"Cultural background, education, religion and language are just some of the variables characterizing the modern appearance of a business. These different ""colors"" lead us to the definition of the ""plural"" and heterogeneous enterprise, increasing the importance of an “aware” management of the human resources.This phase of change shows up strongly in the Creative Industries economic segment, whereas the peculiar characteristics of the various sectors imply the need for training organisations, to adapt and continually modernize their contents, tools and methodologies, in order to play in a proactively and functional way their formative and support function. FACING offers a concrete answer to this needs, focusing on the Human Resources area as a well recognised driver of innovation and fundamental factor of creative enterprises’ competitiveness.Long-term goal of the project is to modernize the capacity to provide training of the Italian organisations involved, generating a strong impact on the territory and contributing to the regeneration of the competitive potential of the Italian Creative Industries and Venetian in particular, thanks to the new shared knowledge and competences. FACING middle – short term goal is to establish a stable network of trainers and experts who, benefiting from the mobility actions (training staff), abroad within the Centers of Excellence partners of the project, will use the acquired tools in order to support the economic fabric maximising the know-how.FACING also aims to involve the entrepreneurial component, flanking and supporting trainers and experts through training assignment experiences at the Centers of Excellence partners of the project, in order to involve them in the innovation process as a proactive actor and fostering the creation of an effective and stable transnational network of entrepreneurs, trainers and experts in the field of the Creative Industries.Mobility actions will see the following:For Staff training activities:- the staff of the training organisations and associations, part of the National Consortium;- the trainers of the training organisations and associations, part of the National Consortium.For the training assignment:- entrepreneurs (or HR Managers), working into the Creative Industries who are responsible for the managing and training of the Human Resources within the company.Any planned mobility action will last 3 to 4 days and it will be set as follows:- the staff of the Consortium members will benefit from targeted training opportunities, set up on the basis of the training needs expressed by the individual beneficiary in the selection process. These elements will be connected to the training actions offered by the foreign partners;- selected entrepreneurs will share their experience and expertise in the delivery of training programs at foreign partners premises, getting the opportunity to compare their methodologies and management principles in the Human Resources field.FACING therefore aims to produce a direct impact on:- staff and trainers of the National Consortium, enriching and/or updating their professional skills and acquiring specific tools for a wise and profitable management of human resources;- partners of the National Consortium, which will bridge the gap existing in its training offer to Creative Industries in order to effectively tackle the demands of the economic fabric;- entrepreneurs providing and sharing their experience and expertise in a peer learning process;- staff of the foreign Partners, as beneficiaries of the training assignment actions, through which will be able to expand their professional competences, comparing and testing their methodologies with working contexts abroad.In the long term the project aims to make an impact:- on the Italian territory and in particular on the Veneto Region, as the whole planned training activities are set up on the basis and in response to the needs expressed by stakeholders and final clients of the skills and know-how acquired by the beneficiaries;- on the National Consortium members, entrepreneurs and foreign partners, as the whole complex of the planned actions will result in the construction of an informal network of shared knowledge, skills and methodologies, which will continue to grow and be enriched by the progressive mutual acquaintance. The entrepreneurial component, in particular, will also be able to get in touch with foreign markets of interest, benefiting from new business opportunities and internationalizing their company. Similarly, National Consortium members and foreign Partners will benefit from new opportunities offered by the international cooperation."

EPARMOVE 5 is an international mobility project promoted by EPAR. The EPARMOVE project creates opportunities of training and personal development, as well as as an element that strengthens the exchange of experiences, know-how and international cooperation networks, either by the students' experiences or by enrichment in the management of EPAR training team involved in all the programme. GENERAL OBJECTIVES - To create opportunities for training and personal development of the students and former students of EPAR at an European level, aiming to enhance their employability and their affirmation and integration -Strengthen the educational project of EPAR in the creation of active networks aiming the training of professionals and citizens with equal opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age, nationality, gender or geographical origin -To establish the groundwork for networking at a European level for a greater dialogue and relationship among Vocational Trainingand the Labour Market This project has planned the following mobility activities: (.) 10 former young trainees (diploma obtained in the school year 2018/2019), 3 of them in ErasmusPro mobilaty (.) 10 students of 2nd year of EPAR vocational courses The hosting countries are the United Kingdom, Spain and Hungary. In addition to the students and recent graduates, the project foresees the participation of 7 staff members doing job shadowing activities in partner schools in the following countries: Hungary, Netherlands, Italy and Poland. The expected impacts and results for each target audience are the following: STUDENTS AND FORMER STUDENTS: -Professionals consolidated CVs with practical working components -Higher level of employability after completion of the Vocational Training -Fluency in foreign languages -Domain at the advanced level of the new ICT and of specific software -New behaviours on how to act in a social and working context -Autonomy and ability to submit project proposals and / or services and products (entrepreneurship) -Adherence to continuous training strategies for lifelong learning -Feelings of belonging to Europe and defence of its humanitarian values -Creation of social and professional networks, which are a source of opportunities and continuous update -Adoption of habits and behaviours that support mental and physical integrity and social integration STAFF - Control of new teaching and learning methodologies - Better ability of team management of teachers in a vocational training context - New skills at the management and innovative teaching practices level, taking into account the educational reality. - Get in touch with classrooms where the autonomy and flexibility are applied. - Promoting a sense of professional and personal appreciation and recognition. - Adoption of new methodologies in the relationship between school-company and family - Experimenting different methodologies to those applied in Portugal, especially classroom related (teacher/student) in order to diminish higher rates of school failure. EPAR AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY (part of the target group): -Creation of communication and interchange flows with various international partners - Strengthening of the sense of training mission in the teaching and non-teaching staff - Reduction of the failure and dropout school rates - Increase the motivation of students to study and of their expectations for the future - More drive in the extracurricular activities of EPAR - Adoption of new, improved or adapted working methods in the organisation of the educational project - Interruption and weakening of social exclusion cycles and routes - Participation in the policies of best practices in education and training at a European level - Rooting of ICT as a working tool and relationship between partners and working communities NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERS: - Adoption of new, improved or adapted working methods in the organisation of the educational project - Strengthening and consolidating of its network of work and intervention - Enlargement of the partners' network - Identification and access to good practices in the management of internships and of mobility and of relationship with the labour market. - Creating new mobility projects and other types of partnerships - Participation in the making of a Europe based on competitiveness, sustainable development and social cohesion HOSTING PARTNERS - Enlargement of the contacts network and knowledge/access to new markets/cultures - Contact with other ways of thinking and working. - Interchange of techniques and working methods - Interchange of good teaching practices and of school management - Contact with other ways of training and curricula management

"Creative industries realise a vast number of activities which includes not only the so called cultural industries (such as media, design, the movies), but also products and services that contain as a substantial element a creative or artistic effort, thus considering also architecture, fashion, communication. Despite the great potential of creative and cultural enterprises - according to the EU Commission there are abt. 900.000 in Europe who represent the 3 % of the overall European GIP (402 billion of Euros) and a relevant quota of jobs - those enterprises are widely undervalued. Therefore, they do not only need support to the entrepreneurial component, but also the establishment of stronger relations with assets of consolidated manufacture.Smart Jump www.smartjump.eu has achieved from the outset the goal of strengthening links between training environments and the world of work through the improvement of the training offer (with a reduction in the lack of specific skills for entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship) and the support of governance of education and training systems, as interactions between training organizations, companies, policy-makers and society as a whole become increasingly more and more complex. More specifically, the aim was to strengthen the quality of the learning offer linked to entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship of young women who already operate within or are approaching for the first time the creative industries sector. Starting from the model of the Quadruple Helix, developed in Sweden with the Women Resource Center and aimed at developing female entrepreneurship through joint actions between representatives of the public, business, academics and civil society, Smart Jump has worked to align the training offer at local level and partner countries to the economic development strategies geared towards growth and innovation. Smart Jump realised a mix of activities and results, sharing the Swedish experience, jointly developing training content for both senior and junior, female and male entrepreneurs, activating transnational training actions (mobility and blended workshops), setting up the Smart Jump community www.factoryofknowledge.net/smartjump, participated by entrepreneurs and professionals who pursue to establish a network at European level on the project’ topics.The strategic partnership consisting of 8 partners from 5 EU Member States (Italy, Sweden, Spain, Hungary and the United Kingdom) has seen the active participation of public bodies (such as the Veneto Region and IAF) and private bodies (such as Confindustria Veneto SIAV, WINNET Sverige, INDICO and ITL Group) representatives of the entrepreneurial world, the academia (CUOA Business School and in the first phase Goldsmiths' University of London) and the development of human capital.The critical analysis of the Swedish approach, adopting the cooperation model, integrating existing practices in partner countries and defining the training contents for entrepreneurial development has generated a model of learning and cooperation that has been validated through 2 transnational learning activities of ""blended mobility for VET learners"" in Italy and Sweden, with combined webinar and training courses jointly attended by direct beneficiaries and staff of the partners: 47 female and male entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, training specialists and human resources, associations and young people. The two pilot actions addressed the topics of sustainable innovation, entrepreneurship, cooperation with Quadruple helix and the resulting methodologies for technology and knowledge transfer between the key players and finally the connection between creative industries and productive sectors. A complete programme for the valorisation and networking of experiences and skills at transnational level has found its expression through face-to-face meetings and the digital hub www.factoryofknowledge.net/smartjump.Regarding benefits and impact of Smart Jump, the project has activated a process of improvement of the training offer of the partners, has allowed the development of skills useful for enhancing entrepreneurial activity, supporting organizations linked to industrial systems. In the long term, Smart Jump intends to have a systemic value in allowing a concrete improvement in the way public and private organizations involved interact and work to enhance the role of young people and women, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, interested in the creative industries."