The presented project is born from the long-term and successful partnership between 3 European regions: Moravia-Silesia in Czech Republic, Great Eastern Region and before it Lorraine in France and Lubelskie Voivodeship in Poland. Facing similar difficulties such as high rate of unemployment particularly for young people and decreasing interest of these young people for vocational initial training, these partner regions decided to share their knowledge and experience and expand their cooperation in regard to projects related to lifelong education and vocational training. Consequently, the main objective of this project is to help increase the employability of young graduates of vocational schools by promoting the sharing of know-how and best practices between people active in the fields of education and/or vocational training, such as school administrations, local governments, educational institutions, teachers, pupils and senior managers. These exchanges should lead to find common solutions to the issues faced by the 3 regions and even optimize the content and the terms of the offer of vocational training. A similar and successful project already associated Lorraine and Moravia-Silesia in the framework of Comenius Regio (AJUSTE project: Improving employability of young people on the European labor market) and the current project will benefit from the experience and knowledge gathered in AJUSTE. Four fields of training have been chosen by the regions for this new project: agriculture, transport, chemistry and hotel-restaurant. The aim of the partnership is to increase the attractiveness and perception of these fields which are the most important economic branches in the 3 regions and were identified as well as the most required for a European cooperation. In each region, one school from each field will participate, which means that 12 schools as a whole will have the opportunity to participate in the project. As the project is dealing with vocational training and employability, economic actors and mainly companies working with the participating schools will be involved in the project. The Great Eastern Region is the main coordinator of the project and the Rectorat de l’Académie de Nancy-Metz will participate as an associated partner because in France regions and rectorats are both in charge of Education. Moravia-Silesia and Lublin regions will act as regional coordinators and will be responsible for ensuring relations with the local partners, mainly school and organizing local meetings and mobilities. This organization will guarantee a successful and smooth implementation of the project in the 3 territories. Concretely, the following activities will be developed during the 2 years of the project: - Transnational meetings between the main and regional coordinators, - Pedagogues and staff exchanges in each partner region, - Practical trainings for the pupils in each partner region, associated with virtual mobility. In the project, the mobility of 48 teachers and staff and 48 pupils is planned. Concerning the outputs of the project, the partners aim at realizing a mobility handbook resuming the experience of cooperation which could be used as a toolkit for increasing and facilitating other similar experiences. It could be presented on the occasion of a dissemination event that will be organized at the end of the project to inform schools and other stakeholders about the project and opportunities of cooperation in the area of vocational training. Of course, the partners aim to preserve created school partnerships in long-term also after the project realization. The participating schools will be able to incorporate their newly acquired experience and know-how into their teaching in order to improve the job opportunities in the labor market for graduates. The training activity will be optional for pupils but the learning outcomes will be as most as possible recognized in their training courses. Finally, this project will strengthen the links between the 3 regional authorities and help them identify new opportunities of cooperation with the support of the European programs and financings.
The CIVEEL project was born from the long-term and successful partnership between 3 European regions: Moravia-Silesia in Czech Republic, Great Eastern Region in France and Lubelskie Voivodship in Poland. The project could benefit from the experience acquired by the Moravie-Silesia and Great Eastern Regions in a previous project (AJUSTE). Facing similar difficulties such as high rate of unemployment and decreasing interest of young people for vocational initial training, these partner regions decided to share their knowledge and experience and expand their cooperation in regards to projects related to lifelong education and vocational training. Consequently, the main objective of this project was to help increase the employability of pupils from vocational schools by promoting the sharing of know-how and best practices between people active in the fields of education and/or vocational training, such as schools, local governments and educational institutions. Four fields of training were chosen by the regions for this project: agriculture, transport/logistic, chemistry and hotel business and catering. The aim of the partnership was to increase the attractiveness and perception of these fields which are among the most important economic branches in the 3 regions and were identified as well as the most required for a European cooperation. In each region, one school from each field participated (12 schools as a whole) into staff exchanges and training activities for teachers (first year) and pupils (second year). The Great Eastern Region was the main coordinator of the project and the Rectorat de l’Académie de Nancy-Metz participated as an associate partner to keep the link with schools. Moravia-Silesia and Lubelskie regions acted as regional coordinators and responsible for ensuring relations with the local schools and organizing local meetings and mobilities. This organization guaranteed a successful and smooth implementation of the project in the 3 territories. Concretely, the following activities were developed during the 2 years of the project: - Transnational meetings between the main and regional coordinators, - Pedagogues and staff exchanges in each partner region, - Training activities for the pupils in each partner region, associated with virtual mobility. Concerning the outputs of the project, the partners realized a mobility handbook resuming the experience of cooperation, that can be used as a “toolkit” for increasing and facilitating other similar experiences, as it contains all templates used by the partners (agreements, evaluation sheets…). The partners managed to preserve created school partnerships after the project realization as all schools plan to cooperate in new projects. Finally, this project strengthened the links between the 3 regional authorities and helped them identify new opportunities of cooperation as they already work to submit a new strategic partnership in the area of health and care education and work.