We implemented the project Craft 2019 in full according to the planned activities. We have prepared 4 different internships for students. The internships were designed for students from woodworking department and for art departments Altogether 22 students participated. We organized two internships for 7 teachers, one internships for art departments and one for teachers from woodworking department. All internships are realized and exploited to the maximum, the work program was always intended to measure the participants so that participants can gain a lot of practical skills in their field, new work habits, experience a real working process. Getting to know another country, people, customs, culture, sports and everyday life was part of the internship and helped each participant to create a real picture of life in countries and perhaps to change some personal views and understand the importance of cooperation between the countries of the European Union.The following student internships were implemented:1th Internship was in the Secondary School of Furniture and Trade in Bystřice pod Hostýnem, Czech Republic. Four girls and two boys participated in the internship. The internship was focused on teaching the foundations of carving and the second week the students were involved in the carving symposium with the partner school students and teachers. Students learned to use different types of chisels, work with materials and then according to their abilities made a proposal for shallow relief witch was presented at the public opening. 2nd the internship took place with a new partner in Poland, Janó-Lubielski. Placements participated 4 student union photographic design. Girls photographed a lot of different subjects in different conditions . They attended several vernissages and exhibitions of photo exhibitions. They were on a professional excursion in a high school in Stalowa Wola where they met students and teachers in the field of photo techniques. The students prepared the whole concept of a new photographic exhibition at the end of the internship. Mr. Antoni Florczak was responsible for his work and professional activities. 3rd internship was in cooperation with the agency Esmovia from Valencia, Spain. There were 6 students on the internship.The boys were from the Department Technician wooden houses and 1 apprentice carpenter and 2 girls were student of department design. Woodworkers worked in 2 furniture manufacturing companies and worked directly in production. They helped in finishing parts, assembling, coating and packaging. Students were assigned to staff working groups. The designers worked in a design studio where they mainly learned how such a studio works what they do and how to work on a order - furnishing an interior for a client.4th internship was realized in cooperation with Atlas Nova Ltd. from Sofia, Bulgaria. There were 6 students from the Department of Woodworking and from the Department of Design of Furniture. Students worked at Buldecor Ltd. which has a manufacturing facility in Sofia. The company produce modern furniture. The technological equipment was top class and the boys could work in a top company. The students worked in different working groups together with Bulgarians and mainly worked on the assembly of parts, finishing of surface treatment and on the operation of parts machining lines. We completed two internships for teachers in the project Craft 2019.1th internship was intended for teachers of woodworking specialist subjects. Placements attended 4 teachers of vocational subjects and masters training. The internship was provided by teachers from VOŠ and SPŠ Volyne.Teachers learned to draw technical documentation in SEMA software. They learned to transfer data to a CNC machining center for the manufacture of carpentry structures. Masters learned to control CNC Hundegger .They had the opportunity to watch a regular school day, meet teachers and masters, students and compare teaching methods. Teachers attended a lecture on completed projects based on graduation and bachelor's theses of VOŠ and SPŠ Volyne students.2nd internship was for 3 teachers of art disciplines and was conducted in collaboration with Esmovia, Valencia, Spain. The Agency has prepared a field excursion and jobshadowing in advertising agency studios, design studios and professional architects according to the participants' profile. They also visited a exhibition of building materials for interior furnishing CEVISAMA. They carried out jobschadowing at the ESAT Innovation School. This is the school that educates students in the computer game design, animation, digital graphics, programming. They visited the architectural studio - Dinamica - Taller de proyectos. Another working visit was to the modern design studio Pixelarte whose projects and realizations are on graphic design, web design and Corporate Identity. The Erasmus + project helps build the reputation among the woodworking schools in Slovakia.

Initiator of the project “Spanish experience in culinary art” is Svishtov Vocational High School “Aleko Konstantinov”– Svishtov. Under this project 9 students from profession “Cook”, specialty “Production of culinary products and beverage” were sent on three weeks work placement in Valencia, Spain in July 2017. The project was aimed at the objectives of the Program: to support students to acquire competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) in order to enhance their personal development and employability of European labor market and enhance the foreign language competence of the participants. In order to succeed, students need to see, learn and apply in the future achievements and experiences of developed European economies with traditions in the field of tourism.The realization of the project was aimed at:- Expanding professional knowledge and skills for production and service at the restaurants in real working environment;- Acquiring knowledge and skills for the preparation of traditional Spanish dishes and learning the specifics of serving Mediterranean specialties;- Increasing the attractiveness of vocational education and mobility of the individual users and formation of striving for permanent professional development and improvement;- Encouraging language learning and improving communication skills of the participants on a new language ;- Acquisition of personal qualities such as discipline, responsibility, accuracy, organization, initiative, inherent to the restaurant keepers in the developed European economies;- Supporting for personal development , employability of users and their better adaptability on the European labor market .The project partners allocated the duties in order to achieve quality in the conduct of mobility . The sending organization made selection of the participants. It provided preliminary preparation. During mobility users worked in a real working environment in Spanish restaurants , where they were guided by mentors provided in each restaurant. Mobility was monitored by both partner organizations. Svishtov Vocational High School “Aleko Konstantinov” worked with partner organization to issue Europass certificates to participants and ECVET implementation of validation and recognition of knowledge and skills acquired during their work placement in Spain.Achieved results and impact:- Acquired professional knowledge and skills for production and service at the restaurants in real working environment;- Acquired professional knowledge and job-related skills for preparation of traditional Spanish dishes and learned specifics of serving Mediterranean specialties;- Acquired primary language skills with emphasis on mastering specialized terminology in the restaurant business in Spanish ;- Acquired communication skills on a new language - Spanish, as a result of working in a real working environment in Spain.- Acquired social skills for adaptation in a multicultural environment;- Acquired knowledge about culture, traditions, way of life and work in Spain ;- Gained experience for personal development, employability of users of the European labor market in the long term;- Increased independence and self-confidence of the participants;- Increased motivation for participation in the future (formal/informal) education or training after the end of the mobility abroad. Practical training in real working conditions in Spain led to the acquisition of professional skills in a real working environment for production and service in the restaurant. The mobility contributed for the formation of striving for professional development and improvement, increased the activity of students for successful realization in the profession and motivated their professional and personal development. Studying and practicing of Spanish language in real language environment, provided by the project, enabled successful and lasting learning professional vocabulary of the new language and improved their communication skills. Knowledge of different cultural tradition and adoption of good practices in the restaurant sector increased the chances of successful adaptation and implementation of the European labor market. Students increased their self-reliance and self- confidence, they increased their motivation to participate in further trainings after the end of the mobility abroad, their employability enhanced and they would have better chances for professional development and realization.This project for practical training in a real work placements in Valencia, Spain, enabled effective cooperation in the field of vocational education and training. Promotion of knowledge, skills and competencies, gained during the mobility, helps to increase the motivation of learning, the quality of vocational education and successful implementation on the European labor market.

"The Applicant of the project ""European traineeships a chance for a better future"" was Vocational School Complex in Giżycko. The partner institutions were: Tellus Group Limited – WORK EXPERIENCE UK and ESMOVIA – Sistema Practices s.l. The participant of the project was a group of 32 students of Vocational School Complex in Giżycko who were being taught in following professions: hotel industry technician, nutrition and food service technician and cook. The participants were divided in to two groups The curriculum of the traineeship was fulfilled in modern hotels and restaurants. The most important aims of the project were: raising professional skills of the participants, broadening their competences and knowledge based on European standards of hotel and catering industry. The implementation of the project enabled the students to achieve the following specific goals: broadening the knowledge and skills acquired at school classes and applying them into practice (in reputable hotels and restaurants), raising the English language competences, including professional English, shaping creativity, openness and mobile attitudes, increasing the faith of students in their possibilities and chances of finding work and obtaining the independent living, enhancement of inter-cultural sensitivity through knowledge of different history , culture and traditions, confrontation of solution used in hotels and restaurants in Poland, Great Britain and Spain. The aims of the project were focused on the supporting the participants in vocational training and as well as the use of knowledge, skills and qualification to facilitate their personal development and employment possibilities. The participants were able to learn new valuable work experience and thus improved their professional competence and attractiveness to potential employers.The project envisaged two trips to foreign traineeship. The first group went to the traineeship in May 2016 to Plymouth in Great Britain, and the second one in October 2016 to Valencia in Spain. There were two attendants (tutors) for each group. The students made 2 weeks traineeships in 3-4 stars hotels and restaurants , offering a high standard of service ( swimming pools, SPA, saunas, restaurants , pubs) at the position corresponding to their profession. The students were developing their skills of preparation of the residential units for guests , preparation and serving breakfasts in the facility providing hotel services, preparation of different meals and beverages, learning the secrets of working in reception. The traineeship curriculum was fitted to each group and included individual needs of the students. In order to prepare the student properly for the traineeship , before the leave, they had to be covered by language , cultural and pedagogical preparation. The workers of the partners institutions monitored and evaluated the course of traineeship, issued the certificate confirming the pursue the traineeship with a list of acquired skills. The Vocational School Complex applied for issuing the Europass Mobility Certificate in consultation with partner institutions. The participants of the project were familiarized with ECVET system ( European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training) , which was very important for the development of the school. During the project the students created the professional dictionary and culinary guide, which was used to work with other students in the classroom at school. The culinary guide was also given to the cooperating with school chefs of restaurant and hotels. In Vocational School Complex there were organised “The Day of English and Spanish Culture and Cuisine”, where our students prepared the dishes from English and Spanish cuisine and shared the information about culture and traditions in these countries. The project affected the professional and personal development of the participants. They were taught team work. By learning rules and necessary skills the students had increased their chances of finding work. They are more active look for work and become more mobile.Our school had the chance to adjust the teaching program to the labour market expectations. Observed rules were included in the program of traineeship. The project have also improved the essential qualifications of teachers who transferred the positive experience from the project to the school work, taking into account the results of the project in the lessons draft which will also bring benefits to the other students who not participate into the project. This project increased the prestige of Vocational School Complex. The gained experience allowed to include the foreign traineeship into the school offer, which have raised the attractiveness of education in our school. The experience and acquired skills of employees is used to plan the school work."

"""Tourism Internship Mobility Experience"" project - Acronym TIME – supported an “added value” to the training of 57 young people who, as involved in Professional Secondary schools (Hotel and restaurant), aim to work in the tourism sector, with tasks related to: reception, catering and food preparing services. (It should be noted that the number of training traineeships designed was reduced by the AN, which considered a flow to be inappropriate. For this reason the internship grants awarded were 65 instead of 80).This main objective was successfully achieved, because the beneficiaries, as was foreseen at application stage, have spent 5 weeks internship abroad. So they had the opportunity to: improve their key-tarsversal, technical and linguistic skills; do an on-the-job experience, whose results have been recognized in the course of studies they are doing in their schools; enrich their social and cultural background, thanks to the contact with cultures, people and contexts different from those of their place of origin.The project’s background is Campania territory, an Italian region that despite a significant cultural heritage, landscape and food and wine, doesn’t have a proportional positive trend for employment in the tourism sector, also due to the quality, not always high, of the services that are offered.For this reason, the partners decided to promote a training project for young people, involving them in an experience that putted the trainees in contact both the working environment and international customers. In this way they have improved their awareness on how to use the skills provided by their study plan as well as their the motivation towards post-diploma training courses. The beneficiaries have been able to gain experience also in relation to the themes of ""accessible tourism"", a tourism, which, too often mistakenly confused with a tourism for the disabled, is configured as ""an offer attentive to everyone's needs"". It bases its logic precisely in the relationship between the client and the operator, who must be able to understand and satisfy those ""special needs"" that everyone in their life can have.Considering the training objectives set by the project, the partners can state that they have achieved the expected results. In fact, for all the young people involved, there were significant increases in skills, key, sectoral. For some of them there were results even better than expected, as they returned at the end of their studies to work in the places where they had done the internship.Positive objectives have also been achieved in terms of the internal needs of the various organizations involved, since all partners attest improvements affering:- MANAGEMENT: internal organization, with innovations in the administrative organization and in the dynamics of interaction and collaboration of the staff;- PERFORMANCE: quality of staff performance, through an improvement of language skills, use of technological and digital applications, motivation and intercultural awareness;- NETWORKING: visibility and participation in the life of the local community through a more effective cooperation with other public and private organizations as well as networking with foreign partners; - QUALITY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED TO YOUTH, favouring the possibilities of formal and non-formal training i.Important results have also been achieved with regard to the dissemination and awareness of schools in the use of ECVET: MoU and Learniong Agreement have been disseminated in schools and used as good practice to implement the national programme “ALTERNANZA SCUOLA/LAVORO”. All the designed objectives have been met and the implementation has clary reflected what has been set in the application form, except for two aspects (not very relevant, if compared to the results achieved):- the trainees were 57 instead of 65, as designed. Some students gave up the project shortly before departure due to personal problems; other candidates were deemed unsuitable for poor language skills;- The composition of the sending consortium has had a change: the Municipality of Piedimonte Matese, which in the application phase had the role of promoter, decided, due to its internal problems, to cede the role of promoter to Informamentis Europa and to continue its commitment with the project as a partner. The Italian national agency has understood the motivations of this ""change of role"" and has validated it."

The project „Higher qualifications through work experience’, was the second project of Learning Mobility of Individuals: VET learner and staff mobility, carried out by the Complex of Secondary Schools (Zespół Szkół Ponadgimnazjalnych) in Ornontowice.The objective of the project was to raise students’ professional competences and the prestige of school as well as to improve the skills of collaborating with foreign partners. During winter holidays twenty students, trained at the secondary technical level as electricians, economists, gardeners, food technology technicians, and glass production technology technicians went with two minders to Valencia in Spain. They performed their 3- week apprenticeship in fourteen different institutions which were carefully selected according to their needs by the intermediary institution. The target group was recruited among the students of the third and fourth class. All the participants were provided before the mobility with linguistic (English and Spanish), cultural and psychological support. The extra lessons were run on Saturdays or after regular school classes. The students got to know English and Spanish vocational vocabulary.The school organised the round-trip flight to Spain, a coach transport to the airports and 27/7 care on the spot. The intermediary institution prepared the workplacement, accommodation in the city centre, public transport cards and cultural activities during the weekends. The host insitutions assigned for each apprentice a tutor who was directly supervising, and assessing the progress of the student, accordring to the training programme, which had been prepared by both institions.The apprenticeship was monitored by: accompanying teachers who compared students’ workblogs with the planned workplacement programme and visitied the employing institutions; the representatives of the intermediary intitutions and tutors who regulary evaluated the students’ progress. At the end the participants received apprenticeship certificates as well as Europass Mobility and ECVET documents which confirmed the skills and qualificatons they had aquired. Back in Poland the marks given by tutors were validated by the deputy head in education and vocational training field and transformed into school marks according to the criteria in the school statute. All the participants acquired the basic Spanish phrases and improved their communicative skills in English. The students of the techincal school for electricians learned how to plan and perform assembly work in electrical installations and how to maintain electrical machines. The students of a technical school of nutrition and food industry services got familiarised with Spanish consumers’ nutrition habits, the ways of preparing, making and storing healthy Mediterraean dishes, like e.g. paella. They also gained some experience in serving foreign customers in high-standard restaurants. The gardeners observed the cultivation of plants in a different climate zone and the glass production technology technicians learned new techniques of decorating handmade products. The students from a technical school of economics acquired skills in the field of customer service in English, distributing and recording correspondence, archiving documents and entering data into the database. To disseminate the project the participants presented their films, multimedia presentations and posters to their schoolmates. They ran workshop for the school an local community on how to preapre paella and on how to trim shrubs. They also prepared a Spanish flowerbed on school premises and published vocational vocabulary in English, separtely for each profession, in a free internet application: Quizlet . The coverages from the apprenticeship were published reguraly in local press and on the school internet profiles.The result of the project was acquiring vocational skills by our students, developing their personal, social and language competences as well as the ability to adapt to different working conditions in Poland and abroad. They got to know the specifics of working in Spanish companies and learned how to compete on the European labour market. For the majority of the participants it was the first contact with a multicultural society. They became more tolerant and open to racial and religious differences. The school enriched its educational offer and raised its prestige. It also gained experience in planning and managing European projects and international collaboration. Also, more teachers have been involved in the project work and motivated to learn foreign languages.