Context.According to the latest Eurostat data (December 2015), the unemployment rate in Europe has fallen by about 1% compared to 2014, settling at 9%; on the other hand, there is still a gap between North and South EU countries.Youth unemployment in the eurozone (under 25 years) decrease of one percentage point in December 2015 (22%) compared to the same month of 2014, and in the EU from 21.2% in December 2014 to 19.7% in December 2015, but even in this case the data show a marked difference between the Nordic and the Southern countriesSpecifically, what is worrying is the data of the NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) where countries as Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal registered value significantly above the UE average.Background.According to EU guidelines (COM / 2013/0447), the project IN.TRA-WORK aims to:1. Making initiatives to promote youth employment, helping young people to enter in labor market and remain there, acquiring and developing those skills that foster their employment.2. Facilitating the study-work transition and promoting apprenticeships and high quality traineeships and countering skills shortages;3. Strengthening education and vocational training, improve counseling services for students, prevent early school leaving.The project objectives are:(a) To qualify companies as a place of learning, involving them since the curricula design;(b) Orient candidates to critical local professions;(c) To increase the company's adaptability to the competences of the candidates and vice versa;(d) Introducing new forms of working insertion and job counseling;(e) to enhance learning and employability of candidates and create a new right of citizenship by promoting the transition to working life.Number and profile of participants: at least 3 trainers for each partners for the training for trainers activity (IT / ES / D) and n. 10 students for partners for the pilot experience (IT / ES / D).Activities.(A) Training of trainers. This activity aims to furnish trainers to useful knowledge and tools to implement a cycle that reproduces all transition steps to the entrance in the labor market, building professional profiles starting from enterprises' needs and creating new curricula for those "critical figures" that are requested but difficult to find in the labor market.Transition cycle:I) mapping of potentially interested companies;II) telephone contact with companies;III) company visit;IV) needs analysis and definition of new training programs/curricula to provide related skills;V) motivational interviews to identify the degree of adaptability and flexibility of young participants in relation at the context analysed;VI) registration of participating companies and management of business seminars;VII) management and visualization of the reference labor market; VIII) management and mentoring of student selection interviews at the companies,IX) handling and display of allocation processes in the labor market of the reference companies.(B) Pilot experiences in IT / E / D with 10 students of Vocational Training (16-25 years). The experiences will test both the "labour market" simulation and the training courses. The aims are both perform the classroom activities and the following labour experiences in the selected/participating company, promoting quality internships and apprenticeships.Expected results.-Develop innovative and effective transition methods from school/training to work in IeFP context, starting from an analysis of the existing good practices;-Promote a real experience of supply and demand into the VET offer. Offer students, enterprises and educational institutions of those tools that can be usefull for the implementation of the IN.TRA-WORK method,-To build personalized training pathways to support the full integration of the selected students into the relative companies/ customized forms of accompaniment, especially for young people with discomfort (NEET);-Creation of new forms of working insertion and accompanying work.-Strengthen collaboration between VET providers and company;-Update professional profiles in relation to business needs;-Promote the idea of in-company training.BeneficiariesThe main beneficiaries are VET provider, trainers and young people.Relevant stakeholeder are companies, public administration, trade associations.
The INTRAWORK project operated in a "delicate" socio-economic context, characterized by great difficulties that a large number of young people in three of the four partner countries are still facing the transition from the world of training to that of work. This confirms the data on youth unemployment and on the so-called Neet by Eurostat and the national statistical Institutes. Furthemore, the lack of ability to connect demand and supply, and the disorientation of same entrepreneurs that often do not know how to search for employees in line with their expectations and needs. The INTRAWORK Partnership - established from the beginning by CDS - Applicant (Italy), the Slovenian Confederal Union OSO-K90, and 3 Training Centers KAI (Germany), FFE (Spain) and CDR (Italy), has implemented the Work Plan outline and, ultimately, achieved the following objectives: enhancing the company as a place of learning (rediscovering the "training" role); orienting young people towards "critical" professions required by the reference job market; increasing the adaptability of the company to the candidates’ competences and vice versa by introducing new forms of job placement and tutorial work; improving youth learning and employability; offering potential citizenship which benefits an active lifestyle. The activities implemented (in addition to the transversal ones, necessary and indispensable for a good successful project - Management, results and products’ Dissemination and Valorisation, Monitoring and Quality) were the Trainers’ Training in mobility, the Pilot Experience in the three Training Centers, in which the INTRAWORK training model was tested. The subjects involved were, therefore, a group of vocational training center trainers (specifically 12 during the C1 Event and 30 reached by the C1 trainers in the respective vocational training Centers), a panel of companies (overall 57) and 38 young people. The tangible results are in addition to the website, the training model IN.TRA-WORK of work-study alternation, which emphases the Learning at Work (WBL), 4 Intellectual Outputs, 5 transnational Meetings and 5 Multipliers Events. Among those intangible, but considered very important by the Partners, there is a strong stakeholders’ involvement of the during the dedicated meetings, which allowes a fruitful dialogue between parties, often distant from each other (Companies, guidance Services, Social Partners, training Institutions and local, regional and national Government). The consolidation of the Partnership has also improved the mastery of the working language - English. This Partnership measured the impact on the beneficiaries and on the participants. The former have acquired a greater VET system knowledge and skills in individual countries, as well as greater skills in managing an alternating training process. As a result, the opportunity to rethink the change in their organizations to overcome the existing difficulties. For example, for young migrants (KAI target group) - as for Neet (CDR and FFE target group) it worked on a latent or expressed need to be integrated and oriented in the working world. The trainers, on the other hand, acquired proven ability to apply skills attained during C1 Event and the participated discussion of the 3 IO's. This has not only improved the relationship with the company, but also with the training Center’s colleagues, with the use of training, with the institutions responsible for the protection of the quality of training and job placement. The young were greatly motivated both during the Course and while maintaining an active position in the company. They attained related in the work ethic. On behalf of the companies side, they showed strong interest in the IO's, and confronted the need to find "suitable" candidate they became available through their involvement in the co-design and implementation of alternation experience. In relation to the Project’s long-term benefits and the sustainability, even after the end of the loan period, the operating instruments will be adopted as permanent work procedures in their own training Organizations. These instruments will also be available to anyone accessing the site and the Erasmus + Platform The INTRAWORK dissemination and exploitation’s actions have aroused interest in the companies of the territories involved, in training systems (Vocational Training and Higher Education), in Institutions (Public Administration and Centers / Employment Agencies). In fact, during the Multiplier Events, important contacts emerged to transfer the most innovative elements of in.tra-work model in other contexts.