Our VET consortia have been deeply impacted by Covid-19, as have our higher education consortia and our KA2 partnerships for which we have had to reorganize the schedule on two occasions. The uncertainties linked to the pandemic are forcing us to retrocede all the remaining mobility projects to this consortium. In addition, the regional education authority’s public interest group has filed a request in case of interrupted and canceled mobility due do force majeure. It has been validated by the services of the Agency. The vocational education and training consortia are the backbone of the regional education authority’s European strategy. The implementation of our projects integrates the transversal dimension inherent in a European mobility project. Our consortia aim to promote and increase the mobility of vocational school students and staff. It is a question of perpetuating and increasing mobility opportunities with foreign partners, companies, and schools, whilst, at the same time, allowing an increased valorisation of periods of mobility, by the pooling of good practice, and better mobility engineering. This process has been abruptly slowed down this year.
Both DRAREIC and GIPAL coordinate the regional education authority’s activities concerning the international relations of its schools. To this end, DRAREIC maintains close links with organizations dealing with international cooperation and maintains permanent staff to promote the European relations of our vocational schools, encourage exchanges and partnerships, provide advice, expertise, and training, and develop international opportunities for our students, teachers, and senior staff. Our participation in different consortia is therefore fully justified. DRAREIC also carries out the management of files relating to the regional education authority’s public interest group, which oversees the administrative and financial aspects. Since 2013, the regional education authority of Lyon has set up a concrete strategy aiming at developing learner and staff mobility, as well as continuous professional development through Erasmus +. We have proved our ability to conduct large-scale European projects, whose renewal every year highlights their durability.