ContextThe enhancement of cross-border mobility of VET learners, trainers and staff has constantly been a reference in terms of increasing quantity, quality and effectiveness of the opportunities for building personal curricula through learning experiences abroad.The Erasmus+ Programme transversally fosters mobility of learners, educators and staff of educational institution across the different level of education. The Budget of the Programme was and is concentrated up to 60% of the overall investment in mobilities.As a result the number of mobilities has dramatically increased, also as a consequence of the choice of switching the Grant requests from individuals to institutions, requesting the last a big effort for being prepared to manage high number of mobilities.Within this context the project partnership, composed by VET institutions that are active in the field of Mobility both as hosts and as sending institutions have identified a specific area in which important step forwards should be addressed, that is providing VET Schools and Agencies with a stronger capacity to perform the daily management of high number of mobilities through digital based tools and processes.Target Groups The project addressed the needs of the 4 main actors in terms of the daily management of all the tasks that are part of the process of an appropriate planning, management, reporting and assessment of VET mobility initiatives:-Internal staff of the sending institutions -Internal staff of Hosting institutions -Staff of Companies hosting WBL mobilities-Participants in mobility initiatives ObjectivesThe objective of the SoftMob project is to answer to the needs of all the actors playing a part in mobility project and experiences, by providing them with:-a complete software helping them to reduce the administrative and management burden of the different activities in order to better concentrate on the contents quality-A set of direct testimonials of the different protagonists to be used as reference Best practice to improve the effectiveness of the management of Mobility initiativesOutputs on CompletionThe SOFTMOB project focuses on providing the different actors a transnational based set of tools, processes and best practices aiming at improving the quality and effectiveness of VET mobility initiatives and projects. The expected results are:1. The creation of a complete Software (IO2) to be used cooperatively by all actors playing a part in Mobility initiatives in order to appropriately manage the different administrative, coordination, monitoring, assessment and reporting tasks that are demanded reducing the operative burden and allowing to concentrate on the quality and consistency of the mobility experiences.Through the planning, implementation, testing and exploitation of the Software the SoftMob project will achieve the following results:-Sending institutions will be able to manage high numbers of mobilities (e.g. VET school organising a mobility for 100 VET students) minimising the impact of the administrative burden through operative tools allowing the staff to autonomously and effectively manage all the tasks related to the organisation, the monitoring, the assessment and the reporting through clear, automatic and replicable processes.-Hosting institutions, mainly tutor and administrative staff, will be able to interact directly and effectively with sending institutions and beneficiaries of the mobility initiative, through digital based processes and communication, in order to simplify the administrative burden through automatic, replicable and standard digitally based activities.-Companies hosting WBL based mobility initiatives (e.g. job shadowing, study visits, internships etc.), through their tutor will have the possibility to easily interact with the VET institution tutors, manage effectively administrative tasks including training agreements and regularly fill in reporting and assessing tools.-VET students and mobility participants will be able to easily access all the information related to their mobility initiative, manage autonomously and directly their documents and regularly report and evaluate their commitment to the foreseen tasks.2. Through the creation, use, dissemination and exploitation of the Intellectual Output 1 – Case studies and interviews learning toolkit the SoftMob project will: -Provide all the actors of Mobility initiatives (as defined above) with exemplary best practices addressing selected challenges related to the management of the different phases of the mobility preparation, implementation and follow up. The best practices in addressing the challenges will take the form of direct interviews with the protagonists, allowing the users to have a direct, practical oriented and easy to use reference learning material to be used to improve the effectiveness of their workeveryday activities.

The project came out as a practical answer to the context of the ageing population in EU. The needs of the beneficiaries targeted and then involved in the project showed that qualified medical assistance for palliative medicine in the partner countries was scarce and in many situations palliative health-care assistants acquired basic knowledge and skills on the job. The need to train qualified medical staff to meet the growing demand of assistance in the field of palliation in EU is a must. How to do this in a qualified, standardised way and with knowledge and skills aligned to the most recent research findings in the field was the practical challenge to be met and jointly answered in the project by the EU partnership. The project created a very comprehensive interdisciplinary MOOC which offers 20 fundamental palliative medicine procedures. Each procedure has a description that follows a standardised approach, with videos to illustrate how the procedure is being done, including the communication that accompanies the performance of that procedure and with a linguistic unit that practices that specialised communication flow. The 20 procedures with the videos and the accompanying linguistic units are available in 6 EU languages: DT, EN, FR, IT, ES, RO.The interdisciplinary approach is definitely an innovation where the medical content is fertilised by the linguistic approach; due to the inter-disciplinarity proposed by this resource, combined knowledge and skills from the medical and linguistic fields ensue plus specialised communication skills in the domain of palliative medicine are practise.The MOOC approach was a total innovation for all the countries involved in connection to the specialised field of palliative medicine. Added to this the pedagogy specific to technology-enriched education is a first applied to resources from the domain of palliative care. Collaborative learning and evaluation of knowledge and skills, networking and constructivism at the basis of introducing and practising skills for palliation through the MOOC resources and techniques are innovatively applied to a vocational field much indebted otherwise to classic teacher-centred approaches. The project covers the following specific objectives:- Promote stronger coherence between different EU and national transparency and recognition tools and ensure that skills are recognised across borders by identifying, defining and standardizing the palliative medical and nursing skills, which allow students across Europe to be active participants in clinical routine after their first year of medical studies.- Improve the level of key competences and skills, with particular regard to their relevance for the labour market (everyday medical practice), through strengthened cooperation between the world of education and training and the world of work; - Improve the teaching and learning of languages and promote the EU's broad linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness- Develop innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning and eLearning materials which support students both during their skills training and their practical module- Foster quality improvements, innovation excellence and internationalisation at the level of education and training institutions, in particular through enhanced transnational cooperation between education and training providers and other stakeholdersStarting with a partnership of 9 partners from 4 countries having complementary significant expertise and experience both academic (medical: P1, P2, P5, P6; linguistic & training: P3, P8, P9) and in the world of work (P4, P7); the project addresses and have a consistent impact on its direct target groups: - Lecturers & students in Medical Universities- (Foreign) in-service medical staff - Social assistants or other staff dealing with palliative care (hospitals/hospices/homecare)- Language teachers/trainers in medical institutions- Volunteering bodies - Educational centres- Companies active in social corporate responsibilityMain project results are:-Specialized research of medical literature and practice about palliative care in Romania, Italy, Spain and Belgium-Guide of 20 Medical Procedures in 6 languages, topics covered are: Catheterisation; Paracentesis; Automatic syringe; Bed transfer; Conspiracy of silence; Active listening; Communicating news; Spiritual assessment; Nutrition; Oral care; Patient bath; Pain assessment; Pain prescribing; Burn out syndrome; End of life care; Terminal phase; Prevention Ulcer; Awareness level; Patients’ network; Caregivers’ needs.-20 videos with simulation of palliative care procedures-120 language units for 6 languages-2 MOOCs in the fields of palliative care and medical communication-7 Educational Toolkits published on hard copies with DVDs (319 copies)-Project website - http://medlang.eu -1.469 people directly involved by the project activities and other 320.000 reached

"ContextThe Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise ""Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women, young people and older workers"" so to achieve a benchmark of "" 75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 by 2020 – achieved by getting more people into work, especially women, the young, older and low-skilled people and legal migrants"". The achievement of this important goal, that has important implication for the more general objectives of at least 4 of the five headline targets that have been set for the EU to achieve by the end of 2020 as employment; research and development; education; social inclusion and poverty reduction.The project partners identified 3 main needs:-VET teachers need to acquire the skills to train their students on the aware use of Social Media to find job opportunities and develop their entrepreneurial spirit; -companies need to improve the use of social media for promoting their brands-To foster a cooperation between the enterprises and the VET system in order to ameliorate the matching of job offer and demand, the visibility of companies and to promote youngsters employabilityObjectivesThe aim of the YEES project is to foster cooperation between the Vocational Education Systems and the world of work to promote the inclusion of youngsters in the labour market in an effective way using social media and crowdsourcing based tools.Participating organisationsThe YEES project involved: -9 contractual partners of 4 different European countries, including institutions with experience in the development of innovative projects for VET schools and by institutions representing the interests of companies; -30 schools (mainly vocational); -30 companies; -more than 200 teachers of all subjects; -around 4.500 students; -30 companies; -more than 40 associated partners including associations, education centres, business associations, public authorities, Universities. Activities The project’s main activities and related results and impact are:Activity 1) Guides for Teachers and Trainers The project partners created the contents of 2 Guides to be used by VET teachers and trainers with their students to guide them on how to exploit social media and the web through step by step guidelines on selected social media tools available on the net, how to create a good digital reputation for employment as potential employee or like young entrepreneur, on how to promote a company Brand through the web and the social media.Activity 2) Adopt an enterprise – Crowdsourcing practical experience The project partners developed the “Adopt an enterprise – Crowdsourcing experience”. The Crowdsourcing is a production model that utilizes the latest labour-collective work to develop products or solutions to a given problem. Through the “Adopt an enterprise"" experience, students, companies and teachers, duly guided by the partners, developed the brand image of a real enterprise in each country according to a transnational approach. In each partner country, the actors involved in the national crowdsourcing experience were the following: an enterprise, whose digital identity had to be developed, represented by its CEO; 4 teachers in representation of the project partners’ countries: Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain; 4 classrooms in which the above mentioned teachers usually have classes; 1 representative for each contractual partner.Activity 3) MOOC based training course ""Social media for new jobs""Starting from the contents and the materials of the Guides, the project partners developed an e-learning based training package addressed to VET teachers, students and company managers. The course is organized in 3 modules:-Personal Digital Identity-Digital Identity for Companies-Monitoring of Changes in the Labour MarketEach module is organized in chapters and each chapter includes+ a video lesson, a multiple choice questionnaire and a proposal of individual and collaborative activities for students. The MOOCis available in English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. The total duration of the courses is about 30 hours.Activity 4) YEES portal The YEES Portal makes available all the main project outputs produced within the project and is organised in Sections. In addition, each section’ contents are duly introduced, providing to the user all the necessary information and guidance on how to access and exploit the contents.ImpactAs far as the impact of the project is concerned, the YEES project provided:-the VET teachers with the suitable skills on how to train their students on web reputation related issues; -the students with a specific guidance on how to use Social Media to find job opportunities and to develop their entrepreneurial spirit; -the companies with tailorised tools on how improve the use of social media for promoting their brands."

"Zoonotic diseases are ""those diseases and infections that are naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and man with or without an intermediate arthropod (WHO, 2017)"" They have become one of the leading causes of illness and death, negatively impacting commerce, travel and economies. More than a million people die of malaria each year; although malaria is a preventable disease, a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. Each year at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections. Over 23% of dogs on EU are the hosts of dirofilaria, which causes pulmonary dirofilariasis in humans. Therefore, preventing and controlling these infections must be at the centre of public health care policy with a focus on the causes of emergence, persistence and spread of these zoonoses.In an effort to increase the knowledge and understanding of current and probable future public health significance infectious disease transmitted from non-human animals to humans, a consortium of 4 countries (RO, CR, LT, IT – 10 partners from Universities, medical & educational institutions, NGOs & IT centres) proposed the ZoonosesOnlineEducation project. The project aims the creation of open digital educational resources in the field of veterinary medicine based on developing innovative guidelines on infectious zoonotic diseases (selecting the most troublesome); shortcut to veterinary, medical, pedagogical, linguistic and raise-awareness interventions related to identifying, monitoring and controlling malaria and dirofilariosis, useful for the academic, professional & general beneficiaries.This general aim has been achieved through these specific objectives:-the development of a state-of-the-art research on the analysis of zoonoses, including literature research, indirect interviews with specialists, identification of best practices on zoonoses education in each partner country.-the creation of guides and open online course on the main parasitic diseases transmitted from non-human animals to humans, on malaria and dirofilariosis, including videos capturing zoonoses medical situations in simulation centres.-the creation of an open online course on medical communication; the linguistic version of the medical course processed from linguistic, cultural and communication points of view will be available to academics and professionals in veterinary medicine in 6 languages.-the creation of a handbook on health education meant to be included in the school curriculum (focusing on the risks and ways of prevention of the diseases) and piloting lessons in schools. -the creation of a protocol on epidemiological monitoring and disease control in public health practice and workshops with students on integration within the curriculum of medical faculties.Project brings together 5 educational sectors, all with impact in 5 different end beneficiaries groups:- Veterinary medicine: O1 –15 Country analysis on zoonoses state of arts Reports; O2 – 22 Studies on best practices on zoonoses interventions; O2 - Handbook of main zoonotic diseases identified in 4 EU countries; O3 – 2 Guides of main parasitic diseases transmitted from non-human animals to humans on Malaria and Dirofilariosis (in 6 languages); O4 – 2 Videos capturing zoonoses bio-manipulation in simulation centers; O6 – 2 Open Online Course on Zoonoses; O7 – 2 ZoonosesOnlineEducation Kit and 3 types of trainings for students, lectures, professionals & institutions in veterinary field.- Human medicine: O9 – Malaria - Protocol on epidemiological monitoring and disease control in public health practice; Workshops for students, lectures in medicine on integration within the curriculum of medical faculties.- Pedagogy-education: O8 - Pedagogical approaches in health education – Guide for teachers and parents (versions in EN, RO); Didactic demonstrations on health education future teachers, teachers, pupils aged 6-12, parents.- Languages: O5 – Medical communication linguistic resources; O6 - Language open online course for the veterinary medical field, for 6 languages (EN, RO, FR, CRO, LT, IT); for students, lectures, professionals & institutions in languages - Raise awareness – project website and O8 - Pedagogical approaches in health education – Guide for teachers and parents.The focus of the partners cooperation to find solutions to common challenges relies on connecting theory, research and the world of work in the veterinary and public health context under pressure of mobility and globalization; harmonizing the curriculum transversally; encouraging students to develop applied skills that are supported academically by knowledge gained though academic progress and years of clinical experience. In addition, ZOE takes advantage of a media-technology-enhanced learning context and the students are invited to explore the new tools enhancing the quality of the learning process."