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Training activities in companies (WEPs) are an essential part in VET and Dual VET European student’s learning process. These activities are increasingly being carried out abroad (within the EU). For this reason, it is convenient to compare the different aspects involved (training activity durability, types and contents of the agreements between companies and institutions, means and criteria to select companies, tutor and instructor coordination, etc.) to improve them. In Europe, there is great concern regarding young people’s unemployment (European average rate over 20%), for it is important to contrast experiences between different countries to improve VET’s functioning in order to improve students' qualification and their subsequent employability.The Project “Improvements in the Management of the Work Experience Placements” has the mission of improving the management of WEP in the countries of the three entities which have taken part in the Project, and in EU. This will contribute to increase VET’s quality and social-educative prestige as well as the number of students who will study VET and Dual VET.The three partners have distinguished profiles, but at the same time complementary, and a common interest: improving WEPs in Europe. - USIE, Inspectors' Union, Spain. The Education Inspectorate is a supervisor and assessor of the management of VET and Dual VET in the educational field, as well as an interlocutor between Administration, the educative community, and companies. - KAIROS Europe Ltd., company specialised in students that perform WEPs in the UK. It looks for companies, controls the teaching-learning process, and performs student’s tutoring. For this reason, this institution is aware of the problems that emerge in WEPs.- SCF, Scuola Centrale Formazione associazione, Italy. Non-profit organization that encompasses entities responsible for 94 VET/Dual centres. It works with youngsters that carry out their WEPs, some of them disabled, allowing us to have a differentiated experience in the matter.The partners have shared a common network of education and labour fields, taking into account VET and Dual VET institutions and companies of the three countries. The Project has lasted for 15 months, with a previous phase and 4 development phases. 3 National Work Teams (NWT) and 3 Transnational Teams plus the Coordinator, each one of them with their own responsibilities, have worked and carried out activities cooperatively according to the established plan.Throughout the Project, 30 activities have been carried out, applying the expected timeline and the Quality Plan, respecting a multidisciplinary perspective, cooperative working, and consensual agreements. The objectives and the Project’s mission are directly related with the expected activities and in accordance with the designed methodology: 1st- Diagnostic, based on evidence (registers, surveys…). 2nd- Analysis of the obtained data to detect proper and mistaken practices, with the objective of elaborating our final outcome:-The Good Practice Guide of WEP Management in Europe.-Political and Administrative Recommendations aimed at educational and entrepreneurial authorities to improve VET’s quality and young people’s inclusion in the labour market.For this, three transnational meetings together with one Training Activity have been carried out, in which all of the NWT have participated, as well as the selected participants by each country. The dissemination activities and the impact have had and will go on having as beneficiaries the members of the partners, as well as the educative and entrepreneurial communities, governmental authorities and other social agents. The impact can be measured by the number of participants through the partner's activities throughout the project, since companies and institutions have been visited in the three countries, interviews to the agents involved in WEP have been done, formative sessions have been carried out, highlighting the Final Conference that took place in Spain in October, which was attended by more than 250 participants. Furthermore, meetings with technicians or relevant people of each country have been held. A specific blog has been created: https://imweperasmusk202.wordpress.com/ a logo, and webs and social networks have been used by the partners (Twitter and Facebook, above all).The Project’s dissemination and sustainability have been carried out and will continue by attending activities (meetings/seminars with institutions and companies, interviews to political and employment officials, etc.), highlighting the Final Meeting, which took place in Spain, the Project’s specific Blog and each partners' webs and social networks.The Project's success will be related to the impact obtained applying the Guide of Good Practices by the institutions and companies, and the Political and Administrative Recommendations through changes in legislation and procedures in labour and education fields.
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