I am National Representative for Italy in EfVET, European Forum for Vocational Education and Training (1500 members across 22 EU countries) since 2003 and from 2009 I have been serving as member of the Executive Board, supporting the organization on policy and project dimensions. I take part in several VET related Working Groups.

For references: former President Pete Hodgson, phefvet@gmail.com, and current President Santiago Garcia, sgarcia@cece.es

EfVET is active in European policy debate on VET and under this framework has developed various policy statements, including:

- Joint Declaration of VET providers on Bruges Communiqué

- Pledge to support the European Alliance for Apprenticeship

- VET4EU2 Declaration on the medium-term deliverables of the Riga Conclusions

I have actively contributed to a number of policy forums, including VET Business Forum, organized by the European Commission, and Stakeholders’ Forums in 2010 and 2011, organized by LLL PLATFORM on behalf of the European Commission.

In 1996 I established CSCS, a consultancy company active in IVET and CVET training, research and development, which I run till December 2016. I have directed over 300 training programs involving over 15.000 learners, ranging from IVET, CVET, unemployed across European Member States. I have promoted and coordinated over 80 transnational research projects, involving Chambers of Commerce, Universities, large multinational companies and SMEs, NGOs and a wide range of Associations.

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I conceived and coordinated SKILLMAN, the Sector Skills Alliance in Advanced Manufacturing for the Transport Sector, with key industrial stakeholders including Jaguar Land Rover, FIAT Research Centre and Scandinavian Airlines Systems, www.skillman.eu

For references: Bernadette Forsthuber, Bernadette.FORSTHUBER@ec.europa.eu EACEA Team Leader and SSA Coordinator

I am currently supporting Eurofound as advisor within the initiative “The Future of Manufacturing”, solicited by European Parliament, aimed at analysing the technological trends of the sector and their impact on employment and educational systems.

For references: Massimiliano Mascherini, Massimiliano.Mascherini@eurofound.europa.eu, Senior Researcher and project coordinator at Eurofound

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I have cooperated with EC DG EAC in promoting active measures to tackle NEETs phenomenon, NEETs Conference in Bucharest (2014), German Federal Ministry of Labour (2015); I have been consulting Swedish National Employment Agency and Regional Authority of Sardinia on the Youth Guarantee, devising measures to support NEETs engagement in non formal education.

These are mainly based on transnational mobility initiatives, on which I have been involved since 2006, when I had the pleasure to cooperate with the PwC’s coordinator of the MoVE-IT study on the obstacles on learning mobility in IVET, providing information for the comparative country analysis and qualitative evaluation of stakeholders’ perception.

For references: Antonio Silva Mendes antonio.silvamendes@ec.europa.eu   (former Head of Unit DG EAC), Francesca Pasini fpasini@regione.sardegna.it  (Sardinia Employment Agency)

- MoVE-IT Publication

- Supporting Regional Government in the conception of transnational dimension of the Youth Guarantee (Sardinia Region)

- Supporting Swedish National Employment Agency within their national active measures for NEETs the introduction of transnational learning mobility actions (UNGA IN)

- Promoting with the European Commission and National Agencies the use Erasmus+ and other national funding programs to support involvement and re-engagement of NEETs via transnational learning mobility

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I am currently cooperating with CEDEFOP under European Expert Working Group on "Learning providers and the EU mobility reinforcing learning attractiveness and employability", aimed at providing recommendations to the European Commission on how to improve current measures and investments in the field of transnational learning mobility. This is a follow up action, stemming from the expert group created by DG EMPL in 2015 as a Platform for European Associations of VET providers. CEDEFOP has established a VET practitioners' Community to further structure its cooperation, discuss and disseminate its work and useful results with a broader audience of VET providers. The role is to provide strategic guidance and feed into general Commission policy, producing concrete practical guidance for practitioners, identify good practice and make use of European activities and results, with a focus on selected themes.

I have launched and coordinated one of the widest networks of educational providers active in transnational learning mobility specifically focused on work placements abroad. Europemobility Network membership reached over 300 organizations from 20 countries, representing 600K learners and over 15.000 mobilities on annual basis.

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For DG GROW, I have coordinated since 2009 one of the most successful Consortium under Erasmus for Young Entreprenuers, providing good visibility and relationships with EC and over 160 antennas of the programme, ranging from Chambers of Commerce, Technological Parks, Business Associations and Representatives, Investors across all member states. I was invited by EC to present the EYE Programme at European Parliament in Strasbourg  (2015) and to join their Task Force to scale up the programme (2016).

For references: Katerina NEJDLOVA Katerina.NEJDLOVA@ec.europa.eu (current EYE Programme Officer at DG GROW) and Christian Weinberger Christian.Weinberger@ec.europa.eu (EYE Programme initiator at DG GROW)

2014 awareness raising workshop at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, promoting entrepreneurship

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I support ENEGAN, a national Energy Trader in Italy, in the fields of smart buildings, smart mobility.

I develop educational (digital) solutions for the sales force and employees and 

For references: Giovanni Pucci, g.pucci@enegan.it, Commercial Director

www.enegan.it     |       www.eneganacademy.it

In the energy field I am supporting ENEGAN to establish transnational bridges with similar strategic players , mainly within Climate-KIC funded by the European Institute of Technology.

For references: Arianna Cecchi, arianna.cecchi@climate-kic.org, Innovation Lead Climate-KIC

www.climate-kic.org

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I cooperate with IUL, the Italian Public Online University, founded by Italian Ministry of Education, via its innovation agency INDIRE, and University of Florence, developing educational programmes for continuous professional development for teachers and trainers.

For references: Fausto Benedetti, f.benedetti@indire.it, Director at IUL

www.iuline.it

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