VIRTUAL WORK, a pilot project within LEONARDO DA VINCI

VIRTUAL WORK is one of the pilot projects chosen because of their contribution to the innovation and improvement of the quality of professional training in Europe within the framework of the LEONARDO DA VINCI European Programme, from which it receives support and part-financing.
LEONARDO DA VINCI is a European Union Programme intended for supporting the development of continuous professional training in Europe and promoting a European space for education and professional training.
The main objectives pertain to the development of know-how, skills and qualifications favouring the employability of the population:

• Improving individual skills and competences, especially of young people, in professional training at all levels.

• Improving the quality and the access to continuous professional training, and facilitating and encouraging lifelong pathways of learning for skills and competences.

• Promoting and reinforcing the contribution of professional training to the process of innovation in order to improve competitiveness and entrepreneurship, as well as job creation.

• These purposes aim specially at less-favoured people in the labour market, and to those practices and measures facilitating their access to training, as well as the promotion of equal opportunities between men and women and the fight against discrimination.

LEONARDO DA VINCI's priorities focus on:

• Employability: improving the quality of educational and professional training systems and the quality of vocational guidance facilities.

• Association: promoting the cooperation between training centres and businesses, particularly between SMEs and social partners.

• Social inclusion: promoting the equal access of less-favoured people to training and guidance in the labour market; fighting discrimination.

• Adaptability and entrepreneurship: promoting the investment in human resources as a business strategy in order to develop the adaptability required technological and organizational changes.

• New Technologies: exploiting the potential of new technologies of information and communication.

• Transparency: improving the transparency of qualifications.