European Knowledge Center for Mobility II Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Knowledge Center for Mobility II

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Assurance; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

The European Knowledge Center for Mobility (EUKCEM) II project aimed at contributing to a European Area of Skills and Competences and increased EU mobility by offering a one-stop shop for important mobility processes including ECVET.

While the participation in EU mobility for students in higher education has already become very common, the numbers of VET learners are still far lower – even if work and learning experiences abroad are recommended by many stakeholders, VET schools and more and more also companies. The barriers to apply for and manage EU funded mobility projects besides other tasks are high for all VET providers – companies and schools. Besides, there are doubts about the recognition of learning contents and outcomes. The EUKCEM II project therefore aimed at addressing those doubts and further facilitating the management of mobility projects, with ECVET as integral part – from practicioners for practicioners.

The project was a follow-up of the LLP Leonardo da Vinci project EUKCEM that supported quality in mobility through structured step by step information about mobility processes for all actors involved (host organisations, sending organisations and beneficiaries) as well as through a partner search database of quality organisations, that assured to follow certain quality standards and agreed to get rated for their performance by beneficiaries.

Based on the feedback gained for the initial web contents, EUKCEM II did a relaunch of the platform www.eu-mobility.eu and added structured information on four aspects:
1) Mobility Management including practical checklists, templates, practicioner advise and video tutorials for the five important parts of every mobility project, such as application, preparation, implementation, evaluation and finalisation.
2) ECVET: Besides video tutorials and information, the project designed a growing database of ECVET learning units and outcomes that can be either seen as source of information, as inspiration or already as part of learning agreements (transfer option).
3) Are you ready: Beneficiaries are addressed in a more targeted way with information, videos (mobility stories) but also an interactive tool for preparation.
4) The partner search tool was kept from the first EUKCEM project.

The partnership, composed of experienced mobility coordinators from Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Germany brought in their experiences and best practices as sending, intermediary and host organisations in EU mobility. The main contact person at the Dutch partner in addtion is national ECVET expert. Each partner organisation was responsible for at least one of the intellectual outputs and contributed to the contents of the web platform in addition to organising webinars and face-to-face workshops.

In the last year of the project, since 25.09.2017, the web platform www.eu-mobility.eu reached ca. 31.000 visitors. EUKCEM Facebook posts partly reached more than 3.000 persons (Step by step through all phases of an Erasmus+ KA1), the same post at the facebook page of the coordinator reached more than 4.600 persons, a post about mobility partnerships more than 4.100 persons, etc. Also more than 400 people directly participated in the project through face-to-face workshops, webinars and events and provided positive and valuable feedback. Local, regional and also European partnerships were established that last also after the end of the project. The project partners integrated the materials created within the EUKCEM II project into their regular activities, use them for their own mobility projects and also together with their partners from other European countries. Therefore, the partners as well as other organisations involved in mobilities across Europe will benefit also in the long term. All web resources will be kept and also synergies are built with a project about quality in mobility.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 233555,71 Eur

Project Coordinator

wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnuetzige GmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE – THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE
• STICHTING LANDSTEDE
• CAMBRA OFICIAL DE COMERC I INDUSTRIA DE TERRASSA
• CENTRO STUDI CITTA DI FOLIGNO ASSOCIAZIONE