The Project EUROVOUZELA will be promoted by Escola Profissionalde Vouzela, during the year 2015. It will be a milestone for the development of the educational offer of the School, given students one more opportunity to acquire professional knowledge, contributing to a better transition between school and the labour market. On the other hand, they will get to know new cultures, lead EP Vouzela across borders and establish international partnerships that will be fruitful not only for their personal and social development, as well as for the development of the school itself. The project also foresees the mobility of teachers from technical areas: Pedagogical Department and Course Coordinators, with the aim to contact with new methodologies e exchange ideas and good practices with their pears in France and the United Kingdom, contributing to a better educative offer in the school. The project will represent a strong contribution to the students’ motivation and the school community, but also to secure the population, renew and create new local projects and overcome the current crisis. The participants will be 20 trainees of level 4 from EP Vouzela (2nd and 3rd years), from the following professional training courses: Industrial Electromechanical Maintenance Technician; Industrial Mechatronics Maintenance Technician; Mechatronics Technician; Kitchen-Bakery Restoration Technician; Restaurant-Bar Restoration Technician and Secretarial Technician. Through this programme, whose mobility period will have the duration of 7 weeks for the 2nd year trainees and 10 weeks for the 3rd year trainees, the participants will develop their curricular internships. The job shadowing programme will happen in VET schools in France and United Kingdom, lasting 1 week, The countries of destination are: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and France. The project will involve intermediary partners at the destination countries to support the implementation of the project. In terms of certification, the participants will receive a Certificate of the Promoter, Language Course Certificate, Internship Certificate and the ECVET Recognition, which will be for the first time implemented by the School. The identified NEEDS in the students were: • Persisting high numbers of ABANDONMENT/ DROPOUT AND SCHOOL INSUCCESS • POOR KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES, even of English language • LITTLE EXPERIENCE OF THE STUDENTS IN PRACTICAL WORK CONTEXT • LITTLE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS • POOR OR VERY LITTLE CIVIC PARTICIPATION • DESENSITIZATION / LOW AWARENESS OF THE EUROPEAN REALITY • INTERIORIZATION AND DESERTIFICATION • LACK OF GOALS IN LIFE The proposed Objectives are: 1-PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE ACTIVE LIFE – LIFE TRANSTION FROM THE ACADEMIC LIFE TO THE LABOUR MARKET 2-IMPROVING EP VOUZELA’S EDUCATIONAL OFFER IN A SUSTAINABLE MANNER, FIGTHING SCHOOL ABANDONMENT AND DROPOUT BY MOTIVATION AND ATRACTIVENESS 3- NEARING THE EP VOUZELA’S SCHOOL COMMUNITY TO THE EUROPEAN REALITY – CREATE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND SYNERGIES The expected outcomes for the students are: 1. STUDENTS WITH STRENGTHENED CVs AND WITH QUALITY, WHICH WILL ALLOW THEM A GREATER LIKELIHOOD TO ENTER IN THE LABOUR MARKET (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL) AFTER THE END OF THE COURSES. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF EP VOUZELA’S EDUCATIONAL OFFER AND CONSEQUENTLY REDUCED LEVELS OF SCHOOL ABANDONMENT AND/OR WITHDRAW 3. CONSOLIDATION OF STRATEGIC INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS BOTH FOR EP VOUZELA, THE REGION AND ITS ENTREPRENEURS, WHO EMPLOY THE STUDENTS In terms of partner organizations, the expected OUTCOMES and IMPACTS are: • Increased ability to work at a transnational level • Creation of new methods and channels of communication • Increased level of IT skills • Improvement of language skills • Understanding and acceptance of new ways of working, which differ from culture to culture • Creation and/or strengthening of international partnerships • Greater likelihood of involvement in other initiatives at the international level Thus, at the Regional/Local level the project will contribute to: • The sustainable development of the Region • The qualification of the Human Resources in the Region • Higher levels of entrepreneurship • Proximity of the Region to the European sphere At the European and International level, the project will contribute to: • Achieve the proposed targets at the EU 2020 Strategy, in the fields of education, innovation and development • Increase the number of European mobilities, duly certified and recognized, through the mechanisms of the European Union • The qualification of Human Resources, able to work in other countries • A greater cooperation between vocational training institutions and companies that will promote the access to the European labour market • Increase the number of partnerships and contacts at the international level – higher ability of transnational work that will allow the ability to join other international partnerships