Training activities in companies (WEPs) are an essential part in the European VET and Dual VET system institutions student’s learning process. These training activities are increasingly being carried out abroad (within the EU). For this reason, it is convenient to make a comparison of the different aspects involved in these training activities and how they are managed (training activity durability, kinds and contents of the agreements between companies and institutions, measures and criteria to select companies, tutor and instructor coordination, etc.) to improve them. In Europe, there is a great concern regarding young people’s unemployment rate (European average over 20%), for it is important to contrast experiences between different countries to improve VET’s functioning. Three entities are promoting this Project, whose mission is to improve WEP management in our countries and in EU. This will contribute to increase VET’s quality and socio-educative prestige as well as the number of students that will study VET. The three partners have distinguished profiles, but at the same time complementary, and a common interest: improving WEPs in EU. - USIE. The Education Inspectorate is supervisor and assessor of VET institutions in the educational field, as well as interlocutor between the administration, the educative community, and the companies. Its contributions will be completed with those of the British and Italian peer Inspectors with whom USIE will be in contact through the partners. - KAIROS is a company specialised in students that perform WEPs. It is located in the UK and looks for companies, controls the teaching-learning process, and performs student’s tutoring. For this reason, this institution is properly aware of the problems that emerge in WEPs. The entrepreneurial world will be completed with Italian and Spanish companies that will be proposed by the partners in these countries. These institutions will be visited to see WEPs’ in action and to establish relationships between them. - SCF is a non-profit organisation in Italy that encompasses entities responsible for 94 VET centres. It works with young people that carry out their WEPs, some of them disabled, which allows them to have a differentiated experience in the matter. In the educational field it will be completed with the visit to British and Spanish VET institutions. The associates will establish and share a common network of contacts in the education and labour market world, taking into account VET institutions. The participating groups are from the fields of education and the labour market: education inspectors, management teams, WEP tutors, company officials, and WEP instructors of each country. The addressees of the Project and potential recipients of the Project are the aforementioned collective of people, but also political and administrative representatives and social entities (trade unions, commercial associations, Commerce Chambers…). The Project will last for 15 months, with a previous phase and 4 development phases. 3 National Work Team (NWT) and 3 Transnational Teams plus the Coordinators (CC) each one of them with their own responsibilities, will carry out activities applying administrative agreements. Three transnational meetings are expected together with one Training Activity (C1) in which all of the NWT will participate, as well as the selected participants by each country (representatives from the educational and labour market fields). Throughout the Project, 30 activities will be carried out, applying the expected timeline and the Quality Plan, always respecting a multidisciplinary perspective, cooperative working, and consensual agreements. The objectives related with the Project’s mission are directly related with the expected activities and in accordance with the designed methodology: 1st- Diagnostic, based on evidence (registers, surveys…). 2nd- Analysis of the obtained data to detect proper and mistaken practices, with the objective of elaborating a draft document with proposals that have to be compared with the educational and labour market realities. This way, we will allow an adequate feedback to obtain our final outcome. 3rd- Final outcome: - Elaboration of a Good Practice Guide of WEP Management in Europe. - Political and Administrative Recommendations aimed at educational and entrepreneurial authorities to improve VET’s quality and young people’s inclusion into the labour market. The dissemination activities and the impact they have will have as recipients both members of the partners and all of the educative, entrepreneurial, political, administrative, and other social communities. The Project’s dissemination and sustainability will be carried out by attending activities (meetings/seminars with institutions and companies, interviews hosting political and employment officials, etc.), highlighting the Final Meeting, the Project’s specific Blog and each partners' webs and social networks.
Training activities in companies (WEPs) are an essential part in VET and Dual VET European student’s learning process. These activities are increasingly being carried out abroad (within the EU). For this reason, it is convenient to compare the different aspects involved (training activity durability, types and contents of the agreements between companies and institutions, means and criteria to select companies, tutor and instructor coordination, etc.) to improve them. In Europe, there is great concern regarding young people’s unemployment (European average rate over 20%), for it is important to contrast experiences between different countries to improve VET’s functioning in order to improve students' qualification and their subsequent employability. The Project “Improvements in the Management of the Work Experience Placements” has the mission of improving the management of WEP in the countries of the three entities which have taken part in the Project, and in EU. This will contribute to increase VET’s quality and social-educative prestige as well as the number of students who will study VET and Dual VET. The three partners have distinguished profiles, but at the same time complementary, and a common interest: improving WEPs in Europe. - USIE, Inspectors' Union, Spain. The Education Inspectorate is a supervisor and assessor of the management of VET and Dual VET in the educational field, as well as an interlocutor between Administration, the educative community, and companies. - KAIROS Europe Ltd., company specialised in students that perform WEPs in the UK. It looks for companies, controls the teaching-learning process, and performs student’s tutoring. For this reason, this institution is aware of the problems that emerge in WEPs. - SCF, Scuola Centrale Formazione associazione, Italy. Non-profit organization that encompasses entities responsible for 94 VET/Dual centres. It works with youngsters that carry out their WEPs, some of them disabled, allowing us to have a differentiated experience in the matter. The partners have shared a common network of education and labour fields, taking into account VET and Dual VET institutions and companies of the three countries. The Project has lasted for 15 months, with a previous phase and 4 development phases. 3 National Work Teams (NWT) and 3 Transnational Teams plus the Coordinator, each one of them with their own responsibilities, have worked and carried out activities cooperatively according to the established plan. Throughout the Project, 30 activities have been carried out, applying the expected timeline and the Quality Plan, respecting a multidisciplinary perspective, cooperative working, and consensual agreements. The objectives and the Project’s mission are directly related with the expected activities and in accordance with the designed methodology: 1st- Diagnostic, based on evidence (registers, surveys…). 2nd- Analysis of the obtained data to detect proper and mistaken practices, with the objective of elaborating our final outcome: -The Good Practice Guide of WEP Management in Europe. -Political and Administrative Recommendations aimed at educational and entrepreneurial authorities to improve VET’s quality and young people’s inclusion in the labour market. For this, three transnational meetings together with one Training Activity have been carried out, in which all of the NWT have participated, as well as the selected participants by each country. The dissemination activities and the impact have had and will go on having as beneficiaries the members of the partners, as well as the educative and entrepreneurial communities, governmental authorities and other social agents. The impact can be measured by the number of participants through the partner's activities throughout the project, since companies and institutions have been visited in the three countries, interviews to the agents involved in WEP have been done, formative sessions have been carried out, highlighting the Final Conference that took place in Spain in October, which was attended by more than 250 participants. Furthermore, meetings with technicians or relevant people of each country have been held. A specific blog has been created: https://imweperasmusk202.wordpress.com/ a logo, and webs and social networks have been used by the partners (Twitter and Facebook, above all). The Project’s dissemination and sustainability have been carried out and will continue by attending activities (meetings/seminars with institutions and companies, interviews to political and employment officials, etc.), highlighting the Final Meeting, which took place in Spain, the Project’s specific Blog and each partners' webs and social networks. The Project's success will be related to the impact obtained applying the Guide of Good Practices by the institutions and companies, and the Political and Administrative Recommendations through changes in legislation and procedures in labour and education fields.