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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 1 – Introduction
1.3 European policies, goals and benchmarks for mobility
Europe2020 has policies, goals and benchmarks which should be achieved by 2020. There are 5 targets and 7 flagships. The targets are; Employment, R&D, Climate change and energy, Education, Fighting poverty and social exclusion. For boosting growth and jobs 7 flagships are initiated. For Smart growth: 1) Digital agenda for Europe, 2) Innovation Union, 3) Youth on the move; for Sustainable growth: 4) Resource efficient Europe, 5) An industrial policy for the globalisation era; for inclusive growth: 6) An agenda for new skills and jobs and an 7) European platform against poverty.

Focusing the agenda on mobility, the European policies want to:
  • Enhance employability: 75% of the 20 – 64 year old people are employed,
  • Increase up to 3% the percentage of the European GDP into R&D,
  • Reduce the early school leaving rate below 10%
  • Achieve that 40% of 30-34–year-olds complete third level education.
Mobility has a positive effect on all these issues.
As the Bologna process from 1999 opens with the Bachelor and Master system and the university ECTs system mobility and internationalism for students, similar actions are benchmarks for mobility in other areas: The acceptance of the professional qualification 2005 and necessary internships in the vocational training are important steps for a successful mobility.
Erasmus+ is one of the main programmes of the EU offering grants in areas of education, training, youth and sport. It is also open for youth exchanges and voluntary exchanges. There are also different websites offering possibilities for finding job opportunities, Internships, exchanges. E.g. in the context of one of the flagships Youth on the move, with the keywords study, learn, train, work.
So it is up to the people to achieve the goals of Europe 2020, and up to the schools to offer their students a diverse Europe with the chance to change and improve their future prospects.
Online Resources
  • Youth on the moveA website where you might find information for the flagship “Youth on the move”
  • Europe2020A website where you might find all information about Europe2020

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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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