Based on data such as the student survey and statistics, the school has worked out a development plan where one of the focus areas is motivation and mastery in education. There are several ways to increase motivation and promote coping, but how the teacher organizes teaching is crucial. Through internationalization projects like this we want to give teachers the opportunity to acquire more tools and perspectives through contact with colleagues in other countries. We will also give students motivation by introducing them to job opportunities and giving them greater insight into the subject they are educating within. We also want to explore how close contact with working life can help motivate students to take diplomas and how other countries organize practice in vocational subjects. The student, regardless of whether he chooses to take higher education or train for a craft certificate, is going to work in an increasingly international working life. Most subjects use production equipment and non-Norwegian programs, partners are often from abroad and the language used may be German, English or Chinese. Through this project, we want to equip teachers in both vocational and academic subjects with more tools to better meet the challenges of a future-oriented work life. Teachers who can motivate students by demonstrating how their subject field is practiced in other countries, teachers who can motivate through more forward-thinking teaching through ICT, that can empower students to master new forms of work and methods and that can guide with greater insight into what opportunities exist outside Norway's borders. We apply for job shadowing for teachers in vocational subjects and joint courses and student exchange within various program areas such as Health and Growth, Restaurant and Food Sciences and Electronics. Partnerships are from Malta, the Czech Republic, Germany and Spain. Contact with partners in Malta, MCAST, came through an existing project and all partners we have contacted are results of two contact seminars in respectively Brussels and Prague. Partner schools have wide experience with internationalization work and the different European countries have different demographics, socioeconomic status and culture that will give us interesting perspectives. Diversity will give both teachers and students an insight into how different the situation for young people in Europe is, how the school system works and knowledge of the challenges Europe is facing in terms of economic and political differences. We can offer partner schools our experience with deployment, professional knowledge in the areas relevant and how the school uses entrepreneurship as a method of training. In addition, we could show how we organize at school with collaborative time, culture for sharing methods and inclusion of employees in decision making. This is also something we will be interested in finding out from partner schools. Job shadowing and student exchange are the main activities that are applied for in this project. The activity will take place in different deployment periods both autumn and spring periodically from autumn 2018 until spring 2020. The knowledge acquired through the various activities will be shared in the organization and spread to colleagues in and outside the organization through meetings in the different departments. We are a large school with 270 educators - potential effect is thus great. Experience is also shared at county level through joint development days, but also regionally between schools in the area. Experience and knowledge will be shared on ICT platforms like Facebook and on websites, in addition to OneNote which will be used as the sharing arena. The project will also be shared in local and regional newspapers and national magazines for educators. We are constantly striving to spread our projects in various forums and also plan to make a video where the project is presented and experiences are shared. The video should be distributed regionally and nationally, on for example EPALE. In addition, it should be mentioned that the school has already been visited by the Norwegian EU delegation which is following our development work in this area. Contact with partner schools will be maintained after and between visits through Facebook, Email, Skype, ETwinning and other social platforms. Re-visits are planned from partner schools. The long-term effects of the project are increased competence of students and teachers to meet the future challenges both at work and in learning. In the long run, the goal is that the project will have a positive effect on completion and passing in all departments of our school through experience sharing and competence development between teachers and students participating in the project. Moreover, it should create a circle of positive effects in the local community in contact with business, other schools in the area and through distribution on social plattforms and in media.

"The IntegraRE project was carried out in a context, the Reggio area, characterized by the presence of 149 different nationalities and by a large number of resident foreign citizens (65,292), equal to 12.3% of the population; a figure higher than both the national (8.3%) and the regional (11.9%) average. In this sense, the achievement of a good level of social inclusion of migrant people represents at the same time an objective to be pursued and a process that local policies must promote and direct through the realization of a plurality of multidimensional interventions (school, training, work , social, health, home) closely related to each other.The project, promoted by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia from December 2018 to January 2020, allowed the creation of professional training courses at NGOs, associations, intercultural centers and other European structures specialized in welcoming and integrating foreign citizens, aimed at students and recent high school graduates of Reggio Emilia and its province.Specifically, the project was aimed at 84 students of classes IV and 35 recent graduates from the ""Health and social care services"" and ""Human sciences - economic and social option"" study programs of 7 Institutes (Canossa , Galvani-Iodi, Gobetti, Mandela, Carrara, Russell and Cattaneo-Dall'Aglio) who were able to carry out a mobility experience lasting respectively 35 and 92 days, in the following destinations: UK (London, Bristol and Cardiff), Ireland (Tralee), France (Bordeaux), Germany (Leipzig), Spain (La Coruña and Valencia), Portugal (Lisbon), the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and Malta.These are the main objectives achieved by the project: - Propose articulated actions able to generate impact at various levels (students, schools, companies, territories) that stimulate young people to realize mobility experiences abroad; - Optimize the transparency of certifications, the recognition of skills, the transition from school / training to work; - Training professional figures able to identify and respond to the needs of the foreign user, helping them to integrate, carrying out activities of connection between users and local services network and promoting interventions aimed at the dissemination of interculturality; - To allow young people to acquire social, civil and intercultural skills by promoting democratic values and fundamental rights, integration and non-discrimination, as well as active citizenship; - Promote mutual learning and exchange of good practices, in line with the ET 2020 strategic framework and for the implementation of the Paris Declaration (2015)."

AIM OF THE PROJECT: The main aim of the project is to develop teaching process, improve employment opportunities of the students and graduates and prepare students for real work environment considering European vocational training and labor market requirements on the same time ensuring high quality practices and internships. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT: 1. To get acquainted with specifics of work, its innovations, working tools, developed training programmes applied in foreign countries. 2. To improve knowledge, skills and professional competencies of the students which match the requirements of labor market. 3. To improve and integrate gained knowledge in the organizational process of teaching and methodology of training. 4. To acquire intercultural competencies. 5. To strengthen intercultural cooperation, communication and social competencies. 6. To improve foreign language competencies. PARTICIPANTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT: The foreseen number of the project participants is 45, from which 8 are teachers, 33 students of short-term mobilities and 4 graduates participating in ErasmusPro practices. Teachers participating in the project will acquire knowledge which will benefit development of teaching methods and training programmes. They will improve foreign language, intercultural competencies and international cooperation. Later, they will transfer acquired knowledge to the students and colleagues in this way contributing to the improvement process of education quality, promotion of teachers’ mobility in Europe developing their innovativeness, entrepreneurship skills and creativity. Important impact will be felt in the application process of teaching methods using newest techniques and technologies methods. Teachers from Hairdresser (1), Tailor (1), Cutter/pattern design and modeler (1), Fine textile handicrafts producer (1), Small business service provider (1), Recreation service agent (1), Sports club service provider (1), Paramedic (1) training programmes will participate in one week job-training activities abroad. Students participating in short-term motilities will get acquainted with newest techniques and technologies, will acquire intercultural communication knowledge, will improve capabilities to apply professional skills at work environment, and will develop their competitiveness in labor market in Lithuania and other Europe countries. Students will get acquainted with the specifics of services provision and the needs of clients in Europe developing professional excellence. Students from Hairdresser (5), Tailor (4), Cutter/pattern design and modeler (4), Fine textile handicrafts producer (2), Small business service provider (4), Recreation service agent (5), Sports club service provider (5), Paramedic (4) training programmes will participate in two week long practices abroad. In order to implement qualitative ErasmusPro long-term mobilities which corresponds the needs of participants will be implemented advanced planning visits. During mentioned visits will be discussed and evaluated organizational aspects seeking to reduce risks of possible negative impacts to the quality of long-term activities. Graduates participating in ErasmusPro long-term mobilities will acquire practical knowledge and skills, which will benefit capability to work independently. They will improve competencies regarding independent decisions, adaptability to the work environment and its requirements. Acquired professional competencies and knowledge will affect accordance to the labor market needs, which will foster possibilities to the successful employability and career planning process. Improved linguistic, intercultural, social and communication competencies will effect positively awareness of interculturalism. Graduates from Hairdresser (1), Cutter/pattern design and modeler (1), Sports club service provider (1), Paramedic (1) training programmes will participate in three months long practices abroad. Participants of the project will have practices and job-training activities in Portugal’s, Italy’s, Germany’s institutions and companies, which corresponds the expectations and needs of each of the named training programs. IMPACT AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT: The impact will benefit students and graduates improving teaching quality and competencies, which corresponds European Union requirements. The impact for the teachers will be felt improving professional competencies regarding the choice of right and suitable for qualification teaching methods integrating gained professional competencies to the teaching process. The benefits will be felt seeking to prepare students and graduates, which will be able to match labor market needs and requirements of real work environment. Implementation of the project will make positive impact the process of mobilities organization increasing interculturalism, promoting and developing employability, implementing strategic plan, fostering entrepreneurship and mobility.

The goal of this project is to increase the possibilities of Tartu Health Care College emergency medicine technician students and vocational education teachers for international collaboration. In Tartu Health Care College development plan 2015-2020 internationalisation has an important place for the formation of motivated, developing and successful students and staff. Vocational education learners of Tartu Health Care College do not have stable possibilities for traineeship abroad due to College Vocational Education Department budget is limited and does not have Erasmus+ VET Mobility Charter, therefore the College is dependent on project-based funding. Currently VET learners of emergency medicine technician programme do not have any possibilities to do their traineeship abroad by taking into consideration the migration trends in Europe, more and more international collaboration skills are needed, and therefore the College sees high value in the results of this project. During the project 4 emergency medicine technician studens will do their traineeship in Germany and 4 childminder students will do their traineeship in Portugal, which will result in better foreign language skills and international team work skills of the students. Also 4 staff members will go training abroad in order to share best practises, evaluate and compare learning programmes and practice placements. The participation in mobility will help the participants to compete better in the Single European Labour Market and foster international collaboration between partner organisations. In the long run this project will help to harmonize the ECVET principles in Europe. The increase of mobilities between partners will foster international collaboration and the community will have emergency medicine technicians who have international work experience, who know how to provide help to foreign speaking citizens.

BICAS - Building Intercultural Competencies for Ambulance Services was a transnational project, co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, including six partners from Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, running from 09/2016-08/2019. The main objective of this project was answering a rising need for intercultural competencies of ambulance service employees throughout Europe triggered by greater awareness about cultural diversity in European societies and especially by the increased influx of migrants and refugees. The on-going European integration, as well as the growing numbers of refugees and migrants, make intercultural competencies a necessity in pre-clinical emergency services. In fact, ambulance services and paramedics, as well as other medical and emergency personnel, are confronted with situations where intercultural knowledge is necessary. If intercultural competencies are lacking, emergency services are increasingly overstrained, leading to inadequate communication with patients, massive complications based on cultural/religious differences, psychosocial challenges and high stress levels on both sides, which result in avoidable complications in emergency situations. To achieve increased intercultural competencies, the consortium, consisting of vocational training institutions, organisations working with migrants, providing intercultural competencies training, IT experts and evaluation experts, developed an intercultural training course concept and framework which was translated into a blended learning approach and supporting tools, such as a Quick Reference in Action mobile APP. The App, which summarizes important information and can be used on the job to support ambulance service employees in the fulfilment of their tasks by providing easy accessible and important cultural background Information has been tested in the partner countries. The intercultural training course concept has formulated learning outcomes using ECVET criteria. The format of this training course is blended learning, consisting of an e-learning pathway and in-class-training. The blended learning training course was piloted and thoroughly evaluated to achieve a sustainable high quality output, which will be used in vocational training and further training of paramedics throughout Europe even after the project has ended. The results of the testing phase have been thoroughly evaluated. The results have been formulated in the policy recommendations to provide other stakeholders with a blueprint for intercultural competence training and the BICAS project's lessons learned and derived recommendations for the successful implementation of an intercultural competencies training.The goal of the training course is to achieve the willingness and ability to change perspective and put oneself in the place of people with migration history and different cultural identities references, putting own views into perspective and broaden social skills and abilities to work more efficiently. Gaining intercultural competencies is a process, which takes time and where the outcome is difficult to measure or to be estimated, since this is dependent on the willingness to integrate this knowledge into one’s own thinking and acting. However, through the BICAS training course and App paramedics will be enabled to competently handle difficult emergencies in an intercultural situation. Achievements of the project:- training course on intercultural competencies available in English, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish- trainer handbook for in-class-training available in English, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish- course curriculum available in English, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish- BICAS App available in English, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish- Emergency support dictionary within the BICAS App available in 11 languages- training course evaluation report available in English- App evaluation report available in English- training Course Guidelines & policy recommendations available in English, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish- implementation of intercultural competence training in initial and further education for paramedics by Johanniter Austria and Germany, and in Poland. BICAS materials will be used by the Department of Medical Emergency of University of Rzeszów, in initial and further vocational training in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship.- ongoing cooperation of Italian, and Spanish partners with organisations active in further education in health care, for example with the Andalusian School of Public Health sited in Granada where the LLTA was delivered with the participation of teachers - extension of the course to other target groups within the health care system- growing understanding of the relevance of intercultural competencies