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CENTRO STUDI - OPERA DON CALABRIA

Country: Italy

CENTRO STUDI - OPERA DON CALABRIA

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000025453
    Funder Contribution: 130,041 EUR

    << Background >>The Job Ready - Traineeships with Practice Enterprise (ENGAGE) project comes out of a need to respond to an increasing demand of work-integrated/work-based placements from VET students due a lack of possibilities for in-company internships in the real job market brought about by the challenges of the 2020-21 school year. 90% of all students were kept out of school due to school closures of Covid-19 and that means nearly none had the opportunity to participate in an internship or not at the scheduled time.ENGAGE aims to offer a flexible, innovative and inclusive Practice Enterprise Traineeship that’s adaptable to the future needs and requirements of the labour market. Combined school- and work-based programmes where a majority of the curriculum is organised as work-based learning in enterprises, have been particularly affected as businesses have closed or reduced their operations. With an economic crisis looming, it is still an open question whether companies will be able to take on interns as they struggle to recover from the economic setback.With current world developments affecting education, economy and employment, the need for alternative models of internships has become necessary. The challenges in education in the past year have made the need for accessible internships even more pressing and some groups of students find it increasingly hard to find good internship placements. The objective of the project is not to create a substitute for in-company internships, rather it aims to provide a complementary alternative traineeship opportunity that offers an inclusive and flexible work-based learning option for VET trainees.<< Objectives >>The ENGAGE project will adapt the traditional Practice Enterprise (Übungsfirma) program into a traineeship model to offer an alternative solution of work-based placements that closely match a real-world company in cases where VET students are unable to secure an internship that includes work-based components.Practice Enterprise traineeships will improve access to internships for VET students from disadvantaged backgrounds as educational institutions can prioritise marginalised and disadvantaged students. This includes overcoming any geographical or economic barriers for young people from remote areas for participation in traineeship activities.Development of an inclusive traineeship model for trainees coming from different economic and social environments offers the possibility of individualised traineeship pathways, as the traineeship takes place directly in the VET institution and is closely followed up by in-class trainers.Development of a traineeship certification and recognition system, based on the actual needs and requirements of employers, will offer an employment tool that trainees can directly add to their CV and present to potential employers as a work experience.<< Implementation >>The project will evaluate the effectiveness of a traineeship in a Practice Enterprise as an integration mechanism and the factors that determine the effectiveness of internships as a labour market integration measure. This involves looking at the opportunities and challenges of setting up a traineeship in a Practice Enterprise in order to develop an engaging, realistic and sustainable model.From these results, a framework for a traineeship Practice Enterprise will be modelled. This includes programme development, training guides, evaluation methods, staff support, best practices and examples of practical work and various pedagogical tools to ensure the realistic aspect of the traineeship.Pedagogical tools include a project website including general project information and descriptions and definitions of the traineeship model for the general public, as well as an interactive online resource for trainers including training documentation and resources, as well as a workspace for traineeship participants. The workspace will include job contact and networking resources as well as a traineeship portfolio of their work.The project will also develop a framework for a certification system that all trainees participating in the ENGAGE project would receive upon completion of their traineeship. The certification will use the ENTRECOMP and DIGICOMP frameworks as a guide for the specific skills necessary for a successful traineeship.<< Results >>The ENGAGE project will adapt the traditional Practice Enterprise program into a traineeship model to offer an alternative solution of work-based placements that closely match a real-world company in cases where VET students are unable to secure an internship that includes work-based components.The traineeship will integrate features of traditional internships that are conducive to the integration of young people into longer term stable and implement work-based competencies into the learning outcomes, activities and skills that are regularly trained in the standard Practice Enterprise model.Project results will include surveying, benchmarking and a detailed report. Available opportunities for internships in real companies as well as other potential internship models will be researched, evaluated with regard to opportunities and disadvantages, technical requirements, costs, sustainability and adaptability.Following reporting, a project website will be developed including general project information and descriptions and definitions of the traineeship model for the general public, as well as an interactive online resource for trainers including training documentation and resources, as well as a workspace for traineeship participants.In the last part of the project, a framework will be developed for a flexible skills assessment and qualifications certification system that ENGAGE traineeship participants would receive upon completion of their traineeship, that includes a recognition strategy for certification after the traineeship is completed.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 101049398
    Funder Contribution: 120,000 EUR

    The MULTINA project aims to develop an innovative and inclusive model of the Practice Enterprise concept by creating multinational Practice Enterprises for VET students to experience an internationalisation@home. Students will work and learn together live with peers from other countries, strengthening international cooperation, language and digital skills, getting a better understanding of how an international market works and enabling students to work together in an international environment.The multinational Practice Enterprise will offer virtual mobility opportunity for trainees through operational connections with other student Practice Enterprises from around the world, creating a realistic multinational learning environment. The international dimension of the Practice Enterprise is especially relevant at this time, as VET institutions are experiencing great difficulty in mobility activities for students from every country due to the ongoing worldwide health crisis.With the goal to advance the flexibility and inclusivity of the 5,000 Practice Enterprises currently operating in VET institutions across Europe, as well as to adapt to the current changes in the field of education due to the current pandemic, the need for alternative forms of mobility where the participant can experience international work-based learning in a safe environment that closely matches a real-world company has become a reality.The MULTINA project will create a framework, guide and internationalisation@home toolkit to enable these students to get an insight into international business by creating branches of their businesses together with VET students in another participating country. It will also allow them to experience the reality of the global interconnected business world where they can become active citizens and experience live work-based interactions with their international peers through a cooperative, innovative and inclusive model of multinational Practice Enterprise.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2021-2-DK01-KA220-YOU-000048625
    Funder Contribution: 147,000 EUR

    << Background >>The Practice Enterprise bridges gaps between education and the world of business. It strengthens inclusivity in the learning process and empowers youth to take charge of their own learning pathways and learn at their own pace. Practice Enterprises reinforce academic skills and achievements, reignite interest in education, and raise student desire for self-development and the pursuit of lifelong learning. Online youth events offer the possibility to connect with peers and interact with youth from across Europe, actively involving youth in the learning process, increasing motivation, initiative, creativity and responsibility.Access to training and qualifications for all will be enhanced with the JOINUS project by providing a safe online event environment for youth. Low-skilled participants will have the opportunity to acquire skills and competences in a peer-sharing model in which they can simulate a work-based event experience without failing to meet the expectations found in real-world events and activities. This means that they can exercise common tasks over and over without fearing the consequences of making mistakes associated with real world events. They will have the benefits of virtual hands-on practice while avoiding the risks characterized in reality, while enhancing their virtual mobility and learning of new ways of working including remote learning.The project will develop a future-proof event model that will maintain pedagogical accessibility even during times of crisis such as that we are experiencing in the last year and will still face in the upcoming years. The demand for in-person as well as online is still very high and continues to be high. With the inclusivity of the JOINUS project, youth organisations from economically challenged regions can continue their internationalization strategy. Hopefully, this project will build a future-proof solution to allow the events experience to go online, while at the same time enhancing transferable digital skills acquisition for all participants.<< Objectives >>The main objective of the JOINUS project is to analyse, benchmark and develop a methodology and platform for operating online youth events within the Practice Enterprise programme. The project will develop a digital model for the 120,000 youth that participate in the Practice Enterprise programme across Europe each year, through which transnational activities can be carried out in a virtual and practice-oriented online format.As an alternative to live events, the JOINUS project will make it possible for the 5000 Practice Enterprises from 17 countries across Europe to take part in transnational online events and experience the international community of the Practice Enterprise, albeit online. The project focuses on promoting innovative methods and pedagogies and develops learning and sharing content that supports the use of ICT in education and training. Online events include fairs, competitions, challenges and exchanges.The project offers a digital experience for online job skills learning events using a realistic web-based and practice-oriented online events system, integrating new online ways of doing mobilities and new trends of moving job-based training online as thinking changes towards online events and exchanges. This will prepare youth for work in a real-life hybrid in-person/online business environment while offering the opportunity to develop online learning and online work skills such as those from the Top 10 Skills in 2025 by the World Economic Forum.The JOINUS project will develop an online event model that underpins and strengthens the teaching and learning of specific key competences for lifelong learning such as online communication, digital competencies, learning to learn, and a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, as well as providing an experience with shifting work processes completely online.<< Implementation >>In the JOINUS project we will combine good practices and analyse the existing Practice Enterprise events focusing on competitions, activities and challenges and research and examine possibilities of future national and international online Practice Enterprise events. The aim is to analyse how online events can be realized, which tools and software could be used, what the planning for national and international events includes, the needs of the target groups, what the advantages are and which challenges may be faced and anticipated. Project activities include two key results, the planning and modelling of online activities and the development of a platform and resources for online events.The first result of the project includes the planning and design a future-proof model for the JOINUS online events and activities. The key to this result is to produce a transferable and adaptable model so that it can be used both within the consortium group and also outside with other countries and networks from across Europe. There are a number of large-scale events and competitions run across Europe and internationally each year, however many of these have been outright cancelled over the past 18 months. Our goal is to offer a transferable and adaptable model for online events that will allow our partners and connected networks to continue to host Practice Enterprise events using an accessible and inclusive online model.Partners will draft documentation and guides for the planning of JOINUS events including a step-by-step process and timeline from preparation to follow-up, necessary checklists, people to be involved, necessary IT requirements for youth participants, trainers and organizers of the event and provide examples for potential costs. Current in-person event and activity models will be reworked and adapted to the consortium’s needs for moving such activities online as needed and adapt the model’s visuals, terminology and wording to cater to the needs of the Practice Enterprise youth participants and trainers. Examples for an online set-up will be tested and possible designs/options presented. In addition, options for competitions and challenges that could be carried out online to accompany and round off the Practice Enterprise JOINUS experience will be modelled and developed. These could include enterprise challenges, elevator pitch competitions, business plan competitions and networking events.The plan and model will be combined, used for and included in the second result, the platform and online resources for online events. The key components of this result are guides and resource documents. The aim is to provide guide elements including step-by-step guides, digital guides on a project page, online / in-person trainings & seminars and feedback and evaluation form and methodologies.Text-based explanations will be used where necessary but kept to a minimum. The goal is to make the platform and resources intuitive, easily accessible, transferable and concise. Where possible infographics and visuals will be applied to provide appealing examples. This has proven to be an effective and much used method. Depending on the topic to be explained, especially looking at any more technical processes, short how-to videos will be produced. Texts, infographics, visuals and videos will link to further resources such as research publications, further examples, suggestions for adaptations and other findings. Resources that would go beyond the scope of the JOINUS project will be added and made available. An overall look and feel to the guides including terminology, colours, fonts, etc. will be produced in accordance with the project's visual identity.<< Results >>The future-proof JOINUS youth Practice Enterprise event model will provide a number of beneficial results for project partners and for any and all users of the Practice Enterprise methodology. One of the key benefits of the methodology is the internationality provided through the European and international network. Although transnational communication and exchanging are already established, transnational travels to other country's events include planning, financial burdens and timing challenges. The JOINUS model minimizes travel costs, increases the possibility for international participation and thereby, allows to provide more participants with an international experience while being at home. In addition, this also allows more people with disabilities to actively participate in an international event without having to face challenges that traveling long-distance can bring along.Practice Enterprise participants as well as trainers will learn and use new technologies and further improve their digital skills in an applied way of learning. Through the JOINUS model, plan and guides, youth participants and trainees will be able to easily get acquainted with new applications, processes and gain valuable ICT skills. Especially for youth who are about to enter the world of work, these skills are considered as fundamental. In addition, these skills are highly transferable and a key part of the World Economic Forum Top 10 in 2025 List of Skills.Challenges with mobility activities have forced a lot of institutions and organisations to cancel or delay planned events. Although quick adjustments to transfer some events or parts of events to online sessions can already be witnessed at small-scale, JOINUS expects to build a ready-to-be-used model allowing national Practice Enterprise networks to plan online events and to be able to quickly adjust to travel and organisational challenges.Implementing online transnational events will also give the opportunity for country Practice Enterprise networks that don’t have the financial capacity to implement their own national or transnational events, as project outputs will be open-source for all of the 17 network member countries that currently operate Practice Enterprises across Europe. There are currently a number of national Practice Enterprise networks that don't have the financial capacity to hold in-person events, either due to limited national budgets or due to the limited size of their national network and base of funding and participants.While classic events for Practice Enterprises can and will still take place, the necessity to provide models and examples of more digital encounters and communication has been rising. Physical events and fairs and meetings, digital communication, the physical Practice Enterprise setting and new means of online fairs and events will complement each other providing the best suitable and most flexible options for all Practice Enterprise institutions, trainers and youth.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2014-1-IT01-KA102-002338
    Funder Contribution: 406,111 EUR

    CONTEXTIeFP+ integrates in the internationalisation strategy of the IeFP regional system, aiming at the reaching of the 6% benchmark of students participating to mobility, foreseen by ET2020.Aeca and its regional network of partners, including Regione Emilia Romagna, have already started the process through previous LLP Leonardo Mobility, Network and ESF for students' mobility and the development of a regional structure that could facilitate the coordination and the involvement of vocational training centers of regional territory in learning mobility. OBJECTIVESTo foster social inclusion and employability of young people attending vocational training courses, encouraging at the same time the personal development and lifelong learning. IeFP participants will acquire key competences and professional skills in order to achieve their qualification, continue training or enter the labor market.To integrate learning mobility into the training system of IeFP in Emilia Romagna, in order to:- increase the attractiveness of IeFP- recognise learning outcomes through ECVET- strengthen and organise the regional cooperation towards the creation of a consortium for VET mobility in Emilia Romagna.NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTSIeFP+ will involve 216 students of vocational education (EQF 3). Young people aged between 16 and 20, some of them with educational, economical social or cultural difficulty. 85% of students have interrupted their studies or have an unsuccesful training career. The opportunity of training in Europe through Erasmus+ Programme will represent for the majority of them the only chance to have a training experience abroad, in a way to acquire skills and competences that could have a significant impact on their personal and professional profile. Participants will be selected among students of second and third year, attending courses for the achievement of the following qualifications:Agriculture OperatorAgrifood OperatorMechanic OperatorGraphic OperatorBuilding OperatorCar Reparing OperatorAdministrative OperatorCatering OperatorTouristic Promotion and Hospitality OperatorBeauty Treatment OperatorThe qualification have been chosen according to the indicators of socio-economical context of Emilia-Romagna and to those sector that could required the kind of skills and key competences acquired by this participants, because they are developing more and more their international dimension.ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGYThe activity concerns the organisation of curricular internships in European companies of the duration of 2 weeks for 216 students coming from 27 training centres of IeFP system in Emilia-Romagna.Definition, assessment, validation and recognition of learning objectives reached by participants will be carried out through the implementation of ECVET system. The countries of destination will be: Ciprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Slovenia and Spain. The participants will be sent in 4 flows, each one composed by 6-7 groups of 8 students and an accompanying person. RESULTS AND IMPACTSeing the dimension and the number of actors involved at regional level, it is expected that the project will have an impact after the end of the activity, starting from the results, which will concern:- the participants, 100% will successfully finish their training path, achieving the qualification thanks to the recognition of learning results of mobility- the training centres and VET providers involved that will integrate learning mobility in their training offer, designating a coordinator- Aeca, Emilia-Romagna Region and national partners, through the formalisation of the partnership in a consortium or in another agreement form, in order to ensure continuity and sustainability to the network.- the national and european level, for the diffusion and transfer of IeFP organisational model and for the development of cooperation among VET consortia.LONG TERM BENEFITA systemic mobility at regional level means:- more opportunities for IeFP professionals and students, which are formally recognised.- more qualified human resources, that can enter in the labor market, matching with the competence needs of the companies with international dimension- an infrastructure working on development strategy of mid-long term mobility- the reduction and optimisation of mobility costs and increasing opportunities of raising new co-financing- the diffusion in Europe of a model for cooperation among VET consortia, which would facilitate the companies' involvent and their active participation.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2017-1-DE02-KA202-004136
    Funder Contribution: 447,330 EUR

    "The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) calls for the right to education and access to work for all people with disabilities. This also applies to young people with cognitive impairments. Their path to vocational training and subsequent integration into the general labour market still has many barriers. This project focuses on them and contributes to general awareness, as well as to allowing participation in work-life and in society. Today, the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies has become generally accepted. The importance of these skills is also highlighted in vocational rehabilitation. However, there is no systematic approach to comprehensively assessing competency and initiating targeted support for participants. The professionals (educators, teachers, instructors, special needs teachers, therapists) involved in such training should be aware of the importance of social emotional learning competencies, and have the tools to recognise and develop them accordingly. However, a lack of such tools means that, to date, the corresponding funding has been inconsistent. The SEC4VET Project aimed to strengthen social and emotional learning during the vocational rehabilitation process, thereby contributing to the strengthening of empowerment and inclusion. SEC4VET brought together people with learning disabilities, self-help associations, vocational rehabilitation and science. Jointly, they all developed a diagnostic and support concept so that young people with disabilities can successfully complete their education, develop their potential and experience social participation. The targeted group is young people with learning disabilities, including minor mental disabilities, who are in occupational / work preparation or vocational training. After intensive professional preparation, these young people are able to learn a profession with reduced theoretical requirements. The second target group are teachers and specialists in the areas of vocational rehabilitation and inclusive vocational training, as well as teachers and social workers in vocational schools. The project lead to a broadening of competencies for the participating pupils and trainees, as well as for the project team members, the teachers and the specialists involved in the test trials. The dissemination and sustainability strategy was initially directed at the organisations within the project partnership, rather than at education providers, companies or integration services. This was done on both a national and European level. After the development partner tests the tools (intellectual output), they are implemented within the partnering organisation. In order to promote the transfer of results externally, the integration of project partners into national and European networks was very important. Each partner carrie dout multiplier events and other dissemination activities. The project was severely affected by the corona pandemic in the last half of the project period. A transnational projectr meeting, a transnational learnng/teaching/training event, several multiplier events and the final symposium could not be carried out as planned. The train-the-trainer workshop at the Berufsbildungswerk Mosbach-Heidelberg to test and introduce the diagnostic tools was a valuable further training for all experts to ensure the sustainability of the project results in the partner institutions.The 2nd LTTA event was planned as a workcamp with the title ""We are Europe"" with participants young people with disabilities in Northern Italy and had to be cancelled shortly before in the Corona risk area. The project was highly innovative and very complex. Four intellectual outputs are included as part of the significant results of the project: 1. Diagnostic tools (standardised diagnostics with self assessments and external assessments for cognitively impaired persons). The diagnostic tool captures the various dimensions of social and emotional learning competencies. 2. Manual on the importance of social emotional learning competencies (for instructors, teachers, etc.) 3. Concept for the promotion of social emotional learning competencies. The concept includes various areas differentiated by expertise, type and content. 4. Training modules for the participating teachers and specialists The tools that are target-group specific also contribute to further development and quality assurance in various occupational and business contexts, as well as in supporting and promoting learning. This is reflected in the implementation of vocational training for young people with cognitive impairments."

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