The main objective of this project is to foster the exchange of students who are carrying out their internship among centres of Vocational Traning of the European Union from the hand of the centres of Vocational Training and the institutions taking part in them. We are in a position to claim that these kind of mobilities lead perfectly well those which are developed by intermediary companies or the ones with direct access through the companies themselves. In february 2015 ,a group of teachers from CIPFP La Costera set out to develop a website based on the professional training aimed at fostering experiences of exchange with students from professional training.This ambitious proposal needs to be carried out through the international cooperation with other centres of Vocational Training and with other educative entities from the area. Therefore, this KA 2 pretends to give a transnational boost to the platform, adapting to the real situation in other countries , improving some of the resources and above all spreading it out at European level. In order to do that, we rely on equivalent centres such as Liceo Barthélémy Thimonnier/ AFP Astgiane and other centres around the area suach as Colleges Wales and the Conselleria d´Educació, as well as Bankia. We have set out a previous plan of communication because we consider that this one is necessary to carry out the project with a schedule , and moreover it will facilitate to solve problems in front of other possible contingencies. For the coordination of the project , there will be required two transnational meetings , one at the beginning and another at the end of the Association KA2. Each partner has considered a considearble quantity of centres which could be integrated in the website at the end of July 2017. The final quantity is 47 Regarding the budgetary control CIPFP La Costera will develop several ways of financial management from the beginning of the activities of the project , and they will be shared by the partners. To the same extent, a plan was also set out in front of the unexpected possible contingencies such as disagreements among partners or the impossibility of carrying on with it because of any member. At the begining of the activities of this project, an individual contract will be signed between the coordinator of the project and each member , where the assignation of the tasks and financial resources are clearly based , this should decrease the possibility of conflicts even more. The activities to be carried out are the following ones:• To carry out proposals for the design of the web.• To translate the webpage into the language of the country.• To arrange meetings of diffusion among local centres.• To carry out publicity campaigns.• The follow-up and analysis of the diffusion within their countries.Among the expectations , there will a boost among not only regarding the partner organisations but also the formative centres of the countries involved. This web pretends to give a European dimension to the internship of the professional formation.It was born into the idea of connecting the centres of different european countries to foster the cooperation. The addressee collective will be the centres of Professional Training and within them the person responsible for the European Programmes . In fact , the activities of diffusionwill be addressed to these kind of centres. Our main target are the intermediaries together with the target beneficiaries , those are , the students of the centres and the companies of the places in which the centre is located.For the diffusion of the project , we rely on the highly valued hosts which will be of great importance in the process of spreading to the centres. To carry it out, we are going to use three ways of diffusion ( Meetings with local centres/ The use of social networkings, the position in the website and the presentation regarding local level/ the channels of diffusion which already exist in Bankia, Colleges Wales and the Conselleria d'Educació. To claim the impact of the repercusion , there will be created an embassador of the web in each country. We mean that each host country will have a centre of reference which will have the following functions of divulging, encouraging and explaining the web to other centres.The sustainability is one of the key aspects to be taken into account. This will be an issue to be dealt with in the transnational meeting which will tackle the measures to be taken to guarantee the stability of the web.
• Project context Erasmobility is a platform initially developed by the CIPFP La Costera to promote internship exchanges between professional training centres in Europe. Thanks to the project approved by the SEPIE, this platform has now become international and with the experience and support of its European partners the website is being changed to reflect an international perspective. The work of our partners in spreading the word has been equally important in making this a useful tool. The final goal is to increase the number of student and teacher exchanges in the sphere of professional training based on a philosophy of mutual aid between centres. • Objectives The project’s first objective has been to perfect the pre-existing platform that teachers at the CIPFP La Costera had developed in order to promote internships between European professional training centres. Three considerable improvements have come out of the reflection of both partners and users: 1- A multilingual website (in Spanish, English, French and Italian) designed to facilitate searching for partners who can help manage teacher and student exchanges. 2- A registration process in which centres can explain their specialties, and a search tool in which all centres appear whether or not they offer exchanges. 3- A website that leaves collaboration between centres open, that is, that enables for other kinds of assistance beyond the exchange. With respect to the diffusion of the platform, the proposed figure of centres to be registered has been exceeded, with 230 centres in Spain, 22 in France, 13 in Italy and 9 in the UK, as of 31st October. Indeed, we have also seen initially unexpected outcomes, thanks to the support of organizations did not at first figure in the project. Erasmobility now has centres signed up in Belgium, Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and more. • Number and profile of participant organizations The profile of the participant organizations involved in the process has basically been that of the professional training centre. There were three in the project: - Lycée Barthélémy Thimonnier. - AFP Colline Astigiane. - CIPFP La Costera. But we now have the invaluable support of other professional training centres such as the Go Scholengroep (Belgium) or the Colegiul Alexe Marin (Romania). Moreover, to help us spread the word we’ve relied on two regional educational organisms: the Valencian Ministry for Education and Colleges Wales. Finally, the banking institution Bankia by way of the Bankia Foundation has been our partner responsible for guaranteeing the sustainability of the project once European funding is finalized. • Description of main activities undertaken Studying the initial website promoted by the CIPFP La Costera to propose improvements to be carried out by IT specialists. Creation and translation of texts into various languages. Having photos made for the website. Trial phase. Preparation of exchange proposals to publish on the website by partners who are genuinely able to make them. Preparing informational material. Meeting in Italy, France, the UK and Spain to get word of the website to local centres. Diffusion of the website using channels devised by centres. Development of a Facebook page. Fresh analysis of the platform, proposals for the future Writing up of the platform’s sustainability agreement between partners. • Results and impact achieved We have already mentioned how the figure for registered centres put down in the application form - just 47 - has been well-exceeded with more than 346. We think also relevant is the number of exchange proposals that centres have published. That is, when a centre, beyond signing up, proposes an offer of an exchange. Well, we currently have 185 standing proposals. Furthermore, to assess indirect impact (an increase in the number of exchanges), a survey has been passed to centres with concrete exchange proposals. We find that 57.1% of centres have established contact with another centre and that some 30% have make concrete steps to initiate collaborative projects. • Long-term benefits Without doubt this will be to bring about an increase in the number of exchanges carried out by professional training centres based in a philosophy of mutual aid. We equally aim to create synergies with other platforms coming out of KA2 projects, such as Talented Europe, in order to develop a project that enhances the profile of Erasmus+ exchange students while making them more employable.