Activites and Outputs:

IMPACT:
The results achieved by this project will have a potential impact on relevant target groups and across participating partners, thus allowing the establishment of a more systematic, targeted and sustainable VET-business partnerships to set-up or improve work-based learning and apprenticeships at a local and regional level.

Impact at the level of the Apprentices:

• Adequate qualification and work experience to face market challenges according to their interests;
• Increased opportunities to find a job.

Impact at the level of the Companies:

• Benefit from qualified personnel matching their needs;
• Benefit from more targeted recruitments with lower costs;
• Reduce cost of personnel certification;
• Younger, more motivated and innovative workforce.

Impact at a national level:

• National cooperation structures between VET and business which will boost local economy;
• Smoother and better transition into the labour market;
• Improvement of employability and social inclusion of young people in countries with high youth unemployment rates;
• Increase the number of European Welding Practitioner (EWP) and European Welding Specialist (EWS).

Impact at a European level:

• Create a stable Quality Assurance Structure for WBL in the EWF qualification system;
• Continuously enhance the EWF qualifications and its guidelines;
• Enlarge the results obtained to other ATBs and ANBs in Europe;
• Create a European Network for WBL in the manufacturing sector;
• Recognition by the market and its employment;
• Enlarge the results obtained to other European countries (companies, VET Providers);
• Increase the mobility of young workers across Europe;
• Possibility of the project outcomes to be used as a positive model by other industrial sectors “best practice of WBL application at a European level”.