"The project “S.E.E.D.S. - Strengthening knowlEdge and compEtences to Develop new Skills ""(2018-1-IT01-KA102-006370) was developed by UNCI Agroalimentare with the help of the national Consortium and its varied foreign partnership. Agri-food and Tourism, Trade and Marketing, represented the reference sectors of the project and its VET actions. The project actions were aimed at 111 young graduates from school curricula related to the sectors above mentioned: Agriculture, Agri-food and Agro-industry; Administration, Finance and Marketing, Tourism, Food and Wine Services, and Hotel Hospitality. The mobility experiences promoted were long-term (4 months - ErasmusPro). In total, 52 male and 59 female candidates, aged between 19 and 22, were selected, coming from different Italian regions: Campania, Veneto, Tuscany, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Liguria, Sicily, Molise and Marche. The training activities developed under the form of an internship in host companies chosen on the VET learners’ specific features (aptitude, as well as professional needs).The objectives and impacts achieved by “S.E.E.D.S.” were the following:- consolidation of an organized and defined VET cooperation made up of the right social actors (VET schools, public authorities, trade associations) capable of supporting young people in their accessing the labor market.- implementation of 111 mobility experiences in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Malta, and Spain, for the enhancement of technical-scientific skills relating to the professional sectors of reference (100% of internships, in fact, were perfectly in line with the profile of the selected participants).- growth in the employability level of the young graduates who took part in the mobility (15% of beneficiaries entered the labor market following their Erasmus internship by securing a job position either in their host companies or new businesses belonging to the same professional sectors).- enrichment of linguistic and managerial skills for the Consortium members and all the representatives engaged in the project design and implementation; improvement of the language skills of direct participants through the OLS platform (more than 95% of learners declared an improved language knowledge in a second European language).- acquisition of more in-depth knowledge about the European funding mechanisms (many consortium schools, during the months of management of ""S.E.E.D.S."", participated in the Erasmus+ Program for the promotion of initiatives related to Key Action 1 - Mobility for school staff; UNCI Agroalimentare itself has obtained the Accreditation to the new Erasmus 2020-2027 Program under the Key Action 1 to continue supporting the mobility of VET Learners.- greater integration of the operating systems of different organizations related to VET with the aim of increasing the quality of training courses and feeding pedagogical research activities (the foreign receiving organizations were able to better investigate the management dynamics underlying the Learning Outcomes monitoring, evaluation and recognition mechanisms; on the other hand, the companies hosting the internships gave its internal teams a crucial contribution towards their internationalization)."

"The ""L.A.N.D.S.C.A.P.E."" (2018-1-IT01-KA102-006489) started on 30th October 2018 and ended on 2nd9 March 2021, instead of 29th October 2020, following the recognition of an extension justified by the problems related to the health emergency from Covid-19.Liguria Region, being the promoter of the Consortium, with the support of the Regional School Office for Liguria, wanted to offer an opportunity for foreign mobility to a target of students who, up to that moment, had never been the recipient of specific transnational actions aimed at facilitating the transition from school to work. This intent was motivated on the one hand by a generalized economic crisis,and on the other by a rapidly evolving labor market, all the more so in a time of great difficulty for the Ligurian economy which, since August 2018 , had to face the serious consequences of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge.Therefore, starting from the potential of newly qualified newly graduates of the Ligurian Vocational Education and Training system, the mobility programs provided for in the Economy of the Sea have been implemented and built on the professionals related to it - logistics, tourism and ICT.The mobility tool used was of the ErasmusPro type, lasting 4 months, activated for 94 VET Learners mostly coming from Liguria and directed to companies located in Belgium, France, Ireland, United Kingdom and Spain.The mobility grants were intended for newly qualified/graduates of the school/training years 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 and were held within twelve months of the end of the course of study (upper secondary education and IeFP).Participants were selected from newly qualified/graduates of school and training courses consistent with the project sectors, namely those of the sea economy, the tourism-hotel sector, information technology and communication.As regards the objectives pursued and achieved, the project has:strengthened the partnership and synergies already existing between the world of education and training and that of work, aimed at promoting the consistency of the VET training offer with respect to the needs of the labor market in the strategic sectors of the regional economy and to support the transition path from school to work through actions to guide and contrast early school and training leaving, of which transnational mobility for the implementation of training internships abroad in sectors in line with their training path therefore represents a further important element; offered on the job learning opportunities (WBL) to participants, in sectors consistent with their qualifications, such as: marine economics, tourism-hotel, information and communication technologies, administration, finance and marketing, information technology and telecommunications, transport and logistics. It has therefore favored the acquisition of additional skills useful for the transition from the world of school to the labour market;allowed the development of European citizenship skills, transversal skills and soft skills necessary to live and work abroad for a period of 4 months; for the 35 participants who experienced the mobility experience during the COVID-19 emergency, the Landscape experience certainly represented a further opportunity for growth and development of their skills;represented a useful experience for the implementation of tools for the recognition and transfer of skills at European level through the use of tools such as Learning Agreement and Europass Mobility, together with certificates of participation and recognition of language skills through OLS;it made it possible to promote language learning, intercultural awareness and a sense of belonging to a wider community;implemented 93 mobilities compared to the 100 originally planned, due to the overlap of the COVID 19 health emergency with the project implementation period, which negatively impacted the enthusiasm of the participants (10 withdrawals, only partially recovered, in subsequent flows);Long-term benefits of the LANDSCAPE project are:-the cooperation activated by the consortium that has already led to the launch of a new project action entitled ""C.O.L.O.U.R.S. OF VET - Constructing experiences to achieve 'On the job' Learning Outcomes in the blue and green economy Sectors""(2020-1-IT01-KA102-008301), always coordinated by the Liguria Region;- obtaining VET accreditation for the Liguria Region and school accreditation for two secondary schools of the Consortium (Vittorio Emanuele II-Ruffini and Firpo Buonarroti, both from Genoa);- the funding of an Action KA1 project - Call 2020 school sector - for the IIS Fossati Da Passano in La Spezia."