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Improve Upon employment opportunities to VET students in Europe

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-ES01-KA102-048379
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Learning Mobility of Individuals | VET learner and staff mobility Funder Contribution: 241,041 EUR

Improve Upon employment opportunities to VET students in Europe

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Due to the digitalization and technological progress of the labor market, the high rates of youth unemployment in Spain and the large number of students who drop out of school without professional qualification, the consortium's of VET schools were aware to face the challenge of improving the professional development of VET students for their participation as active citizens in society and to improve their opportunities to join the European labor market. The project imed at providing VET students with the chance to deepen and improve the quality of their training, by carrying out internships in European companies, and getting in contact with European labour market. The good results and the close cooperation among the VET Schools that have been members of the consortium, set the basis for the development of this project.The consortium has been composed by 8 VET schools of the Valencian Region, coordinated by the IES Lluis Simarro. The VET schools consortim needed to establish European quality networks with companies and other educational centres throughout Europe, in order to stay update on innovations, to share good practices and to get informed on European policies, improving the quality of the provided teaching and trainings, thus fighting youth unemployment. The project has been adressed to 84 students and former students who are attending the 2nd course of school-based intermediate VET programme of IT, construction and civil engineering, electronics and electricity, hospitality and tourism and administration or graduates in the last year: mid-level technicians of these specialties. CIPFP Xeste has selected 16 students, CIPFP Ciutat del aprenent has selected 7 , CIPFP LLuis Suñer 4, IES Lluis Simarro 25, IES Enguera 9, IES LLopis Marí 7, IES Marcos Zaragozá 3 and IES María Enriquez 9, four of them will be ErasmusPro It is worth mentioning that relations with Istituto Elsa Morante in Italy has fostered reciprocity, it has also submitted a mobility project in which Spanish consortium has received their students. The reciprocity has enhanced the promotion of the European active citizenship. The 14 months project that has been developed from the 1st of June 2018 to the 30th of July 2019 has been structured in 5 phases: E1- Activities for communicating and spreading information to promote the students’ participation, planning tasks (including participants’ selection), establishing Learning Agreements, reviewing of ECVET documents, logistics and organization (insurance, lights and accommodation), determining contract-related issues, selecting hosting companies, tutors and accompanying teachers, setting up a common dissemination plan. E2-Preparation of the mobilities. Information Meeting, signing contracts, cultural and professional preparation, OLS language courses. E3- Implementation of mobilities. Follow-up, evaluation and certification of participants. Competences have been determined in the Learning Agreement and have been evaluated, using the ECVET instruments and them have been certified by Europass. E4- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the overall project’s results. E5- Dissemination. The dissemination activities have been carried out during all the project In addition to the impact on the participants, the project also has benefit all the partners, by fostering European cooperation and the relationships between companies and educational centres. Both dissemination activities and the mobility experience itself have produced an impact at local, regional and national level. Other local, regional and national entities have been able to to benefit from the project’s results (even though they are not partners of the project): - Creation of a quality network that includes educational centres and companies - Decrease in youth unemployment rate - Improvement of youth qualifications - Increase in VET enrollment - Creation of new collaborative networks at regional level - Widening the possibility of internationalization for other centres, and their chance to be part to other European projects - Better knowledge of the Erasmus+ programme and EU values (tolerance, equity, equality and inclusion). - Fostering the sense of European active citizenship and respect of other cultures - Possibility to create new companies and new business models - Promotion of social inclusion The project has been in accordance 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 VET students, their participation as active citizens in society and their employability inside and outside the European Labour market

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