"The ALB.A Project was born and was implemented in a dual context:1) the NATIONAL NETWORK OF TOURISM AND CATERING SCHOOLS (RENAIA), of which the 13 schools involved are members, including the Lead Partner, ISIS ""STRINGHER"", which also holds the Presidency of the Network and which represents the most important association, at national level, of the training offer in the tourism and catering sector;2) the STRATEGIC PLAN OF TOURISM 2017-2022 (PST) of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage which aims to increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of the TOURISM SECTOR, supporting the development of the hospitality tourism through the improvement of the quality of the services offered and promoting economic prosperity and social sustainability through the growth of the tourism professions and the creation of new job opportunities.In line with these strategies and objectives, ALB.A Project offered to 130 STUDENTS (of which 28 with special needs) in initial vocational training attending fourth classes and to 79 RECENT GRADUATES of the 13 Tourism and Catering Schools involved, including the Lead Partner, the opportunity to carry out a professional mobility experience lasting, respectively, 1 month and 4 months (ERASMUSPro mobility) in 6 European countries: Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, United Kingdom. These were, in particular, participants who were still attending or had just completed (for no more than one year) an education and vocational path in the tourism sector and who carried out the relevant professional figures during the international mobility experience.ALB.A Project offered, therefore, the young participants an internship experience in foreign companies in their field of study that provided them the opportunity to compare their language skills and acquire specific job skills. The project aimed, in particular, at reconciling the learning outcomes achieved in the education and vocational path with the needs of the labor market in the tourism sector and at enhancing the knowledge of development strategies adopted in the tourism field in other European countries, using the internship experience as a pivotal component of the training path.The general objectives pursued and achieved by the Project are:- the promotion of lifelong learning as a right to develop and update own skills in formal, non-formal and informal learning contexts;- the transparency of learning outcomes and the adherence of training to the needs of companies and professions, facilitating the meeting between supply and demand for work and increasing the competitiveness of the production system;- the usability of qualifications at national and EU level in order to facilitate geographical and professional mobility also with a view to the internationalization of companies and professions.Furthermore, international mobility allowed participants to develop important transversal skills such as: spirit of initiative, ability to adapt and ability to relate and interact in cultural contexts different from their own.Finally, the transparency of learning outcomes in the tourism sector was achieved through the ECVET system and the establishment of a partnership capable of working together on the units of the learning outcomes and the methods of evaluation and validation of the skills acquired by the participants to the international mobility.The following are the impacts achieved:- development of the specialized skills of the target groups involved (209 participants among students attending fourth classes and recent graduates);- creation of innovative training models and tools;- dissemination of results and training models among subjects in the tourism sector and the professional training;- provision of results and training models for VET schools, institutions and professionals in the local/regional territories concerned.The Project can be, therefore, considered exemplary, integrable within the strategic development of each partner of the Consortium, as well as transferable outside, to other organisations, for several reasons:- it created a WORK BASED LEARNING model with a system of actions aimed at specific training, but also at the global growth of each participant. It envisaged the continuous and active involvement of all the figures of the project staff and the supervision by the trainers and company mentors; accompanying and tutoring interventions; teaching methodologies based on involvement, participation, high integration between theory and practice, the development of practical skills that can be immediately used, the validation of acquired skills;- it provided for a system of intermediate and final checks which allowed to monitor the progress in terms of learning achieved by the participants, as well as to evaluate, transfer and validate them."