Through the project Arezzo Innovazione intended to: -provide students of High Schools the opportunity to acquire skills that can be immediately spent at the job market; -reinforce the language skills of the participants -to enhance participants' intercultural awareness and active citizenship; -to encourage the constant updating of school curricula and the international dimension of the High Schools -offer the staff of Higher Schools the opportunity to learn about foreign realities and develop collaborations also with the purpose to introduce innovative methods of teaching and learning; -favour the recognition of the skills acquired, through the application of the ECVET system. The nr. of the mobilities forseen by the project was 120 students of Arezzo province High Schools, for short- term internships lasting 35 days, while the nr. of mobilities for the recent graduates, for Erasmus Pro internships lasting 3/6 months was 30.
The concept of innovation is often understood as uniquely linked to the theme of technology, as the main driver of economic development; however, there is also another concept of innovation, which is linked to culture and that means the research and development of good practices on social issues (coexistence, relationships, integration), or social innovation. Arezzo Innovazione, as a participatory foundation, therefore intends to work strategically on the concept of innovation and one of the main tools for implementing this strategy is the promotion of European mobility experiences. Over time, the growing need for trained and adequately "internationalized" professionals has revealed the need to facilitate the meeting between companies and young people, in order to generate deep and lasting changes in the local context. Arezzo Innovazione therefore intends to increase the capacity to develop and enhance ERASMUS + experiences at the local level, with the aim of systematising the mobility and training actions of young people in according with what is required by the labour market.