The current project, coordinated by CIPFP La Costera and originated in a previous KA 2 project, has as its ultimate goal the promotion of the Erasmobility platform. Our main purpose is to help vocational training centers develop mobilities in the field of KA1 projects together with other European counterpart centers. The expected results at the end of the project are: 1. At the computer level: - Adapt the platform to the different sensitivities of the member countries. - Adapt the platform to mobility consortia. - Include in the mobility students who are in danger of social exclusion. - Make improvements on the page so that it is accessible from mobile phones and tablets. 2. Development of a user guide that helps centres face the initial challenges posed by exchanges. 3. A comparative study of the different systems of professional training of the partners involved in the project. The need to reapply for a new project is justified by: 1. Helping to increase the number of non-Spanish centres registered on the Platform. At the time of writing these lines, the project has 692 centers, of which 400 are Spanish. This means the platform is not understood outside Spain. 2. 94.4% of the registered centers consider it basic to have someone to guide them in the search process since many of them are involved in the KA102 projects for the first time. It is therefore necessary to prepare a guide that serves as an orientation to the centers that start taking part in the exchange. 3. And, finally, this project is a perfect tool to be able to deal with one of the problems that all the KA1 mobilities face, i.e. to be able to offer accommodation in families, which entails a true cultural integration. We have based the selection of project partners on the objectives to be met. Vocational training centers: The former partners of the KA202 project . Barthélémy Thimonnier High School, CollegesWales.and new Osterholz-Scharmbeck BBS centers Scholengroep Brussel from Belgium, Colegiul Alexe Marin from Romania, IEK-AXIA from Greece. Companies: LINGOO is our support in the management of families. The project has a duration of 27 months and is structured in three phases: Phase A: December 2019 to November 2020: New sections and improvement of the Erasmobility Platform. Phase B: December 2020 to September 2021: Material and teaching resources to improve, enrich and facilitate mobility. Phase C: October 2021 to January 2022: Dissemination process As for the modality of cooperation between the partners, the following way of work has been planned: Each partner must prepare a draft in which it will propose to the transnational meetings a series of personal ideas in a number of issues: improvements that the platform may need, creation of their own monitoring tools to assess the quality of the project, development of the planned teaching activities, support for the sustainability of the Erasmobility platform Based on these drafts, the partners, throughout the various transnational meetings, will develop a consensus document for the subsequent execution of each subject in the scheduled time. All the meetings and transnational activities have been distributed among all the members that make up the project. To be able to control that the planned activities have been fulfilled, a self-evaluation and follow-up plan has been arranged. This plan is structured on the basis of objectives, deadlines and people responsible for coordination and assessment. The main means of communication with the partners, apart from the six planned transnational meetings, will be: Through the Dropbox folder that has already been enabled. With a group of whats'app that we use for emergency situations. We do not rule out bilateral meetings between the coordinating partner and the other partners to discuss issues of cooperation in the field of dissemination and other key aspects. Before transnational meetings, telematic meetings will take place in order to ensure the coordination of all partners The main beneficiaries of this project are not only the participating institutions, but also the vocational training centers in the countries of the participating partners at a local, regional and national level.
Based on these needs the objectives were: 1.To adapt the platform to the realities of the different countries in order to make it more understandable and therefore more usable outside the Spanish environment. 2.Adapt the platform to accommodate the consortia so that they can have access to it, taking into account their uniqueness. 3.Inclusion in the platform of mobilities aimed at students from unfavourable backgrounds. The aim is to promote and give visibility to this mobility profile. 4.To create a platform accessible in the mobile and tablet environments. 5.To elaborate didactic material to facilitate the understanding and the functioning of the exchanges at Erasmus level in the field of KA 1 projects. This aims at helping to break down the barriers that stop the centres from carrying out this type of mobilities. 6.Our transversal objective: The host family. To carry out a report to analyse the viability of this type of accommodation. 7. A strong dissemination campaign, especially in the last year, in order to increase the number of non-Spanish centres. 8.Ensure the sustainability of the platform at the end of the KA2 project.
This project was complementary to KA 202 Erasmobility 2016-1-ES01-KA202-24973. Although the Erasmobility platform that had been generated after the previous project fulfilled its objective (mutual support between vocational training centres to manage KA1 mobilities), after two years of life, we detected a series of needs that a new KA2 project could help us to satisfy: -We needed to reverse the situation of the origin of the countries registered in the Platform. In 2016, Spanish centres accounted for 59% of the total, compared to 41% of the rest. This situation caused dysfunctions in the operation of the platform. -65% of the registered centres found that the platform was not adapted to the reality of their country and 70% found it difficult to reach an agreement. -We were also aware that the platform should have space for those organisations that manage KA1 mobilities through consortia. Finally, as a transversal need, we decided to tackle the problem of accommodation in KA1 mobilities in order to be able to offer accommodation that would lead to a real cultural integration of the Erasmus student. Having so many partners was a unique opportunity for this issue.