Albania is steadily progressing in its accession to the EU. MoMaVET aims at supporting this process, by increasing the capacity of the local VET system and schools to develop and implement strategies for internationalisation, through learning mobility.MoMaVET impacts on two levels: a strategic one: the capacity building of the decision-making Albanian National Agency for Vocational Education and Qualifications NAVETQ, favouring the design, testing and adoption of processes and methods to include international mobility as a part of regular VET curricula. This includes preparing VET schools to be accredited to perform mobilities similarly to the Erasmus+ charters, defining criteria for the appointment of qualified teachers, and methods and tools for the validation of learning outcomes of mobility.An operational one: training “Mobility managers”, VET teachers able to design, organise, implement and assess EU and international learning mobility strategies and activities in their schools.After describing the skills set required for Mobility managers, partners will develop the relevant training programme and deliver it in blended mode to a selected sample of teachers. Training will include the gamification of processes for participating in mobility activities, by simulating on-the-field the issuing, application, implementation and assessment of an “Erasmus+-like” mobility scheme. This pilot will involve NAVETQ staff, 20 teachers and 50 students in 10 VET schools, who will set up and undergo learning mobilities at the workplace in Italy and Greece.Achieved outcomes will be acknowledged with ad hoc issued Open Badges.A handbook for Mobility managers and a “white paper” for the integration of mobility experiences in official VET curricula in Albania will collect and disseminate lessons learnt.MoMaVET is proposed by a strong partnership of Italian, Albanian and Greek organisations, supported by an outstanding set of public and private associated EU partners.

V2V-AL is an Albania country-specific project that aims to increase VET attractiveness and performance through internationalization and mobility, increased responsiveness to labour market needs and skills development, both in IVET and CVET. Despite the key role that VET can play in economic transition, in Albania it remains quite small. V2V-AL project will develop customized and effective internationalization strategies and modernize the offer of vocational institutions through a capacity building process focused on twinning between Albanian and Programme VET providers. The core of the project, capacity building, will be achieved through a critical number of activities - courses catalogues, job shadowing, staff training, coaching, communities of practices, toolkits – focused on key areas such as internationalization, project design and management, dual system/work-based-learning (WBL), guidance. These activities will spill over throughout VET providers’ managerial, organizational, and didactic performance, benefitting staff, students, and stakeholders. Internationalization and mobility are clear drivers for VET attractiveness and performance; therefore, V2V-AL project will pilot short-term and long-term mobility for students and graduates. V2V-AL will also consolidate achievements through companies’ involvement, networking at different levels, advisory boards and workshop with stakeholders and policy makers, policy recommendations and international conferences. Overall, V2V-AL project will promote and improve VET internationalization, dual system/WBL, skills development and employability, and contribute to more secured current and future jobs.It will reach directly 129 staff and students, indirectly at least 800 staff members, 11.000 students and 8.000 graduates. Key project outputs – course catalogue, mobility process guidelines, toolbox, communities of practices, policy recommendations – will be freely accessible to potential users in the project platform.

The overarching objective of CANDI is the improvement of digital teaching competences of Vocational Education and Training (VET) teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Albania (ALB). Under the project lead of German VET school AFBB, 10 partners from BiH, ALB, Germany and Spain together design the CANDI workshop curriculum and develop the accompanying technical realisation. Having worked together on Erasmus+ projects in the past, the Spanish (MCC) and German (FHD, AFBB) partners are keen to share their expertise in training VET professionals and increase their Digital Education Readiness (DER). The well connected and in the VET sector actively involved partners IUS (BiH) and AS (ALB) take on the important role of coordinating many local activities and providing access to relevant local networks. The CANDI curriculum will be translated to Bosnian and Albanian. The Open Educational Resource (OER) will be implemented via a 3-part blended workshop (in BiH and ALB), including face-to-face (f2f) as well as online sessions with VET teachers (at least 40 from BiH and 60 from ALB). CANDI workshop facilitators will be 10 local teachers from 5 partner schools (2 in BiH, 3 in ALB), who will receive training in one f2f and one online learning/training activity to effectively deliver the CANDI workshops. The first Training-of-Trainers (T-o-T) will take place in the Spanish partners’ VET school, where the Teacher Trainers (TT) are given the opportunity to do job shadowing and explore digital technologies. To guarantee the wide dissemination and further implementation of the CANDI workshop design, a Transfer Concept is also developed, which will be introduced to BiH and ALB VET schools at two local Multiplier Events with relevant stakeholders.The TT will also be actively involved in all development processes of CANDI project outputs. Their input, amongst others, will inform the refinement of the CANDI curriculum, its technical realisation as well as the Transfer Concept.

The overall objective of our project CO-HOST is to support the realization of mobility projects between EU member states and WB countries, aimed at the enhancement of skills and competences of VET learners, in order to improve and modernize the VET system in enlargement countries. The project focuses on the topic of Tourism, Marketing and Hospitality, with a strong emphasis on green and entrepreneurial skills. Precisely in countries that are experiencing a rapid growth and social change, development must be understood as sustainable development, in line with the 2030 objectives of the Global Agenda.CO-HOST encourages forms of tourism that respect the environment, local cultures and that contribute to the sustainable development of the territories: it will be particularly interesting and strategic, for VET students and staff, to experience during their internship periods in the EU, the most advanced practices in this field, which are ensured by experienced partners. Therefore, the SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES are:- To share best practices among VET providers coming from EU and enlargement countries, encouraging the involvement of VET providers in EU cooperation and mobility projects;- To improve technical and pedagogical skills of VET staff from enlargement countries;- To improve technical, transversal and soft skills of VET students from enlargement countries, in order to improve their occupational prospects;- To establish Solid National Networks in the WB Countries.