CEIMA
Objectives
The project aims to set up and run an experimental interregional unit to promote mobility among apprentices (Cellule Expérimentale Interrégionale de la Mobilité des Apprentis), to raise awareness of the possibilities and encourage and facilitate take-up among apprentices and businesses.
The project’s primary targets are apprentices and craft businesses but other stakeholders should also benefit: the business community (chambers of trade, training centres, professional organisations, partners in the field of vocational training), local and regional government and, more generally, the public at large (families and relatives).
Context of the proposition
It is still true today that too few young people in vocational training have access to opportunities for mobility. Several factors contribute to this situation:
- administrative constraints: apprentices work under employment contracts which leave them less freedom than students,
- lack of information available to craft businesses about the opportunities for mobility open to apprentices: there is still too little mobility among apprentices and craft businesses do not feel involved in the problem, which is seen as concerning only large firms,
- no incitement for companies to enter their apprentices for European mobility programmes,
- no long-term structure to facilitate mobility for apprentices: the only schemes currently available involve collective actions requiring grants obtained through calls for tender under the Leonardo da Vinci programme. There are no opportunities for planning truly individual mobility.
This is the context in which the members of the consortium propose to design and test a procedure for facilitating and developing the mobility of individual apprentices and young people undergoing vocational training and for encouraging craft businesses themselves to contribute to mobility in Europe.
The principal activities planned:
- formalising a network of European partners already involved in the mobility of apprentices and young people in initial vocational training (February 2007: start of programme)
- organising the transnational meetings (February 2007, January 2008) and a transnational conference (July 2008)
- creating promotion and communication media (brochures, pamphlets etc) for apprentices and craft businesses (February – June 2007)
- designing, testing and publicising a European mobility web portal (May 2007 – July 2008) involving: a European database centralising offers (from French and European craft businesses) and requests (from French and European apprentices), a mobility handbook (with help for writing a CV, advice on preparing a work programme abroad and administrative formalities, preparation with languages, advice on preparing for a period abroad, addresses etc.) and a database listing European actions in favour of mobility (ECVET etc.) for apprentices and craft businesses.
- maintaining the portal and facilitating communication between businesses and apprentices (June 2007 – July 2008).
N.B.: The added value of the project is therefore to propose a new tool, simple to access and use, which will be tested, optimised and mainstreamed. The idea is to set up for apprentices and craft businesses the sort of databases that already exist for students and large companies.
Expected results:
In quantitative terms:
- raising awareness among a minimum of 2,000 apprentices and 1,800 craft businesses
- posting a minimum of 60 announcements on-line during the experimental phase
- facilitating contacts from 1/3 of the offers during the experimental phase
In qualitative terms:
For apprentices:
acquiring new skills and professional know-how; improving their chances of employment; reinforcing their language and cultural skills; encouraging them to develop a training cursus or professional career in Europe; acquiring autonomy, open-mindedness and the sense of being European citizens.
For craft businesses:
reinforcing the technical and technological skills of their personnel; incorporating new and innovative methods and/or technologies; becoming more competitive; developing cooperation with other European companies and encouraging communication between the nations of Europe.
For members of the consortium:
improving the professional and social insertion of young people; setting up training schemes adapted to market needs; reinforcing the relationship between Training Centres / apprentices / businesses; setting up a European network for cooperation between training centres; making vocational training more attractive to young people and their families and improving the image of Training Centres and careers involving apprenticeship, at a European level.
Coordinating Organisation:
Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat de Midi-Pyrénées
Contact details:
Ms. Karine Nouvet-Marie
59ter, Chemin Verdale, F-31240 Saint-Jean France
Mail: k.nouvet-marie@crm-midi-pyrenees.fr
Website: www.ap-and-go.eu
Partnership:
- Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat du Limousin (FR)
- CEFA d’Anderlecht (BE)
- Escola Tecnica Professional del Clot (ES)
- Strebné Odborné uciliste Stravedné (SK)
- Ortna Zbornica Slovenije (SI)