Boarders of European Union are quickly expanding and the development of skills for our European workers is essential nowadays. Indeed, crafts and companies are now dealing with international exchanges and facing a multinational competition. Qualifications and skills are therefore put into question. In order to contribute to this expansion, it is primordial to provide each apprentice with the possibility to be trained and to work on a European level. It is our duty to offer our learners such training. Les Compagnons du Devoir have always given priority to the long life learning and perform to value on-the-job learning and mobility, mainly through shared experiences, human relations and knowledge transmissions. Long-term mobility projects have always existed in our Association. It is part of our specific professional training “Le Tour de France” to have a one-year experience abroad. So far, more than 6276 of our young professionals have already benefitted from such an experience.Since 2004, almost 14900 apprentices have therefore benefitted from a 3 weeks mobility project in European Union, owing to our trusted partners. Our experience allows us to choose the most suitable partners to provide our apprentices quality trainings in any of our 29 trades (industry, construction, building, baking, leather and textiles trades). Thanks to Erasmus + agreement for 2015-2017, we sent 825 apprentices in gathered mobility projects together with their class and their trade teacher (72 teachers in total), 168 post-apprentices for a one year mobility and 65 apprentices in a technical training for 2 weeks.In September 2009 we managed to officially join in the learning annex of the apprenticeship contract the 3 week mobility project abroad for all our level 4 apprentices. The enhancement of the quality of our project is owing to the developed teaching skills of our partners, who suggest a precise programme compatible with our apprentices’ modules in France, with the specificities of the host country. This approach brings a value to our programmes in France and comforts the employers of our apprentices, worried about this mobility project abroad of their employee. The project allowed our participants to acquire professional, language, intercultural and cross-disciplinary skills. Indeed, apprenticeship and trades are different from one country to another. Travelling is also a way to develop its adaptability and flexibility, two qualities required in the labor market. Our partners involved in our projects are training organizations, companies, social partners, consular chambers and intermediate organisms in 21 countries. Mobility is more and more recognized in those countries; therefore most of the previous work placements are renewed year after year. Years of experience with our partners allow us to organize those projects in mutual trust and prepare at best each participant for his mobility.Each apprentice’s mobility has been validated and recognized through a Europass, and for our post-apprentices, their skills and competences are highlighted on our online pedagogical platform “Aquisav”. With the idea of using ECVET system, our partners already signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The International Service maintained relationships with partners, prepared and coordinated the pedagogical projects if necessary. They helped also their training centres in France for organizing the gathered mobility projects and they supported apprentices following technical training or going abroad for one year (individual mobility).This ambitious project couldn’t be organized without the considerable investment our staff members involved in those actions, in particular educational staff and trainers.

This project is cooperation between the ZAWM Eupen NPO and the exchange pupils, their apprenticeship companies and vocational schools and companies from Europe. All partners originate from vocational education. The requirements of our pupils are particularly the experience of exchange with other cultural communities and thus also professional techniques.In a border region with 3 adjacent countries and a language and cultural border in the own country it is essential for further chances in employability to be mobile and flexible. Since many years, the ZAWM endeavours in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion to be active in this field and to define position. Therefore it is a logical continuation to open the trainees the opportunity to go into exchange with other cultures and lingual communities. This emphasises once more the effort of the ZAWM Eupen (bi-lingual lessons, bi certification, cooperating agreements with German vocational schools and many more). We expect that in the next year, 30 students from our school will participate in an exchange.The regular exchange will take place during All saints and Easter holidays 2015 until 2017 and beyond, we will have individual exchanges for special occasions (for instance competitions). All pupils who participate in an exchange within the framework of this project are supervised exclusively by the ZAWM Eupen.

The Association Ouvrière des Compagnons du Devoir et du Tour de France has developed a long-standing approach to vocational education and training with an original approach. This approach is based on a job alternation system that fosters strong in-company presence combined to geographic mobility, which leads young trainees to experience a work placement in various companies, in France and abroad. This mobility experience has proved a truly efficient training system as it allows for the transmission of knowledge and the development of professional experience in various environments. The institution pledges to maintain such a system. However, the digital revolution has led to a considerable evolution in the manufacturing processes, the operating procedures and in the services expected to be rendered for each trade. Some changes are also required in order to successfully achieve the energy transition. New skills are expected from the women and men in each trade. On top of the technical skills required, new technological and scientific knowledge are now needed for an effective on-the-job performance. To be successful, these professionals now need to be provided with higher education pathways allowing them to acquire this new knowledge. However, access to higher education today is almost impossible for someone who hasn't followed a classical educational program.The challenge of this project is to build a higher education pathway leading to an officially recognized diploma at Bachelor level (EQF level 6) for the students having undergone a technical/vocational training (which is the pathway often followed due to academic underachievement), while maintaining the principles that led those students to re-engage with the desire to learn: work-study and mobility. As we are not yet able to implement such a pathway for all the trades, we have chosen 2 professional areas to implement an approach transferable to other trades: the building trades and mechatronics engineering.We had to harness partners with a knowledge of these career paths, the technical knowledge involved and the audience this higher education pathway targets, as well as partners from higher education bodies able to provide scientific knowledge and to offer a formal validation of the training. We have selected the following professional training centers: Les Compagnons du Devoir (project handler - France), Handwerkskammer zu Köln (Germany), Borgund Vidaregåande Skole (Norway) and some higher education institutes: le Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (France) and the Erhvervsakademiet Lillebaelt Institute (Denmark). These partners were also known by the project handler due to their participation to other European programs, expect for the Erhvervsakademiet Lillebaelt Institute.To meet the project's objectives, the partners had to: elaborate the content of the higher education programs, build the training pathways for the students entering the scheme, define the profiles and the eligibility criteria for admission, agree upon the process of recognition and validation of the formal qualifications, implement bridging and support courses and, when appropriate, establish accommodation capacities in the various partnering countries and ensure the diffusion of the educational outcomes.Based on the work undertaken by the various workgroups in charge of these actions, some outcomes have been achieved. The content of the three years' training was developed and validated by the partners in the building trade area. These results are not yet achieved for the mechatronics engineering area. A standardized educational pathway was elaborated, and training contents were assigned between the various partners. This pathway is transferable to other trades. The process of validation and the mutual recognition of the training achievements were recorded. This allows for the recognition of formal qualifications awarded by universities. The experience which was implemented simultaneously to the engineering works helped identify the areas in need of bridging courses (in English and for some professional software) and to gauge the interest of a higher education pathway targeting a professional audience with a technical training background. Accommodation capacities have been outlined in the various countries. The diffusion of educational outcomes has not been implemented yet, but it was tested by the partners. To date, 2 French students are enrolled in the program and 5 Danish students have expressed their interest in joining it and in spending their last year in France.The project handler intends to step up this action by transferring the methodology developed in this program to other trades, with other European partners.

CRN MOVE project is an initiative of the Training General Directorate that is the government agency responsible for Vocational Training for Employment in the Community of Madrid. It depends on the Department of Economy, Employment and Finance and inside its organizational structure is the Training Centres for Employment Network , whose mission is to improve the professional skills of workers in the Community of Madrid. To get this aim, these centers are specialized by sectors and areas of vocational training such as information technology and communications ITC , insurance and finance , construction , aerospace , refrigeration and air conditioning , electricity, electronics - and they directly manage training courses for unemployed and workers training more than 6,000 students each year.These training centers also contribute to the improvement of the national system of vocational training through research, certification and upgrading of profiles and all of them are National Reference Centres for Vocational Training (CRN) in their respective sectors .This project shares the objectives of the Strategic Framework for Education and Training 2020 Enhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship , through partnerships between industry and educational institutions. This collaboration is the key point of this project and it means the to resume the uninterrupted participation of Training Centres for Employment Network of the Community of Madrid in European projects and initiatives for Vocational Training in the last years.Specifically, this project proposes in one handa to send 35 students - all of them young unemployed- that have followed their training in various professional certificates of Level 2 and in the other to send 10 technicians and trainers of 5 National Reference Centers (CRN) : Electricity , Electronics and Aeronautics CRN of Leganés , Technologies Refrigeration and HVAC CRN Moratalaz, Building and Civil Works CRN Paracuellos, Administration, Insurance and Finance CRN Fuencarral and ITC CRN Getafe . This is a project that brings together the different mobility flows from the 5 sending centers , with 28 host partners - companies , training centers and chambers of trades- that has already worked together before , and 2 different types of activity: vet learners in companies, vet learners in vocational institutes and companies and staff mobility.Regarding objectives and expected outcomes: in the case of students we know from previous experiences in mobility projects that practices in transnational companies TNCs exponentially increases the employability of those students. In the case of staff mobility expected outcomes were: the experimentation of tools and assessment procedure of transnational in company practices , worked out by the Paracuellos TC in the Transfer of Innovation Leonardo - Track project , the import of dual training methodologies and information exchange about professional qualifications with the aim of establishing ECVET MOUs . These results will give sustainability to the project at the national level because as CRN these results and products will be disseminated among the Spanish VET agents and could be developed in future Erasmus + calls,

Boarders of European Union are quickly expanding and the development of skills for our European workers becomes essential nowadays. Indeed, crafts and companies are now dealing with international exchanges and facing a multinational competition. Qualifications and skills are therefore put into question. In order to contribute to this expansion, it is primordial to provide each apprentice with the possibility to be trained and to work on a European level. It is our duty to offer our learners such a training. Compagnons du Devoir have always given priority to a long life learning and have performed to value on-the-job learning and mobility, mainly through shared experiences, human relations and knowledge transmissions. Long term mobility projects (1 year) have always existed in our association. It is part of our “Tour de France” to have a one-year experience abroad. More than 5860 of our young professionals have benefitted from such an experience and since 2011, it has become compulsory.Since 2004, almost 14100 apprentices have therefore benefitted from a 3 week mobility project in European Union, owing to our trusted partners. Our experience now allows us to choose our best partners to provide our apprentices quality trainings in any of our 29 trades (industry, construction, building, baking, leather and textiles trades). Thanks to Erasmus + agreement for 2014-2016, we sent 757 apprentices in gathered mobility projects together with their class and their trade teacher (69 teachers in total), 122 apprentices for a long term (one year), 49 apprentices in a technical training for 2 weeks and 3 trainers for job-shadowing.In September 2009 we managed to officially join in the learning annex of the apprenticeship contract the 3 week mobility project abroad for all our level 4 apprentices. The enhancement of the quality of our project is owing to the developed teaching skills of our partners, who suggest a precise programme compatible with our apprentices’ modules in France, with the specificities of the host country. This approach brings a value to our programmes in France and comforts the employers of our apprentices, worried about this mobility project abroad of their employee. The project allowed our participants to acquire language, intercultural and cross-disciplinary skills. Indeed, apprenticeship and trades are different from one country to another. Travelling is also a way to develop its adaptability and flexibility, two qualities required in the labor market. Our partners involved in our projects are training organizations, companies, social partners, consular chambers and intermediate organisms in 22 countries. Mobility is more and more recognized in those countries, therefore most of the previous work placements is renewed year after year. Years of experience with our partners allow us to organize those projects in mutual trust and prepare at best each participant for his mobility.Each candidate’s mobility has been validated and recognized through a Europass, his skills and competences abroad have been validated by the European partner and the French teacher on our online pedagogical platform “Aquisav” and with the implementation of the ECVET system. With this in mind, our partners signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The International Service maintained relationships with partners, prepared and coordinated the follow-up and the validation of each curriculum. They helped also their training centres in France for scheduling the gathered mobility projects and they supported apprentices following technical training or going abroad for one year (individual mobility).This ambitious project couldn’t be organized without the considerable investment of each staff members involved in those actions, in order to prepare at best our participant to have a working Erasmus + experience abroad.