• Applicant: Any participating organisation which submits a grant application.

• Apprentice: a person who works for another in order to learn a trade.

• Apprenticeship: the period of time spent working as an apprentice. This is akin to job training that involves following and studying a master of the trade on the job instead of in school.

• Assessment of learning outcomes: the process whereby the knowledge, skills and competences of an individual are appraised against predefined criteria (learning expectation, measurement of learning outcomes). Assessment is tipically followed by certifrication and validation.

• Beneficiary: When a project is approved for an Erasmus+ grant, the applicant organisation becomes a beneficiary by signing a contract with the National or Executive Agency that selected the project. If the application was made on behalf of other participating organisations, the partners may become co-beneficiaries of the grant.

• Company tutor: someone with specific job-related skills and a vocation/commitment to training, someone who is in charge of the development of the intern, in terms of both technical and professional aspects.

• Consortium: Two or more participating organisations which team up to prepare, implement and follow up a project or an activity within a project. A consortium may be national (i.e. involving organisations established in the same country) or international (involving participating organisations from different countries).

• Criterion/Criteria: a standard or principle to judge, evaluate or select something.

• Employer: An employer is the person or organisation that you work for.

• ECVET: The European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET):

is a technical framework for the transfer, recognition and (where appropriate) accumulation of an individual’s learning outcomes with a view to achieving a qualification.

• EQF: European Qualifications Framework (EQF) is a translation tool that helps explain qualifications awarded in different countries and by different education and training systems, and helps compare them. Its eight levels are described in terms of knowledge, skills and competences.

• Erasmus Pro: this is an initiative under the Erasmus+ Programme. This initiative included under Key Action 1 (learning mobility) aims to facilitate and promote 50,000 work placements of 3 to 12 months for VET learners and recent graduates between 2018 and 2020.

• EURES: Set up in 1993, EURES is a cooperation network between the European Commission and the EEA’s Public Employment Services (PES). Switzerland also cooperates in EURES. EURES helps workers and employers who wish to benefit from the right of free movement of workers within the EEA.

• Europass: A standardised CV format, which allows the trainee to present his/her skills and the qualifications gained after the training period.

• Europass Library: this is your free online space, linked to your Europass profile, where you can store files related to your career and studies.

• Europass Mobility: this is a document which describes the skills you develop on a particular mobility experience.

• Europass Profile: this is a tool that can be used by organisations – employers, volunteer organisations, recruiters, guidance practitioners, youth organisations, education and training institutions and more – as part of the support and services they offer to people.

• Grants: subsidies to support the individual’s or the company’s investment in education and training.

• Intermediary organisation: This is an organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training and youth work. Its role may be to share and facilitate the administrative procedures of the sending higher education institutions and to better match student profiles with the needs of enterprises in case of traineeships and to jointly prepare participants.

• Intermediary's tutor: a person at the foreign destination who acts as a mediator between all the involved parties and helps the trainee locally.

• Learning Agreement: This provides for a transparent and efficient preparation of the work-placement so that everything is made clear and understandable to all the parties involved in order to ensure the trainee receives recognition for the activities successfully completed abroad. It mainly contains the Learning Objectives and Outcomes and defines the specific assessment and recognition procedures.

• Learning outcomes: the set of knowledge, skills and competences an individual acquires and/or is able to demonstrate after successfully completing a learning process, either formal, non-formal or informal. These are statements of what a learner knows, understands and is able to do upon completing a learning process, which are defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence.

• Memorandum of Understanding: This specifies the terms of the partnership, the roles of the parties involved and the Learning Objectives. It details the conditions under which the identified learning outcomes from the trainee’s course syllabus can be achieved, assessed, validated and potentially transferred.

• Mentor: the experienced person, acting as a role model, guide or coach, who provides guidance and support to an apprentice.

• National Agency: A body in charge of managing the implementation of the Programme at the national level in a Member State or in a third country associated with the Programme. One or more National Agencies may exist in any one country.

• Organisation: an organisation is an entity — such as a company, an institution, or an association — comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.

• Platform: A piece of technology or software that connects users with other members of a community to create mutually beneficial opportunities.

• Quality Commitment: This refers to the principles under the European Quality Charter for Mobility and defines each project participant’s responsibilities, e.g. the sending institution, the hosting institution and the trainee.

• Receiving organisation (or hosting organisation): the participating organisation which receives one or more participants (apprentices) and organises one or more activities.

• Receiving organisation’s tutor: the one in charge of receiving students/staff from abroad and offering them a study/traineeship programme or a programme of training activities, or benefiting from a teaching activity.

• Recommendation: this is one of two forms of a non-binding EU act. The other form being opinions. Although recommendations do not have any legal consequences, they may offer guidance on the interpretation or content of EU law.

• Regulation: A binding legislative act that must be applied, in its entirety, across the EU.

• Sending organisation: the VET organisation, school or another kind of institution at which the participant is studying or where he/she has recently finished studying. When the sending organisation is also the applicant, it assumes all project coordination and implementation tasks. In the case of a consortium, arrangements regarding selection, grant payments, preparation, monitoring and recognition related to the mobility period might vary as they can be shared among members.

• Sending organisation’s tutor: a project coordinator or a teacher who brings together all the involved parties, handles mobility standards and criteria, and acts as general supervisor.

• Skills: these are the abilities to apply knowledge and to use know-how to complete tasks and solve problems. In the context of the European Qualifications Framework, skills are described as cognitive (involving the use of logical, intuitive and creative thinking) or practical (involving manual dexterity and the use of methods, materials, tools and instruments).

• SMEs: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are non-subsidiary, independent firms which employ fewer than a given number of employees. This number varies by country. The most frequent upper limit designating an SME is 250 employees, as in the European Union. They are defined in the EU Recommendation 2003/361.

• Targeted mobility scheme: The initiative to test innovative methods to implement intra-EU job mobility opportunities and tackle the needs of specific target groups, economic sectors, vocations and countries.

• Tutor: the person in charge when considering the personality, learning needs and preferences of the apprentice being tutored, to create a context or a process in which the apprentice ends up building his/her own knowledge and learning path.