“Journeying abroad provides for every person a school of training and experience of the most manifold nature and is for the craftsman and tradesman all the more indispensable in that only through his own observation of alien conditions and circumstances can he make comparison with such as are familiar to him, thereby forming a correct perception of truth, beauty and usefulness and at the same time educating himself as an individual and craftsman. Exemption from the obligation of journeying may only be granted on the most imperative grounds”.
General Crafts and Trades Law
German Crafts and Trades Congress
Frankfurt - 15 August 1848
Vocational education and training has a key role in supporting the aims of the Europe 2020 strategy. This strategy makes clear that it’s fundamental to encourage more workplace learning experiences, a closer collaboration and partnerships between public services, education and training providers and employers, at several levels and a greater validation of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal contexts.
The Go&Learn initiative offers the chance to access an international catalogue of training seminars and/or guidance visits aimed to the discovery of local economic fabrics and to the propagation of knowledge. It is aimed to build a local and international frame that can help to solve some of the following essential problems:
G&L modules will create an original new perspective and a new frame of relationships between schools and companies as well as between informal/non-formal learning. The G&L initiative will search and develop operative solutions in three directions:
1. Exploiting the training role of SMEs, as there is the need of a “formalization” of the non- formal learning
2. Fostering mobility for students and workers
3. Linking tourism to guidance and the discovery of local economy