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Moinhos – formar para inovar
Moinhos – formar para inovar
Start date: Jul 1, 2014,
End date: Jun 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The mobility of young people to vocational training and personal and social development has been a strong focus of the actors of Torres Vedras.
The Town Hall, the Escola de Serviços e Comércio do Oeste, the Escola Profissional Agrícola Fernando Barros Leal, the Externato Penafirme and Seminfor have promoted and participated in Leonardo da Vinci and Comenius projects. Over the years, they maintained a dialogue that allowed joints to forward candidates, disseminate projects and share information and reflections.
Considering this background, the Erasmus + was the push that was needed to formalize this network, increase the collective capacity to participate and enhance the impact and integration of mobility in the territory.
Despite the continuity, there are changes, hence the Mills image choice, which all have history, roots and past of Torres Vedras, but also the future development and sustainability.
The MISSION is "Training for Innovation".
The Objectives set for the project were:
1 | TRAINING AND EMPLOYABILITY - To improve young people's access to the labor market through vocational training and specialized in EU
2 | EUROPE ALL / A - Create professional exchanges and flows, cultural, social and citizens to encourage membership and integration of the participants and the region in Europe
3 | TRAINING NETWORKS - Consolidating existing sectoral network through enablers projects and bridges creators
4 | HUMAN POTENTIAL - contribute to the sustainable and integrated development of the region, enabling HR, bringing new tools, methodologies and best practices
The project involved 30 students, 21 graduates and 9 level 4 finalists, from 18 to 30, mainly from the West zone and generally medium-low socioeconomic level. Mobilities lasted 14 weeks and sectors found themselves divided according to their representation in destinations and network quality assurance partners.
Professional design sectors were: Management, Marketing, Agricultural Production (crop production, animal production), Forestry and Environmental Resources, Restoration (Kitchen / Confectionery; Restaurant / Bar), Tourism, Tourism Aambiental and Rural and Renewable Energy (Solar Systems) .
THEMES AND NEEDS that was intended to respond to this project were:
# Improve personal and professional skills of participants
# Employability as a priority of post-diploma of the House-Schools network support
# Mobility as a strategy for improving vocational training and the recovery
# The need to promote mobility and cosmopolitanism among young people
# Facilitate the initiative and business innovation
# Encourage a greater, exchange and intercultural dialogue at European level
The implemented ACTIVITY divided by: project management, trust management, dissemination, selection, preparation, mobility, project evaluation and mobility, continuous dissemination and product and final event.
With these, the following impacts are assured:
** PARTICIPANTS: Strengthening of personal and intercultural skills and technical and professional skills; Increase the employability of young people trained in vedras towers; Increase the number of young "absorbed" by the companies in the region; More young people to sustainable life plans; Increased participation in cultural life, healthier lifestyle.
** CONSORTIUM: Creation and consolidation of new methods and ways of working together; Improve the training offer of the schools; Multiplication of intervention capacity; Consolidation of European networks; Increased future capacity of sustainability and follow-up; Training for international work
** INTEREMDIARY PARTNERS: Training for international work; Extending its network of contacts and work; Knowledge of new educational strategies and territorial intervention
** RECEPTION PARTNERS: Contact with new ways of doing, seeing and thinking about reality and to approach the work; Enlargement of the network of contacts; New potential partnerships and / or access to new markets
** School Community: Awareness of the importance of solid training paths in creating opportunities; Student motivation to study; Opening horizons and expectations of life and work; Creating spaces for reflection and debate on Europe; Team Update on methods and forms of educational work and industry
** General Population: Increase of contacts and international partnerships; Increased interest in mobility and LLL
Participants were the starting point and the central axis of this project, and only then may be because they are the people who make countries and regions, are the people that make competitive economies and are the people, especially and young people, of whom fall the consequences of our present choices and all our hopes of a more prosperous, cohesive and sustainable future