs arriving during and by the project. The international coordinator is responsible for project management and the international contact persons are responsible for the practical arrangements and the preparations done before, during and after a mobility.LearnMob offeres the following possibilities for mobilities for staff: 1 ) Teaching at a vocational school and 2 ) Studyvisits with a focus on developing international exchanges and deepening the professional skills within VET. Through LearnMob learners can participate in international mobilities by working in an appropriate workplace arranged by the host organization. The length of the mobility varies from 3 to 16 weeks (students) and 3 - 10 days (staff). Method of communication is primarily e-mail or phone calls but also video conferences held with Lync are to be held regularly.Results/Impact:Axxell:- Responds to the demands of the labor market by providing skilled labor- Supports knowledge and personal development within Axxell- Awakes interest and challenges the development of existing teaching methods, models and processesStudents:- Increased studymotivation- Improved self-awareness /confidence- Confirms what they want to focus on in life- Increased ability to work in a foreign work environment- Increased capacity and flexibility- Better at taking own initiativesStaff:- Develop, enhance and improve professional competences- Increased VET skills- Increased motivation- Learn to appreciate their own work environment- Becomes better at mentoring students who come on/participate in international mobilities- Becomes better at encouraging students (including students who need extra support ) to participate in international mobilitiesHost organization :- Can compare their education with Axxells- Receives feedback on their VET- Increases internationalization at homeLocal, regional and national level :- The labor market gets workers who are flexible, tolerant, skilled and open to new challengesAt European level:- Helps to increase the mobility within the labor market (in a small scale)- The knowledge of the different VET systems in Europe grows as the participants compare VET systemsInformation about the project is disseminated throughout the entire lifespan and after the end of the project. A dissemination plan and a checklist are provided to all who participate in mobilities. The dissemination plan will focus on how to spread information about the project internally and externally on a local, national and European level. Blogs, a brochure/leaflet about the project and other materials created for dissemination purposes will be spread through Axxells’ website, intranet and through participation in various events.Evaluation of the project and the dissemination of project results will be analyzed regularly in the international group meetings (6 meetings/year) and the PLG group meetings (2meetings/year). Materials to be used when evaluating are e.g. participants Mobility Tool reports, webropool surveys done by learners/staff participating in LearnMob, the hosting organizations and evaluation discussions.