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CSCS 2014 Report Business Overview
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ACTIVITIES IN ITALY ................................................................................................ 5
PUBLIC BODIES ............................................................................................................................ 5
Youth Guarantee and transnational mobility ................................................................ 5
Regional Autonomous Government of Sardinia............................................................. 6
Enterprise Europe Network and Chambers of Commerce ............................................ 7
PRIVATE SECTOR .......................................................................................................................... 8
Financial institutions ............................................................................................................ 8
Business support services .................................................................................................... 9
Job placements, apprenticeship and learning mobility ............................................... 9
ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE........................................................................................... 11
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES.......................................................................................................... 11
Sector Skills Alliance for Advanced Manufacturing in the Transport Sector .........11
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs ...................................................................................13
Erasmus+ Official Launch..................................................................................................14
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE .............................................................................. 14
Europemobility Network ....................................................................................................14
Capacity Building for Lifelong learning .........................................................................15
SOS Network .........................................................................................................................16
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES .................................................................................................. 17
Bucharest, 11th March 2014 .............................................................................................17
Athens 18th September 2014 ............................................................................................17
Cagliari 25th -26th September 2014 ................................................................................18
ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE EUROPE ................................................................................ 20
ABUPLUS INTERNATIONAL ......................................................................................................... 20
SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIPS ..................................................................................................... 20
China: Tanjin Sino-German Vocational Technical College ........................................20
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ACTIVITIES IN ITALY Despite the contraction and recession of Italian economy, 2014 have seen CSCS undertaking some interesting developments in terms of relationships with new clients representing new business opportunities. Prospects for both business related support services as well as services to public sector allow some confidence for further developments in 2015. Public bodies Youth Guarantee and transnational mobility During 2014 CSCS has supported the Regional Government of Sardinia to design the transnational measure for the regional investments related to the Youth Guarantee. With a budget of around 60M€, the Regional Employment Agency have proposed to invest around 5% of Youth Guarantee measures in transnational mobility actions, including higher apprenticeships, business exchanges and practical experiences abroad. CSCS has supported this process by a capacity building action focused on transferring on the local context of Sardinia successful examples, good practices and active measures established in other EU countries. Among others, the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, Leonardo da Vinci Programme. 5 CSCS 2014 Report
Regional Autonomous Government of Sardinia
During 2014 CSCS have further developed the longstanding relationship
with the Government of Sardinia in the field of
internationalization of businesses and educational
sector.
Technical assistance services have been further
deployed to widen the scope of activities of the first
ever Regional Centre for Youth Mobility in Italy and
one of the first of this type in Europe, established
during 2013.
MOVE, standing for Mobility Opportunities Volunteering in Europe, aims at
facilitating citizens, especially young citizens, to take advantage of the
increasing opportunities of learning mobility abroad, for personal,
professional and entrepreneurial development.
During 2014, MOVE have supported several youngsters and citizens in
accomplishing a wide range of transnational learning mobility opportunities,
including:
• volunteering abroad
• practical experiences and work placements abroad
• business partnerships between young entrepreneurs and foreign
experienced entrepreneurs.
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Enterprise Europe Network and Chambers of Commerce During 2014 CSCS have joined the successful Consortia of Enterprise Europe Network from Central Italy, composed by a wide partnership of stakeholders as informal partner, coordinated by Promofirenze, special purpose enterprise belonging to the Chamber of Commerce of Florence, in cooperation with Confederation of Industries and Enterprise Association of Commerce from Florence. CSCS by fostering its support to EEN aims at consolidating existing partnerships with representatives of businesses, technological parks and business incubators. During 2014, CSCS has accomplished several initiatives in cooperation with chambers of commerce and business associations in the field of promoting entrepreneurship and providing support to business start-ups in various sectors including tourism, high quality food production, new technologies and design. 7 CSCS 2014 Report
Several seminars, with individual coaching activities have been planned and accomplished in cooperation with business representatives form various cities and industrial clusters in Tuscany, including Pisa, Lucca, Pistoia, Firenze. Private sector Financial institutions The partnership with Cooperation Banciare pour l’Europe, the Italian representation in Belgium of 12 financial institutions form Italy, has enabled CSCS during 2014 to foster its activities in promoting financial support to learners, particularly university students, to accomplish transnational learning mobility schemes, developing entrepreneurial skills and promoting start-ups. A number of seminars and individual coaching activities have been accomplished on the premises of prestigious universities, such as Naples II, explaining procedures and approaches facilitating access to credit to youngsters and young entrepreneurs. Banca Piacenza and Banca di Credito Popolare, have continued to cooperate with CSCS to promote their financial products, such as personal loan with 8 CSCS 2014 Report
special conditions, supporting internationalization activities of youngsters and young entrepreneurs. Business support services CSCS have continued to offer in 2014 a number of business support services especially oriented toward young entrepreneurs wishing to set up their own company. Over 350 potential young entrepreneurs have received technical assistance and b business support services from CSCS and its partners. Services range from business plan development, access to finance, support in internationalization, support in innovation and technology transfer. Services are provided both with internal resources as well as the wide network of national partners ranging from technology parks, finance operators, development agencies. During 2014 CSCS provided technical assistance for business plan development adopting blended approach which combines face to face sessions with online activities, managed via CREBUS e-learning platform, jointly developed in cooperation with Faculty of Economics of Bucharest University. Job placements, apprenticeship and learning mobility CSCS provides support to SMEs and industries in selecting trainees from Italy and from all over Europe to implement ad-hoc projects, related with their strategic objectives and operations. During 2014 CSCS registered an increase of volume of hosting activities facilitating the match between foreign learners with technical qualifications with local businesses, mainly with small and medium sized enterprises. Prospects for coming years are positive due to planned increased in volume of transnational learning mobility activities in connection with: 9 CSCS 2014 Report
• Erasmus+, foreseen over 40% increase of budget till 2020 with
around 60% of financial resources dedicated to mobility
• Youth Guarantee and NEETs, with transnational measures being
funded both at European and national level via ESF
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Projects and activities
Sector Skills Alliance for Advanced Manufacturing in the
Transport Sector
During 2014, CSCS has signed a 3 years contract with EACEA, the Education
Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission, to
coordinate and implement a Sector Skills Alliance on Advanced
Manufacturing for the Transport Sector.
“Sector Skills Alliances are transnational projects drawing on evidence of
trends in a specific economic sector and skills needed in order to perform in
one or more professional fields. Sector Skills Alliances work to design and
deliver joint vocational training programmes and teaching and training
methodologies. A particular focus is to be put on work-based learning,
providing learners with the skills required by the labour market. Sector
Skills Alliances also put the EU wide recognition tools into practice.”1
The Sector Skill Alliance for Advanced Manufacturing in the Transport Sector
represents the one-stop-shop providing state of the art solutions to
competencies and skills needs faced by the automotive, aerospace and train
industries. The Sector Skills Alliance is promoted by a network of leading
1
Compendium published by EACEA, https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-
plus/library/sector-skills-alliances-selected-projects_en
11 CSCS 2014 Reportorganizations, including Jaguar Land Rover and SAS, Scandinavian Airlines Systems, in cooperation with research centres and accreditation and regulatory bodies. These key players cooperate with educational providers to detect skills needs and jointly design educational programmes in line with current and emerging technologies. The Observatory on Advanced Manufacturing for the Transport Sector focus its research activities and yearly outlook on labour market intelligence and on the requirements for educational programmes around three key domains or problem areas: • energy performance of production processes and of end products; • advanced processes and robotics; • advanced combined materials; • infotechment and the use of ICT and wireless technologies. Each participating country foresees a threefold partnership with three typologies of organizations: industry representative, educational providers and accreditation bodies. The partnership is composed by worldwide industry leaders in their economic sector who cooperate with national educational and accreditation partners: CSCS (IT) Centro Ricerche Fiat scpa (IT) Associazione Tecnica dell'automobile Consulting & Solutions srl (IT) 12 CSCS 2014 Report
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IT) Cepas - Certificazione delle Professionalita e della Formazione (IT) Birmingham Metropolitan College (UK) Jaguar land rover limited (UK) Excellence, Achievement & Learning ltd (UK) Teknisk Erhvervsskole Center (DK) Scandinavian Airlines System Sas Consortium (DK) Industrens Uddannelser (DK) Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs CSCS is leading in 2014 the top performing Consortia under EYE Programme, funded by DG ENTR of the European Commission. During January 2014 CSCS concluded successfully contract under Cycle 4 as one of the top performing consortia, started new contract under Cycle 6 in February. Furthermore, CSCS successfully applied for Cycle 7 as official letter of approval of Cycle 7 have been received in November and formalization of contract is currently in progress. The EYE Consortia led by CSCS under Cycle 6 of Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme was the first attaining the contractual objectives, consisting in 160 successful relationships. 13 CSCS 2014 Report
Erasmus+ Official Launch CSCS was invited by the European Commission to contribute to a very special event, the ceremony for the official launch of the Erasmus+ Programme, under the Greek Presidency of the European Council. The event took place on the 16th of January within the Academia and CSCS had the opportunity to present the activities accomplished to support transnational learning mobility and particularly under the framework of Europemobility Network. International communities of practice Europemobility Network CSCS have successfully overcome the initial objective of establishing an international community of mobility coordinators responsible for 15.000 transnational learning mobility exchanges per year. Europemobility Network is now one of the most representative and wide networks of learning mobility across Europe. The aim of Europemobility Network is to foster cooperation between business world and educational providers from Higher Education, VET and non formal education sector, in the perspective of facilitating integration of learners into SMEs and industries. 14 CSCS 2014 Report
Europemobility Network currently is composed by over 300 members in 31 countries, representing over half million learners and 19.000 exchanges per year. A number of publications have been published on official web site and made available for free download, promoting quality and quantity in work placements abroad. Furthermore, awareness raising campaigns are promoted on yearly basis via the European Video Contest for Mobile Learners. Capacity Building for Lifelong learning During 2014, CSCS have fostered and further expanded one of the main international communities focusing on capacity building and lifelong learning. The approach adopted has been on promoting access to and exploitation of the outcomes and tools developed by the over 8 billion euro investment from the European Commission and a wide range of public and private stakeholders across Europe, within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme. The three dimensions identified for capacity building are: • Individual 15 CSCS 2014 Report
• Organizational
• Legal framework
Know-how and methodology to support capacity Capacity Building for Lifelong Learning Programme
method
building processes based on lifelong learning GUIDEBOOK
programme resources have been formalized
within the Guidebook published and made
available both in hard copies as well as in PDF
format from project web site.
A number of innovative pilot actions, promoting
social, economic or educational development, at
local, regional or national level, have been
implemented under coordination and technical Human development can be driven with past experiences valorisation and all level stakeholders have available
lifelong learning programme results as a fundamental to improve their competence and ideas in any kind of
initiative
assistance by CSCS and the partners of the CB4LLP
Consortia.
SOS Network
CSCS is one of the promoters and founders of the SOS Network launched in
2014, following an European project carrying the same name:
www.sosnetwork.eu
The SOS Network, is an international community for teachers, trainers,
employers, counsellors, carers and students to meet and share knowledge
on how to help learners and citizens succeeding with education and access
to the labour market, how to fight early school leaving and decrease the
number of NEETs.
16 CSCS 2014 ReportInternational conferences Bucharest, 11 th March 2014 CSCS was invited to contribute to the international conference “Keeping Young People in Employment, Education and Training: Common Challenges, Shared Solutions” organized by the European Commission and the Romanian Ministries of Labour and of Education. The conference was showcasing successful experiences and initiatives targeting at NEETs and depicting how the public authorities, educational providers and businesses may cooperate in reducing this phenomenon in Europe. CSCS delivered a presentation and actively cooperated within the workshops. For more information: http://www.neets-conference2014.ro/ Athens 18 th September 2014 The International Conference on Capacity Building, held in Athens on 18th September 2014, have secured a wide participation from high level stakeholders, involved in capacity building processes both at political, institutional as well as at operation level. 17 CSCS 2014 Report
The conference programme has been enriched by the contributions of key players including, among others, the Greek Ministry of Education, European Training Foundation, the German investment agency GIZ, the Greek National Agency for Erasmus+, Jaguar Land Rover. A wide number of capacity building processes have been showcased within the workshops and the Capacity Building market place. Over 180 delegates have registered from 32 countries. Cagliari 25 th -26 th September 2014 Following successful editions of the International Conference in 2012, held in Paris, and in 2013 in Brussels, the 2014 edition of the International Conference have been conceived to serve as an opportunity for players and stakeholders from different fields, active in learning mobility, to meet and learn from each other. The 2014 edition of the International Conference has received the high patronage of the Italian Representation of the European Commission, the patronage of the Regional Government of Sardinia and the patronage of ISFOL, Italian National Agency for Erasmus+. 18 CSCS 2014 Report
CSCS adopted a multilevel and multidimensional approach, which allowed
the participation of various stakeholders responsible for high level mobility
programmes:
• IDA Programme, presented by the German Federal Ministry of Labour,
with 148M€ investment
• UNGA IN, presented by the Swedish National Employment Agency,
with 6,5M€ investment
• Your First EURES Job of DG EMPL, presented by Aarhus Employment
Office, with 5M€ annual investment
• Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, presented by European
Commission DG ENTR, with 4M€ annual investment
• Youth Guarantee Transnational Measures of Sardinia Government,
presented by Regional Employment Agency, with 3M€ investment
The 2015 Europemobility International Conference has been
launched, it will be held in Istanbul on 12-13 June 2015 and call for
papers and pre-registrations online forms are published online.
19 CSCS 2014 ReportACTIVITIES OUTSIDE EUROPE ABUplus International During 2014, CSCS has invested energies and resources to develop and expand the activities of ABUplus International GmbH. Following successful cooperation as from 2009 capacity building project in Mongolia, CSCS had the opportunity to acquire the assets of ABU Consult, declared insolvent by the Berlin Court in May 2013. The new company ABUplus International GmbH, established 2013 in Berlin, have seen interesting developments in partnerships during 2014. During 2014 the business partners from Sweden and from Basque Country have fostered their efforts to acquire contracts with international donors outside Europe focused on consultancy, business development and educational capacity building. CSCS have supported the process to re- establish positive relationships with former clients of ABU Consult while promoting new initiatives under upcoming calls for proposals. Sustainable Partnerships CSCS has formalized in 2014 sustainable partnerships with key stakeholders outside Europe to expand business relationships and opportunities. China: Tanjin Sino-German Vocational Technical College During 2014, a delegation of the Tanjin Sino-German Vocational Technical College visited CSCS headquarters in Pistoia and formalized a cooperation agreement finalize to establish cooperation in research activities, educational business partnerships and mobility of both learners and staff. During the visit Mr Crisonà introduced the Chinese counterpart to public authorities in Tuscany Region. The workshops allowed to showcase various 20 CSCS 2014 Report
activities accomplished for the European Commission, including capacity building and business exchange programmes. Among the main areas of interest CSCS and the Tanjin partners discussed possibilities to experiment a collaborative Sino-European partnership, to raise quality and quantity of exchanges and cooperation between China and Europe. 21 CSCS 2014 Report
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