Learning by doing with EU-DualS

31 07-2017
Learning by doing with EU-DualS

  Alternating school and work within a European partnership

 

CONFAPI Logo  By CONFAPI –  Confederazione italiana della piccola e media industria privata (EU-DualS Partner)

 

 

CONFAPI, the association representing SMEs in Italy, is a partner of the project EU-DualS, which is part of the European Programme Erasmus+ and led by European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME, the European confederation of SMEs. In order to implement the activities foreseen in the project CONFAPI works with the local branch CONFAPI VARESE.

CONFAPI and CONFAPI VARESE joined EU-DualS as they decided to invest on the matching between education and enterprise inspired by the German Dual System model, which has reduced unemployment by facilitating the integration of young people into the professional world.

Through EU-DualS, students of a technical high school in Varese will get training experience by splitting their time between studying in class and working at companies of the CONFAPI System. They then will have the chance to make a vocational internship at German companies associated with BVMW, the German association of small and medium-sized enterprises which is also another EU-DualS project partner.

On June 13 2016, a workshop presentation of EU-DualS titled “Sperimentiamo l’alternanza scuola-lavoro” was held in Gallarate at the technical high school “Andrea Ponti”. The workshop aimed to inform and involve all the stakeholders in the implementation of the project.

In light of recent modifications to Italian educational policies, an invite was sent to representatives of the local office of the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) so they could update the participants about the implementation of the new policies and the important changes happening in the Italian education system. The workshop was attended not only by the institutions and the corporate world but also by students and German stakeholders.

Following the event, students have been attending German language classes since October 2016 in order to be ready for their internship abroad. Companies have been holding a one-day training on the 1st of December 2016.

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