Internationale Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen der Einführung der deutschsprachigen Wirtschaftslehre am Deutschen Gymnasium Kadriorg in Tallinn Erasmus Project

Project Title

Internationale Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen der Einführung der deutschsprachigen Wirtschaftslehre am Deutschen Gymnasium Kadriorg in Tallinn

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

On September 1 2014, the school introduced a new profile – specializing in Business management in German – to offer pupils in grades 10 to 12 a greater practical relevance to the German language, thereby increasing their motivation to learn German. It is also important to improve the career prospects of young people, to prepare them for work in German companies in Estonia and in Germany and thus to counter the unemployment of young people in Estonia. The exchange of pupils enhances the willingness of pupils to promote mobility within Europe, deepens intercultural awareness and aids the improvement of foreign language skills. Internships in German companies should also have a positive impact on the career opportunities of the pupils, especially in a time when the European Union is intensively concerned with the problem of youth unemployment. The Kadrioru Saksa Gümnaasium (KSG) intends to provide pupils with practical instruction to prepare them for the expectations of the labor market. In Estonia, the project is innovative and new because no higher education schools have offered a specialized subject in a foreign language.

In order to carry out the project and to implement the curriculum, we needed a strong partner with profound experience in business education in Germany. We found this strong partner in the BbS Syke Europaschule.

The objectives of the project were:
1.) to introduce the subject with curricula approximating those of the Gymnasium in Lower Saxony to the KSG.
2) Offer 25 pupils from each school an internship in the respective hoist country.
3.) Offer staff training through hospitations as well as accompanying training sessions.

The subject was introduced with the help of joint project meetings at KSG and developed along the lines of the curriculum of the Gymnasium in Lower Saxony for the subject BRC (business management, accounting and controlling). Initially the goal was to enable KSG students to take part in the Abitur examination of the State of Lower Saxony. During the course of the second year it turned out that the students of the KSG were somewhat overburdened with these very theoretical subjects in a foreign language. This was also because the students at the KSG had fewer hours available than the students in Lower Saxony.

Therefore, at the end of the second year, it was decided to go as soon as possible to the curriculum of the Fachoberschule (FOS) in Lower Saxony and to carry out an FOS examination as a final examination. The first final examination for students at the KSG was then carried out in the spring of 2017 by representatives of the BbS Syke, which 6 pupils passed according to the criteria set out by the BbS Syke.

Currently the subject is taught in all three years. 57 students are currently enrolled. The second year will complete its exams in 2018.
The FOS curriculum is better suited to the needs of the students and more easily interlinked with German lessons, so that the latter are better able to support the pupils in their business lessons.

The Kadrioru Saksa Gümnaasium (abbreviation KSG) in Tallinn is the oldest school with a focus on German in Estonia. The KSG is the examination center of the DSD II examination in Northern Estonia. From the German Gymnasium Kadriorg most of the DSD II graduates come from all over Estonia.

The BbS Syke Europaschule serves around 3,000 pupils in various occupations for social care, personal care, housekeeping, food processing, trade and technology, as well as business and public administration. It also offers the general university entrance qualification that can be acquired in one of the school’s specializations. The BbS Syke Europaschule has been collecting experience in trans- and multinational projects since 1997.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 94025 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kadrioru Saksa Gümnaasium & Country: EE

Project Partners

• BBS Syke EUROPASCHULE