"Friendly Europe" promotes VET Staff Mobilities for VET project managers, department directors, experts. The proposal is applied by Fondazione Casa di Carità Arti e Mestieri onlus in partnership with 8 partners that are members of CONFAP (Confederazione Nazionale Formazione Aggiornamento Professionale), an association that joints 36 VET Organization, with a total amount of 285 VET centers, where 10.000 people work (8.000 trainers). Avery year more or less 70.000 students attend a course in one of CONFAP VET centers. The proposal starts from some common needs of the partners: a) to define DEVELOMENT PLANS of VET organization (both within them and in the all Italian System of VET, that is well represented by the partnership) strictly connected with European transformations in the field of Training, Education and job insertion. That is why the project is addressed to Senior Positions of each VET organization. This activity focuses in particular on: • European 2020 strategy • The hard situation of Youth employment, and the policy defined in Youth Guarantee • Recognition and validation of non-formal and in-formal competencies • Training needs and training welfare for young (initial VET in particular) • European measures for job insertion and social and job inclusion; • Social economy. b) to define strategies aimed to share the issues and results of the project to all the trainers and staff of the partner institution (and, through them, to all Italian VET System) c) to standardize the work on Recognition and validation of non-formal and in-formal competencies experimented by the partnership in previous experiences ) in particular an LdV named “GOAL”, where all the institution that participate in "Friendly Europe" were partners). "Friendly Europe" will organize 6 mobility actions. In each of them there will be 10 participants. All Training Staff shared a common organization, but each one of them is focused on some peculiar themes. Training Staff are focused around 3 main themes: - 2 mobilities will be addressed to Bruxelles; hosting partner will be CEC - Comité Européen de Coordination, a network of 20 organizations (VET Organizations, Social co-operatives, Social Companies…) of 13 different EU Countries. KEY THEME OF THE STAFF TRAINING:RECOGNITION AND VALIDATION OF NON-FORMAL AND IN-FORMAL COMPETENCIES – ECVET MODEL. - 2 mobilities will be addressed to Strasbourg (F); hosting partner Apprentice D'Ateuil, a VET French National network, with a strong expertise on dual system training and job insertion in social companies. KEY THEME OF THE STAFF TRAINING: APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING, ON THE JOB TRAINING, COOPERATION IN TRAINING OF VET AND COMPANIES. - 2 mobilities will be addressed to Bruxelles again; hosting partner: ENSIE (European Network of Social Integration Enterprises). KEY THEME OF THE STAFF TRAINING: CONNECTION BETWEEN VET, SOCIAL COMPANIES AND JOB INCLUSION.