Training Business Family Territory: growth through new alliances

Project summary

The project "FIFT - Training Business Family Territory: growth through new alliances" aims at the exchange of good practices related to the school/work alternation training model. Europe has placed the accelerator on learning methods since a long time now, enhancing experience, practice, and work. Through the Lisbon strategy of 2000, the European Alliance for the Apprenticeship of 2013, the Europe 2020 Strategy, it has finally come to the assumption, in Europe, of guidelines for training that are more and more "work based". FIFT is therefore born in this European context where the partners intend, by the project, to deepen the founding elements of school/work alternation pedagogy conceived in the different European dual systems, and which therefore concern not only the school / training center and the company, but look with great attention also to the other two actors of this model, the learners with their families and the territory / community of origin as a whole. Therefore, the objectives to be pursued are: - increase the knowledge and the awareness of staff and organisations involved on the methodology of the school-work alternation; - promote the WBL educational model according to the indications that Europe is addressing to the Member States; - promote exchanges between the educational system, the territory, the company and the society; - promote new or better practices to meet the needs of young people and to address the variety of learning outcomes resulting from geographical and socio-economic disparities; - promote skills development and integration of young people in rural areas; - increase the cooperation between several actors; - strengthen cooperation between AIMFR members in Europe. The partnership consists of 7 entities (Cefal ER - leader, FARI, EFA GALICIA, EFA QUINTANES, EPVR, ABU gGmbH, CFA MRF) from 5 European countries: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and France. All partners have experience, learning and organizational models related to the dual system, to the apprenticeship and in general to the work / experience based learning models. The exchange of good practices, aimed by the FIFT project, will take place through various types of activities: - 5 transnantional meetings in each of the 5 countries involved. They will be organized on the model of study visit / follow up meeting and aimed at the deepening of good practices in the field of school/work alternation and dual system, taking into account the different national contexts and ways to promote integration between school, family, business and territory; - joint staff training in Spain. It will allow participants to compare and re-elaborate the experiences of the various study visits in the light of the different models applied and / or experienced in the countries through a comparison between "peers", led by on site experts. It also includes an open session targeting the territory in order to share what has been learned during the entire FIFT project; - Coordination and management of the various project phases; - Monitoring and evaluation of the progress of project activities; - Dissemination through the channels of information and communication and social media such as website, Facebook page, Instagram profile, Twitter profile, LinkedIn page, Youtube channel, newsletter, etc. The methodology that will be used in the FIFT project will be based on a participatory approach that will involve all project partners, with the coordination of the Cefal ER as leader. The transnational meetings and the joint staff training, in line with the school/work alternation methodologies, will be carried out starting from the experience had during the study visits, and then continue the theoretical deepening with on-site experts. The project foresees the achievement of direct results on the participants in the transnational meetings and in the joint staff training in terms of knowledge and skills related to the work/experience based learning methodologies. Moreover, the FIFT project partnership intends to promote communication, information and dissemination actions meant to reach a heterogeneous target of actors representing the adopted methodological approaches: companies, community in its various institutional expressions, families and their associations, other centers or vocational training centers, their networks / associations at national and European level. The choice of these targets stems from the desire to promote further local and regional innovations of established practices, but also to open up to new interlocutors, thus spreading the offer of school/work alternation training, learning in work situation and apprenticeship.