> CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT - RATIONALE The G&L initiative (www.goandlearn.eu) has proved to be of great interest for participants as well as hosting companies and public bodies sponsoring them. In Italy G&L agencies and workgroups have been set up in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Metropolitan area of Bologna, Umbria, Marche; in the EU, agencies have been set up in Belgium (East Flanders), Germany (Constance Lake), Poland (Gdanz region), Hungary, Slovakia , Slovenja, Turkey. The Agencies/Workgroups organize G&L study visits for both local customers (local catalogue) and foreign groups ((international catalogue). It is now very important to expand the G&L network to new european countries as well as new italian regions/provinces, to enhance the attractiveness of the offered training visits and increasing the number of potential users of this innovative learning and guidance tool. The highest will be the number of companies involved, the highest will be the possibility to effectively use this non formal training units in order to kwow the Companies directly "from the inside". The network expansion requires a capillary work of creation of new G&L agencies/workgroups able to create the new G&L catalogues of local seminars and, afterwards, a proposal of international "circuits". The project fully targets different EU priorities: enhance training role of companies, foster local and international mobility of and workers, promote the innovation of guidance and teaching methods, stenghten the links between Education and Labor Market > OBJECTIVES The project can be considered a transfer of innovative training and guidance practices aimed to: - expand the existing G&L offer of local seminars and international circuits to foster local, interregional and international mobility - to promote the innovative training units of G&L frame to promote professional training and career guidance - integrate the existing website pages (companies, seminars) with mini-videos > PARTICIPANTS (TARGET GROUP) The G&L catalogues' target group is made by: students, workers, trainers and teachers, unemployed people. During G&L piloting no less than 150 people will try the training units of local catalogues. Subject interested in promoting/participating to catalogues: Business Companies, Public Bodies (Schools, Universities), Training Agencies, Social Parts, Local Development, or Job centers or Career guidance centers. > PROJECT ACTIVITIES/INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS 4 intellectual output will be realized: iO1 NEW LOCAL AGENCIES GO&LEARN iO2 LOCAL CATALOGUES & IN-COMPANY VISITS 'PILOTING IO3 GO&LEARN INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITS iO4 PROMOTIONAL MINIVIDEO- COMPANY VISIT's TRAILERS. > PROJECT STRUCTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION The project, lasting 2 years, is developed in 3 main phases. 1. The first one, in the first year, is dedicated to the SETTING of the instrument and TUNING of product lines: - NEW LOCAL AGENCIES GO&LEARN - LOCAL CATALOGUES. 2. The second one is the IMPLEMENTATION & PILOTING. The main activity is the realization of piloting in-company visits in each territory. It will last 1 school-year and will end with the processing of participants' feedbacks and the validation of the experience. Local catalogues will be implemented and INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITS and TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION SHEET FOR "PROMOTIONAL MINI-VIDEO" will be approved. 3. The third one is the VALORIZATION & PRODUCTS DISSEMINATION phase. The phase opens with the Marseille Meeting and ends with the final conference of Milan. During this phase the dissemination activities will be planned and local workshops will be realized in each territory. All products will be available in a digital format on the project website.
BACKGROUND Every company is excellent in something: products, marketing, technologies, work processes, HR, management, markets. Go&Learn is a training initiative aimed to valorise the companies’ excellence, let it be known to the territory where it operates, foster the company's training role. The project inserts companies in guidance and adjournment training/educational pathways, which are organized by universities, schools, and VET centres OBJECTIVES The project, now at its third European edition, allowed to transfer and implement good training and guidance practices by aiming to: 1. expand the already existing training offer of local and international G&L circuits 2. promote the use of the G&L training units, supporting regional and international mobility 3. promote the use of the G&L training units as innovative instruments for updating and providing professional guidance, also in a non-formal way 4. integrate and enrich the website’s structure with promotional videos PROJECT’S PARTNERS ENAIP Veneto (Italy) AFPA (France) C.E.C.E. (Spain) CEPYME (Spain) CFIQ Piemonte (Italy) Confindustria Veneto SIAV S.p.A. (Italy) ECOLE (Italy) ENAIP Piemonte (Italy) Malta Business Bureau (Malta) Malta University Holding Co. ltd (Malta) The 10 project partners work in the fields of education, vocational training, university and industry. PARTICIPANTS By means of G&L, schools, training providers, universities and enterprises were able to strengthen their training offers, including a solid and widely tested range of transnational training and guidance modules, carried out in non-formal contexts inside the companies. The study groups that can benefit from the G&L products are open to students, teachers, employed or unemployed people, entrepreneurs. ACTIVITIES/PRODUCTS IO1 NEW G&L LOCAL AGENCIES The widening of the G&L network was obtained by creating 6 new agencies/workgroup (made up of at least one institutional stakeholder and at least one training provider), which provided the new territories with local companies’ catalogues. The already existing Italian network was broadened by the GO&Learn+ project (by adding Veneto, Lombardy and Piedmont) and the first local agencies were created in Spain (Comunidad de MADRID), France (Auvergne Rhone-Alpes) and Malta. IO2 LOCAL CATALOGUES AND IN COMPANY PILOTING VISITS The new agencies and workgroup created local catalogues of companies. The G&L training units were promoted by carrying out piloting visits in every territory inside the enterprises that are part of the project and of the local catalogues. IO3 INTERNATIONAL G&L CIRCUITS A catalogue of international study visits was also created by each agency of the hosting country and addressed to users coming from foreign states. The circuits are made up of groups of visits in multiple companies that last between 3 and 5 days. IO4 PROMOTIONAL CLIPS – COMPANY VISIT TRAILERS After having agreed on the content/technical requirements, some promotional trailers have been experimented and developed. They have been associated to the local catalogues, to integrate the current descriptive forms that are available on the www.goandlearn.eu website. RESULTS AND IMPACT In this edition, the project, G&L+: - has set up 6 new local agencies/workshop in 6 new territories, made up of 19 actors (stakeholders and training providers) - has defined 6 local catalogues for a total number of 102 participating European companies - 33 visits have been experimented, involving 34 companies, 15 VET centers/institutions, for a total number of 639 participants (72 employed and 2 unemployed people, 512 VET/university students, 44 teachers/trainers, 9 VET staff). - 15 videoclips have been produced, together with a multilingual blend video, - 5 multiplier events were organized, involving 284 participants. The new edition of G&L training opportunities has highlighted that the ability to access a standard catalogue of study visits and seminars carried out inside the companies, which are able to facilitate the contact between economic fabric, cultures and territories, is a great added value for the professional growth of students, teachers and workers. Go & Learn + has renewed its format by delivering and promoting the training offer at a local and interregional level (local catalogues), at an international and cross border level (international catalogue), integrating itself naturally with training activities and anticipating its evolution through new topics of interest, such as the living industry, industry 4.0 and new experiences of innovation carried out by sectoral companies. Local and international catalogues, together with the produced materials are freely accessible and have been integrated into the multilingual website www.goanleran.eu and http://project.goandlearn.eu