SMART PLUS aims to develop an innovative system that allows the identification of the mismatch between the needs in terms of competences required by the tourism industry labour market and the training contents offered by the educational institutions. This system will allow institutions to conduct a self-assessment that, together with an ontology-based tool (transfer and adaptation of SMART), provides information for a customised training e-learning solution. Educational institutions have, then, the opportunity to complement their training offer by adapting their contents and curricula to the labour market need through the SMART PLUS training, thus benefiting their students.The project objectives will be attained by implementing the following activities:• Identification of relevant skills and competences as foreseen in ESCO that are relevant for the tourism industry at EU-level and the definition of the SMART PLUS ontology-based system. The system will transfer, adapt and improve results of SMART (Supporting dynamic MAtching for Regional development - 2012-1-ES1-LEO05-49395) and will allow institutions to identify the mismatch between training contents offered and labour market demand in terms of competences, as well as it will allow students to complete a self-assessment of their competences;• Definition and design of a modular training that will help educational institutions tackle the mismatch problem and students acquire relevant competences. This e-learning solutions will be composed of 6 independent training modules addressing competences identified by the European Union as key competences for lifelong learning and that students should develop during their training and education. Topics include: intercultural competences, entrepreneurship, soft skills, ICT and communication in foreign languages;• Creation of the SMART PLUS Online Platform that will give access to the ontology-based tool, to the e-learning solution (training contents developed by the consortium) and also to a repository of additional open educational resources (OER) that allow institutions to customise the training pathway according to the learners’ needs and to the needs identified by educational institutions.Complementary to the project activities, the partnership will employ several tools and resources that contribute to the project dissemination, namely organising 8 events (two per partner country), including a Final Conference organised in Seville at the end of project execution to present the project and final scientific report to an audience of local, national and international participants.Other dissemination tools include the development of the project platform, creation of a Facebook fan page, development of the project visual identity, production of the project brochure, materials for events and other dissemination materials, periodical newsletters and the publication of 2 papers/articles). Evaluation & quality assurance and sustainability activities will support the overall project management and the attainment and quality of project results and outcomes.Target audiences for dissemination activities are mainly represented by:• Public and private VET schools, training centres and other educational actors with expertise on topics related with/relevant to the tourism sector – one of the main target groups of the project and the institutions responsible for allowing project results to be available for students and learners;• Higher Education institutions with expertise on topics related with/relevant to the tourism sector;• VET students, HE students and other potential learners as the end beneficiaries of the skills matching tool and of the training solution;• Public institutions;• Other institutions active in VET and relevant for the project, such as Chambers of Commerce, local development agencies and NGOs; • Tourism companies and institutions active in the tourism industry.The SMART PLUS consortium is composed of 5 institutions from 4 European countries (Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Hungary) that represent different fields of expertise and bring an added value to the project, covering cover all the critical competences needed to achieve project goals and objectives.

Early school and iVET dropout and NEETs in the last decade have been increasing in all EU countries, although with different rates and drivers, Preventing and contrasting ESL and NEETs is at the centre of the agenda both at the EU and national levels in order to support inclusive, competitive and sustainable development processes. That calls for a need of sharing and building models, resources and competences by actors operating in diverse job and educational systems. The student awareness, motivation and engagement as well as the trainers (and educational system) competences in designing effective, personalized and engaging learning and job orienting processes can address the key determinants of a vicious circle based on the progressive decreasing of both expectations and competences.This is exactly the focus of the project SAVE (Self Awareness, evaluation and motiVation system Enhancing learning and Integration to prevent and contrast ESL and NEET) aimed at define and validate innovative models, approaches and tools supporting personalized, active and engaging youth personal development processes, based on self-awareness, reflective and participative based learning models, preventing ESL and NEET phenomena, contemporaneously addressing:- Students’ engagement and motivation by implementing self-awareness/evaluation tools, inclusive guidance and learning solutions supporting reflective, engaging and active behaviours;- Trainers guidance and learning role empowerment: by adopting pedagogical models based on: self-evaluation, learning personalization, digital portfolio and technology enhanced environments;- School and iVET responsiveness: by implementing stronger dynamic link between education and job market, leveraging on the competencies’ recognition within the SAVE portfolio framework.The SAVE system has been: realized, starting from the valorisation of partners complementary competences, resources and experiences; validated within a wide piloting framework, both at national (IT) and partners countries level (ES; UK; CZ). Around 300 youths and 133 trainers were involved just considering the piloting action.Six partners from IT, CZ, ES, UK, with consolidated experiences and representing SAVE targets, carried out the project by expressing complementary competences and resources, related to: self-evaluation and learning personalization (Ciofs-Fp, Educomm, Apricot, Navreme); technology enhanced systems and models (Navreme; Educomm; Apricot; Cultorale); target representation (CIOfs-Fp; Sanviator; Educomm); VET methodologies and organization (Ciofs-Fp; Cultorale; Sanviator).Five intellectual outputs, 8 multiplier events and 3 final conferences, supported by robust communication, dissemination and project management actions and processes allowed to achieve the project goals by:- carrying on a transnational scenarios and need analysis on models, practices and experiences aimed at clustering the targets and focusing SAVE design drivers;- adapting existing (also by creating a common SAVE clipping base) and further developing innovative tools, strategies and resources on the bases of the main scenario evidences;- defining the overall SAVE models and its architecture in terms of web enhanced solutions supporting learning personalization and guidance strategies based on self-awarded, motivated and active processes;- developing the SAVE resources for both youths and trainers and integrating them within the web enhanced SAVE system;- validating and fine-tuning SAVE system and its resources within 11 Italian Centres and in each partner countries. An iterative and multidimensional design-integration-validation approach has been employed, valorising the involvement of targets since the very first project stage to its follow-up, supporting both its improvement and fine tuning as well as its sustainable valorization.The evaluation of the piloting action has also represented the basis for the development of SAVE Recommendations addressing contemporarily the three levels: the system, professionals (trainers, schools and VET organizations but also mentors and companies, job placement) and youths. The results achieved are: the integrated web-enhanced SAVE system, supporting innovative self-awareness and evaluation tools and strategies supporting the learning and development process; recommendations, toolkit and resources; a wide clipping basis of resources; a consolidated and further developed SAVE network; the resources produced for the wide and constant dissemination actions. SAVE main impacts attained refer to all the three levels (youths and system, trainers and organizations, job and placement) both at national and EU level. The expected long term benefits can be related to two directions: the reduction of youth exclusion by enhancing employability (and transversal competences) both as personalized, (pro) active and aware development behaviours and as organizational (companies, schools, VETs).