CONFYE (Confección y Empleo) is a Strategic Partnership gathering industry associations, VET centres, Education Regulators and Certifying Bodies in Spain, Portugal and Czech Republic. The project focuses on the Fashion and Clothing production sector. The partners have cooperated previously in another educational initiative related to Dual VET systems on the basis of which they have detected needs to bring closer the VET centres and the companies of the sector to promote quality employment and competetiveness in this economic sector. CONFYE project has implemented the main output that was funded, a MOOC on professional orientation and entrepreneurship. It has contributed to develop the competences of groups of VET students in the different countries, and to strengthen their possibilities to find a job or create their own business. CONFYE product is a complementary resource to the creation of the end-of-cycle projects that are part of the curricular instructions in the upper cycles of VET. This MOOC has been tested and used in connection to the topic of Fashion and Textile.This output is a Open Educational Resource (OER) compliant with the EdX standards and hosted in a plataform that enables and promotes the access from anyone who is interested in exploring and following the course. The project has reached the goal to involve directly more of 100 stakeholders to obtain the planned results. More that 140 stakeholders (companies of fashion and textile, VET teachers and students, education institution representatives and other professionals related with these sectors) have been involved only in the multiplier events, largely exceeding the expected impact, despite the restrictions of the COVID pandemic. In addition, the phases of development and testing of the product have involved directly more than 10 teachers and 60 students in the three participating countries. Finally the promotion and dissemination activities have exceeded the target to reach directly more than 600 representatives from the three target groups: fashion companies, teachers and students from VET schools, and policy-makers and institutions in charge of designing and implementing VET systems, through info sessions, participation in international fairs and projects, newsletters and technological means (webpage and social networks).To reach the targeted stakeholders the partnership has counted with the support of a broad representation of the Textile, Fashion and Clothing production sector and of VET centres providing studies in this field. Relevant associated partners have actively contributed and supported this initiative.

MODISTO involves organisations in Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic and Italy. The partnership includes vocational training centres, professional associations of the fashion and clothing sector, and organisations involved in the implementation of vocational oriented programmes and the creation of didactical resources for them.The main aims of the proposal are:- To develop a course in e-learning modality to be used as support for VET teachers, whose contents will be related to eco-design and sustainability, and its use intended for the clothing and fashion sector. - To promote and disseminate the e-learning course within VET centers in the four participating countries. - To make the resources of the e-learning course openly available and promoted at international level as an open educational resource.The project methodology intends to adapt innovative practices regarding sustainable production and consumption in the textile and fashion sector to didactical materials that support the incorporation of competences in this field to the curriculum of VET centres. Representatives of the fashion and clothing sector in Europe have identified sustainability as a priority strongly determinant for the future of this industrial sector, since the fashion industry produces nowadays 20 per cent of global wastewater and 10 per cent of global carbon emissions. The innovative aspects of MODISTO main result are the topics, the pedagogical approach and the format. The topics are structured in 4 differentiated modules: Principles of Eco-design; Sustainable fabrics; Eco-labeling and Certification; and Sustainability Criteria in the Fashion and Clothing Sector. The pedagogical approach includes the use and evaluation of practical competences based on real cases encapsulated in a didactical learning environment. The format in which the result is conceived is an e-learning course fully accessible online and with didactical suggestions for the use of the VET teachers as a complementary resource to enable the adaptation of the targeted competences to the curriculum of the VET centres. The course will be available in Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Italian and English.MODISTO will involve associated partners in all countries including additional VET centres, companies of the fashion and clothing sector, other sectoral organisations and external experts in eco-design and sustainable fashion, who will contribute to the quality of the final product. The project targets to involve directly some 20 VET teachers, 400 VET students and 100 fashion and textile company representatives in the different phases of development. By means of our dissemination strategy we plan address some 3.000 stakeholders using channels like newsletters, promotional activities and 6 multipliers events to be held during project implementation. Target groups of these dissemination and promotion actions are teachers and students of VET centres, education authorities, experts in sustainable fashion and representatives of fashion and textile companies interested in sustainable production.Most of the partners have cooperated already in successful projects of European scope with strategic value for the fashion and clothing sector. They plan to sustain the project main outcome by their own means, integrating it as a resource for the VET centres participating in the initiative, and promoting it as an open educational resource beyond the context of the partnership.

Context of project: The goal of the project was to provide skilled employees for the restructured European textile industry. The main idea of the project was based on the need to BALANCE the EMPLOYER´S NEEDS on skilled labour forces in European textile and clothing industry WITH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES OF THE TEXTILE SECONDARY SCHOOLS or Specialised educational centres and thus support both job opportunities and mobility for graduates (future labour forces). The growth of the efficiency of vocational education with regard to the structural changes that have taken place in the European textile and clothing industry for the past 20 years. These changes place completely different requirements for the structure and labour force skills. This trend must be transformed also to the whole sphere of vocational education in different European countries. Project objectives:- Comparison of the level of vocational education in selected countries- Utilisation of the strong parts of school programmes- Facilitate the integration and employability of young people who are interested in studying disciplines of the T+C industry- Support of the co-operation between the educational and employer´s sphere Consortium:1 coordinator (CZ) and 8 core partners (CZ,ES,PT,PL) The project partners were well chosen with respect to the purpose of the project. Associations from Poland (PIOT), Spain (ASECOM), Portugal (ATP) and Czech Republic (ATOK) provided contacts between schools and employers. All these associations knew the needs of T+C branch for skilled workers and were able and willing to help in their education. Represented schools (SPST, Czentrum Sosnowiec) and educational institutions (Fuenllana, Modatex, TZU) have a long term experience in the vocational system of education and great interest in cooperation with the manufacturing sector. Main activities and theirs resultsIO1, IO2 - Comparative study of National qualification framework and educational programmes IO3 - Set of 10 Unit of learning outcomes supporting the future student´s mobilityIO4 - International Multilateral agreement combined with 4 Declaration of willingness with 27 companiesImpact:The exemplary document were prepared within the project; it is not intended only for project participants but also for other bodies (eg.associations members), which could be or are interested in recruiting the skilled labour forces. At the same time students will have possible certainity of the future jobs and mobility within the EU. This is the project contribution to the growth of qualification level of labour forces and thus to the higher competitiveness of the European T+C industry.

<< Objectives >>To provide VET teachers with upgraded resources to tackle horizontal and transversal competences in eco-design for industrial processes at VET training centres both inside the partnership (FEI, MODATEX, ABANA, CONFORM) and outside the partnership at other VET centres. And to achieve these goal, specifically:To develop an Open Educational Resource (OER)To involve in the different phases of development of the OER key stakeholdersTo promote the developed resources to get their sustainability.<< Implementation >>We will implement management and dissemination plans, transversally.To achive the specific aim of developing the OER:Product design activities with the support of focus groups in the participating countries and drafting training materials on eco-designProduction activities including transforming the resources to an e-learing format, including instruction video pills, and elaborating 4 real cases to practice eco-design competences interactively.Testing and validation activities for quality.<< Results >>1. An open educational resource integrating: an e-learning course on topics of eco design, 4 practical cases in video format recreating real industry processes to practice eco-design competences throug digital interactivity, an accessible learning environment including additional resources on this topic with free access identified by the project partners, includes a user's guide.2. Evidences of the relevance of the project based on reports from the of design, production and testing.

The BIG project aims to increase the digital, international, business and financial management skills of 80 workers of small companies in Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Greece and Poland functional to define a correct and sustainable planning of digital, international company projection.The project responds to the strongly felt need of small European companies to enter, develop and remain in international business. In fact, according to the DESI Report 2018, in 2017 10% of the EU workforce does not have adequate digital skills and does not use the internet (35% does not even have basic digital skills). It criticizes the situation in IT, SI, EL, PL; slightly higher than the EU average, the ES figure. Only around 10% of the European small business workforce has digital skills to monitor technological solutions and devices such as cross-border e-commerce, cloud services and automation. Against a growing number of EU consumers who habitually use e-commerce (equal to 68%) there is an inadequate implementation of these digital solutions mainly in EU small businesses with IT, PL, GR in the last positions. SI and ES are average. According to the results of a Google-Doxa survey, there is also a close correlation between the use of e-commerce and revenue generation. The percentage of small businesses that have relations with foreign countries (the analysis involved 5,000 European small businesses) - thanks to digital, is four times higher than the percentage of non-digitized companies. As the level of digital maturity grows, the percentage of companies that export also grows, going from 55% of non-digital to 67% of companies advanced from a digital point of view. Digital maturity and exports also have a direct impact on turnover: digitally advanced companies declare that 24% of export turnover is achieved through digital means, a sign of the web's potential as an incremental channel for export.In response to these critical issues the project intends to:• co-elaborate a European, blended training supply which is innovative and in line with the needs of workers and companies to improve their development opportunities in the globalized economy• test the learning path with at least 80 workers from European small businesses involved in the partnership, integrating the following 3 dimensions of learning:- cognitive, with the use of OER developed in the form of video tutorials and additional materials developed/sought by the partnership, contained in the learning environment as well as participation in face-to-face sessions during the e-learning course- operational, with the conduction of check-ups by the learners to guide their small businesses, in the implementation of efficiency procedures in international business development processes by exploiting digital solutions- behavioural with the scripting and recital of sketch-coms to stage relational dynamics typical of digital marketing conversational processes• align a group of partnership trainers, involved in an international mobility to acquire the methodological references of Movie Education and guide learners through action learning activities to create educational sketch-comsThe project deals with a theme of transnational relevance with a multi-stakeholder partnership cooperation strategy that involves actors of:a) the Chamber system• Camera Di Commercio delle Marche (IT) – Lead Partner• Camera Di Commercio Italiana di Salonicco (EL)• Polish Chamber of Commerce of Importers, Exporters and Cooperation (PL)b) Training and consultancy• CONFORM - Consulenza Formazione e Management S.C.A.R.L (IT) • FEI (ES)• AKMI Anonymous Educational Organization (EL)• GZS CPU (SI)c) The academic system• Università Politecnica delle Marche (IT)• Poznań University of Economics and Business (PL)d) Business associationsASECOM (ES)e) Local authorities BSC Kranj (SI)The expected impacts of the project can be summarized as follows:• Increased level of professional performance in the management of digital internationalization processes in partnership reference territorial contexts by virtue of the acquisition of an integrated set of target skills based on a systemic vision of a technological, organizational/managerial, commercial, relational and marketing nature• Adoption and implementation of a flexible, interactive and innovative European model of education inspired by the movie education logic, capable of evolving methods, tools, solutions and learning situations, to raise digital, international business management skills levels, through a lifelong learning process.