PARTNERSHIP PRESENTATION

The project is promoted and coordinated by Sviluppo & Competenze, SV&CO Srl , a vocational training research, consultancy and planning agency of Rome.
The project is realized by a partnership composed by 13 partners among which:
2 research and planning agencies,
2 functional and local departments of the Ministries of Education;
5 Technical and Vocational Secondary High Schools for Agriculture and Industry-handcraft;
2 entrepreneurs associations;
1 European network of Agricultural Secondary High Schools
1 Agricultural research and experimentation Centre.
…. representing 5 European Countries : Italy , France , Latvia , Spain and Rumania

The partnership has been built up in function of the representativeness of each single partner, either in National either in transnational terms, as well as in function of their own institutional tasks and of their possibility to add their specific competences for the development of the project, for the attainment of objectives and outcomes and for the dissemination of results.
In this sense:

• the presence of Educational Secondary High Schools in 3 countries out of the 4 involved (see left menu),
• the presence of ALIM and CONFEMADERA, entrepreneurs associations.
• the presence of 2 research centres of university level (for Italy and Rumania )
• the presence of a European network of Agricultural Secondary High Schools (EUROPEA FRANCE )

will guarantee the efficacy of the experimentation right within each segment of the direct target group of VET operators (teachers, trainers and tutors both business tutor and pedagogical ones).

In order to support the validation and the possible dissemination at a System level of the project results and outcomes, it resulted to be strategic the involvement of 2 functional and local departments of the Ministries of Education pertaining to 2 different EU Countries, Italy and Latvia, both of them characterized by a very interesting institutional mission either because directly involved in the up-dating process of the human resources (educators, teachers, trainers) internal to the systems, either because it is interested to the curricular processes and the certifications.
The partnership organization, in coherence with the reform processes and the programming orientations of national and EU resources, has been structures on the basis of an integrated functional logical, within which the promoter SV&CO has been able to identify and involve on common experiences and competences of different institutions either for areas of interests (school, vocational training centres, enterprises, research centres, public institutions, etc…) either for their juridical status (private and public institutions, social ONG, etc…)
The partnership structure, so articulated, appears to be able to answer to a structural need of innovation of methodologies and tools used for vocational training, through the integrated management of a complex project which finds, right in the integration of systems, the possibility to develop innovative pathways able to guarantee the training success to the target of beneficiaries.

The success of the proposed project strongly depend on and is guaranteed by these factors:

• the existence within the partnership of all the necessary competencies for the fulfilling of the single project phases;
• by a correct function distribution in relation to the possessed competences (as detailed in the workplan) either in terms of the involved partners, either in terms of single professionals and experts involved;
• by the planning of efficient tools for the partnership management able to guarantee the unitary coordination and administration of the project;
• by the planning of shared activities/processes for the coordination, methodological monitoring and quality control of the intervention;
• by the intention to adopt an integrated and coherent set of methodologies, techniques and tools to guarantee the success of the project, with reference, first of all, to the attainment of the proposed objectives.