"<< Background >>The growing number of migrants in Europe and the necessity to implement paths of social inclusion is one of the European Union's priorities. Searching for solutions that allow the socio-occupational inclusion of these persons and therefore better conditions of access to the labour market for them have become absolute priorities within the continental context. Nowadays, migrants who arrive in Europe are often forced into low-level work positions or jobs unrelated to their previous education or experience because they find themselves unable to demonstrate their acquired skills. At the same time, the system of Validation of Acquired Experiences (VAE) present in the different States of the European Union is characterised by a high fragmentation due to the unequal transposition of the European framework law on a national and sometimes even regional level. This is compounded by the peculiarities of the migrants' countries of origin regarding training and occupational systems. These are often different from the European systems, making the validation process and the migrants' access to the actual systems of recognition of qualifications, experiences and competences extremely challenging. In this context, the role of adult education institutions is of primary importance, as they are very often the main interlocutors of those migrants, who want to be socially and professionally integrated in the European system.This project aims at meeting the needs of certification operators (validators), or future validators, working in adult education institutions to learn new methods in order to be able to certify migrants' experiences, qualifications and skills and, consequently, to allow the latter a better socio-occupational integration.In this regard, the creation of a new instrument based on the national experiences of Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) and supported by technological tools capable of overcoming geographical and spatial constraints appears to be an optimal solution capable of mitigate the current absence of uniformity in the certification of qualifications and skills in the European Union.More particularly, migrants who arrive in European countries often struggle to be integrated into the social and occupational system of their country of arrival because they are confronted with a lack of univocal and adequate tools to meet their expectations. Most of the time, they enter the labour market in sectors that are different from the ones in which they worked in their country of origin because they are unable to demonstrate that they have previously acquired certain specific skills. Therefore, the necessity to create new and effective tools useful for the socio-occupational inclusion of migrants starts with the analysis of the current validation experiences in the countries where the migratory phenomenon has become prominent in order to create a shared validation tool that can be used by the operators working in adult training institutions.The newly conceived VAE methodology will allow a first recognition of qualifications, experiences and skills with a consequent improvement of the working conditions of validators and of migrants, allowing them to aspire to better personal and professional conditions, minimizing the possibility of remaining on the margins of the social life of the country of arrival.<< Objectives >>Bearing in mind that on European level the instrument of Validation of Acquired Experience has been identified as a means of social inclusion, but that at the current moment there is a fragmentation of national and regional applicative norms that do not suit the needs of migrants and validators, the present project has the general objective of improving the conditions of socio-occupational inclusion of migrants that are present on the European territory and of providing those who work in the adult education sector with more qualified and effective validation tools that meet the needs of the migrants.More specifically, the objectives are: -To create a VAE methodology specially designed for migrants that differs from the ones already existing because of its peculiarities, which allow it to be applied remotely thus overcoming spatio-temporal barriers; -Create support tools that can facilitate the implementation of the VAE methodology and remove linguistic and geographical obstacles, facilitating communication between professionals working in the field of adult education and migrants; -To create a training course to ""enable"" new validators on the European territory to use the new VAE methodology. Other objectives are: -To favour social integration and access to the educational and professional world for migrants, for whom the procedures of recognition and validation of previous experiences are often inadequate, insufficient or chaotic in their implementation.<< Implementation >>The project activities will be conducted by a partnership between entities operating in 5 EU countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, France, Germany) with previous experience in the field of adult education, validation of competences and use of IT. At a general level, the activities will be articulated with regard to the achievement of 3 Project Results: R1 - Creation of WIN-VAE: a new methodology for migrants R2 - WIN-Training: e-learning course for the training of VAE operators R3 - WIN-APP Each of these project results will be developed as follows:R1 - Creation of WIN-VAE: a new methodology for migrants 1.Analysis of the already existing VAE methodologies;2.Translation of the results deriving from this analysis in all the partners' languages;3.Definition of specific areas and common tools;4.Design of a VAE strategy that is customised for migrants and also works remotely;5.Transversal synthesis of the methodology;6. Production of a manual on the methodology. R2 - WIN-Training: e-learning course for VAE operators' training 1.Design and definition of a training course, to be carried out at a distance, for certification operators;2.Design and definition of the training material3.Translation of the training material;4.Digitalisation of the training material;5.Design and configuration of e-learning platforms;6.Testing of the training course.R3 - WIN-APP 1.Collection of Business Requirements 2.Drafting of technical-functional analysis3.Identification of technologies and operational strategies4.Design and definition of the Mobile App architecture5.Back-end design and Database structure6.Front-end design and design of user interface (UI) and experiential interface (UX)7.Mobile App development8.Testing and certification9.Chatbot design and identification of implementation tools and platform10.Flow definition11.Chatbot technical development12.Programming 3 languages Chatbot and MobileApp Translation (front-end)13.Translation BACK END14.Testing15.MobileApp integration with Chatbot16.Product publishing on Online Store17.Product testing with end usersEach Project Result will have a responsible entity in order to monitor and coordinate the activities. At Management level, the activity will be divided into Work Packages (WP): WP 1 - PLANNING AND PROMOTION (November 2021 - January 2021) WP 2 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT (November 2021 - October 2023) WP 3 - PREPARATION WP 4 - IMPLEMENTATION WP 5 - EVALUATION AND RESULTS DISSEMINATION (April 2022 - October 2023) WP 6. FOLLOW UP (Post project/October 2023 - October 2024) Furthermore, 5 transnational meetings are foreseen in order to assess the work accomplished and to draw inspiration for the setting of future activities. Finally, a section on Learning, Teaching, Training, Activities is foreseen.<< Results >>The project is designed to: -improve the current socio-economic situation in which most migrants arriving in the EU find themselves, characterised by social exclusion and difficulties in finding qualified working positions; -improve the knowledge and skills of the project's (direct) target group, i.e. validation operators, as well as enabling them to benefit from a more competitive operative environment attracting high numbers of new users thanks to the application of the innovative methodologies developed in the project; -improve the condition of training providers (training agencies, vocational schools) who will be able to maximise the resources they already have and improve the efficacy of their employees, using innovative tools; -Improve the operating standards of stakeholders involved in the project (reception centres, migrant's associations and companies). The results expected to be achieved in the intermediate phase of the project match the project's Outcomes. To be specific: -Availability of a unique VAE methodology useable by all migrants arriving in European countries (1); -Accessibility to a course and materials to train the operators who will use this validation system (2); -Availability of a technological tool (WIN-App) that can connect the validator and the migrant overcoming geographical and language barriers (3). The results expected at the end of the project are the following: -Improvement of the validation and recognition of acquired experiences process, through the creation of the Mobile App, which will provide migrants with an immediately usable and easily accessible service; -Facilitation of migrants' access to both worlds of training and of work, with the objective of improving their living conditions; -Facilitation of information exchange and communication between validators and migrants; -Improvement of working conditions of professionals working in the field of adult education; -Improvement of migrants' socio-occupational inclusion."

The overall objective of the project is to be seen as part of the school's strategy NEXT 2020, which strives for better education for more in a valuable cooperation with the outside world. NEXT will help to improve teachers and counselor qualifications, so that they have stronger abilities to work with internationalization within their respective fields. Working and studying in other countries must be made easy for both the school’s students and teachers. This project is geared towards the students and teachers at NEXT who wish to go abroad to further improve upon their competencies, especially in connection with language and culture. This opportunity provides a chance for many students to develop their personal competencies as well and, perhaps, to get the motivation to go abroad for even longer periods later in their educations. NEXT as an institution will create a clear international profile that will make a difference. Therefore, NEXT feels obligated to ensure that its teaching staff is kept up to date on international demands within individual professional disciplines and methodologies. To do so and to ensure quality teaching, there is a continuous need for employee training at the school. Also, the school’s high prioritization of internationalizing students helps to strengthen their professional profiles, as well as their personal and intercultural competencies. For the second time, we include ECVET in our mobility project. This involves the prepared ”Memorandum of Understanding”, which is signed by our partners and us and is attached to this application. We have also attached our ”Learning Agreement” form, which we will use to formalize the commitment of our partner, the student and us in connection with the forthcoming mobility initiatives. Learning Outcome will be agreed upon in advance in each circumstance and attached to the “Learning Agreement” document. Which competencies students will obtain in the course of each mobility initiative will be drawn up in a “Transcript of Records” and attached to the student’s EuroPass Mobility certificate. This application covers: 98 VET student work programs 40 EUX student school- and work programs 28 HHX- and HTX student language and work programs 4 accompanying teachers 8 teacher work or training programs We expect programs to run during the entire project period, as we also expect to incorporate programs in different European countries. The needs and wishes of individual students and teachers are considered in determining destinations. Most often, students and teachers have a good idea of where they can be challenged appropriately and obtain relevant professional inspiration. This project is expected to strengthen the school’s international work. The participation of more people in training abroad will set greater focus on internationalization in general. NEXT expects that a number of teachers and counselors will become more motivated to work actively on this front, using this opportunity to include international projects in their teaching. The level of professional language abilities will also increase. Students will be expected to have a more international profile and use their newly obtained knowledge in their educations.

"The "" Profissionais de Portugal para a Europa” (Professionals from Portugal to Europe) project is part of the activity plan of the sending institution – Escola Profissional de Tomar. Given the guidelines of the school’s educational project, this project is designed with a clear objective - to provide young people in initial vocational training with diverse tools to face the world of work with the confidence that their performance can be optimized.The 30 participants are all young people between 17 and 21 years of age, without gender distinction, nearing completion of a Level IV vocational course in the areas of Graphic Arts, Restoration and Management of Computer Equipment. These young people come from needy households, often dysfunctional ones, inserted in disadvantaged socio-economic areas, where opportunities for work placements are few, result from both social and economic contingencies as well as geographical ones.The planned activities focus specifically on training in a real working environment, in companies of the participants’ working areas.As methodology, a specific plan is followed: set up partnerships with quality institutions, followed by the selection of participants. Their preparation include giving out logistics information, inclusion of families in the process, pedagogic, linguistic and cultural preparation, negotiation training contents and information on the evaluation methods.It is expected , the level of participants , acquisition and diversification of knowledge on modern languages , the discovery of life in autonomy , away from their household and their school of origin and the development of specific skills , know-how and know-to-be within their area of training as well as at a personal / social level .As long term benefits, it is intended to optimize the personal employability and entrepreneurship, and the development of the concept of National and European citizenship."

The use of the Internet and social media as modern business promotional tools for businesses, products and services, is one of the most important components of e-marketing and e-commerce in general. Social media have penetrated the consumer's everyday routine, and have redefined the way businesses and consumers communicate.In relation to marketing, social media enable consumers to communicate quickly and easily with other consumers while businesses monitor discussions and online reviews to learn the opinion of users for their services and products, in order to improve them and adapt to their preferences.Advantages such as the reduction of the creation cost, processing, distribution, storage and retrieval of information, customer service, development of new business models and the easy and rapid expansion into new markets can emerge as keys of growth and success of a business. The general objective of the proposed project was to educate the participants on the basic principles of business - technological environment that has been created through ICT and the acquisition of specialized knowledge in the use of social media to meet the needs of a business or an organization as far as promoting sales is concerned. We also expected the participants to achieve specific educational objectives in correspondence with their educational needs. Specifically: - Get to know professionally the nature, environment, possibilities and prospects of the Internet, - Get to know key issues related to e-business and e-commerce processes, - To understand (the participants that is), professionally, the nature, environment, possibilities and prospects of social media and their requirements as a means of communication and advertising, - Be able to describe a clear action plan to promote products and services, - To encourage low-cost entrepreneurship, - To develop a positive attitude towards the use of new technologies as business tools In this mobility project participated 30 students of the 1st E.K. of Preveza who was attending lessons of the sectors and specialisations of school with 6 accompanying teachers. Mobility was organized in 3 flows with Spain, Italy and Estonia as destination countries and 10 pupils per flow.The program have implemented with respect to the theoretical part of the premises of the hosts while the practical part was held in relevant to the subject of training companies selected by the host institutions in cooperation with the 1st E.K. of Preveza in accordance with the curriculum agreed. Expected results: • To acquaint (the participants that is), professionally, the nature, environment, possibilities and prospects of social media, their requirements and their services, to work in interactive and multimedia computing environments. • Know how to promote products or activities. • Understand the benefits of online advertising. • Be aware of the types and kinds of e-Commerce business models • To recognize errors and understand differences with conventional Marketing • To understand the philosophy and the Social Media Marketing techniques • Be able to connect their site and e-shop with Social Media The behaviors of the participants, have established at the new learning standards, innovative learning tools and new social skills should gain characteristics of deepening and permanence. By participating in this program, the 1st E.K. of Preveza, discovers models and practices that adapts to its environment. It establishes cooperation networks which interconnect with the national ones that participates in. It raises its educational status, it boosts the students'self-esteem resulting in an increase not only in the student population, particularly in an era characterized by difficulties in the educational choices of teenagers, but also the satisfaction of its staff, events that increase the impact and long-term benefits.

Contribute to improving the quality of education and vocational training of adults: this is the mission of the Consortium, so to activate a training action that follows innovative teaching methods and which is also accompanied by efficient guidance activities that engage the entire supply chain of actors concerned in training in the process of empowerment. Thus the proposal of a unified and integrated mobility project, which could act on specific sectorial expertise, particularly teachers and trainers engaged in training of adults.The goal of the Consortium is, in fact, to test and implement techniques and methodologies, also learned from the international scene, that so these can improve the Training Offer reserved for Adults, thus going to recoup some of those who have dropped out of education, perhaps not even completing compulsory education. All of this stems from the belief that disadvantaged groups should be approached with training methodologies and pedagogies different from those implemented in regular education courses, by which come also the teachers involved as trainers for Adults in the partner institutions.The goal is to transfer to the education and training actors methods of planning and implementing of educational and teaching interventions, through which ensure the educational success of all students, which is the full development of the person in respect of the social and cultural life, promoting diversity, disability or disadvantage situations, and the potential of each individual.The partnership encompasses ITIS A. Monaco and the Omni Comprehensive State of Frascineto. These Institutes are sites in regional areas where the risk of social exclusion is revealed high, and so alarming, because this are territories inhabited by community of linguistic minorities.The project aims to involve 30 beneficiaries, divided into two flows according to the host country; they will be selected from among the staff of the institutes comprising the partnership between trainers, teachers, administrators, etc..The activities that will characterize the project are: PLANNING AND PROMOTION, phase devoted to the preparation of detailed work plan, during which will list the actions and activities to be carried out abroad; PROJECT MANAGEMENT: for the duration of the project, a PM instructed will oversee the partnership and will coordinate all phases; SELECTION, PREPARATION AND ACTIONS OF MOBILITY: following the identification of the participants, a language training and orientation meeting will be provided. A meeting which will mark the beginning of the activity, will be part of this phase; finally the phase EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATION RESULTS will be characterized by the analysis of monitoring and by the success of the project evaluation, as well as the implementation of the dissemination plan.The project wants to contribute to achieve the following long-term benefits:- Carry out social-relational integration activities during extracurricular moments that are able to engage learners and to strengthen their motivation and participation in the life of the territory, also in terms of new training paths focused on practical activities;- Improve self-awareness, growth of esteem, empowerment, confidence in the use of their skills and improve current motivation to learn.Countries involved: Spain and Lithuania.