<< Background >>This project was initiated following the commitment of 3 of the 4 partners to the European Apprenticeship Ambassador pilot project initiated by Mr. Jean Arthuis, MEP. The tremendous momentum to promote the possibility of long-term mobility in the apprenticeship training curriculum was to continue. MFR Saint Michel Mont Mercure, AFOL Como and Krudy Vocational High School in Hungary, long-standing partners, wish together to promote their vocational training schools and, more specifically, their European initiatives by extending their training programmes with an international focus. To do this, partner Jelgavas Amatu Vidusskola from Latvia, a historic partner of AFOL Como, joined this small group. The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted existing patterns, particularly in terms of training, employment, and has had a significant impact on the mobility supported by the Erasmus+ program. Hotels and restaurants, bakeries and pastry shops, sectors shared by all participants in the project, are really suffering, and even more today, from a lack of trained, competent, adaptable and multilingual staff. Lockdowns, successive restaurant closures, isolation, have accentuated the negative image of this sector of activity and employees have left their posts for fear of the job insecurity experienced this past year. It seems to us that it is essential today to move forward and to revitalize and upgrade the jobs and vocational trainings related to these sectors. For example, in France, more than 90,000 jobs are to be filled in the catering industry for the summer of 2021. At the same time, the numerous reforms of the professional path in Europe are challenging current systems and schemes. The reform of apprenticeship in France and Hungary, the Italian and Latvian desire to increase the number of apprentices, This led us to reflect on a European partnership project which would meet the expectations and guidelines of the different national contexts and which would also meet the needs of these companies. The modularisation of pathways and the validation of formal, informal and non-formal skills are at the heart of our project. The European mobility of apprentices or alternance students consolidates, supports our common desire to learn differently. The mobility of young people brings not only professional skills but also skills of openness, culture, languages and respect, essential skills to create a strong and shared European identity and support an active and effective Europe of Education. In this sense, we are convinced that offering mobility training within Vocational Training Centres can only add to the attractiveness of integrating such training and thus enable professionals to employ adaptable and competent employees.<< Objectives >>Following a finding shared by the members of the partnership, the vocational training system in Europe needs to improve its image and above all to offer attractive and quality training. The educational system of alternance and the internationalisation of its training offers appear as strategic levers of development. The project will concern the catering and bakery-pastry sectors, common sectors to the members of the partnership, which, by its intrinsic characteristics, have a strong predisposition to staff mobility in international contexts but are currently suffering from successive lockdowns and repeated closures. Hiring professionals alongside us will enable us to support the strong need to involve all actors in the training of young people.<< Implementation >>With this application, we want to design and develop a modular international training course around oeno-gastronomy. This school/company training will take place in the different partners countries : Italy, Hungary, Latvia and France. The participants will have the opportunity to discover and understand 4 different oeno-gastronomies and learning English will be another objective. The first expected result will therefore be the development of the training plan itself. The second expected outcome is the development of competency grids and certification tools. It seems to us necessary, in a third stage, to train professionals in the pedagogy that we wish to develop so that they better understand the expectations and the role they have to play in the transmission of know-hows and knowledge , so that they understand more concretely the role of pedagogue that they have to hold. Alternance is built up through a close and trusting relationship between training centres and professional circles. Finally, our greatest wish would be for this training to be recognized by the certifying bodies of the four partners countries. We aim at the recognition of this new training and wish to raise awareness among funders, professionals or academics to participate in the cost for training centres.<< Results >>The expected results of this project primarily concern the 4 vocational training centres. At a time when the professional path is changing and profoundly disrupted by the pandemic, this strong and shared willingness to build together an adapted and European training, will show the dynamism, the optimism and strength of proposals from professional institutions. Highly open to others and the world, the system of alternance training offers a new and relevant face that meets the expectations of the world of work. This partnership project will highlight the willingness of European training centres to meet the training needs of the local, national and European territory. This project aims above all to enhance the professional path system and will demonstrate that it is a path of excellence leading to employment! Fully involving professional actors in this project will also make it possible to create this fundamental link between schools, training centres and the world of work. Aware that the professional path cannot evolve without putting these two actors in direct relation, French, Hungarian, Italian and Latvian professionals will then be able to better consider and consider the essential role they have in the training of future generations.