24 VET Students Complete a 4-Week Internship Program in Barcelona

IES Técnico de Formación, a vocational training centre in Germany, had approved Erasmus+ KA122 funding for a group mobility to Barcelona but lacked a local hosting partner. They contacted Piktalent looking for a provider who could handle everything — from company matching to accommodation to compliance documentation.

Piktalent's team began with a detailed needs assessment: 24 students across automotive and IT programmes, each requiring placements matched to their VET curriculum. Within 6 weeks, the team had identified and signed agreements with 12 host companies across Barcelona, ranging from automotive workshops to software development firms.

During the 4-week programme, every participant received weekly check-ins from Piktalent's local coordinator. Issues — from a housing maintenance request to a student needing a company rotation — were resolved within 24 hours. The orientation session on day one covered Spanish workplace norms, public transport, emergency contacts, and cultural tips.

The result: 100% completion, positive evaluations from every host company, and a coordinator who immediately booked the next cohort. The institution praised the 'single point of contact' model that eliminated the usual back-and-forth with multiple local providers.

Documentation-side, Piktalent delivered the full KA122 audit pack at the end of the mobility: 24 signed Learning Agreements, host attendance registers, individual evaluation reports, Europass Mobility documents and a consolidated cohort report mapped to the institution's project objectives. The German coordinator reported that the dossier was accepted by their National Agency without a single follow-up question — uncommon for a 24-participant group mobility and the main reason the partnership was renewed for the following academic year.