“4S-Smart Social SustainableSkills for a VET Mobility Experience” is promoted by the Province of Ascoli Piceno, and it will provide a transnational work experience able to support, at a local level, an innovative training method that integrates the institutional educational path with a professional experience. The project is addressed to 100 students attending the ultimate and pen-ultimate year of secondary schools of the Province, attending educational programmes connected to ICT, Tourism and Environment & Territory. These are sectors that, even in the current difficult times of crisis, seem to offer, at a local and at an European level, better employment opportunities. The choice of these specific sectors, considered in their sustainable aspects, stems from the necessity in Europe (COM 868 New competencies for new jobs), as well as in Italy and in the Marche Region (POR Guidelines 2014-2020), to train dynamic young people with higher level of competencies, able to meet the requirements of the modern job market. The work experience will last three weeks and will take place, between May and December 2015, in companies operating in the following European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, Check Republic, Slovenia and Spain. The internship will have Training on the job modality and will allow the trainees to practice tasks directly relating to their professional profiles. Surveys conducted by the involved schools give an updated description of the condition of students that are about to start further education or enter the job market: - They are not fully aware of their knowledge and are unable to apply it; - They report a general lack of operational competencies and little familiarity with the professional world; - They show a certain pessimism in their future employment prospective; - They require a concrete answer to their need of seeing that their formal and informal educational and training paths come to fruition. The work experience in companies connected to their studies will give them the possibility to develop their competencies, contrasting the above mentioned aspects. The mobility experience will be accurately prepared before departure, thanks to a linguistic, cultural, pedagogical and professional preparation that includes 20 hour distance language training, 1 module on work health and safety, 3 propaedeutical seminars, and participation to thematic events and visits. The quality of the foreseen activities as well as the recognition, the certification and validation of competencies will be guaranteed by the application of ECVET tools. In view of the identified needs and objectives, the expected results are: - Development of communication and linguistic skills; - Strengthening of technical-professional competencies and curriculum improvement thanks to a certified, recognized and validated professional path; - Quality mobility experiences that can be transferred, through the participants, to the cultural and professional local environment; - Greater work competitiveness, inside and outside the country of origin; - Training experience focused on the occupability of young people and their long life learning process; - Creation of a stable network for future successful projects, based on a stronger cooperation among schools, companies, and local associations all using common and clearly defined tools. By introducing the following elements: - Capitalization of the initiative through the active participation of students to visits to local companies, an orientation week, and visits to sector events; - production of the best idea called “a sustainable day”, local event that will illustrate the participants’ professional experience, and will include specific information and training activities on environmental sustainability; - concept of learning outcomes, developed according to the ECVET system. The project will show an important innovative approach to the way of conceiving, describing and certifying the learning process. “4S” will therefore contribute, at a local, national and European level to the development of quality mobility. Promoting the introduction of ECVET tools to potential employers, associations and public bodies will allow to give a full value to the experience and a solid base for a greater cooperation, internationalization and transparency of educational and productive systems.