Learning Agreement For Traineeships: The Trainee
Learning Agreement For Traineeships: The Trainee
Learning Agreement For Traineeships: The Trainee
The Trainee
Last name (s) First name (s)
Address Country,
Country code4
Contact person Contact person
name E-mail / phone
Agifodent is member of CECE Granada, a regional network for private and semi public education centres at all levels (early childhood education,
primary,Secondary and VET education). Therefore, the traineeship will be developed in one of these member centres and always under the supervision and
guidanceof Agifodent, and according to the CV and preferences of the trainee.
For guidelines, please look at Annex 1, for end notes please look at Annex 2.
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Learning Agreement form
Trainee's name
Planned period of the mobility: from [month/year] ….……. till [month/year] …………
- The trainee will take part in early childhood and primary education lessons in order
to reach different levels of education.
- The trainee will help in the implementation of the activities done in class such as
teaching and helping children to do their daily activities.
- The trainee will be monitored by another teacher and trained to do the right tasks.
- The trainee will take part in all the activities done in class and taking records of the
students.
- The working langauge must be English.
- The trainee must have a good level of English.
- The trainee will speak only English with the students in class.
Knowledge, skills and competences to be acquired by the trainee at the end of the
traineeship
- The trainee will be innovative and creative in order to be able to work with children.
- The trainee will be able to work as a team and adapt to different working
environments inside the classroom.
- The trainee will learn different teaching methods according to the age and
knowledges of the students.
Monitoring plan
The trainee will be daily monitored by the lead teacher and will recieve recommendations on how to
develop the necessary tasks.
Evaluation plan
The trainee will be evaluated on differente aspescts such as initiative, adaptability, communication
skills, teamwork skills, creativity and organisational skills
using a scale from 1 (minimum) to 5 (maximum).
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Higher Education
Learning Agreement form
Trainee's name
The institution undertakes to respect all the principles of the Erasmus Charter for Higher
Education relating to traineeships.
[Please fill in only one of the following boxes depending on whether the
traineeship is embedded in the curriculum or is a voluntary traineeship.]
The traineeship is embedded in the curriculum and upon satisfactory completion of the
traineeship, the institution undertakes to:
Award …….. ECTS credits.
Give a grade based on: Traineeship certificate Final report Interview
Record the traineeship in the trainee's Transcript of Records.
Record the traineeship in the trainee's Diploma Supplement (or equivalent).
Record the traineeship in the trainee's Europass Mobility Document Yes No
The traineeship is voluntary and upon satisfactory completion of the traineeship, the
institution undertakes to:
Award ECTS credits: Yes No
If yes, please indicate the number of ECTS credits: ….
Give a grade: Yes No
If yes, please indicate if this will be based on:
Traineeship certificate Final report Interview
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Learning Agreement form
Trainee's name
The trainee
Trainee’s signature Date:
The sending institution
Responsible person’s signature Date:
The receiving organisation/enterprise
Responsible person’s signature Date:
Planned period of the mobility: from [month/year] ….……. till [month/year] …………
Knowledge, skills and competences to be acquired by the trainee at the end of the
traineeship …
Monitoring plan …
Evaluation plan …
The trainee, the sending institution and the receiving organisation/enterprise confirm that
the proposed amendments to the mobility programme are approved.
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Learning Agreement form
Trainee's name
Approval by e-mail or signature from the trainee, the responsible person in the sending
institution and the responsible person in the receiving organisation/enterprise.
Name: Function:
Phone number: E-mail:
Name: Function:
Phone number: E-mail:
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Trainee's name
Traineeship title:
Date:
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Annex 1: Guidelines
The purpose of the Learning Agreement is to provide a transparent and efficient preparation
of the traineeship period abroad and to ensure that the trainee will receive recognition for
the activities successfully completed abroad.
It is recommended to use this template. However, if the higher education institution already
has an IT system in place to produce the Learning Agreement or the Transcript of Records, it
can continue using it. The Traineeship Certificate that the receiving organisation/enterprise
must issue may have a different format as well. What is important is that all the information
requested in this template is provided, no matter in which format
How to use this Learning Agreement:
Before the mobility, it is necessary to fill in page 1 with information on the trainee, the
sending institution and the receiving organisation/enterprise and the three parties have to
agree on the section to be completed before the mobility (pages 2 and 3).
On page 1, all the information mentioned will have to be encoded in the Mobility Tool. The
sending institution can decide to add more information (e.g. additional contact person in the
coordinating institution of a consortium) or to request less in case some of the information is
already provided in other documents internal to the institution. However, it should at least
include the names of the sending institution and the receiving organisation/enterprise and
names and contact details of the trainee, the persons of contact and the mentor in the
receiving organisation/enterprise.
The section to be completed during the mobility (page 4) should only be used if there are
changes in the responsible persons or in case it is necessary to introduce changes to the
original traineeship programme. This section and the section before mobility (pages 1 to 4)
should always be sent together in all communications.
The proposed mobility programme includes the indicative start and end months of the
agreed traineeship that the student will carry out abroad.
The Learning Agreement must comprise the number of working hours per week and a
detailed programme of the traineeship period, including, tasks/deliverables and associated
timing to be carried out by the trainee.
In addition, the proposed mobility programme must foresee the knowledge, skills
(intellectual and practical) and competences to be acquired by the trainee at the end of the
traineeship (learning outcomes).
A monitoring plan will describe how and when the trainee will be monitored during the
traineeship by both the sending institution and the receiving organisation/enterprise. It must
specify the number of supervision hours and whether a third party is also involved, such as a
higher education institution in the receiving country. If it is the case, the monitoring plan will
also specify the contact details of the person in charge responsible for the supervision of the
trainee in that institution.
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Trainee's name
Finally, the proposed mobility programme must include an evaluation plan describing the
assessment criteria to be used to evaluate the traineeship period. Examples of assessment
criteria: academic skills/expertise, analytical skills, initiative, adaptability, communication
skills, teamwork skills, decision-making skills, ICT skills, innovative and creative skills,
strategic-organisational skills, foreign language skills.
The sending institution commits to recognise the learning outcomes of the traineeship upon
satisfactory completion of the mobility programme. There are different provisions for
traineeships embedded in the curriculum (obligatory traineeships) and for voluntary
traineeships.
In the case of traineeships embedded in the curriculum, the sending institution commits to
record the traineeship in the trainee's transcript of Records and Diploma Supplement. The
sending institution has to specify the number of ECTS credits that will be granted and the
modalities for setting the grade. These elements are optional for voluntary traineeships and,
recording the grade in the trainee's Europass Mobility Document, is optional for both kinds of
traineeships. However, in the case of voluntary traineeships carried out by recent graduates,
recording the traineeship in the trainee's Europass Mobility Document is highly
recommended.
The trainee must be covered at least by an accident insurance (at least for damages caused
to the trainee at the workplace) and by a liability insurance at work (for damages caused by
the trainee at the workplace). The receiving organisation/enterprise will commit to grant the
trainee a minimum insurance coverage, unless he or she is insured by the sending institution
or himself.
The receiving organisation/enterprise will ensure that appropriate equipment and support
are available to the trainee and it will specify whether the trainee will receive a financial
support and/or a contribution in kind for the traineeship, which are compatible and the
Erasmus+ grant.
Finally, upon completion of the traineeship, the organisation/enterprise undertakes to issue
a Traineeship Certificate corresponding to the section After the Mobility. This document
should be provided within a maximum of 5 weeks after the traineeship to the trainee and to
the sending institution.
All parties must sign the section before the mobility; however, it is not compulsory to
circulate papers with original signatures, scanned copies of signatures or digital signatures
may be accepted, depending on the national legislation.
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Trainee's name
The section to be completed during the mobility is needed only if changes have to be
introduced into the original Learning Agreement. In that case, the section to be
completed before the mobility should be kept unchanged and changes should be described in
this section.
When changes to the mobility programme arise, they should be agreed as soon as
possible with the sending institution.
In case the change concerns an extension of the duration of the mobility programme
abroad, the request can be made by the trainee at the latest one month before the foreseen
end date.
All parties must confirm that the proposed amendments to the Learning Agreement
are approved. For this specific section, original or scanned signatures are not mandatory
and an approval by email may be enough. The procedure has to be decided by the sending
institution, depending on the national legislation.
TRAINEESHIP CERTIFICATE
The Traineeship Certificate will contain all the elements that are requested in page 5. The
actual start and end dates of the traineeship programme must be included according to the
following definitions:
- The start date of the traineeship period is the first day the trainee has been present
at the enterprise to carry out his/her traineeship. It can be the first day of work, or of
a welcoming event organised by the receiving organisation/enterprise or of language
and intercultural courses.
- The end date of the traineeship period is the last day the trainee has been present
at the receiving enterprise to carry out his/her traineeship (and not his actual date of
departure).
Following the receipt of the Traineeship Certificate, the sending institution commits to issue
a Transcript of Records if the traineeship was embedded in the curriculum or if it had
committed to do so before the mobility. The sending institution will provide to the trainee
the Transcript of Records normally within five weeks and without further requirements than
those agreed upon before the mobility. Therefore, when it was foreseen to recognise the
traineeship with a certain number of ECTS, there should not be further requirements in this
regard; however, the trainee may have to write a final report or undergo an interview only
for the purposes of setting a grade (if it was initially requested in the Learning Agreement).
The Transcript of Records will contain at least the information that the sending institution
committed to provide before the mobility in the Learning Agreement (a record of it in a
database accessible to the student is also acceptable).
In addition, the traineeship will be recorded in the trainee's Diploma Supplement, except
when the trainee is a recent graduate. In that case, it is recommended to record the
traineeship in the trainee's Europass Mobility Document and it should in every case be done
if the sending institution committed to do so before the mobility.
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Nationality: Country to which the person belongs administratively and that issues the ID card and/or
passport.
2
Study cycle: Short cycle (EQF level 5) / bachelor or equivalent first cycle (EQF level 6) / master or
equivalent second cycle (EQF level 7) / doctorate or equivalent third cycle (EQF level 8) – for recent
graduates, specify the latest study cycle.
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The ISCED-F 2013 search tool available at http://ec.europa.eu/education/tools/isced-f_en.htm should be
used to find the ISCED 2013 detailed field of education and training that is closest to the subject of the
degree to be awarded to the trainee by the sending institution.
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Country code: ISO 3166-2 country codes available at: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search.
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The list of top-level NACE sector codes is available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/nomenclatures/index.cfm?
TargetUrl=LST_NOM_DTL&StrNom=NACE_REV2&StrLanguageCode=EN.
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The size of the enterprise could be, for instance, 1-50 / 51-500 / more than 500 employees.
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Contact person: a person who can provide administrative information within the framework of Erasmus
traineeships.
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Mentor: the role of the mentor is to provide support, encouragement and information to the trainee on the
life and experience relative to the enterprise (culture of the enterprise, informal codes and conducts, etc.).
Normally, the mentor should be a different person than the supervisor.
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For the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) see
http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/resources/european-language-levels-cefr
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Responsible person in the sending institution: this person is responsible for signing the Learning
Agreement, amending it if needed and recognising the credits and associated learning outcomes on behalf of
the responsible academic body as set out in the Learning Agreement.
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Responsible person in the receiving organisation (supervisor): this person is responsible for signing
the Learning Agreement, amending it if needed, supervising the trainee during the traineeship and signing
the Traineeship Certificate.