"BACKGROUND The tourism industry is a key sector of the EU. It is, in fact, over 10% of EU GDP (including the linked industries) and employs 9.7 million people and 1.8 million companies. In our country, the industry has, as a whole, about 191.000 businesses and, on 31st December 2015, 886.000 employees, while in the two regions covered by the project (Sicily and Calabria), between 2015 and the third quarter of 2016, employment in the tourism sector has recorded an average increase compared to 2013-2014, by 3.8% in Sicily and 2.7% in Calabria. The data and projections show, however, on the one hand, the expansion of the sector and the tourist attractiveness of the two regions and, on the other hand, emphasize the need to provide trained young staff, highly qualified and able to respond positively to new and high competence requested by the local labor market. OBJECTIVES In line with the objectives of the EU 2020 Strategy and ET 2020, WORK AWAY offers young participants the opportunity to test and deepen their curricular competencies: professionalism in the specific sector of TOURISM, soft skills, cultural knowledge and language skills. These general objectives are pursued through a mobility experience which consists of an internship abroad of 1 month for 96 STUDENTS attending CLASSES IV and of 3 months for 80 newly graduated of the 8 participating VET Schools (Technical Institutes for Tourism and Hotel and Catering Schools). The project also promotes the exchange and transfer of good practices in VET by relating our VET system with the training and employment system to other European countries and contributes to the consolidation of the ECVET System. ACTIVITY 1. Transversal Activities: management and coordination; Dissemination and exploitation of results; Follow up; 2. Mobility Preparation: Plan of communication and cooperation; Recruitment and selection of participants; preparation of participants; Learning plan definition; 3. Mobility Realization: Internship in the company; Monitoring and tutoring; Project feedback and experience of mobility; Assessment, certification and validation of skills acquired. METHODOLOGY in 4 PHASES 1. MANAGEMENT PLAN AND MONITORING: the project is coordinated by IIS ""Moncada"" in close collaboration with other 16 partners of the Consortium. The Plan is based on the EQAVET quality system and includes specification on: financial arrangements, timing, names of managers / representatives of each organization, responsibilities, roles and tasks, project phases with related milestones, risk management procedures. 2. PLAN OF LEARNING AND EVALUATION: the learning and evaluation plan contains specific references and commitments on transparency and recognition of competences in an ECVET-compatible framework. The documents are: Learning Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The quality of the experience of mobility is controlled through regular evaluation questionnaires filled out by participants, mentors and tutors. 3. PLAN OF COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION: it provides for the involvement of all participants in the partnership with effective tools and rules to maintain a high level of interest on the project. 4. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION: includes phases and methods to be adopted by all partners to disseminate and exploit the project and its results all over the duration and behond. EXPECTED RESULTS a. The development of highly specific and innovative skills in the tourism and catering sector; b. More competitive and greater employment opportunities in the labor market for the participants; c. The development and innovation of VET systems. IMPACT The project includes a significant impact on the VET Systems through: learning outcomes achievement of participants to mobility; skills acquired from the staff involved in the project; recognition of skills in an ECVET-compatible framework. It represents also an added value and development opportunity for the participating organizations, which will consolidate a new training segment to complete the technical and vocational education and answer the demand of enterprises of high professional skills. LONG-TERM BENEFITS In the long term, thanks to the dissemination tools developed and to the size and importance of the consortium, it is expected to have a multiplier effect both regionally, and at national and EU level and the orientation of public policies on the base of the results of the project, using in addition, as a standard model, all procedures and best practices developed within the Project."

Prosjektet 2015-2017 består av 65 mobiliteter: 5 lærlinger, 24 elever og hospitering av 36 instruktører/yrkesfaglærere fra hele fylket. Varighet på oppholdet: lærlinger i opp til 13 uker, elever fra 14 dager og instruktører fra 2 dager til 14-dagers opphold. Destinasjoner for Mobilitet i prosjektet: Tsjekkia, England, Island, Nord Irland, Spania, Italia, Nederland, Sverige og Tyskland. Alle 2 -og 13 ukers utplasseringer for elever og lærlinger inneholder:- organisatoriske forberedelser, planlegging av faglig innhold og oppholdet,- kulturelle forberedelser i forkant , - nettbasert språkkurs i Norge,- kulturelt program i utlandet, - Europass og Learning Agreement i alle tilfeller.- etterarbeid, oppsummering og evaluering. De faglige hospiteringene for instruktører fra bedriftene og faglærere inneholder faglig hospitering og skolebesøk, oppdatering på faglig kompetanse, ny metodikk, nye teknikker og kjennskap til kultur og tradisjoner. Det var planlagt også språklig utviklings del i hospiteringene i Nord- Irland. Utplasseringene har gitt oss: På kort sikt: Faglig utvikling for deltakere: lærlinger, elever, instruktører og faglærere. For NTFK: Mer erfaring i bruk av ECVET verktøyene, utprøving og utvikling av de, spesielt MOU og Learning Agreement med Assessment form. På lang sikt: - utviklende arbeid i bruk av ECVET verktøy for bedre kvalitet i Mobilitet og enda bedre implementering av Mobilitet som en del av opplæring i fylket. - større tillit fra World of Work i fylket til Erasmus VET Mobilitet med sikret kvalitet, sterkt faginnhold i utplasseringer og tilsvarende godkjenning av læreutbytte fra utlandet. Tilleggsverdien av dokumentering og vurdering av Soft skills er også en positiv resultat. - Utvikle trofast partnernettverk i aktuelle land som kan være samarbeidsparter med tanke på utveksling av både erfaringer/kunnskap, lærlinger og faglig ledere/instruktører. - Bedre rekrutteringen til fagopplæringen. - Økt fagkompetanse generelt. - Fagsamarbeid mellom land i Europa. - Fremme nytenking og heve statusen innen yrkesfaglige studieretninger. - Innsikt i tilsvarende fagopplæring i mottakerlandene. - Faglige leder/instruktører med internasjonal kompetanse er et positivt bidrag til bedriftsutvikling i fylket. - Fange opp nye trender i Europa. - Språkutvikling og kjennskap til andre kulturer. - Dette er en viktig satsing for fylket ifølge strategiplaner i NTFK, sektorplaner for Avdeling for videregående opplæring i NTFK og felles Internasjonale Strategi for Nord- og Sør - Trøndelag.Activities 2015-2017 consist of 65 Mobilityes: 5 trainees, 24 students and 36 instructors/ teachers in Staff Mobility. Duration of stay: Apprentices up to 13 weeks, students in VET from 14 days, instructors Mobility from 2 days and longer. Destinations for Mobility: Check Republic, England, Iceland, Northern Irland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Sweden. All two - and 13-week workplacements for VET-learners include:-Organizational arrangements, well planning of training/work content and stay,-Cultural preparation in advance ,-Web-based language courses in Norway ,-Cultural program abroad, -Europass and Learning Agreement to all ,-Rework , summary and evaluation.Mobility for instructors consist of professional work placement, school visits , updating of professional skills and new methodology, new technologies, knowledge about the culture and traditions. linguistic Development of Professional English in VET was also a part of Staffmobility program to Irland for vocational teachers and trainers from enterprises.Mobility should give us:In short- term: Professional development for participants: apprentices and students and teachers and instructors. For NTFK: more expirience of using ECVET Tools, test and development/ improving of it, especially MOU, LA and Assessment form.In long term:-Development work on use of some of ECVET Tools for beter quality of Mobility and even easyer implementation of International Mobility as a part of curriculum in Norway, step by step.-More trust from the World of Work in Trøndelag to Erasmus+ Mobility with controlled quality, strong Professional context in each Mobility, recognition and aprovement of -Development of trustfull and loyal Partner network in the relevant countries for Mobility, exchange of experiences / knowledge, apprentices and professional leaders / instructors. -Improved recruitment to vocational training in trades and businesses. -Increased expertise in general. -Professional co-operation between countries in Europe. -Promoting innovation and raise the status of vocational professional training. -Insight into the corresponding vocational training in other countries. -Instructors and vet-teachers with international competence is a positive contribution to business development.-all this are priority in Strategy plans in NTFK, Sector plan for Upper Secondary education in NTFK and International Strategy in Trøndelag.

The USE gGmbH is a social enterprise, which promotes predominantly people with mental illness / disabilities in the professional life with the goal of a transition from the full employment reduction to a transition to the first job market. The improvement of soft skills and vocational training are essential factors and content of rehabilitation, intensified by exchanges and stays abroad in Europe. Since 1999, the USE gGmbH in international relations through European youth encounters and training to o.g. Topics active. In the meantime, we are convinced of the effects on employees with disabilities of the USE gGmbH. Individual results were noticeably achieved with regard to the self-confident handling of impairments, the ability to communicate and self-determination.The Europeanization strategy of USE gGmbH not only promotes the equal participation of all European citizens (within the meaning of the UN CRPD), but also contributes to more democracy and cosmopolitanism by raising awareness of cultural differences.The USE gGmbH is willing to continue to transport the European idea into the company and thus the connected networks.The goal of the project Keep an eye on - Our way to Europe was for the USE gGmbH to make a start in promoting the short-term mobility of employees, who are in preparatory courses for education and training. In addition, trainers should be given the opportunity to learn how education and training of people with disabilities in the UK is structured following the government-mandated closure of workshops.The project was attended by 12 persons with disabilities who gained work experience through internships in a vocational training in Wroclaw. In addition, 17 professionals were able to hold seminars on the topic of inclusion in Wroclaw and London.The beneficiaries of the stay abroad were supported on their way to training and the professionals broadened their knowledge of the importance and practical work of people with disabilities in Europe. The stays abroad have meant that the team as a whole can better classify their own work against the background of experience. The own structures are thereby perceived much more positively. For the company, we expect further orientation towards European cooperation.

"The project ""AWARD SKILLS"" intends to support significantly the acquisition of professionalism about the technical competences, pedagogical and social skills of the two identified targets: students and recent graduates in social and social health, providing additional knowledge needed to the enforceability of the daily work , the professional quality and the number of interventions that guide and support intentionally effective approaches in dealing with issues related to disadvantaged people, or at risk of marginalization and planning the team work also in view of transnational mobility. Transnational mobility, on the basis of European policies on lifelong learning, must become an integral part of VET programs to enable learners to achieve high levels of qualification, essential for a successful entry into the labor market, for the development and improvement of their career and to cope with the demands of companies of highly qualified personnel. In line with these objectives and European policies, through AWARD SKILLS, the 8 sending schools and the National Consortium as a whole, led by SO&CO Consortium of Social Cooperatives Lucca, aim to improve the quality of VET, giving a European dimension to the educational paths and thus providing the young participants the opportunity to verify and deepen their curriculum: professionalism in the social and social health sectors, cultural knowledge and language training. This general objective, in line with the Strategy ET2020, is pursued by a mobility experience for the students of the fourth year and for the recent graduates of theeight sending VET Schools and that consists of an internship of one month, in the first case, and three months (ErasmusPlus action) in the second one. The training programme includes an internship in selected companies in the social and social health, to acquire knowledge and skills within the sectors and compare the various professional techniques, and activities aimed at the inclusion and integration in the context and for the improvement of language skills and to better know the culture of the hosting country. The main expected results from the project include: the rise of the personal and professional skills of the participants; the promotion of key competences connected with the exercise of real active citizenship; increasing the employment potential of the participants; the introduction of new training methods to complement existing practices and the improvement of the educational level of technical and vocational schools; the development of relations between the transnational partners and the promotion of processes of cooperation and exchange of good practice between the parties involved, with a significant impact on improving the educational and vocational guidance. The construction of a permanent network of transnational nature of public organisations and not only constitutes, therefore, one of the main objectives of the project and allows the exchange of experience and good practices at different levels (technical excellence, best practices in training policies and governance of the system). The Consortium, with this proposal, therefore, aims to give momentum to the internationalization of institutional relations and cooperation at European level. The opportunities for social and economic growth can not be separated from the desire to create strong interdependence and synergy between education and vocational training institutions and strong partnerships with local and foreign business realities. The project is, besides, implemented in an European context considering the European priority and thematic approached such as ""ECVET for transparency and recognition of learning outcomes and qualifications"" and contributes, in particular, to create a European area for lifelong learning in the social and social health sector. The whole activities are implemented by regarding a strong European perspective which is reflected in all project activities and results. So, the project aims to increase the knowledge of ECVET and its technical specifications and ensuring that the added value of ECVET is understood and perceived all over Europe."

The main idea of the project is to enable participation of the students of Complex of Upper Secondary Schools in in Lubań in vocational trainings abroad in following areas:- technician of hotel management- technician of nutrition and food service- technician of advertising managementAll together, 70 students will participate in the internships assisted by 5 instructors. All participants is going to take part in preparation cycle, based on developed methodology. It covers language crush – course, pedagogical and cultural preparation and evaluation of personal development during the project. At the end, the conference about the results and achievements of the project is scheduled. The project is based on c lose cooperation of the partners based on tools and documents prepared in such projects as EuPQuA I, II, III and adjustments of methodology during the process to reach the best results possible. The final outcome, among others, is going to be improvement of the service provided by the schools, better practical preparation of students and, in long run, development of commerce in the region.The internships are going to be done in Sep. - Dec. 2014, while the whole project is scheduled for the period 1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015.