(Portugal) and partners M&M Profuture Training, S.L. (Spain), Innovation Frontiers IKE (Greece) and EUROPEAN CENTER FOR QUALITY OOD (Bulgaria), Promimpresa is pursuing the goal of increasing VET quality.

The main aim of the project is to enhance the knowledge capacity of training mentors in EU SMEs companies, providing work placements for VET learners, and to improve their ability to cope with the challenges they face by equipping them with a specific set of tools for soft skills development focused on ensuring high-quality work placements and efficient conveying of their practical knowledge to VET learners.

Project objectives are:

• To provide these mentors with appropriate competencies and tools to monitor and manage their soft skills performance.The project will accomplish this objective through the development of a soft skills self-reflection instrument for in-company trainers in SMEs, providing mobility placements.
• To meet mentors’ needs of soft skills development for guaranteeing their professional welfare.The project will accomplish this objective through the development of the Enhancing Manual for in-company trainers in SMEs, providing mobility placements.
• To promote the exchange of good practices and to facilitate the effective collaboration between institutions, providing work placements for VET learners, on translational level.The project will accomplish this objective through the development of the best practices compendium, presenting in-company trainers good practices in SMEs,providing mobility placements.