The GROW project aims to involve young people from IeFP and Drop out courses in an agreed laboratory internship with foreign partners which aims to enhance the educational potential linked to dual learning and "on the job" training. In this situation, the transnational internship becomes essential as it allows participants to get involved enriched with communication and professionalizing tools and because it represents a real opportunity to interface with the world of work in an international context. The specific objectives set are: -Employability. Encourage the acquisition of specific technical and professional skills by students as required by the professional qualifications being studied; -Strengthening of Hard-skills and Development of Soft-skills. Promote the development of digital and linguistic skills and transversal skills through cooperation and exchange processes; -Strengthening of the NETWORK as a key to development to stimulate collaborative processes aimed at growth, to the expansion of innovative actions and the sustainability of project activities; -Towards Inclusive Transnational Mobility; -Towards continuous training in Europe.
The GROW project is directly connected to one of the key objectives currently pursued by Zefiro, namely that of reduce the distance between young people and work. The close contact with figures operating in the most varied working contexts together with the daily collaboration with companies and local authorities, partner agencies and other supporters has allowed us to know which skills are most in demand; the know-how required by the current and future job market. Zefiro explains its interventions within: PROFESSIONAL TRAINING. Since 2009 it has managed training courses financed by the POR ESF, for DROP OUT young people and minors and qualification courses for adults, unemployed and employed and NEETs; of compulsory education training: IEFP for TEENS leaving middle school; of ORIENTATION by managing the "Informagiovani" and "InformaDonna" desks (Municipality of Lucca) and TEENAGE Listening Spaces; of EUROPEAN PROJECTS as a member of the EEIG Y.E.S. Forum, European organization and transnational network of organizations working with and for young people with whom we work to plan mobility, training, exchanges; of DISABILITY with the accompaniment to work of individuals with physical and mental disabilities.