1. EU and Nordic Programmes as Didactic Tools for Mobility
WorldSkills 2005 Helsinki
Laura Jauhola,
Programme Coordinator, CIMO

2. Exchanges for trainers
Exchanges for trainers
Leonardo da Vinci
Excanges for trainers between enterprises and vocational training institutions (1-6 weeks)
between enterprises and vocational training institutions with the aim to develope language and cultural competencies (1-6 weeks).
Sokrates Comenius
teachers, language teachers and other educational staff to attend a general in-service or language training course or work place activity of 1-4 weeks
Sokrates Grundtvig (Adult education)
teachers to attend a general in-service or language training course or work place activity
Nordplus Junior
Exchange between teachers
Nordplus Voksen (Adult education)
in-service or language training course or work place activity

3. Placements for students and trainees
Placements for students and trainees
Leonardo da Vinci
placements for people undergoing initial vocational training in vocational training institutions and enterprises abroad (3 weeks - 9 months)
work placements for young workers and recently qualified persons: in vocational training institutions or enterprises (2-12 months)
Sokrates Comenius Language Projects
The exchange phase is reciprocal and takes the form of two 14 day periods spent in each partner country working on aspects of the Language Learning Project
Nordplus Junior
placements in vocational training institutions and enterprises in the Nordic Countries
Nordplus Voksen (Adult education)
placements in vocational training institutions up to 30 days

4. What do mobility programmes aim at?
What do mobility programmes aim at?
Development and innovation
International cooperation
Concrete results for everyday training and learning situations
Long-term improvement of the knowledge base and training systems
Impact

5.
What is Leonardo?
The programme for vocational training and education within the European Union since 1995
Everything from initial vocational education to continuing education and life long learning
Cooperation with working life
31 countries participating

6.
Why Leonardo?
Answers the need to prepare European citizens for entering the labour market, thereby reducing the number of unemployed
Companies need skilled workforce to cope with rapid scientific and technological changes in an increasingly competitive world.

7. Leonardo Mobility in Figures
Leonardo Mobility in Figures
More than placements/year in Europe
Around 3000 projects
Around partner institutions
Future
In the new educational programmes starting in 2007 it is planned to allocate more funding towards the mobility of secondary vocational education and training.
-> up to placements

8. Short and long-term impacts of projects (1/2)
Short and long-term impacts of projects (1/2)
Impacts of the projects on
• Individual level
occupational and professional skills and qualifications
foreign language, communication and intercultural skills
personal and social skills and competencies
• Institutional level
networking - sharing and exchanging experience and
professional knowledge
• adapting new training/guidance/etc. methods in the institution
improving the transnational life of the institution
• increasing the prestige of the institutions

9. Short and long-term impacts of projects (2/2)
Short and long-term impacts of projects (2/2)
Impacts of the projects on system level
Benefits to education system
more practice oriented training programmes
• closer links with the world of work
• gaining and building upon transnational experiences
bringing the policy declarations closer to reality

10. Thank you for your attention!
Thank you for your attention!