Preparatory Documents Cluster 1

Overview Project About quality Tools / publications / Ressources Quality charters / Label Europemobility Europemobility Network has established  Quality toolbox & observatory Europemobility Network has Thematic Commissions for different areas.  Europemobility Benchmaking Club developed quality standards and http://www.europemobility.eu Thematic Commissions have organized a  Quality Development tool procedures to be adopted by different number of workshops to share the main But also on stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes of their research and publications. transnational mobility.  Validation of learning mobility Europemobility Network Thematic A quality charter for mobility for Commissions are focused on 5 main areas:  Cooperation models Sending and intermediary - Economic models to fund learning mobility  Impact on host organisations ,organisations. - Cooperation models to support learning  Impact on skills Europemobility Network Quality Labels mobility for: Host Organizations, Mobile - Impact of learning mobility on learners and Leaners, Mobility Coordinators host organizations The Europemobiltiy peer-learning club gives - Quality of and quality schemes for learning experts and practitioners in mobility the chance mobility: to exchange on quality assurance in practical learning mobility. The aim is to create a mutual http://www.europemobility.eu/index.php? learning experience and to allow exchange option=com_content&view=section&layout= between practitioners in mobility from blog&id=10&Itemid=60 different educational sectors.

PREMO Four Italian administrations have improved  Profile of mobility agency operator Quality charter http://preparalamobilita.eu/ their capacity to support mobility by adopting  Guidelines http://preparalamobilita.eu/qgrid_en models and tools to support preparatory  Quality charter .pdf activities for mobility. A structural

Preparatory documents Cluster 1 collaboration between regions is set up to  Collaboration agreement provide optimal service for the beneficiaries of mobility.The website provides all actors in mobility tools and instruments which can help you before, during and after the placement. The tools are all "Do-it-yourself" tools and are free and voluntary to use.

EU MOVE EUMOVE! is a mobility portal, bringing For the trade sector a Quality Charter http://www.eumoveabroad.eu/ together initiatives in improving the quality of  Quality criteria’s for work placement for companies is available in the EU- professional learning abroad. The initiatives companies Move2 Network represent different economic sectors: retail &  How to become a work placement http://www.eumovetrade.eu/for- trade, Fashion, Care-sport& Welfare, company companies/home Hospitality- tourism-Bakery and Agriculture.  Support for mentors EUMOVE! makes use of the existing database  Mobility matrix with international work placement companies of Kenwerk which is the Dutch Centre of Tools for schools and trainees (before, during, Expertise who have a legal task for certifying after) work placement companies in the Netherlands and abroad.

QAFP (Agriculture) The agriculture sector has worked on http://www.greenplacements.eu/ different initiatives in order to promote the Leonardo da Vinci project QAFP; 2012-NL1- quality and quantity of mobility experiences. LEO05-08712 First AQUAP, leading to a database with work Guidelines QAFP about quality assurance placement companies in the green sector ("GreenPlacements"). Then, in 2014, QAFP was initiated where the focus was put on the establishment and expansion of a network of local agents. As both of the initiatives fit with the EUMOVE! Principles, the initiatives of the green sector were fully integrated in the EUMOVE! Portal. PERFECT MATCH Perfect Match – Tools for High Quality  Guidelines for hosting process http://www.perfectmatch.fi/ Mobility Experiences (2012-2014)  Reasons to Host for SMEs / Videos OBJECTIVES  Questionnaire to gather info about

Preparatory documents Cluster 1 the SME  To develop tools for intermediary organisations that enable them to  Company analysis match the right trainees with the  Guidelines how to prepare right SMEs application  Perfect Match Feedback  To create co-operation structures between the different actors  To encourage vocational schools, for instance, to become intermediary organisations  To encourage SMEs to host trainees from abroad To raise awareness of the benefits of mobility in Europe Q Mentor LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME Project Background papers about quality assurance in http://www.q-mentor.eu/? Duration: 2012 – 2014 mobility – mentoring and learning outcomes lang=en AGREEMENT n° 2012 DE/12/LLP- Etraining Q Mentor LdV/TOI/147552 http://www.q-mentor.eu/course/view.php? id=3 :  Best practice - Q Mentor final handbook  ECVET documents  Q Mentor assessments NETinVET Focus on International trade and Transport The private section of the network’s website http://www.netinvet.eu/demarche- http://www.netinvet.eu/?lg=en & logistic is used to forge partnerships and implement qualite and monitor mobility operations. All phases This implement a network’s quality related to mobility are taken into approach, certified by the “NETINVET” consideration in a process that monitors the Quality charter for training centers of label. The quality approach is based on a recommendations from the various quality the network and companies requirements charter validated by each of charters on a step-by-step basis. Mobility the mobility stakeholders: training centers, operation quality control is based on companies and learners. feedback gathered systematically from the different players involved in each mobility The NETINVET network participates in the operation. Mobility in "NETINVET" terms implementation of ECVET European includes hosting activities, facilitating Recommendation principles. accommodation finding and ensuring the cultural immersion of the learners.

Preparatory documents Cluster 1 Q plaNet Q-PlaNet, the Quality Placements Network is  Q-PlaNet quality standard Label in the Q PlaNet quality standard http://www.q-planet.org/ network of Quality Reference Centers (QRC) in annex page 19 / 20 for student placements. QRCs are offices  Establishment of 3 regional Quality acting at regional level for checking Reference Centres for student placement quality and promoting the mobility placements of students in practical training. Q-PlaNet sets  Study: Establishment of the European up concrete standards and structures for Network of Quality Reference Centres quality assurance in order to provide and a network of networks students, host organisations and universities a solid an secured basis for European wide  Guidelines for organisation of student comparable placements. placements iMove iMove - Innovation for MObility in VEt: No tools available yet ? public and private partnership for sustainable mobility. Main objectives are: 1. Formalizing the cooperation among iMove aims at building a network of multi- stakeholders representing the fields of stakeholder mobility platforms to education and business to establish a local or coordinate mobility activities for VET regional coordination of outgoing and schools in each participating regional or incoming IVET mobility activities. local community. 2. Creating a European network to act as third-level organization in coordinating the The project focuses on the development of platforms' work and development in new sustainable ways of cooperation among regions or cities. public and private stakeholders, at local or regional level, in order to meet the EU benchmark of 6% of VET students per year having a mobility experience within 2020.

Welcome & Co (operation) Enhancing Liaison and cooperation in http://www.welcomesmemobility.com/best- http://www.welcomesmemobility Mobility in Europe practice-catalog.php .com/ MAIN GOAL was to promote access for SMEs active participation in mobility programs sending organizations to high quality and in Europe. Contains a variety of best practices systematic online resources to promote identified by the partners of the project; we SME's participation on mobility actions: desire that it is a useful tool for all of you who databases, network of supporting non-profit want to introduce your company or institution

Preparatory documents Cluster 1 organizations, best practices, a kit of in mobility programs in Europe. communication with SMEs.

GAPS Closer dialogue with employers to develop Interreg IV A http://www.gaps- innovative new strategies that address Toolbox project.eu/index.php/en/objectifs employers’ skills needs and inspire confidence Studies about employers engagement (UK) -en for employers to engage with young people; http://www.gaps-project.eu/images/kent.pdf

Crossborder work placements of up to three months, which include language training, promoting the value of such an exercise to both young people and employers;

Creation of a web portal that will host and facilitate GAPS project activities, during and after its lifetime, acting as an on-line recruitment resource to advertise work placements and job opportunities

EREIVET.net In the network EREIVET 15 partners from 12 Flyer http://www.ereivet.net countries cooperate together in the field of http://www.ereivet.net/index.php/fr/quality- vocational education and training especially in-mobility to improve learning mobility in Europe in quality and quantity.

European Commission COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION on a Quality Framework for Traineeships

Mobility Charter since 2009: European Quality charter for mobility

ECVET toolkits (quality assurance) http://www.ecvettoolkit.eu/site/ecvettoolkit/qualityassurance www.euroapprenticeship.eu EuroApprenticeship is a network of more Quality check list Label for companies than 330 competent bodies, intermediate Label for companies organisations and Vocational Education and

Preparatory documents Cluster 1 Training (VET) providers, which organise “in company learning mobility” or provide expertise, information, help and support to learning mobility projects for the benefit of SMEs, Skilled Crafts Companies, of apprentices and young people in work-based learning and training systems.

Preparatory documents Cluster 1