The Networking : an Experience for an Apprenticeship Reinforcement in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Networking : an Experience for an Apprenticeship Reinforcement in Europe

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The project “NEAR IN EUROPE” or “Networking: an Experience for Apprenticeship Reinforcement in Europe” is a K2 partnership project – Exchange of Practices of Education and Vocational Training. It is part of a strong context:
– At European level, the recommendations of the Council of the European Union of 15 March 2018 on a European Framework for Effective and Quality Learning (2018 / C 153/01) and that of 22 May 2018, on the strengthening of basic skills.
– At the national level, as part of the vocational training reform, voted in 2018 and implemented since 1st January 2019 and aiming a higher number of apprentice trainees in vocational high schools.
– At the regional level, it is precisely part of the new academic project 2018-2022 of the Dijon Academy called: “Dijon: Learning Academy” setting as a priority the internationalization of schools and training centres in Burgundy, a very rural region which is struggling to develop the European mobility of its learners.

The objectives are to:
1. Promote Europe for teachers and trainers in institutions and training centres, for young people for their future internships in companies and their family;
2. Work on the networking technique to create a secure European network to build efficient relationships;
3. To train and create teaching conditions and resources with a special focus on soft skills to support learners and all those involved in European mobility and internships.

With the support and under the responsibility of the CFA of the National Education in Burgundy in charge of the apprenticeship in the DIJON Academy, the GIP-FTLV of Burgundy proposes an experimental project jointly with four European partners (Latvia, Portugal and Spain x2).

The priorities are to develop a partnership that will support the creation and implementation of STRATEGIES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION and that will promote LEARNING IN THE PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT by conducting specific work on REINFORCING KEY COMPETENCIES.
The target group will consist of young trainees from vocational training, apprentices or other statuses (depending on the country), level V or IV and preferably minor (point identified as a barrier to mobility).

Thus, each partner country of this project will select 6 young people (Total :6×4 =24), who will leave in groups of 2 on a work placement, called “TEST MOBILITY” in order to establish a diagnosis of the points to be improved and tools to be created for simplify and promote this type of learning in European companies. These “test mobilities” will be carried out in three periods and over two school years; they correspond to the learning activities of the target group.

This project is an ” research-action ” that focuses on three areas of work:
– Create a “secure” network and practice networking to expand it,
– Train actors and young people to social skills called “soft skills”,
– Rely on three streams of “Test Mobilities” in European companies, to set up new procedures and new tools that can be used by all partners to promote mobility in the workplace.

The main expected results are:
– an guide to European mobility, for trainees and those involved in vocational training,
– a collection of exercises and standard activities resulting from training or soft skills transfer sessions provided by the service provider (TalentCampus) associated with the project and the experimental high school requested on this theme (Lycée Stephen Liégeard),
– a partnership charter validating the creation of the European network (+ name, logo, etc.) and
– various complementary documents to the charter for educational and contractual information (legislation, bilateral traineeship agreement in European company, method of selection of beneficiaries, evaluation procedure, tutorial function, conditions for obtaining a diploma supplement, etc).
– a communication support for the European network (flyer for example),
– a collaborative workspace and transfer of results on partner’s websites.

The impact is also expected at the level of the commitment of the institutions and their teams and directly on the number of applications for internships in European companies by the future trainees.
An assessment will be carried out on the soft skills training actions conducted with the teams and their impact on the evolution of teaching practices.
For academic services and the CFA EN especially, this experimental action will make it possible to argue the orientations of the academic policy.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164312 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIP-FTLV de BOURGOGNE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Cfa de l’éducation nationale en Bourgogne
• Escuela Oficial de Idiomas Accitania de Guadix
• INSTITUTO DO EMPREGO E FORMACAO PROFISSIONAL
• M&M Profuture Training, S.L.
• PIKC Liepajas Muzikas, makslas un dizaina vidusskola