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MOBILITY

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Why?

• Intercultural understanding• Free movement of workers in

Europe• Internationalisation of education

and training in Europe• Employability

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Who?

• People in initial vocational training (IVT)• Students• Young workers and recent graduates• Human resource managers / Vocational

training planners / Trainers / Mentors / Occupational guidance specialists

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Every year :

•IVT : 18 000 •Students : 7 100•Young workers : 6 200•Trainers, managers, etc : 5

400

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What?• A period of vocational training and

work experience• in a public or private company - or in

a training institution - in another country.

• organised to achieve defined learning objectives

• by a partnership of training institutions and workplaces.

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Where ?• IVT people : vocational training

institutions and/or work places• Students : work places• Young workers and recent

graduates : vocational training institutions and/or work places

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Quality criteria

Provide linguistic and cultural preparation

Define objectives, content and duration

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Quality criteria

Explain how learning will be organised, and what tutoring and mentoring is planned

Validate learning and competencies

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New ! The Partnership quality commitment

• It defines the respective responsabilities of the sending and hosting organisations, of the intermediary organisation when it exists, and of the benficiary.

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The new generation of community education

and training programmes

after 2006

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• A new Integrated Programme for mobility and cooperation in lifelong learning covering education and training

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• In response to massive unfulfilled demand, the new generation of programmes will become significantly more ambitious

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• Specifically aiming at a very significant increase in decentralised mobility actions

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•At least 150 000 Leonardo trainee placements per year by 2013

•At least 3 million Erasmus students by 2010 (this will include the present « Leonardo da Vinci » students).