The training organisations involved in the European programs have good command of the implementation of mobility for the apprentices or the trainees of continuous studies. However many of them encounter difficulties and reluctance to increase the number of mobility and to impact the insertion of the recipients.Our project aims so that each partner, apprentice, trainee, employers or tutors, place of internship, formative team profit by these mobilities. It is a question of driving the apprentice / trainee more active and responsible for the transfer of professional good practices between the companies of sending (national) and the companies of reception (European). This one becomes RESPONSIBLE to transmit. It is a question of better taking into account the apprentice / trainee and the company in what they are and what they want to allow the success of all and to improve the impact of this experiment. For this purpose we will lead an innovating experimentation where the apprentice or trainee will be the active vector RESPONSIBLE for the transfer of competence, professional techniques between two companies IMPLIED in the teaching process. The young person creates a gateway between two actors who rarely know each other whereas it is convenient to open the employers with the wealth of their European pars. This project will be carried and led by 8 experienced partners divided in 5 countries (France, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Spain).2 authorities of piloting and operational to lead this 34 months project: - A transnational Steering committee - A national Technical committeeThese 2 authorities are guarantors of the good progress of the project: realization of the activities, administrative and financial management, dissemination and communication, evaluation and measurement of the impact. Our project will proceed from September 2016 to June 2019 in 4 stages: 1. The implementation of the method “European Gateway” by a collective reflection, mutualisation of the tools. This phase will produce a Toolkit, a formation for the teaching staffs and another for the companies implied in the observation and the analysis of the transfer, the extension of tool LEFE (Certification of the companies of sending and reception). 2. Training of the actors (tutors and companies) who will be brought to lead the experimentation.3. The experimentation of the transfer’s process with 40 mobilities of apprentices – trainee minimum for 2 weeks duration in the countries partners.4. The assessment, analysis, valorisation of the project and its dissemination with national seminars and an international symposium. Thus we will have produced the supports necessary to an increase of the approach: - A toolkit with its downloadable cards and the formations formalized and tested (the unit translated into 6 languages). - A platform LEFE 2.0 which is assigned with the mission of pointing the transfers and to label the companies of sending and reception. - A corporate network – trainers “pilot” and reducing.The direct public targeted are the 4 main actors of international mobility, namely: - Apprentices/trainees themselves which will be in the centre of the project and the vectors of the link between all. - Companies of sending and reception. - Pedagogical teams. Then the mobilized public obligatory for the good implementation of the project will be:- Professional network heads, Clubs of the companies - Teaching manager of our ministries - Territorial representatives and elected officials in link with Europe, the Formation and the Economy. In the short run, it is expected that: - We had a different view from mobility aiming to include all the actors in the approach of formation and at offering a real appreciation with each one. - A network of labelled companies, which are “spokesperson” of the interest of this experiment.- The training organizations have arguments (to raise the brakes to the mobility) and tools of recognition and validation of “mobility competences” for all the actors: learning, companies, trainers. - A better explanation of the experiment of mobilityIn the long run, the impacts considered are: - Apprentices/trainees more willing to analyse, criticize, propose and to commit themselves in their mobility in order to capitalizing additional competences which will improve their opportunities of post formation insertion - Increase of the number of mobility for the apprentices and the trainees - Improvement of the internship Quality - Companies more implied in the teaching and mobility actions - Companies and young people turned towards the innovation and opened with the changes - Partnerships renewed between companies and actors of the formation
European Gateway is a project involving the strategic partnership of 8 establishments in 5 European countries: the Regional Federation of Vocational Colleges of New Aquitaine (FRMFR NA), the Active Education Methods Training Centres of New Aquitaine (CEMEA NA), the Apprentice Training Centre of the Lycée Gustave Eiffel in Bordeaux, the Association 'For You' of Varna in Bulgaria, COPAE Ilis in Gastouni in Greece, Uniser in Forli in Italy, Esmovia Training and Mobility in Valencia and Praktica Training & Consulting in Seville in Spain. For 3 years, these experts in mobility in vocational training, together with trainers, companies and learners have worked with the aim of making learning mobility open to as many people as possible and improving its quality. To this end, they have developed a quality approach which centres on the learner identifying the professional skills that he masters and is able to transmit, as well as the skills he will discover during his internship abroad which he will bring back to his country of origin to enrich his training course. European Gateway's partners have created many innovative tools and supports to guide the various interested parties in this process before, during and after mobility. They are freely available on the platform http://european-gateway.eu. The learners (any apprentice embarking on a mobility) will discover a set of 'playing cards' allowing them to prepare for their mobility, as well as supports to help with the transfer of professional practices. The sending and hosting organisations (companies, associations, training centres, etc.) have all the information available to fully understand the mobility process and to provide the best support possible to the learners. The mobility manager / mobility provider (any person contributing to the organisation of mobility and the monitoring of the learner's journey) will be guided on the platform at every stage of the mounting, monitoring and development of quality mobility projects. The commitment of sending and hosting organisations to providing quality support for learners is highlighted by the Community page of the platform on which they can share feedback and also be awarded a European Gateway medal according to criteria validated by the mobility manager who handled the mobility program. The project partners aim to create via this platform a rich community of organisations with quality commitment but also, after validation by the mobility coordinator, hope to receive the feedback of learners on their professional experience abroad and on the sharing of professional practices they may have achieved. Thanks to the diversity of the trades represented, the European Gateway platform can serve as a basis for raising the awareness of new companies of the interest of professional mobility and thus contribute to bringing the world of training and the world of work closer together. Videos presenting the points of view of the different participants in a mobility are available on the platform and on the European Gateway Youtube channel. Others will be published over the course of 2020 with the hope of attracting the interest of new players. Any learning mobilities organiser is encouraged to take advantage of the tools and the platform by going onto the Contact page and requesting the creation of an access to the control panel which serves to regulate the publications of organisations and learners. Following the project closing symposium of the project in Bordeaux in June 2019, several networks are now registered as for example some regional MFR federations or intermediate mobility organisations in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Germany. Various other avenues for the sustainability of the platform are currently being studied, particularly as part of the networking work of mobility actors in France (COREMOB, SoMobilité, Erasmus + developer network, etc.) In addition, the collaboration of all the actors of the European Gateway project was based on the preliminary definition of the working methods and frameworks for training sessions as well as the development of a continuous assessment process of the strategic partnership. These tools have been made available to other project leaders on the E + PRP results platform. Relationships between the participating organisations and individuals have given rise to numerous bilateral projects (KA1, KA2, OFAJ, Solidarity Corps, etc.) that will allow to deepen themes raised during this partnership such as the inclusion of people in difficulty, entrepreneurship, language learning, the training pathway of a mobility coordinator, training in work situations, the ECVET system, etc. To be continued !