Develop skills, enhance employability. If you are responsible for vocational training or professional development, Leonardo can help you dramatically improve the potential of your organisation, your employees and your learners through a range of European opportunities.
Leonardo opens up new avenues for skills and training by enabling you to meet and work with organisations with similar ambitions to your own. Together with your European partners you can involve learners and staff in an exciting range of opportunities and raise the standard of training provision for all.
To find out more about the different activities please visit the Leonardo website.
Leonardo is for organisations involved in vocational education and training.
Examples of people taking part in the Leonardo programme include:
- Employees looking for professional development opportunities
- Trainees and apprentices seeking a unique experience working abroad
- Managers involved in developing training provision in their company or organisation
Organisations can apply for funding to offer opportunities to their staff and learners.
If you are interested in improving the quality of training in a particular area, Leonardo can fund you to:
- Visit potential partners in Europe to discuss possible areas for collaboration
- Set up a small-scale partnership with other European vocational education and training providers to share expertise and experience on issues of mutual interest
- Share successful approaches and develop new training courses as part of a large-scale Co-operation project
Alternatively, if you’re looking to offer your employees or trainees, apprentices or learners exciting new development opportunities, you could set up a work experience programme.
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Leonardo offers a range of activities (also referred to as ‘actions’), which allow you to develop different types of European projects.
Mobility Projects – Enhance skills through exchange and placement programmes
Partnerships – Share knowledge and improve training provisions
Transfer of Innovation – Share innovative approaches to training within a specific area
Before you apply, you will need to have a more detailed understanding of these activities. Visit the Leonardo website to find out more.
Leonardo Mobility
Engineering apprentices from East Wales have enhanced their professional skills in papermaking whilst undertaking work placements in Germany, thanks to a Leonardo Mobility project coordinated by Deeside College.
During the two week placements, the group of ten apprentices had hands on experience of the latest paper production methods alongside the opportunity to increase their language and cultural awareness skills. When they returned they had a wealth of new ideas that they were able to introduce back into their workplace.
The added value of the European work placement has also been recognised by their employer “I feel that in this day and age, with companies being more international, the opportunity for young engineering apprentices to be given the possibility to travel to different cultures is immense. They are able to see at first hand the different working methods, albeit the same company. The experience they receive gives them all a good social grounding for their future development.” (John Frodsham, Technical Training Engineer, UPM-Kymmene (UK) Limited)
“I have gained in confidence since being in Germany because I had to work with new people on new subjects in a totally new environment. I can apply the new work and personality related skills when back in the UK and I believe these skills will support me in my future career.” (Luke Kerrigan, Apprentice, Kimberly-Clark)
Leonardo Mobility projects can help you provide staff, students, apprentices, job seekers or trainees with a unique opportunity to enhance their skills on a work placement in another European country.
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