Through the project, the school set the objective of investing in the participants by offering them an additional professional opportunity within their training, aimed at achieving a stable job placement, and also promoting the internationalization process of the college. Along with these aspects, important was the intention to create social value through the cultivation of exchanges and relationships with other European actors. The specific objectives of this project were: • Increasing the technical skills of students in pastry and guiding them towards strengthening the skills necessary to improve in the professional field. • improving training and employment opportunities for young Valencians by providing, through training actions planned in close collaboration with schools and companies, a practical solution to the perceived skills mismatch in the sector where there is a shortage of professionally trained and qualified staff. • increasing international exchanges of good practice. •further growing the internationalization process of ALTAVIANA and strengthening the previously identified areas of improvement.
The school Altaviana has completed the project “M.Y.CH.O.C.O. Mastering PastrY and CHocolate: Obtainment of Competences and Organization” (2020-1-ES01-KA102-079059) in conjunction with foreign partners (supporting organizations and hosting companies). The reasons behind the implementation of the project refer to the school's needs to improve its students' technical-professional, technological, and operational training, to promote the participation of young people in international mobility in companies of the sector located in Italy and Belgium, and to encourage the development of innovative skills in confectionery and chocolate, thus linking the educational purposes of the VT system with the specific needs of the sector; in addition, the project aimed to provide students with qualified and high-quality training opportunities for the acquisition of skills that can be used in the labor market, through specific initiatives of transnational mobility and internships in foreign companies.