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Among the EU countries, Italy is on the last places for youth employment. The Europe 2020 Strategy refers to our country calling to renew the system of education and training, to make young people achieve key competences for the economy and the knowledge society as it leads to improvement of their employability. One of the sectors that distinguishes our country in the world and which may represent a driving force for raising young people employment is undoubtedly the tourism. Mobility stimulates the ability to re-innovate that is so important for young people, especially for those who have been able to observe cutting-edge practices in other countries, it gives them the skills required by the labor market, however a common strategy is needed between the major players involved to extend this possibility to as many students as possible. In this context, the upper secondary school Pellegrino Artusi in Riolo Terme wants to undertake a specific path on European mobility for technical-professional training students starting from the hospitality and catering sector with the aim of making mobility an integral part of the curriculum and inviting the actors on the territory to unite in order to implement network strategies and economies of scale. The project ReHEAT: tecniche di Ristorazione Ed Hotellerie Ecosostenibili Acquisite Tramite la mobilità Europeais the second step of the internationalization path of the training offer that intends to create in the region the sectoral mobility centers where will have possibility to participate all the schools. The project allows 100 young students of 5 hotel institutes from Emilia-Romagna region to work for 4 weeks in a company in another country in line with their training and with the guarantee to see the corresponding period recognized in their own curriculum path and validate the skills acquired through the Europass and ECVET devices. These are technical-professional skills in a leading sector of the regional economy such as hospitality and catering and transversal skills such as learning to learn, interpersonal, intercultural, linguistic skills as well as personal autonomy, initiative, problems solving and confidence in the work environment: the most requested by the European and local job market. The project has a further added value, in fact the participants during their experience abroad will collect a series of good practices on how to avoid food and energy waste, unfortunately relevant problems are common in this sector. By developing awareness on these issues among students, the practices will be shared within the institutions and will be available to hotel schools. The consortium that proposes ReHEAT is particularly qualified and includes secondary schools of secondary rank characterized by a quality educational offer, supported by numerous project initiatives and awards. The consortium was inspired of mobility from the iMove network, an association resulting from the LLP Leonardo network which brings together VET mobility consortia in Europe sharing a working methodology aimed at reaching the target of 6% of students in mobility set by ET2020. Abroad, the partnership has 8 partners from 7 EU countries: Cyprus, Germany, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, Lithuania and France. All of them have been cooperating for a long time and have demonstrated competence and reliability. Above all, they are able to offer experiences that are consistent with the course of study of the participants and increase the possibilities of post-qualification employment after the students’ return from the experience. After a phase of information gathering and selection, the participants will receive a thorough preparation that will cover the linguistic, organizational, cultural, safety aspects of the workplace, adaptation to a foreign country and the work environment. Each participant will sign a Learning Agreement that will specify exactly the objectives, expected results, methods of carrying out the experience. In addition to improving the employability of 100 students ReHEAT aims to have an impact on the school system allowing to participate the schools that alone would not be able to do it. One of the expected results is to establish mobility coordinators in each school that can be point of reference for students and colleagues. Finally, ReHEAT aims to bring together the main players involved in local training in a public-private partnership with the aim of integrating and strengthening local policies in the pursuit of strategies for 2014-2020 and at the same time attracting private funding for the future, the only real way to make European mobility more widespread for the benefit of people and businesses.
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