The general objective was to promote participants’ employability by improving their technical and professional skills. Students and recent graduates have carried out internships, for 30 and 90 days respectively, in European companies of the sustainable mobility sector. They have improved professional, key and citizenship skills and their awareness of the sustainability concept applied to production processes. School teachers have acquired and improved their skills related to the management of training mobility actions and have achieved full mastery in the use of Europass CV, Europass Mobility and ECVET. They have increased their ability to stimulate metacognitive processes in students in relation to the importance of opening up to internationalization and acquiring essential know-how for a valid and effective professional interrelationship. The members of the consortium have consolidated procedures and tools making European mobility an integral part of the training offer and have strengthened and structured cooperation by creating a sectoral mobility laboratory. Schools have established the role of mobility coordinators.
Italy is a country with a high rate of motorization and high social costs linked to environmental pollution. The project focused on the theme of sustainable mobility and on the development of specialization and skills in the production chains connected to the electric automotive industry. Economic growth must take into account the goals for sustainable development set by the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The project conveyed to youngsters the message that value must be produced while respecting the environment and people. ERMES consortium has included 4 secondary schools in Friuli-Venezia Giulia territory (with study courses in Transport and Logistics, Maintenance and Technical Assistance, Mechanics and Mechatronics, Information Technology and Telecommunications, Electronics and Electrotechnics, Administration Finance and Marketing, International Relations for Marketing), a supporting organisation and 8 hosting partners from 4 European countries (France, Spain, Slovenia, Czech Republic) which have offered internship experiences coherent with the participants study courses in the field of sustainable mobility, helping to increase their employment opportunities after the experience.