The S.T.R.E.E.T. project, started on the 1st September 2015 and ended on the 31st August 2018 and had the aim to define a new professional profile, Expert in Sustainable Mobility and Tourism, focused on two main fields: alternative mobility and sustainable tourism, which are opportunities for economic growth, local development and employment. The partnership included a Vocational Education Training Centre from Italy, a company in the transport sector from Italy, a Municipality from Slovenia, a consultancy in Sustainable Transport from the United Kingdom and a cooperation network of 25 municipalities with a touristic vocation in six alpine EU countries.The Project Idea: the general context in which the project took its idea was the need of a more integrated territorial development, taking into account peripheral and scarcely populated areas. These areas need to enhance their accessibility, foster entrepreneurship and enhance jobs creation, building strong local capacities. Thus, an effective mobility management could play a crucial role facing this territorial challenge.Nevertheless, although the profession is generally focused on urban contexts it can be re-qualified in terms of competences and expertise, tailoring on specific mobility needs of peripheral and mountain areas.Marginal areas can rely on tourism considered as a fundamental driver to maintain the economic activity of these territories. Strictly intertwined with the mobility field, tourism can trigger a sustainable economy based on the ecological capital, the agriculture and forestry field and the entire specific social capital.The new professional profile of Expert in Sustainable Mobility and Tourism, matching mobility and tourism under a sustainable perspective, will be able to work in peripheral, touristic contexts (e.g. Alpine Valleys) improving capacities for jobs opportunities in all EU regions.Another aim of the project was to foster entrepreneurship, in terms of knowledge and attitudes, which represents a key asset for a young person facing the labour market. For a not yet clearly defined profile, entrepreneurship can be an added value enriching basic skills with problem solving capabilities, autonomy and self-responsibility. Enterprising spirit and capability to design and suggest innovative projects and investments ideas are qualities appreciated in all sectors of the labour market, either private or public.The partnership designed and implemented a training programme addressed to young unemployed or underemployed individuals available on the labour market. The training was developed jointly by the partners and it is in English in order to give a EU perspective. The training was on line and also included 4 study visits (“learning activities”) in the UK, Austria, Slovenia and Italy. The courses foreseen by the project were of 2 types: the Basic course and the Specialised course.The BASIC Course aimed at filling potential gaps among countries and participants on basic mobility management knowledge and skills, so that all participants could be considered at the same level. The training programme was available on line and open to all participants.It was accessible via the platform and was also used as a base to select participants for the training activity abroad.The platform had a close access (login and password) so that the partnership could monitor the learners and their participation, and it is going to be open at the end of the project. The SPECIALISED Course was focused on sustainable tourism mobility management in urban and non-urban areas/regions. A significant part of the course was the study visits/learning activities abroad for a group of selected participants (who have attended the basic online course). Learning Activities Abroad: after the online training phase, 21 students were selected to participate infour training activities abroad.The training sessions lasted five days each and were carried out in London (UK), Werfenweng (Austria), Bled (Slovenia) and Torino (Italy). The study visits were practical examples of how different areas with different socio–economic backgrounds approach tourism and sustainable mobility. In each visit there were also lessons on the theme of mobility management, transport and tourism. The partnership managed to teach 21 young people a set of skills transferred by professionals in the fields of Sustainable Mobility and Transport and did it in an innovative way as, thanks to the Erasmus Plus funding , the learners were able to experience the topics directly on the field of the partner countries. They were able to make connections, see real companies working on sustainable mobility and generate fresh ideas for their future profession. STREET used modern tools to disseminate the project and decided, after the end of the project, to open the Learning Platform and make it accessible to all as well as designing a manual (Toolbox) on the theme of mobility and transports issues.

The Eu Sustainable Development Strategy considers the creation of sustainable communities as the way to improve life quality and to pursue a low-carbon economy path. This entails a planning of sustainable local development able to integrate needs of peripheral areas, tackling the Eu polycentric tendency, in order to maintain their economic activity and attractiveness. The starting point is a sustainable local development able to intercept green economy sectors, through a multidisciplinary approach. An approach difficult to tackle especially in non-urban areas where local authorities lack enough resources to train or hire a professional ad hoc. The result is often a fragmented local planning, increasing territorial polarization. Thus, professionals able to design territorial development plans, interfacing with technical and policy level actors, are strongly needed. The professional figure of the EESLD, European Expert in Sustainable Local Development that the project intends to create reply to this demand, also considering that most partner countries show high/medium levels of unemployment both if we refer to young people <25 and age group 25-54. Besides tackling young VET needs related to the job market, the project will analyse, at transnational level, skills identification and validation systems, focusing in particular on the valorisation of non-formal and informal competences, in response to the EC Recommendation 2012/C 398/I asking member states to implement stable systems of validation. To reach project objectives, SKILLeD will implement:-a Curriculum for the European Expert in Sustainable Local Development, defining the transnational standardized profile and a training programme, articulated in modules and learning outcomes to be uploaded on an open E-learning platform.-a Transnational Skills Validation Methodology, including: a tool for identification and validation of non-formal and informal competences; the final exam structure, to be used for the selection of 25 participants that, at the end of the training course will participate to 7 cases studies (one per each partner country) in the form of a working groups activity, applying acquired competences to define innovative solutions in a problem solving approach.-a Toolbox for Sustainable Local Development Expert training path, including a handbook collecting project results, training material and case studies description and solution, then an operational guide for training operators explaining how to build and use a transnational curriculum and the skills validation tool.This means that the project will not end upon its closure, but is designed to become sustainable and continue on a long term through project outputs and results built to become transferable and high quality deliverables that can be easily and widely integrated in other contexts.Two main target groups will be addressed:- VET learners aged 24 to 35, currently unemployed or underemployed, university (human, economics and social science and hard sciences - engineering, architecture, etc.), or High School graduates, including post-school diplomas, and/or VET post-graduates also having sectorial competences or previous experiences on sustainable development subjects. They will be provided with crosscutting and transversal competences, ranging from technical topics to entrepreneurial and soft skills, through an online training course and a work-based learning experience in a working groups activity with the support of 7 experienced mentors.- over 35 persons, experienced in the field of sustainable local development, employed or who intend to re-qualify their skills, benefitting from the Transnational Skills Validation methodology and the access to the online training course to fill eventual gaps.In addition, a wide network of stakeholders will be addressed, in particular:-enterprises, businesses, freelances dealing with local development, green economy, spatial planning, mobility, tourism, etc. who can cooperate with the newly trained Experts to increase their competitiveness, representing a job opportunity for target groups.-territorial bodies, municipalities, local authorities: potential employers and contractors, they can also benefit from national contexts analysis, improving decision-making processes, developing new approaches, policies, etc.-training agencies, universities operators, improving their knowledge on how to build a transnational professional profile and a transnational skills validation methodology focusing on non-formal/informal competences.Eight partners coming from Italy, Austria, Spain, Romania, Turkey and Greece belonging to different domains and dealing with different topics (training, counselling, local development, mobility, tourism…), will cooperate to provide these opportunities to a wide number of individuals and organizations, also through a widespread dissemination strategy.