"The project "" Scuola Lavoro Europa "" has been promoted by a varied and complementary consortium: 5 institutes ( IFOM , Istituto Cattaneo - Deledda , Institute Elsa Morante , ITCS Rosa Luxemburg , Meucci IISS ) the Emilia-Romagna region through the information desk Europe Direct and CNA Bologna, the association representing the SMEs of Bologna. The consortium has been assembled considering the need to ensure an educational success of the economic - administrative students, reducing dropouts, improving skills and concrete employment opportunities for learners. The consortium has identified on one hand a discrepancy between the number of students enrolled in vocational schools and, on the other, between graduated students competencies and the ones demanded by labor market. Consortium’s schools are facing two major risks of the labor market: - The skill-mismatch between specific and transversal competencies of the students that are finishing their education and the skills requested by the labor market; - The mismatch between the demand and offer of occupation in the administrative and commercial sector. The project ""Scuola Lavoro Europa"" aimed to overcome these problems. The project lasted 17 months (from 01/09/2017 to the 31/01/2019) and included two activities: 1) Mobility of 80 students and 22 teachers for internships abroad , divided into five flows of 1 month each. 2) Mobility of 20 newly graduates for internship abroad divided into four flows of three months each.Among the students will be included at least 24 (30%) students with fewer opportunities and 10 students with special needs (DSA and BES).The mobilities have been organized in 3 phases (May 2018, June/July 2018 and September/November 2018) The objectives achieved by the consortium with these activities are: - Strengthening student’s motivation and orientation into labor market, through internships abroad; - Develop the recognition and validation of learners' Learning Outcomes with ECVET; - Extend to the abroad, the territorial limits of carrying out the training programs, in order to improve school-work combination’s capacity and skills; - Promote students’ personal growth through discussion and widening of cultural horizons, social and human rights; - Strengthen linguistic and multicultural skills of learners; - Provide a European awareness and education to internationalization to students and school staff; - Expanding students labor market’s knowledge, through a varied awareness, diverse and transnational; - Enhancing training quality, by identifying an inner linguistic competencies development plan, to include in training programs; - Develop, considering large number of consortium’s members, a collective consciousness on practical work placements abroad, involving local and international companies, civil society, policy makers and public bodies; - Improve the ability to ensure internships abroad in a cohesive and efficient manner, sharing good practices, creating a complementary skills and contacts system, centralizing services related to the organization and management of mobility; - Strengthen transnational relations numbers and quality of this consortium, developing new contacts and new opportunities for cooperation. The outcomes of the mobilities had a relevant impact on a wide number of actors:- Students, that improved their transversal and professional competencies and will be more competitive on labor’s market;- Schools, which started a process of modernization and internationalization of their educational offer, increasing their appeal and - Companies, which will satisfy their demand in terms of number and competencies.- Indirect beneficiaries, with dissemination activity, which will benefit by peers experience- Other stakeholders, that will benefit of new consortium competencies in terms of new relations and future projects."