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SCHOOL MOBILITY MANAGER

2016-1-IT02-KA201-0247012016Strategic Partnerships for school educationfinalized
Countries: IT|FR|SI|AT · Grant: €197,164
Energy and resources

Project summary

In Italy really recentely a national law is establishing guidelines in order to foster and implement in the educational system institution (Schools) a new figure: the “School Mobility Manger”. Despite a spread interest and numerous practices developed by public and private bodies regarding MOBILITY MANAGEMENT especially in northern Europe and in the main European capitals, The FIGURE of MOBILITY SCHOOL MANAGER, is still not "institutionalized" and anyway INNOVATIVE and necessitated both to help 'implementation of sustainable mobility policy is to improve the management efficiency of schools. The implementation of such a figure, however, is likely to be ineffective and poorly concrete if not backed up by specific training for school staff that will be affected by this "reform" and the identification and / or increase of the operational links with other modes actors (in public and private) involved in the processes and interventions of mobility management. In this framework, the partnership GENERAL OBJECTIVE is to contribute to innovate and improve the organizational management of educational institutions through a contribution to the implementation of the post of "MOBILITY MANAGER SCHOOL" For this, the partnership comprising 5 countries (IT AT FR SI UK), coordinated dall'ITET G. Caruso (IT) will be of type TRANS SECTOR and TRANSNATIONAL as plans to consider and benefit, both the positive experiences developed at European level in the field of corporate mobility management and / or institutional, and those relating to mobility management school to get to identify and define a specific operating model to be disseminated at regional and transnational level through the partnertship and define shared training content for the SCHOOL MOBILITY MANAGER to experiment with school staff involved with the partnership and spreaded more widely in national contexts involved. The project includes such DIRECT TARGET: the school staff (school principals, teachers and other school staff) involved in mobility management activities. Facilitating participatory experiences aimed at promoting a culture of careful movement efficiency and environmental quality has such INDIRECT TARGET: students and young people, the citizens of the territories concerned, as well as all the actors and public and private stakeholders involved in mobility management processes. To achieve the objectives, based on a COOPERATIVE METHODOLOGY of analysis and participatory development that takes advantage of the experience and expertise of the partnership, the project involves the implementation of 6 INTEGRATED ACTIONS, in the time period defined by n. 27 months a total that will lead to the realization of the following Intellectual Oputput: IO1 - Mobilty Management: state of art and collection of good practices implemented IO2 - Operating Handbook (e.Guide e.toolKIT) for the School Mobility Manager IO3 – Training contents for School Mobility Manager; IO4 - Testing of traning contents. Expected results and impacts contents are both at the level of the organizations involved and the target participants in the activities and also related to a wider level by - an increase / improvement in the level of awareness of public stakholders / private to discuss the topics related to mobility management, the mobility management education and training of school personnel; - diffusion of the figure of school mobilty managers; - dissemination of thematic and training opportunities inherent mobilty managent; - increase in the number of training opportunities for school staff; - increase improving the level of cooperation between actors and stakeholders active in mobilty management and mobility of school management;a general improvement concerning innovation and organizational management of educational institutions.

Final report summary

Law 221 of 28 December 2015, "Environmental provisions to promote green economy measures and to contain excessive use of natural resources" predicts the adoption by the Ministry of Education of specific guidelines to promote the institution in all schools of all levels, within scope their own administrative and organizational autonomy, the figure of the SCHOOL MOBILITY MANAGER. A sustainable urban mobility plan is a tool that helps to achieve the goals of limiting climate change and energy emissions set by European governments. The Urban Mobility Action Plan (2009) and the White Paper on Transport (2011) include sustainable urban mobility plans as a planning tool to cope with critical issues in urban areas and transport system problems and they are designed with a view to integration and sustainability. For this reason, the SUMP is part of the political agenda of the European Commission and the Member States. They provide for the involvement of citizens and stakeholders in coordinating plan instruments on the sectors of interest (transport, environment, urban development, economic activities, social services, health, safety, energy, etc ...) and local authorities operating on the territory at different levels and cooperating with local authorities and stakeholders in neighboring areas. GOALS The main objective of the project is to build guidelines and toolkits to form the FIGURE of the School Mobility Manager in order to give him the tools to operate in his own context. The GENERAL OBJECTIVE of the partnership is to help to innovate and improve the organizational management of educational institutions through a contribution to the implementation of the figure of the "SCHOOL MOBILITY MANAGER". For this reason, the partnership comprising 4 countries (ITALY (IT), AUSTRIA (AT), FRANCE (FR) and SLOVENIA (SI)), coordinated by ITET G. Caruso (IT) was TRANS-SECTORAL and TRANSNATIONAL since it took into account and benefited, both from the positive experiences developed at a European level in the context of corporate and / or institutional mobility management, and those related to school mobility management and has come to identify and define a specific operational model to be disseminated at regional and transnational level through the partnership and defining shared training content for the SCHOOL MOBILITY MANAGER experienced and disseminated both with the school staff involved in the partnership and at a wider level in the involved national contexts. NUMBER AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS; 1. Girolamo Caruso Technical Institute of Economics and Technology Alcamo - ITALY (IT) 2. ORSA association Palermo - ITALY (IT) 3. MCG Manager Consulting Group Soc. Coop. Palermo - ITALY (IT) 4. Eurêka 21 SARL Paris - FRANCE (FR) 5. BEST Institut fur berufssbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH Vienna - AUSTRIA (AT) 6. Andragoski zavod Ljudska Univerza Velenje Velenje - SLOVENIA (SI) DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN UNDERTAKEN ACTIVITIES To achieve the objectives, based on a methodology of research, analysis and participatory elaboration that benefits from the experiences and competences of the partnership, the project has foreseen and realized 6 INTEGRATED ACTIONS, within the defined time frame of 27 months that led to the realization of the following Intellectual Oputput: IO2 - Operative Vademecum (e.Guide + e.toolKIT) for the School Mobility Manager; IO3 - Training content for the Scholastic Mobility Manager; IO4 - Experimentation of training contents. RESULTS AND IMPACT REACHED The results and impacts achieved are both at the level of the organizations involved and of the participants in the activities and at a broader level; they are related to: - increasing / improvement of the level of awareness of public / private stakeholders in relation to issues related to mobility management, school mobility management and to the training of school staff; - diffusion of the figure of the school mobility manager; - dissemination of the issues and training opportunities concerning the mobilty management; - increase in the number of training opportunities for school staff; - increasing the level of cooperation between actors and stakeholders active in mobility management and school mobility management; - a general improvement in the levels of innovation and organizational management of educational institutions.

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