Accredited projects for mobility of learners and staff are implemented by organisations holding an Erasmus accreditation. Each accredited project represents a step in the implementation of the organisation's long-term Erasmus Plan.

Accredited projects for mobility of learners and staff are implemented by organisations holding an Erasmus accreditation. Each accredited project represents a step in the implementation of the organisation's long-term Erasmus Plan.

Due to the changes that the labor market with the digitalization and technological progress, the high rates of youth unemployment in Spain and the large number of students that drop out of school without professional qualification, the consortium institutes are aware that they face the challenge of improving the professional development of the student body by equipping them with competences and skills for their participation as active citizens in society and to improve their chances of joining the national or European labor market.The project is developed to provide students with the possibility of expanding and improving the quality of their training by doing internships in European companies which will allow them to get in touch with the reality of the European labor market. The close collaboration of the VET schools of the consortium has made possible the development of this project. The consortium consists of 11 VET schools of the Valencian Community coordinated by FEVECThe participant VET schools of the consortium need to strengthen and expand contacts with companies and VET schools in Europe, this will allow them to be in contact with innovation, to share good practices and to understand European policies, improving the quality of teaching profession, combating youth unemployment and improving the integration strategies to the students at risk of social exclusionThe project is aimed at 76 students and alumni who are doing the second year of the cycles of computer science and communications, electricity and electronics, construction and civil engineering, telecommunications, electromechanical maintenance, refrigeration facilities, agro-ecological production and administration; or graduates in the last year: mid-level technicians in these specialties. 74 students will practice for 30 days in Italy, Poland, UK, Malta, Belgium and Ireland and two students will do it for 92 days in the UK. All the centers will select 7 students except the IES El Quint that will select 6. The IES Sant Vicent Ferrer and the CIPFP Xeste will select an Erasmus Pro student.It should be noted that contact with European partners will allow reciprocity with the irish VET schools.The duration of the project will be 14 months from the 1st of June 2019 to 31th of July 2020 and the internships will take place from March 10 to June 30 of 2020. Five Stages are defined in which the following activities will be carried out:E1- Communication and dissemination actions to promote student participation, planning of operations that includes the selection of participants, implementation of learning agreements, review of ECVET documents, organization of logistics (insurance, flights and accommodation) and definition of contractual issues, selection of companies, selection of tutors and companions, sharing of the dissemination planE2-Preparation of mobilities. Informative meeting, signing of contracts, cultural and professional preparation, registration in the OLSE3-Realization of mobility. Follow-up, evaluation and certification of the participants. The competences will be defined in the learning agreement, they will be evaluated using the ECVET instruments and they will be certified with Europass.E4-Evaluation of project results using qualitative and quantitative methodsE5- Dissemination. It will be done throughout all the projectIn addition to the impact on the participants, the project will have an impact on the partner institutions, fostering European cooperation and the close up between companies and VET schools.The dissemination activities and the mobility itself will create an impact at the local, regional and national levels. Even for the institutions that are not participating in the project, other institutions at the local, regional and national levels can benefit from the results of the project:-Creation of a quality network that integrates VET schools and companies-Decrease in youth unemployment rates-Improving the qualifications of young people.-Increase in the enrollment in the VET and the prestige of the participating VET schools-Creation of new collaborative networks at European and regional level-Increase the possibilities of Internationalization of other institutions that could participate in other European projects.-Best knowledge of the Erasmus + program and EU values ​​(tolerance, equity, equality and inclusion).-Improving the feeling of active European citizenship and respect towards other cultures-Possibility of creating new companies and new business models-Stimulating social inclusion.The project is in line with the 2020 strategy, with the 20 principles of the European Pillar of social rights, with the goals of Erasmus + to improve the professional development of students, their participation as active citizens in society, their employability in the European labor market and outside him.

<< Background >>The project was requested to meet the need of the VET schools to provide their students with the possibility of extending and improving the quality of their training by doing internships in European companies in order to get in touch with the reality of the single European labour market.After carrying out a SWOT including the whole educational community and taking into account the results of previous projects, it was concluded that the schools needed:-To continue along internationalisation strategies.-To improve the professional development of students, their participation as active citizens in society-To improve students' professional development.-To learn first-hand about the reality of business in order to improve the quality of education.-To include VET students at risk of social exclusion.-To implement the systems of assessment and recognition of qualifications.-To strengthen and expand the international network of educational centres, companies and public authorities.-To foster the EU's linguistic diversity, democratic values and the acquisition of green competences.-To increase the attractiveness of VET by modernising its teaching.<< Objectives >>By carrying out the project, the VET students from the consortium have had the possibility to:- Acquiring work experience, thus enabling them to consolidate their professional competences, broaden theircurriculum and put into practice what they have learnt during their training stage, in order to enter the labour market ina more efficient way- Acquiring transversal competences (initiative, autonomy, innovation, teamwork, self-confidence, problem solving...),social competences (flexibility, adaptability...) and intercultural competences (active European citizenship, inclusion,equity, equality, resilience) thus being able to face new challenges and becoming active citizens with values for thefuture- Improve the ability to learn how to learn, thus fostering initiative, autonomy and lifelong learning- Learning and being able to adapt to other work environments- Learning to be entrepreneurial, exploring business possibilities- Learning about the demands of the European labour market- Improving their language skills for employment in Europe.<< Implementation >>All the activities planned in the project have been carried out, but the timing of the activities has been affected by theproject extension due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian warThe activities were divided into the following phases:F1.- Pre-preparation of the training stay.F2.- Publicity and dissemination to potential participants.F3.- Selection of participants and collection of documentation.F4.- Search and awarding of companies and selection of tutors.F5.- Preparation of learning agreements and competence assessment formsF6.- Logistic preparacion of the stay and selection of accompanying teachersF7.- Preparation of participants. Cultural and professional training coursesF8.- Information days before departure for students, accompanying teachers and families.F9.- Implementation of mobility, monitoring, evaluation and certification of participants.F10.- Evaluation of the project by the participants and all the actors involved. Collection of documentation associatedwith the project.F11.- Dissemination of the project results.<< Results >>The project has allowed 82 students (80 VET-SHORT y 2 PLONG) to develop, through the training practices in European companies, theskills to complete, in a practical way, the competences acquired in the VET in order to join the single European labourmarket efficiently, either on their own or as self-employed workers.For this, during the mobility, they have acquired specific, technical, transversal, social and intercultural competences. In addition, the project has allowed the mobility of 22 accompanying teachers and a preparatory visit, even the project has allowed the collaboration between all the participating institutions, thus promoting Europeancooperation and internationalisation, bringing companies and public authorities closer to the educational centres,offering all the centres of the consortium an holistic vision of the European labour market, the most demandedprofessional profiles and the competences that the students must learn.Also, the project is directly linked with the 2030 agenda in its economic and social guidelines, with the skills agenda forEurope, with the Erasmus+ objectives for VET and it is also in line with the strategic EU priorities.

"The Y2Y project, promoted by three Unions of Municipalities from three different EU countries and by an expert association in youth policies, has developed an operating model for strengthening youth entrepreneurship actions in rural and disadvantaged areas in Italy (Sicily), Bulgaria (Black Sea) and Spain (Andalusia). The project was aimed primarily at the youth population and more specifically at unemployed young people and outside the context of education and training (NEET), as well as youth workers of the Municipalities, or officials and operators of the Municipalities who are involved in various capacities from youth policies.The project created an operating model that follows the B2B model, inspired by the exchange and comparison between subjects operating on the same product. In this case, the exchange does not take place at the level of the Business, but at the level of the subjects concerned, or between young people, or young people and youth workers, in a constructive dialogue process based on the subject and personal variables, in this case the main life skills.The Y2Y model is a model that supports the individual resources of young people, especially creativity, resourcefulness, the capacity for self-realization, but also for ""self marketing"". If on the one hand it is true that young people are given the opportunity to highlight their ideas, on the other it is also true that what young people try to value is their ability to be in the European network and to propose and invent ideas .14 young Europeans were offered a blended training model based on humanistic coaching and life skills and 18 youth workers a training course based on humanistic coaching. Through a service platform young people have promoted their entrepreneurial ideas and youth workers have supported the models proposed by the boys by supporting their communication and promotional choices.The Y2Y model is made available through an interactive platform which, in addition to welcoming innovative ideas and promoting them in the European network, offers the opportunity to take advantage of the contents of the training (webinars and short lessons), and the toolkits developed for use by the final target and all those who want to know and share the strategies tested."