This project organizes a stay of 3 or 4 weeks for 104 young people (in grade 4 CEC) and 15 teachers in training. The pupils come from the 3rd degree of the vocational training sector, essentially from the sector “construction and applied arts”. 8 schools of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels are involved by this project. The objective of this mobility is to acquire sufficient professional skills to find a job. The aim is also to acquire a capacity of adaption to novelty and actual working conditions in a different human, geographical and cultural context. The interest of the project also lies in developing the spirit of solidarity and openness to other people. Links created with other countries of the European Union allow the construction of European citizenship. This project is supported by the CCGPE DGEO and offers all the guarantees for it to be conducted efficiently.

"ContextThe project responds to shared needs between the partners of a KA1 staff mobility project, coordinated by APCMA since 2017. The meetings and exchanges between teaching teams and experts from different European countries help to improve teaching practices and tools, through the identification, adaptation and transfer of other innovative pedagogical modalities already used in other European countries.ObjectivesThrough the KA2, KA1 partners want to strengthen their capacity to cooperate toGoal 1 To develop knowledge of existing expertise among partnersThis is to deepen our common reflection on notions of pedagogical innovation and excellence in order to achieve a shared notion and deepen the knowledge of existing practices and needs of educational innovation partners.Goal 2 Promote innovation and excellence in VETBased on the shared notion of innovation and the excellence defined by the partners, the aim is to identify, collect and formalise expertise and to present it in a common and attractive form (in the form of a directory / ""catalog"").Goal 3 Develop the quality of programs and the organisation of KA1The directory of good practices will both save time for the organisation but also better match the needs / profiles of participants and thus improve the quality of KA1 training: better target topics to address, better inform, better prepare experts and participants and meet their expectations. It will also help to diversify themes, approaches, methods and organisational formats of the KA1. For example: also offer incoming mobility (invitation to teach locally) or secure individual mobility.Goal 4 Create conditions for mutualisation and transfer of good practicesThe aim is to equip the partnership about the impact of KA1, to enhance the actions set up after participation in KA1 and to lay the foundations for creating ""platforms of excellence"" in vocational training (see also AP CoVE in the sectoral skills alliance).The target audienceThe two main target groups are 1 / KA1 beneficiaries and their sending organisations (consortia members) and 2 / partner organisations and their respective networks.Description of activitiesThe partners will concretely discuss the notions of innovation and excellence before developing a common grid that then identifies, collects and presents expertise and good practices (min 5-10 per partner) in terms of educational innovation. New fields of excellence an be explored. The collection of all the descriptive sheets makes it possible to constitute a ""catalog"" or ""a directory"" of the good practices which will be completed as the project progresses. The partners will also discuss methods for monitoring and evaluating the impact of KA1. Feedback about impact will also feed into the ""catalog"" of good practices. The partnership could explore the possibility of creating a community of practice to share existing innovations and what has been put in place after a KA1 training (for example in the form of a ""Exchange of know-how"" forum on Euro-learning) .Logically the results of the project will support the KA1 projects implemented in 2020-2021 and strengthen the quality, quantity of projects and the reciprocity of sending and hosting. The project also aims to improve the efficiency of the organisation for the partners, especially in view of doubling or tripling the ERASMUS + post 2020 budget.MethodologyThe project will be organised in 3 phases over 24 monthsA PREPARATION phaseA COLLECTING GOOD PRACTICES phaseA phase of CONSOLIDATION AND USE IN THE KA14 transnational meetings will organise the steering committee (all partners) and structure the exchange between partners.The project will be organised in 4 WGWG1: Management and administrative and financial follow-upWG 2: Project evaluation, impact and communication / dissemination of the projectWG3: ""Directory"" of Innovation and Excellence »WG4: ""Creating conditions for mutualisation and transferring good practices"".""Each partner will participate at least in one WG coordination committee. An internal evaluation will track the progress of the project.Impact / results / benefits- Strengthen mutual trust and develop the spirit of exchange and reciprocity;- Improved organisation efficiency and program adequacy of KA1 visits;- Promote innovation and excellence and equip partners to monitor impact;- Develop the KA1 European partnership and study and prepare the possibility of establishing ""platforms of excellence"" in vocational training."

The development of the vocational training situation in individual countries may be hampered by the lack of sector-specific competence scales across Europe, which also point to prospects for further development. The lack of orientation towards competences means that the expansion of occupation-specific knowledge, skills and abilities can only be tackled with great effort and does not take place in a targeted manner. This affects the entire timber construction sector, the basis of which essentially depends on well-trained personnel. What applies to the vocational training situation of an entire country also applies to individuals in this country who have turned to training as carpenters as a career perspective. Their prospects in terms of competence development depend to a large extent on the basic conditions of the education system and the competence profiles imparted in the respective country. An overview of these profiles should therefore be available both to the companies and to the personnel employed in them for the future entrepreneurial or personal development of competences and qualifications. The aim of the project is to develop a structure in which the vocational qualifications encountered in European timber construction can be presented in a comprehensible manner. The competence framework to be developed for this purpose should link the degrees/certificates/diplomas with the underlying competences of a person with reference to the European Qualifications Framework EQF and make them visible and communicable irrespective of the country. To this end, the aim is to examine and compare existing degrees and certificates of knowledge and skills throughout Europe and to define them in validated form as competence levels. The project management for the implementation of the project is carried out by Timber Construction Europe and is supported by a consortium of the following project partners: Gemeinnütiges Berufsförderungswerk GmbH (Biberach, DE), Centre de Compétences Parachèvement (LU), Association Ouvriere de Compagnons du Devoir du Tour de France (Paris, FR), Fachhochschule Salzburg GmbH (AT), Alppisalvos Oy (FI). These are further complemented by the associated partners Holzbau Schweiz and Berner Fachhochschule Architektur, Holz und Bau ((Biehl, CH) as well as numerous silent partners from the European vocational training network. The partners make a substantial contribution to the success of the project objective in a balanced relationship of economic policy and technical expertise as well as proven technical expertise in vocational education and training. The project envisages the following development steps: Review of the EQF and various selected national qualification frameworks as reference frameworks and allocation instances for the competence framework to be drawn up, increasing understanding of the education systems available throughout Europe and their differences as a basis for the development of skills and qualifications, compilation of the learning objectives laid down in individual curricula for trainees and competences and qualifications attainable within the framework of regular further and continuing training. The work will first be carried out on a country-by-country basis, then in mixed-country working groups and thus in transnational cooperation in order to get to know the facets of country-specific competences and qualifications in their diversity. In a series of editorial conferences of the participating project partners, the findings collected and validated throughout Europe will be transformed into a European Qualification Framework for Timber Construction (EQF-Timber), which will be set up in eight stages analogous to the EQF. Vocational training centres are given a new basis for designing the range of vocational development programmes on offer. At the company level, the status and development potential of the qualifications of both the company's own workforce and applicants can be assessed much better. Employees themselves have an instrument which, in conjunction with a correspondingly expanded range of training programmes, enables them to make even better use of their personal professional development potential. The EQF timer makes a fundamental contribution to reliably demonstrating individual competences, improving horizontal and vertical vocational development potential and contributing to reducing youth unemployment and the shortage of skilled labour in the overall economic context.The results of the EQF Timber will be available for download on the Internet platform developed within the framework of the project. Further publications on European portals, including dissemination as open educational material (OER), are intended to provide a targeted stimulus for Europe-wide use.

EUC Syd - Open Europe is a staff-mobility project which aims at support and development of the pedagogical work for the teachers through international experiences og gained competences attending European mobilities. We are as educational schools obliged to constantly to work on e.g.pedagogic, teaching materials, IT and other medias in education to develop and quality guarantee the educational environment at our school. For the teaching staff it will be a possibility to attende courses in a wide range from e.g. industrial technology to litteracy. EUC Open Europe is a consortiom with two schools EUC Syd, vocational school, and Sønderborg Produktionshøjskole, production school and will last for 2 years from August 2015.Main targets:- to strenghten international relations and cooperation with european vocational schools- to establis possibilities for placements in foreign companies- to gain knowledge and inspiration about e.g. teaching methods and organization of teaching- to increase language skills among staff20 staff from Sønderborg Produktionshøjskole and EUC Syd are participating.

According to current mobility project, 65 students and 27 employees from Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus participated in mobilities abroad. Students makes an apprenticeship period at foreign companies or at school practice places and employees will practice or job-shadow the colleagues in partner organizations.The main aims of the project (in accordance with the international strategy of Pärnumaa Kutehariduskeskus):1. Develop, deepen and determine the professional skills, competences and knowledge of the participants through the mobilities; ensure the accordance of the qualifications and knowledge with the labor market needs;2. Determine the theoretical knowledge and skills to practice through practical tasks and works;3. Support the development of 8 key competences, social skills and improvement on personal skills among the participants through the mobilities;4. Support the professional skills of the workers and teachers - so they are more motivated and can give education that meets the students and labor market needs. 4. Grow the work- and learning motivation of the participants and improve their attractiveness at labor market.5. Ensure the high-quality of studies at hosting and sending partner through applying the mobility experience of the staff in practice.6. To promote the conformation of VET in European levelThe aims of the project are directly linked with the development plans and priorities of Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus and the present problems in vocational education. As said before the aims are also linked with the international strategy of Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus that says that by the year 2020 our mobilities should be 130 students and 50 teachers. So step by step we are moving towards our aim. The participants of current project chosen carefully according to each one individual training needs. Activities of mobility project grows the learning motivation of the students, enabled the precious experience of gaining new professional skills and knowledge abroad, developed the social skills, team work and independent work skills, grows initiative and self-confident. The mobilities was efficient tool to develop the foreign language skills. The apprenticeship period done at enterprises recognized as practice, set in the school curricula by using ECVET principles. The mobilities of the employees recognized as official employee practice outside the school. All mobility learning outcomes were set according to the individual training needs of the participants.The project team includes professional teachers, leaders of the vocational fields and management members, the aim of their work was to ensure the high quality mobilities. Project managers and project coordinator searched for the most appropriate partner institutions according to the set learning outcomes and signed the co-operation agreements. The aims of the mobilities, learning outcomes and timing was agreed with all of the partners and documented with letters of intent and memorandum of understanding. The learning outcomes of each mobilities was set in the memorandum of understandings. The learning outcomes negotiated once again before the mobilities, including the receiving enterprise in order to ensure its fulfillment. The project gives the measure of International co-operation and opportunity to improve the International co-operation field. The internationalization is one of the prioritys of Pärnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus, set also in development plans and in the international strategy for 2020.