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The BYTE Consortium (Boost Your Talent in Europe–- Mobility Consortium: 2017-1-IT02-KA108-035780) was born as a consolidation and evolution of previous experiences of internship consortia coordinated by the Iuav University of Venice that over the years have allowed a constantly growing number of students and recent graduates to carry out an internship under the Erasmus+ programme.

 

 

 

BYTE consists of 12 organisations with considerable experience in international mobility projects and traineeships programmes. The project leader is Iuav University of Venice and the other sending partners are: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Trento, University of Sassari, Polytechnic University of Bari, Fine Arts Academy of Venice, the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and University of Verona, the University of Bergamo.

 

Moreover, BYTE also includes three intermediary organisations (Eurosportello Veneto, Eurocultura and ESU) that has been involved, since the creation of REACT, in the pedagogic preparation of the beneficiaries as well as in the activities concerning the dissemination of the project.

 

The members of the Consortium work together for the realisation of the different steps of the project: setting up its objectives, spreading the launch of the call, extending the international host partners’ network, monitoring the progress of the project, evaluating it and disseminating its results.

 

 

 

The main goal of BYTE Consortium is to support students, PhD candidates and recent graduates in acquiring relevant expertise for their entrance in the national and international labour market through traineeship programmes all over Europe. This project takes special care of their common needs: gaining practical experience, raising awareness of their organizational, technical, social competences and soft skills and acquiring new ones (self-entrepreneurship and innovation ability), consolidating their language level through direct contact with native speakers; giving their career an added value thanks to an international experience and understanding the socio-economic panorama of Europe.

 

Beneficiaries are supported at every stage of their mobility experience. Prior the participants’ departure, each member of the Consortium provides them with pedagogic and cultural courses as well as linguistic preparation also through the OLS platform. The institutes also help trainees in the administrative procedures and, with the support of academic tutors and the host institution’s mentor, customise for each of them an appropriate internship project on the basis of their needs and academic path. During the mobility, their traineeships are regularly monitored by the institutions that get constantly in touch both with the trainees and the tutors at the host companies.

 

The Consortium also aims at creating new synergies between higher education institutions that have their effects in the exchange and promotion of best practices at all stages of the project.

 

BYTE seeks to highlight the added value that each institute will bring within the Consortium, making the most of their strong points, such as the well-established long-term experience in the management of training, the rich network of international host partners, the close relationship with national intermediary bodies, the special attention to ICT, etc. The intermediary organisations, that are very dynamic in the Veneto region, have an active role in the educational and cultural preparation of beneficiaries, the dissemination of the project and its results and the integration of beneficiaries in the labour market.

 

 

 

The expected impacts of the Consortium affect both beneficiaries and national and international partners. Upon their return to Italy beneficiaries stand out as more attractive in the labour market because they have acquired, thanks to the inclusion in a new operating environment, best practices and new ways of working that can be replicated once back.

 

The positive impact is also reflected in the national partners, the most crucial being the philosophy of "learning from one another”. Best practices and lessons learned from this experience can be replicated also outside the management of the Consortium.

 

International partners, namely the host organisations, benefit from a person within their staff for a specified period with a solid preparation and a strong pro-active spirit (in fact, the motivation has a strong weight to the assessment requirements of the beneficiaries). Host organisations can also participate in other actions or activities organised by the members of the Consortium (info days or recruiting days) and in this way give more visibility to their organisation becoming known to a wider audience than just the beneficiaries of the Consortium.

 

Moreover, at international level, the focus of the Consortium is to create a genuine European dimension in vocational training and to develop methods of certification of skills based on the principles of transparency, where host international institutions have a key role.

 

 

 

By the 2017-1-IT02-KA103-035788 project in the academic year 2017/18, 104 people could take advantage of an Erasmus internship opportunity.

 

By the 2018-1-IT02-KA103-047221 project in the academic year 2018/19, 146 people could take advantage of an Erasmus internship opportunity.