2015-1-PT01-KA102-012791 Generated on: Sep 13, 2018

Key Action: Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type: VET learner and staff mobility

Project Title

XPTO+ II – “eXcellence in Professional Training

Opportunities II”

Project Coordinator

Organisation EUROYOUTH Portugal

Address Avenida Miguel Bombarda,1 , 1000-207 Lisboa , PT

Website www.euroyouth.org

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Project Information

Identifier 2015-1-PT01-KA102-012791

Start Date Jun 1, 2015

End Date May 31, 2017

EC Contribution 242,260 EUR

Partners M77 - Digital Creation & Training (CZ) , Il était une fois (FR) , AC-Serwis
(PL) , CEAR Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (ES) ,
Confederación Empresarial de Comercio de Andalucía (ES) , Cap Ulysse
(FR) , Globtrain GbR. (DE) , Centrum Innowacyjnego Rozwoju
Spoleczenstwa (PL) , Instytut Wspierania Edukacji i Przedsiebiorczosci
BONUM (PL) , KN'DESIGN (FR) , WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITAT WIEN
(AT) , BOC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES CONSULTING GMBH (AT)
, Ingeniería Sanitaria SL (ES) , ONECO CONSULTING SL (ES) ,
CADShop GmbH (AT) , International Management (PL) , ANTENAS
GATICA S.L (ES) , SEM COMUNICACIÓN S.C (ES) , PARAGON
LIMITED (MT) , FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL
INCLUSION IN MALTA (FOPSIM) (MT) , Centre d'Orientation Social -
COS (FR) , S-Arts (PL) , Aquatech (IE) , EFIKELEC (FR) , VUSTE ENVIS,
spol. s r.o. (CZ) , UNICEF GIRONDE (FR) , OPENCOM i.s.s.c. (IT) ,
RIVAS TOUR Ltd. (BG) , Partnership International JPN Limited (IE) , IBD
Solutions Limited (UK) , ECOSOL LTD (MT) , CORK COMMUNITY ART
LINK (IE) , Artycok.tv, o.s. (CZ) , Sportland American (FR) , Association
"BULGARIA TRAINING" (BG) , Advena (EL) , AGRITOUR Ltd. (BG) ,
Sonus Networks s.r.o. (CZ) , Inzynierska Pracownia Projektowa Sp. z o.o.
(PL) , 5 SENSES LTD (MT) , Cork Internet Exchange (IE) , AMADEUS
VEREIN FUR TRANSNATIONALE BILDUNG (AT) , EVROPAIKO
KENTRO KATARTISIS GIA TIN APASCHOLISI ANONYMI
EKPAIDEFTIKI ETAIREIA (EL) , Foundation for Lasting Knowledge
Economy Strategies - FOLKES (MT) , FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH
AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (EL) , Affirmed Networks Czech s.r.o. (CZ)

Topics Recognition, transparency, certification ; Labour market issues incl. career

guidance / youth unemployment

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Project Summary

In 2014 the first project was presented in the scope of the XPTO + Consortium and the success that
demosntrated its implementation was born the desire to give it continuity, presenting a new project in 2015. The
entities that participated as sending entities in this new project were: Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André, a
Escola Profissional de Fafe, a Escola Profissional de Rio Maior e a Academia Total-IEDP. EUROYOUTH acted
as a mediator between schools, providing the human resources and expertise needed to coordinate an
ERASMUS + project.

The project was defined around 4 objectives:

- FAVOR EMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED AND QUALIFIED CAREERS OF
NEWLY-DIPLOMATED PERSONS IN THE SEARCH OF THE FIRST EMPLOYMENT
- GUARANTEE THE QUALITY AND UPDATE OF THE TRAINING OFFER AND VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION
- PROMOTING ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
- CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF PORTUGAL AND
EUROPE

The participants of this project were 60 graduates of the sending schools: Grouping of Schools of Santo André,
IEDP - Total Academy, Professional School of Fafe and Professional School of Rio Maior, of the following training
courses, level 4:
Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André - Management Informatics, Graphic Design; Receiving; Child Support
- Academia Total-IEDP - Tourism; Electro-technology; Child Support
- Escola Profissional de Fafe - Multimedia; Electronics, Automation and Computers;
- Escola Profissional de Rio Maior - Renewable Energies; Health Assistant; Environmental and rural tourism;
Electronics, Automation & Computers & Transportation & Logistics

The students were between the ages of 18 and 24 and were mostly males (33), compared to 27 females. The
students came from the municipalities or from the bordering municipalities of the sending schools, being, in the
majority, students with a medium-low socioeconomic strata.
Through this project, students performed their first professional internship with a duration of 68 days, with the
students of the group 1 countries having access to the OLS courses and the participants who went to the
countries of group 2, allowed the accomplishment of a Language course at the destination.
The host countries were: the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Malta, Germany, Austria, Greece,
Slovenia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
The impacts achieved were:
The impacts achieved with this project were as follows:

Participants
- Strengthening of language, personal and professional skills
- Knowledge / approach to the European labour market
-Opportunity to know new cultures and acquire a greater cultural awareness
- Higher entrepreneurial skills and competences
- Approaching Europe by strengthening the sense of European citizenship, participation and identity and the
interest in what happens in the different countries of Europe and the world

Educational and school communities

- Greater proximity to the international market

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- Increased motivation and dynamism of work teams that acquired competences in the scope of the capacity of
teamwork, ICT domain, structuring and planning of work
- Coordination between institutions or organizations offering learning opportunities
- Greater appreciation of the benefits inherent to professional, personal and linguistic experiences in an
international context;
- Knowledge of the opportunities and advantages of mobility in Europe;
- Improvement in the quality of activities to be carried out and projects to combat school drop-out
- New and different ideas to complement the training of graduates with European-level programs of excellence

Consortium partners
- Reinforcement of skills at international level through networking and constant cooperation
- Reinforcement of knowledge at the level of international projects, for example with the introduction of the
ECVET recognition system in the XPTO + IV project, approved in 2017
- Increased networking between vocational training schools

International partners:
- Increasing the network and networking at international level
- Higher working capacity
- Updating of working methods and techniques

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