The meeting, which was held at Lleida’s Escola del Treball and at GLOBALleida, brought together the eight partners that form part of the EROVET European project.

This project, which is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, focuses on sharing experiences, activities, methodologies and programmes with the aim of improving opportunities for students of Vocational Training to access the labour market, whether working for others or via self-employment.

On 8^th, 9^th and 10^th May, the final meeting of the project was held in Lleida (Spain). This meeting of the Steering Committee was attended by representatives from the eight entities participating in the project. This meeting was used to present the results obtained over the past months, which included the Erovet Job Pool and the Erovet guide on work-based learning. In addition, it was presented the rules and bases for: a European Entrepreneurship Prize aimed at students engaged in vocational training cycles, an Entrepreneurship Label to recognise those vocational education training centres in Europe which stand out for their work to promote entrepreneurship and a Entrepreneurship Business Management Course aimed at students in the final courses of training cycles at educational centres that are partners of the project.

Although these initiatives were initially aimed at students from the 7 vocational training centres that participate in the project, it is also open to any other centres that wish to take part in it.

The meeting was also used to evaluate the project as a whole and also highlighted interest in maintaining the sustainability of the project beyond the end of its subsidised period in order to maintain the Erovet community and consolidate the project.

On this occasion, the Turkish delegation was accompanied by representatives from the educational authority of its Mamak region, which is responsible for 93,717 students, 5,649 teachers and 169 schools, of which 27 are vocational training centres.

22 participants from 7 countries of the 8 EROVET partners have been working together on entrepreneurship.

The 4th Staff Training Activity of the EROVET project was held at Institut Escola del Treball de Lleida, located in the city of Lleida, in the west of Catalonia, from 25th February to 1st March.

A group of 22 teachers, representing the countries that form part of the EROVET project have attended this meeting in order to participate in the training activities; to share good practices and methodologies; and to identify successful cases in entrepreneurial prizes, recognitions for enterprising VET centres and training in the creation and management of businesses. Within this process, each partner contributed the experience of its country of origin.

The central axis of the meeting was entrepreneurship and, more specifically, the definition of the bases for:

• A European Entrepreneurship Prize aimed at VET students.
• An Entrepreneurship Label to recognise those vocational education training centres in Europe which stand out on account of their work to promote entrepreneurship.
• An Entrepreneurship Business Management Course aimed at students doing the final courses of their vocational training cycles at educational centres that are partners of the project.

In addition, during the meeting, there were multiple conferences given by experts on entrepreneurship such as Mr Gorka Bartolomé, CEO of Do-Ceo training, Master Certified Coach and ICF Registered Mentor Coach and Mr Victor Falguera, manager of AKIS International. 

There were also two guided visits to get to know the Parc Científic i Tecnològic Agroalimentari de Lleida (Lleida Agri-food Science and Technology Park) and the monumental complex of the Seu Vella.