CONTEXT: In 2016, Italy has the record for number of arrivals in the Mediterranean ,on more than 361 thousand migrants arriving by sea in Europe, half of them landed on the Italian coast. Taking into consideration these data, the partners of the consortium INTEGR8 working in the field of training and third sector has the need to professionalize 60 graduates, providing them professional tools acquired in a European context that must be in line with the GENERAL OBJECTIVES contained in ET2020 strategy for fostering the employability and raise the level of skills in the VET sector. The project aims on the direct beneficiaries (participants in mobility) 1) improve professional skills needed to work with asylum seekers and migrants 2) offer participants the opportunity to test and deepen their curricular competencies 3) provide additional knowledge necessary to the enforceability of the daily work 4) support professional development by improving training at European level in order to iincrease the quality in the services provided by voluntary associations and cooperatives 5) to enhance the language skills needed in the work with the target. At the level of organizations involved, the goal is t:6) have a database with young graduates who have the necessary competences to work in the services for Migrants 7) further implementation of the EU Development Plan. PARTECIPANTS: INTEGR8 is addressed at 60 graduates from the vocational and technicians schools in the social sector and offers the opportunity to have an experience of 3 months interniship in Europe. The program includes placements in enterprises, language study, sectoral and cultural territory and comparison between different professional techniques. The profile of the Cultural Mediator for Immigrants is very requested and the competencies students will acquire are part of the 600-hour VET Qualification Training offered by the Tuscany Region. The competencies gained abroad , during the Mobility experience will be validated on their return in Italy and will be considered credits in case they wish to enroll in the VET course. ACTIVITY 'AND METHODOLOGY: The methodology that the INTEGR8 Consortium toghether with the EU partners will adopt is composed of 3 horizontal activities covering the duration of the project: PROJECT MANAGEMENT, EVALUATION, COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION and 4 vertical activities but consequential to each other: RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, PREPARATION FOR MOBILITY ', MOBILITY, SKILLS CERTIFICATION AND TESTING ECVET. RESULTS: The results will be aim at 1) introducing new training methods to improve practices 2) improving the vocational training offer in the field of reference 3) developing relations between the transnational partners and promote processes of cooperation and exchange of good practice 4) Supporting the construction of a permanent network of trans-national level which can contribute to the European Development Plan of the Organizations and support the creation of a network the projects funded in an European frame 5) promoting the mobility of young people in EU6) contributing to the promotion of ECVET for transparency and recognition of learning and 7) recognizing credits gained during the mobility experience. IMPACT in the next 3 years : The INTEGR8 Consortium comprising organizations working in the field of migration and training are a guarantee of future impact due to their importance at the NA and EU level.The impact on the PARTICIPANTS has the following indicators QUANTITIES 1) 60 direct participants and cascading over 67,500 indirect participants representing workers of the Consortium will benefit of the results QUALITATIVE INDICATORS: an improvement in their Europass CV through the certification and validation of skills acquired during international mobility paths transferable to other educational contexts for the 60 direct participants. 60 ECVET experimentation.Impact on ORGANISATIONS: QUANTITATIVES: the 8 participating organizations belong to a network which involves approximately 1,300 cooperative members of Confcooperative, 3400 voluntary associations and about 350 organizations will benefit from the project results .QUALITATIVE introduction of new training methods EU PARTNERS: The project will impact on partner organizations thanks to the acquisition of skills by the beneficiaries and making them part of the training for professionalizing the participants in the 2500 Mobility.

Accredited projects in the field of youth offer young people a variety of opportunities:- strengthen their personal and professional development through non-formal and informal learning mobility activities;- foster their empowerment, their active citizenship and participation in democratic life;- foster quality development of youth work at local, regional, national, European and international level by building the capacity of organisations active in the youth field and supporting the professional development of youth workers;- promote inclusion and diversity, intercultural dialogue and the values of solidarity, equal opportunities and human rights among young people in Europe.The objectives of the projects can be achieved through the planning and implementation of the following activities: youth exchanges and youth workers professional development activities.Accredited projects in the field of youth are carried out by organisations holding a valid Erasmus Youth accreditation. Each of these organisations commits itself to comply with the Erasmus Youth Quality standards and to deliver high-quality mobility activities in the field of youth..

"The FOODIES project was born and developed in the regional contexts of Piedmont, Lombardy and Liguria and within the framework of the ""Milan-Sanremo del Gusto"" Programme, promoted in 2016 by the three Regional Councils and aimed at enhancing local identities, discovering experience of the territories and their respective historical, artistic, eno-gastronomic and manufacturing quality attractiveness, to be realized with the involvement of public and private subjects, schools and universities of the territory. In this context, the project aims to meet a dual need: 1) on the one hand, the need to stimulate the innovation of local tourism enterprises in order to make them more competitive and visible at national and international level; 2) on the other hand, invest in the training of skilled and trained professionals and therefore employable and self-employable; attentive to tradition, but also to change and innovation. Through FOODIES, the ""Giolitti-Bellisario"" Institute, the other 6 sending Educational Institutes and the Consortium partners aim to provide adequate expertise in the tourism-receptive sector that can bring a boost to the tourism work market of the three regional basins, recovering knowledge and skills of tradition, bringing innovation and critical spirit in the creation and management of competitive tourism enterprises and in step with the global challenges and thus improve the quality of education and vocational training, giving a European dimension to the educational pathways and thus offering young participants the opportunity to verify and deepen their curricular skills: professionalism in specific areas of belonging (TOURISM), cultural and transversal knowledge and linguistic preparation. This general objective, in line with the ET2020 Strategy, is pursued through a mobility experience consisting of a 1-month internship abroad for 84 STUDENTS of the fourth classes and 3-month for 84 JUST GRADUATED of the 7 schools involved (Tourism VET school pathways). In summary, the activities envisaged by the project are: 1. Cross-cutting activities: Management; Dissemination and exploitation of results; Follow up; 2. Mobility preparation: Communication and cooperation plan; Selection and preparation of participants; Definition of learning plan; 3. Mobility: Internship in the company; Monitoring; Evaluation of traineeships and projects; transparency of the LOs. From the methodological point of view the project includes: - continuous and active involvement of all the project staff figures and supervision by the trainers and company mentors; accompaniment and tutoring; teaching methodologies based on involvement, participation, the high integration between theory and practice, the development of practical skills that can be immediately spent, the validation of acquired skills; - a system of mid-term and final checks to monitor progress in learning achieved by the participants, as well as to evaluate, certify, transfer and validate them in an ECVET-compatible framework; - the preparation of a final report focused on identifying the effective functioning of the activities and the elements that can be reproduced, transferred and integrated within the Consortium and in other contexts. For the participants, the main results expected from the realization of the FOODIES project concern not only its usability in the employment field, but also its positive influences on the development of human potential through its formal, informal and non-formal learning moments. Finally, FOODIES is expected to consolidate a network of European subjects with good practices and innovative training models in the areas of digital tourism, culture, creative industry and the promotion of food and wine of the territory and specific vocational training for the sector, laying the foundations for future collaborations. The project is therefore an important starting point to be followed up with updating and use of the results on a wider scale. These, therefore, the expected impacts: AT THE END OF THE PROJECT: -development of the specialized skills of the target groups involved (168 young people between students and new graduates); -realization of models and training tools of innovative value. IN THE MIDDLE TERM: - dissemination of the results and training models between the subjects of the relevant macro-sector and those of the vocational training; - making available results and training models for institutions and professionals of local / regional territories; IN LONG TERM: - orientation of the policies of the public partners involved based on the results of the project; - use of procedures as a standard model."

"The DIGITI@MOLI project was in continuity with the ""SI-VA"" Project coordinated by Molise Region and financed by the South East Europe community programme. The ""SI-VA"" project has contributed, in particular, to reducing the digital divide in the territorial area of ​​South-East Europe, providing an innovative choice in terms of tools and solutions for better accessibility to broadband services.DIGITI@MOLI has also established itself as a tool for the implementation of the Alternating School-Work activities and the National Plan for the Digital School: key elements of the ""Reform of the national education and training system"" contained in Law 107/2015 (""Buona Scuola"").The national data released by AgiD in 2015 in the Document ""Italian Strategy for Ultra-Broadband"" and then reconfirmed in 2016 by further research and studies, included Molise in last place in Italy with only 64% of the population reached from broadband connectivity. This resulted in a drastic penalization with respect to the spread of ICT, especially among young people from Molise region.In light of these premises and in the wake of the European and National Directives on Education and Training, which support international mobility as a field for the acquisition of professional and personal skills and the promotion of ICT knowledge, in 2016, the Consortium that promoted the DIGITI@MOLI project, with a view to creating training courses in Alternating School-Work to be held at foreign companies operating in the IT sector and New Technologies, for students from fourth classes and recent graduates of ICT and electronics of the 5 VET schools participating to the Consortium.The project aimed to improve, in particular, the quality of vocational education and training, giving a European dimension to the educational paths and offering, as a consequence, to young participants the opportunity to improve their technical-professional, linguistic and cultural skills and its employability in innovative sectors of interest for the entire Molise region.These objectives were pursued by means of a 4-week mobility experience for 75 students of fourth classes (of whom 14 with special needs) and 3 months for 61 recent graduates of the 5 schools involved. The programme has provided, for the participants, internships in companies, linguistic, sectoral and cultural analysis of the territory and comparison between the different professional techniques.The project contributed, in particular, to creating a European space for lifelong learning in the ICT sector and was implemented in a thematic and priority European context such as ""the ECVET system for the transparency and recognition of learning outcomes and of qualifications"".The Molise Region has many years of experience in applying ECVET tools in managing international mobility projects. The project, therefore, represented an important starting point for updating and using the results and training actions developed on a larger scale, for the development of the comparison between the countries involved in the project and others interested in the issues considered.In details, the project had a duration of 24 months, the 136 participants were divided into 27 flows (9 flows for students of fourth classes and 18 flows for recent graduates). The internships were carried out in companies, laboratories, IT and electronic assistance centers in Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Malta and France.In addition to internships in European companies, all participants benefited from a pre-departure preparation course and careful tutoring and monitoring, guaranteed by the tutor of the host partner and the mentor of the host company. In the case of the students of the fourth classes and, above all, of the 14 students with special needs involved, the sending schools have provided at least one accompanying teacher per destination flow in order to facilitate socio-cultural and corporate integration.The project has, therefore, achieved the following impacts:- on the competences and attitudes of the participants making them more employable and able to undertake in the IT and ICT sector;- on the educational and training systems of sending schools and all the Consortium bodies that have benefited from the results and that in the future will want to promote international mobility paths;- on companies and local and regional trade associations, which have 136 qualified resources to improve the use of ICT in various production contexts;- on education policies in favor of school-work alternation paths with a European dimension;- on the diffusion of the ECVET system and related devices and instruments."

"The project ""LEB -Always Mobile"" was intended to continue the projects that had already been successfully implemented, but above all to decisively expand them in order to meet the goal of internationalization within the European network as identified in the school's program. In addition to the increase in participants from the courses already characterized by positive project experiences, two new courses (insurance, real estate brokerage) were included in the project and participants were sent to internships in other European countries in order to develop their intercultural skills, expand language competencies and reduce any possible prejudices. The participants realized their internships in a wide variety of companies, in part with the help of intermediary partners abroad. The participants from the training program for medical assistants had the opportunity to expand their professional skills at the Regional Hospital in Innsbruck and to strengthen their social skills. Participants in the dual training programs for administrative assistants, office management assistants, real estate agents, and insurance and finance were able to expand their professional language skills during three-week internships abroad in Ireland, Malta and Spain, also getting to know daily working life in foreign commercial companies. The participants from the full-time Higher Vocational School gained their first work experience abroad and also consolidated their professional language skills in Ireland, Malta and Spain. All participants were closely supervised by the experienced staff of the partner organizations and the project coordinators during the internship period.The aim of all activities was to consolidate and expand language skills, acquire greater intercultural competence, and gain insights into the working world and social structure of the host countries.By disseminating the results at the local level, the companies and authorities training the apprentices recognized the importance of these internships for their employees in an increasingly international market.At the international level, other partner organizations in new participating countries became aware of us.By sending educational staff for training purposes for the first time, the methodological competence of the teachers was expanded and many international contacts were established, which will contribute to strengthening the internationalization of the school. Unfortunately, due to the Corona pandemic, the project could only be realized to a very reduced extent in its quantitative objectives."