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This module focuses on how schools can motivate students to complete their school path in order to be ready for the job market through the exploitation of opportunities to study, carry out voluntary service and work experience abroad making use of mobility funding and cooperation initiatives.

Mobility to Learn and Work

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Chapter 3 – Mobility opportunities to learn
3.4 Mobility opportunities for VET with Erasmus+ KA1
In the framework of Key Action 1, Erasmus+ provides specific opportunities for VET learners mobility and for VET staff mobility.

The mobility for learners is addressed to students in vocational training schools with the aim to carry out work experience abroad, allowing them to learn new skills or languages. Work placements abroad improve employability and can ease the transition from education and training to employment.

According to the Erasmus+ programme guide, vocational students may undertake a traineeship or apprenticeship abroad, hosted in:
  • A company;
  • A workplace, such as a public organisation or an NGO;
  • A vocational education and training institution, with periods of work-based learning in a company.

Traineeships and apprenticeships may last from two weeks to a year.
The activity also foresees a preparation phase that can include language classes, as well as cultural and practical preparation. As far as the language classes are concerned Erasmus+ offers a new online portal for online language learning: the Erasmus+ Online Linguistic Support (OLS). The portal offers language training for higher education students on mobility for studies or traineeship, young volunteers, or students in the vocational education and Training participating in a mobility of at least one month. Available languages are German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch. There are also live sessions available.

The VET staff mobility foresees two possibilities:
  • Teaching/training assignments: this activity allows staff of VET schools to teach at a partner VET school abroad.
  • Staff training: this activity supports the professional development of VET staff in the form of a work placement or a job shadowing/observation period abroad in an enterprise or any other VET organisation.


Important elements to be taken into consideration when preparing the application form are to demonstrate that the mobility:
  • Is framed into a strategic approach of the participating organisations (aimed at modernising and internationalising their mission);
  • Responds to clearly identified staff development needs and is accompanied by appropriate selection, preparation and follow-up measures;
  • Ensures that the learning outcomes of participating staff are properly recognised and ensures that the learning outcomes are disseminated and widely used within the organisation.
The funding covers the travel, subsistence, organizational, linguistic support costs. For more information please see the link below.
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Date: 2016.09.13

Posted by Aneta - Lithuania

The E- learning package provides effective methodology on how to deal with students at risk of early school leaving and motivate them to continue their educational path.

Date: 2016.09.05

Posted by Christine CLOES - Belgique

In Belgium a group of secondary schools is involved in a pilot project supported by the European Social Fund. The “Accrojump” project is a cooperation project between eight technical and vocational schools located in the same region. This original project lets students at risk of early school leaving carry out traineeships in a partner school that offers other options better fitting to their personal project.
It is an innovative concept of “mobility” that can be applied inside a country or region. Thanks to this project the traditional competitive relationship between schools turns into complicity and solidarity.

Date: 2016.08.03

Posted by A. Navas - Spain

Good overview of all the chances to study or work abroad.

Date: 2016.07.10

Posted by P.B. - Italy

For teachers the section of the portal is useful because it offers a series of tests to know and exalt the pupils’ potentialities. Teachers can also inform pupils about the concrete possibilities of working and living abroad.
The contents of the package are undoubtedly very useful, because they permit the deep knowledge of all the possibilities offered by the labour market.
In particular the Mobility section offers an exhaustive explanation of how many possibilities are now offered by the European Union for those who want to start relationships with foreign countries. Finally it stresses the importance and the opportunity to start entrepreneurship at school, so students can start to think about this possibility since they are attending their schools.

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Panunzio Laurent - France

The module is interesting because they bring light on some subjects and give advice.

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Didier Cahour - France

All modules are well written, especially the fifth one on “Mobility to learn and work”. It gives ideas about apprenticeship and I think in our society, it’s a good alternative for young students to enter the job market. It would be interesting for every European country to develop this kind of training.

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Gherca Iulian - Romania

This module focuses on how schools can motivate students to complete their school path and accelerate their preparation for the job market through voluntary service and work experience abroad making use of mobility funding and cooperation initiatives. The module deals with general information about mobility, some statistics and European policies, goals and benchmarks, its impact on social life, necessary intercultural understanding and transversal skills and practical tips on application forms and procedures to be respected. The theoretical issues are supported by a collection of students’ success mobility stories.

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