LEONARDO DA VINCI: mobility in the training sector

The community program LEONARDO DA VINCI, which is about the initial, continuing, and life-long vocational training, supports template experimental plans and programs of placement and exchanges within the framework of cooperation between training organizations, Universities and businesses, which usually come from at least three member states.

The placements and exchanges should offer their recipients the opportunity to supplement and improve their vocational training, have access to new technologies, and explore new ways of operating and organizing their work.

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• Young people in the stage of initial training

Young people under 28 years old can be placed at a school or a learning center or a business or somewhere else. These placements can be short term (3 to12 weeks) or long term (3 to 9 months).


• Newly employed or unemployed

The newly employed or unemployed can be placed for a period of 3 to 12 months in a business, learning or training center. Placements will contribute in the acquisition of supplementary professional qualifications or in the completion of a recognized period of professional experience.


• New undergraduates and graduates

New university students and graduates can be placed in a business. These placements are classified in an interstate plan of professional qualifications and within the framework of co-operations between businesses and Universities as well as international training networks.

The following groups can participate in the exchanges provided by the program:


• Trainers, bodies responsible for the implementation and management of training programs between businesses and vocational training organizations or Universities

The aforementioned can participate in exchanges related to the adaptation of initial vocational training to the development of new technologies, to the reforms in employment structure, to the spreading of upright practices and know-how and to the improvement of the collaboration between Universities, training organizations and businesses.


• Personnel of businesses, Universities or training organizations

They can participate in programs, which allow trainers with a short experience of new technologies to be placed in a small medium business; they can also participate in programs that provide managers of manpower or training, experts on development issues and new technologies’ applications, and managing executives of small medium businesses with the opportunity of getting supplementary training or training at Universities or training organizations.


• Training managers

They can participate in exchanges between organizations aiming at the promotion of the transfer of knowledge and experience between small medium businesses and between small medium and large businesses.


• Language training experts within the businesses’ framework and in language learning specialized institutions

They can participate in exchange programs, which include preparatory visits and study stays and aim at contributing in the exchange of experience within the framework of foreign languages’ training. These exchanges apply in particular to representatives of small medium businesses, professional and sectoral organizations, public authorities, social partners, training organizations/ Universities and foreign language trainers.