I Tekno Positiv Erasmus Project

Project Title

I Tekno Positiv

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The “I Tekno Positiv” project is the fruit of a cooperation between three establishments, one French, one Croatian, and one Italian high school that specialize in business management. The hope is that the students enrolled in their Technological schools will be able to participate in a project that focuses on discovering the societal role companies play in Europe by visiting these same businesses.
Essentially, the partner schools noticed several things . First, to foster the acquisition by their students of the necessary skills to remain competitive in the 21st century, they needed to have a more European and international perspective. Secondly, because of their socio-economic backgrounds, pupils enroled in their technological highschools had a limited access to international perspectives. Thirdly, the KA229 projects offered to their schools often had little to do with the technical study of business management that the students were studying (such as business strategies, marketing, supply chain mangement…).

Thus, there are three objectives :

-The acquisition of skills relevant to the 21st century, such as developing their abilities in English, developing their business management knowledge (for example, how a company works and its responsibilities regarding society), history, and their own national linguistic traditions, as well as skills like creativity, autonomy, self-confidence, collaboration, non-verbal communication, speaking to management, public speaking skills, group-work, and the knowledge of the tools to telecommute,
-Putting forward the professional development of both students and educators as socially responsible European actors; bringing awareness to their social responsibilities and to socially responsible business practices.The students are already keyed into the movements of their time (gender equality and climate change for example) and it is important to have them become capable to have an impact on these issues once in the workforce.
-Reinforcing what it is to be an European citizen through an active collaboration with apprenticeship programs, discovering the “other”, and discovering diverse national legacies.

The project will involve 23 Italian, 23 French, and 25 Croatian students, alongside 6 accompanying foreign language and Economy and business management educators. The French students are in their sophomore year of General and Technological high school and, during the second year, will be juniors in STMG (Business Management Methods and Technologies).The students who make up the technological school are often from a less fortunate socio-economic background, with capabilities better geared towards interaction and communication, and who later will generally pursue a diploma from an IUT (University Institute of Technology) or a BTS (a technician certificate) oriented towards the business world. The Italian, who are sophomores, are oriented towards working in the hospitality sector, both in hotels and tourism and come from a less fortunate socio-economic background thereabouts of Rimini. The Croatian students are oriented towards tertiary level jobs in companies (things like accounting, sales, and middle management). They come from rural areas in the region of Čakovec. Some come from the minority Romani ethnic group and are supported in their academic careers by their families that are rural, and often composed of agricultural laborers.

Description of activities:
The activities of this study abroad will consist of cultural discoveries and on-site meetings with the upper management of companies supported by research and several presentations made beforehand, for example summaries of the companies and questionnaires made by the students, followed by various exercises to recap like exposes, reports, quizzes, or even documentary-style videos focused on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The methodology, that will bring to fruition the project, will be used by 7 transnational groups, made up of the students, on a eTwinning twinspace and will help develop four key skills :
– exchanged-based cooperation and sharing;
– the ability to critically analyze about the information one receives;
– communicating using all available tools of language (verbal/written/non-verbal communication);
creativity, because, thanks to being an active participant in the project. they will discover different ways of teaching and Learning.

In the short term it is expected that students will be more invested in their language and management courses, with the expectation the students arrive at the B2 level (CECRL) in English. In the medium term, the project should help pupils orient themselves towards the appropriate studies in partner institutes. The long-term benefits of the “I TEKNO POSTIV” project is to make these youths aware of the international stage and lead them to further studies abroad, via programs such as Erasmus +.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98600 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC TEILHARD DE CHARDIN & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO TECNICO STATALE PER IL TURISMO MARCO POLO
• Ekonomska i trgovacka skola