The European Gateway Erasmus Project

Project Title

The European Gateway

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

European Gateway is a project involving the strategic partnership of 8 establishments in 5 European countries: the Regional Federation of Vocational Colleges of New Aquitaine (FRMFR NA), the Active Education Methods Training Centres of New Aquitaine (CEMEA NA), the Apprentice Training Centre of the Lycée Gustave Eiffel in Bordeaux, the Association ‘For You’ of Varna in Bulgaria, COPAE Ilis in Gastouni in Greece, Uniser in Forli in Italy, Esmovia Training and Mobility in Valencia and Praktica Training & Consulting in Seville in Spain. For 3 years, these experts in mobility in vocational training, together with trainers, companies and learners have worked with the aim of making learning mobility open to as many people as possible and improving its quality. To this end, they have developed a quality approach which centres on the learner identifying the professional skills that he masters and is able to transmit, as well as the skills he will discover during his internship abroad which he will bring back to his country of origin to enrich his training course. European Gateway’s partners have created many innovative tools and supports to guide the various interested parties in this process before, during and after mobility. They are freely available on the platform http://european-gateway.eu. The learners (any apprentice embarking on a mobility) will discover a set of ‘playing cards’ allowing them to prepare for their mobility, as well as supports to help with the transfer of professional practices. The sending and hosting organisations (companies, associations, training centres, etc.) have all the information available to fully understand the mobility process and to provide the best support possible to the learners. The mobility manager / mobility provider (any person contributing to the organisation of mobility and the monitoring of the learner’s journey) will be guided on the platform at every stage of the mounting, monitoring and development of quality mobility projects. The commitment of sending and hosting organisations to providing quality support for learners is highlighted by the Community page of the platform on which they can share feedback and also be awarded a European Gateway medal according to criteria validated by the mobility manager who handled the mobility program. The project partners aim to create via this platform a rich community of organisations with quality commitment but also, after validation by the mobility coordinator, hope to receive the feedback of learners on their professional experience abroad and on the sharing of professional practices they may have achieved. Thanks to the diversity of the trades represented, the European Gateway platform can serve as a basis for raising the awareness of new companies of the interest of professional mobility and thus contribute to bringing the world of training and the world of work closer together. Videos presenting the points of view of the different participants in a mobility are available on the platform and on the European Gateway Youtube channel. Others will be published over the course of 2020 with the hope of attracting the interest of new players. Any learning mobilities organiser is encouraged to take advantage of the tools and the platform by going onto the Contact page and requesting the creation of an access to the control panel which serves to regulate the publications of organisations and learners. Following the project closing symposium of the project in Bordeaux in June 2019, several networks are now registered as for example some regional MFR federations or intermediate mobility organisations in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Germany. Various other avenues for the sustainability of the platform are currently being studied, particularly as part of the networking work of mobility actors in France (COREMOB, SoMobilité, Erasmus + developer network, etc.) In addition, the collaboration of all the actors of the European Gateway project was based on the preliminary definition of the working methods and frameworks for training sessions as well as the development of a continuous assessment process of the strategic partnership. These tools have been made available to other project leaders on the E + PRP results platform. Relationships between the participating organisations and individuals have given rise to numerous bilateral projects (KA1, KA2, OFAJ, Solidarity Corps, etc.) that will allow to deepen themes raised during this partnership such as the inclusion of people in difficulty, entrepreneurship, language learning, the training pathway of a mobility coordinator, training in work situations, the ECVET system, etc. To be continued !

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 364172,75 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fédération Régionale des Maisons Familiales Rurales Nouvelle-Aquitaine & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Association FOR YOU
• PRAKTICA TRAINING CONSULTING S.L
• LYCEE POLYVALENT GUSTAVE EIFFEL
• Sistema Practices s.l.
• UNISER SOC. COOP. ONLUS
• CEMEA Nouvelle Aquitaine
• C.O.P.A.E. ILIS MONOPROSOPI IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUCHIKI ETAIREIA