Working on Enhancing Liaison and Cooperation in Mobility in Europe
Companies at the front

Objectives

Welcome&co short description 

WELCOME & CO is a Transfer of Innovation project (TOI) involved in the LLP national priority "Support for quality mobility, support for locating host partners, maintenance of partnerships with specific involvement of intermediary organizations".

Main goal 

Contribute to guaranteeing quality standards of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Europe by supporting small sending institutions involved in mobility actions by promoting the active collaboration of SMEs as host organizations, by sharing and systematizing methodologies amongst sending institutions familiar with SMEs and encouraging networking.

Aims 

  • Identify SMEs' needs related to trainee hosting.
  • Establish the bases to provide sending organizations with limited capacity to reach host companies with a database of interested SMEs in the participating countries.
  • To compile innovative experiences and good practices on "Active participation of the SMEs as host partners.
  • To create a network of stakeholders of mobility actions in VET, focused on the participation of SMEs as host partners.

Product to be transferred 

The project will transfer methodology and managerial "know-how" developed by the Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria to promote the participation of SMEs in the project LaborESO, funded by the Government of Cantabria (Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte)

Target groups/Direct beneficiaries 

  • Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) from all economic sectors: Already acting or potentially acting as host organizations
  • Sending organizations with limited access/resources that manage VET mobility projects in Europe
  • The public in general

Aditional information available on ADAM-Leonardo da Vinci Projects and Products Portal