"The situation of the labor market in Spain , where youth unemployment exceeds 50% , makes it difficult for young people to find their first job. Mobility projects facilitate and expand the expectations of accessing the labor market , both national and European , of students who are finishing their training and recent graduates .The IIEFP project has been created in answer to the need for schools to provide their students the opportunity to expand and improve the quality of their training by performing practices in European companies to get in touch with the European labor Market . The close collaboration of the schools in the consortium has facilitated the development of this project in response to demand from schools.Moreover, the schools need to establish long-term networks of knowledge that allow them to get in touch with: companies, schools , social partners and local authorities. This has allowed them to get in touch with innovation , sharing best practices and knowledge of European policies , improving the quality of their teaching and combating youth unemployment. The consortium is made up of nine institutes of the Valencian region coordinated by one of them IESSVIn the project has participated for 72 students or recent graduates in VET in the of ' Administration and Management ' (Administrative Management ) and "" Computer and Communications "" ( microcomputer Systems and Networks ). It will run from 31 of july 2015 to 30 of july 1016 to allow, in the case of students, to integrate the mobility into their training as a part of the subject (FCT) . The motilities has been helded in UK, Italy and Portugal.The main objective of IIEFP has been that participants develop through training practices in European companies, skills and abilities to complete, in a practical way, the skills acquired in VET for being efficiently incorporated in the European labor market. They need to develop specific skills and techniques on the subject that they have studied but they need to develop other key skills such as cultural, linguistic, entrepreneurship and individual initiative, ability to work in teams and knowledge of other working environments to facilitate their insertion in the European labor market, like self-employed or employed.The main activities carried out by the project partners are:-Preparation mobility. Including: Selection of participants, initial assessment of their skills , previous training participants , logistical and contractual issues , coordination ...-Realization of mobility. Working on enterprises and making cultural activities.-Evaluation of the participants. The skills acquired during the period shall be certified using Europass and defined from an initial evaluation. The activities within the company will aim to achieve these skills.-Monitoring. A tracing of the evolution participants will be will be made by the means established in the project.-Dissemination. The dissemination activities has been developed during all the project. A final dissemination conference for showing the results of the project has been organized.Besides the impact on the participants, the project has affected the partners promoting European cooperation and rapprochement between enterprises and schools.Dissemination activities and mobility itself has created an impact at the local, regional and national levels. Although they are not involved in the project, other entities at the local, regional and national levels have had benefit from the project results:-Improving the skills of young people-Improving youth employment rates-Possibility of contacts with other European institutions to share best practices-Possibility to develop projects of European cooperation-Improving the quality of education provided in schools-Facilitate the incorporation of the enterprises to the network for reciving foreign students-To know how to use the new models of certification. ECVET-To facilitate the incorporation of women into the labor market.-To Encourage social inclusionThe project is directly linked with the 2020 strategy and strategic priorities agrees to help the EU and its Member States to generate higher levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion"

"CONTEXT The Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise ""Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women, young people and older workers"" so to achieve a benchmark of "" 75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 by 2020– achieved by getting more people into work. One of the main obstacles to the full achievement of this ambitious objective is that there are high rates of low-skilled and low-qualified adults that competitive within the labor market. The demand for digital technology professionals has grown by 4% annually in the last ten years. Yet digital skills are lacking in Europe at all levels. Despite continued strong employment growth, the number of unfilled vacancies for ICT professionals is expected to almost double to 756000 by 2020. Furthermore, almost half the EU population lacks basic digital skills. Education and training should equip everyone with a broad range of skills which opens doors to personal fulfilment and development, social inclusion, active citizenshipand employment. Project partners work everyday with adult students in situation of vulnerability facing multiple barriers (such as social exclusion, poverty or discrimination) because of their lack of qualification to be incorporated in the labor market. Within this context the partners of this project have explored these issues and identify solutions to help ADULT students to be inserted in the labor market establishing effective links between adult schools and the world of work and entrepreneurship using social media and ICT. The project partners have identied 3 main NEEDS of the target groups: -Adult teachers and trainers need to acquire the skills to train their adult students on the aware use of ICT and Social Media to find job opportunities and develop their entrepreneurial spirit -Adult students need to scale up their key and tansversal comptences adapted to the digital era to be incoroporated in the labor market -To promote inclusion of adults paying particular attention to adult vulnerable groups with low skills and qualifications promoting equality between women and men, combating discrimination, promoting tolerance and a high-level of quality and sustainable employment, combating long-term unemployment and fighting against poverty and social exclusion. To answer to these 3 main needs the project AIM has been to promote the entrepreneurial spirit of adult learners using social media and ICT to create new e-enterprises ensuring increased opportunities for being incorporated in the labor market in an effective way. ACTIVITIES -""e-entrepreneurship"" training package. The training package contains a collection of video lessons on how to create the digital identity of enterprises - Testing of the training package by adult teachers, trainers in order to make them acquire the skills to exploit the full potential of ICT and social media for to create new e-enterprises ensuring increased opportunities for participation on a modern, flexible and inclusive labor market. -National training experience ""how to become an e-entrepreneur"". Adult students has been trained to promote their entrepreneurial spirit using social media and ICT to create new e-enterprises -International training experience on ""Adopt an enterprise experience"" exploiting social media and ICT. This activity with adult learners took place in Greece. During 5 days 5 adult learners selected for each partner attended this training activity. The participants selected by each partner have been made paying particular attention to adult vulnerable groups, promoting equality between women and men. -Enterprises have collaborated in the workshops in how to exploit social media and ICT for creating a new e-enterprise in Europe. Furthermore adult students have integrated formal, non-formal and informal education. -International Conference about ""International e-entrepreneurship"" in Italy at the end of the project with the participation of all the partnership, adult teachers, trainers and learners, public authorities in charge of adult education policies, trade unions, enterprises.. has promoted the project results and activities. PARTNERSHIP The project has involved 5 institutions of 5 different European countries. The partnership is composed by institutions with experience in adults training and in the development of innovative projects for adult students which have help to reach quality results. OUTCOMES -Training package created to reach the needs of the target groups. -Project website -Learning community -Teacher and students training -Insertion of the project results into the European adult systems -Entrepreneurship classroom -Final conference IMPACT People involved in the project. -100 adult Teachers -30 Enterprises -400 adult students half of them with fewer opportunities -Other stakeholders 1220"

"CONTEXTThe Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise ""Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women, young people and older workers"" so to achieve a benchmarkl of "" 75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 by 2020– achieved by getting more people into work.The achievement of this important goal, that has important implication for the more general objectives of at least 4 of the five headline targets that have been set for the EU to achieve by the end of 2020 as employment; research and development; education; social inclusion and poverty reduction, is threatened by the economic crisis and the consequent loss of job opportunities that in many countries lead the unemployment rates to achieve ""record"" percentages.Older workers are more exposed to unemployment and exclusion from good careers opportunities, with rates that often reach 35% and more in European Countries and due to the economical crisis and low qualification.Within this context the partners of this project have explored these issues and have identified solutions to help older people to be inserted in the labor market establishing effective links between adult schools and the world of work. NEEDSAdult learners, Adult teachers and enterprises need to break the barriers caused by the digital divide which separate them from the net. For helping adult learners to join the labour market using social media, we have trained mentors on how to write an European CV, how to find a job using social employment portals and how to create, maintain and preserve the digital identity for the world of work. Social online Mentors are 10 adult learners in each country. Mentors are offering support, advice an information related on the project issues to the other adult learners using the ""social mentor office"".The project is using Mentoring interpairs like a methodology of shared learning and growth citizens (Internet, first-class citizens), and the rest of people who, due to their lack of knowledge or domain in relation to the use of web social media tools, are considered as the new digital illiterates of the 21st century.The use of Social media and ICT is not widespread among adults, they have learned how to use social media to socialize, communicate and searching job opportunities. Social Media and Internet are now very often used by the companies for selecting in an effective way their future employees.Adult learners have learned how to create and preserve their digital identity where they keep on their competences, language knowledge, etc. to become an optimal candidate to be reincorporated in labour market in the most rapid an efficient way.AIMThe aim of the project has been to promote employment for long term unemployed adult people, through an effective use of social media , ICT and through the training of 10 adult learners in each participant country that are called “ social digital mentors”ACTIVITIES-Learning community-Social mentors training package-Workshops with adult teachers-Training the ""Social digital mentors""-Barcamps with personal recruitment managers of companies.-Social Online Mentors office-Conference about “social digital mentors” CONSORTIUMThe project has involved 7 institutions of 5 different European countries. The partnership is composed by institutions with experience in training adult teachers and learners and in the development of innovative projects for adult education.OUTCOMES-Online social digital mentoring training package, The training package contains a guide and a collection of useful training materials with at least the following chapters:how to create your European curriculum,the most demanded profesional profiles, how to look for work in an effective way in Europe using European employment portals,how to create personal professional profile, how to monitor and improve personal and professional profile, how to organize personal development plan, tools for creating, controlling, maintaining and improving your own reputation. For creating (select your name, social networks (pages on Facebook, twitter, Linkedin,foursquare, etc), blogs, youtube, flikr, slideshare etc., for controlling (google alerts, google analytics, Tweetreach, google inside, facebookinside, howsocialble, etc), for improve and maintain (tweetdeck, hootsuite ,etc.) The training package contains too a collection of training materials (videos, online games, images, documents, links, interview, etc)-Social digital mentors website and social media pages-Social mentors office. A mailbox on the website has been created, where all interested adult learners may consult their questions.IMPACTPeople involved in the project.- 140 adult teachers- 2000 adult learners in 14 adult institutions- 43 professionals in the field of the recruitment of employees- 3 local authorities - 1 Regional authority- 20 inspectors of education- 3 European networks- 1 Trade Union."

"The suburbs, more than big cities, need to get in touch with the world and the opportunities at European level that often struggle to enter the peripheral areas. Even more, young people living in the periphery areas of the city of Bologna are often distant from the big centers and flee to seek other incentive, increasingly impoverishing those territories. SuburBANG! aims to give a shake, to show how much a provincial territory can give its young people, especially with fewer opportunities, without them looking forward to leaving or finishing in some unhelpful lap. And young people directly involved will only be able to get stronger, aware of their potential, developed or discovered through volunteering and social inclusion. Starting from this main goal, SuburBANG! wants: - Promoting intercultural volunteering activities aimed at non-formal learning of specific knowledge and skills and growth as active individuals - Contribute to the promotion of solidarity, critical thinking and social inclusion of disadvantaged people, maturing multi-faceted skills in relationships with them - Contribute to creating a chain effect in local youths, thus promoting alternative paths and personal paths, which can then be a benefit to the entire community - Make a tangible sign of the importance of these actions, involving stakeholders and other local associations, so that there is greater recognition and listening to the needs of young people, especially those with less opportunities The project envisages the involvement of young people, even with lesser opportunities, and allows them to make significant and well-preserved experience abroad enabling them to acquire skills and knowledge important for their future by means of an active and non-formal learning methodology, whose planned and shared results will be visible and promoted at various levels and accessible to anyone interested in implementing or learning similar experiences and activities, thus reflecting the objectives of the Erasmus+ program. Six volunteers will be involved from Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Greece, Romania. Half of these represents economic, cultural and geographic difficulties. In general, according to the target group with which each SO operates, young people will decide to spend one year of EVS because they want to make new valuable experiences, for example, escaping from a difficult situation, unemployment or more simply to have a gap year that allows them to reflect on their future, while making something important and significant for their growth, in the meantime. SuburBANG! consists of 6 Volunteering Projects in hosting projects at the Municipality of Anzola-Centro Giovani, Municipality of Budrio-Teatro Consorziale, Association ""La Strada"", all active in the Metropolitan area of Bologna, with which YouNet has been working for a long time and has supported the accreditation as RO. At Comune di Anzola, volunteers will be able to understand closely how youth policies work in a small reality, and how they are implemented to avoid juvenile discomfort, particularly among adolescents, who are, in that context, the most vulnerable group . At the municipality of Budrio, the volunteers will cooperate with the Culture Department of the Municipality for the promotion of art in its various forms and to bring young people, especially with fewer possibilities, to this dimension, which can also be a means of expressing their own needs. With ""La Strada"" association, they will be able to operate in a territory that presents various difficulties from the point of view of integration and opportunities for young people, especially those at risk of deviance. They will work in the area of youth and adult discomfort in close contact with some institutions trying to give concrete alternatives. The project in its entirety will have a strong impact on volunteers, RO, SO. But also, associated partners, hosting and original communities. Looking to the future, it is hoped that we will continue to work with SuburBANG! partners, to adopt and implement the results and using them in different contexts. There is also the hope of a bigger recognition of the learning experience and competenses through volunteering and non formal education."

"The difficult situation of the labor market in Spain, where youth unemployment exceeds 50% , makes it difficult for young people to find their first job. Mobility projects facilitate and expand the expectations of accessing the labor market , both national and European , of students who are finishing their training and recent graduates .The IIEFPE project has been created in answer to the needs for schools to provide their students the opportunity to expand and improve the quality of their training by performing practices in European companies to get in touch with the European labor Market . The close collaboration of the schools in the consortium has facilitated the development of this project in response to demand from schools.Moreover, the schools need to establish long-term networks of knowledge that allow them to get in touch with: companies, schools , social partners and local authorities. This will allow them to get in touch with innovation , sharing best practices and knowledge of European policies , improving the quality of their teaching and combating youth unemployment. The consortium is made up of 8 institutes of the Valencian region coordinated by one of them IESSVThe projectt is designed for 72 students or recent graduates in VET in the of ""Administration"" (Administrative Management ) and "" Computer and Communications "" ( microcomputer Systems and Networks ). It will run from 01 of june 2016 to 31 of may 1017 to allow, in the case of students, to integrate the mobility into their training as a part of the subject (FCT) . The motilities will be held in UK, IT,LV and PT.The main objective of IIEFPE is that participants develop through training practices in European companies, skills and abilities to complete, in a practical way, the skills acquired in VET for being efficiently incorporated in the European labor market. They need to develop specific skills and techniques on the subject that they have studied but they need to develop other key skills such as cultural, linguistic, entrepreneurship and individual initiative, ability to work in teams and knowledge of other working environments to facilitate their insertion in the European labor market, like self-employed or employed.The main activities carried out by the project partners are:-Preparation mobility that includes: selection of participants, initial assessment of their skills , previous training participants , logistical and contractual issues, coordination ...-Mobility. Working on enterprises and making cultural activities.-Evaluation of the participants. The skills acquired during the period shall be certified using ECVET and defined from an initial evaluation. The activities within the company will aim to achieve these skills and will be adapted for each of them.-Monitoring. A tracing of the evolution participants will be will be made by the means established in the project.-Evaluation of the project activities.-Dissemination. The dissemination activities are planned throughout the entire project. A final dissemination conference for showing the results of the projectBesides the impact on the participants, the project will affect the partners promoting European cooperation and rapprochement between enterprises and schools.Dissemination activities and mobility itself will create an impact at the local, regional and national levels. Although they are not involved in the project, other entities at the local, regional and national levels will benefit from the project results:- Improving the skills and competitiveness of the young students that will be adapted to the digital age and a global economy based on knowledge. -Improving youth employment rates promoting sustainable growth-To establish contacts with other European institutions to share best practices-To develop projects of European cooperation-Improving the quality of education provided in schools-To facilitate the incorporation of the enterprises to the network for receiving foreign students-To improve the use of the models of certification. ECVET and Europass-To facilitate the incorporation of women into the labor market.-To Encourage social inclusion, equity and equality.The project is directly linked with the 2020 strategy and strategic priorities agrees to help the EU and its Member States to generate higher levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion"