At European level, youth unemployment and job insecurity are observed as a reality, being more pronounced in the countries of the Mediterranean area. The Dual Vocational Training allows a contact between trainee with labor market through a real experience from the beginning of his/her internship. They can learn more about the job in more significant way, they are also more motivated, and, above all, increase their employability in the professional sector they have chosen. Trainers of companies, but also the teachers, students and the educational government in each country will be involved in this project. When the proposed actions will be carried out, competences and skills of everyone will be improved, creating also a feedback between all of them. This will benefit the flexibility of the VET system. It is tended to create and to develop different resources that will professionalize the work of the trainers who collaborate in internships and are the link between VET centres, students and companies. Therefore, main objective of Upgrading Trainers in Dual VET System (UpT2S) is to generate resources that will help the professionalization and improvement of trainers skills in Dual Vocational Training. It will mean more employability, insertion in the labor market and entrepreneurship of young apprentices people. The main objective will be specified as follows below: - To make the work relevant and improve the professional skills of the trainer in the process of training young people. For this, an accessible training course with didactic resources will be generated to improve its training role. - To develop tools for the evaluation of the students' competences and prepare trainers to carry out this process. - To generate a manual of good practices regarding the trainer role and skills. This will require a thorough investigation, in addition to the exchange of experiences and good practices that will be carried out throughout the project activities. The election of such diverse partners, but with similar backgrounds and needs in the upgrading of the internship system, will help us in order to study the Vocational Training model, its development ratio in each country and the role of companies in the teaching&learning process. The specific Intellectual Outputs will be: IO1: A structured online course for trainers who can use VET schools and educational institutions for this purpose. It will be elaborated by modules that will be worked in different meetings. IO2: An application or tool that trainers can use for the evaluation and appraisal of apprentices dual professional training. IO3: A guide to good practices and successful practices on training and the trainer role and their competences with an analysis of the existing practice and the introduction, through the project, of a specific focus on the role of schools, companies and public institutions in this task. All Intellectual Outputs will be online and available after the project. Both three will be embedded in the website-platform. IO1 will be a moodle course, IO2 will be an App and IO3 will be an interactive document with multimedia contents. Then, the possibility to be used is ensured. At national and European level, all partners will furthermore grant, after the end of the project, that external participants (VET schools, companies, trainers, educational institutions) interesting in learning or using the results of the project will receive a necessary attention, support and feedback. There will be a space in the platform for this kind of target groups which is directly linked with database. This project will have a high impact at local, regional, national and EU levels because is directly linked to the agricultural sector and business which is one of the main economic activities where the project is developed. All partners are located in rural areas so the project will be a step forward also for the local development. On other countries which there are internships in the VET studies, the same course and tools will be useful for schools and institutions and it can be interesting for stakeholders with similar profile to the one in the partnership. At the end, the upgrading of trainers, who will acquire and apply new skills and knowledge for their work, will have a real impact in the society and economy, increasing the employability and entrepreneurship of trainees. It is known farming is a primary sector that employs socially disadvantaged people with fewer opportunities but, at the same time, the sector is raising the competitiveness in terms of soft and hard skills, so UPT2S can have an important impact on population with fewer opportunities.
Combining the above mentioned priorities with the objectives of the Strategic Partnerships in the field of VET, the GENERAL OBJECTIVE of Upgrading Trainers in Dual VET System (UpT2S) has been to create resources that help the professionalisation and improvement of the competences of the trainers in Dual VET and the employability, labour market insertion and entrepreneurship of the young apprentices. All this from a transnational perspective. In order to achieve the general objective, the following SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES were defined: - To give relevance to the work and to improve the professional competences of the trainer in the training process of the young people. To this end, an accessible (online) training course has been created with didactic resources to improve their training function. - To develop tools for the evaluation of the trainees' competences and to prepare the trainers to carry out this process. - To generate a manual of good practices on the role and competences of the trainer. All this, through research, as well as the exchange of experiences and good practices carried out through the project activities.
At European level youth unemployment and job precariousness are observed as a reality,being more pronounced in the countries of the Mediterranean area.According to Eurostat in Europe there were 3.36 million unemployed under 25 years old in the EU as a whole,of which 2.39 million were in Euro area.The Euro area unemployment rate was 16.6% for young people at the end of 2018.In fact,several objectives of Europe ET2020 focused on reducing youth unemployment through training and exchange. Dual VET allows a direct contact of apprentices with the labour market through a real experience from the beginning of their traineeship, they can get to know the job better and significantly, they are more motivated and above all they increase their employability in their chosen professional sector. In this context the role of the company trainer is key. NEEDS TO SOLVE -There is a lack of professionalisation of trainers' competences to help achieve a quality experience. -Few countries have a system of instructor training, evaluation or communication systems between company, school and student or with the education administration. - Gaps in the recognition of the work of these educational agents.