Getting ready for the European Job Market Erasmus Project

Project Title

Getting ready for the European Job Market

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Context:
The idea of the project was developed against the background of high youth unemployment in Spain and Poland. The main aim of the project was to inspire young people to move in the European labour market. The project also contributed to the sense of European community and the European labour market. All project participants have gained intercultural experience both in their private and professional lives and have enhanced their willingness to learn and to work. This motivates them to move in the European labour market.

Aim:
• All students have reduced their inhibitions to move in the European labour market through occupational insights during the mobility phases and have opened themselves up to future professional activities within the EU.
• Prejudices were reduced on all sides and the intercultural competences were promoted.
• Linguistic competences have been developed in different areas and among all participants.
• In particular, intensive friendships have developed between the German and Polish participants beyond the two-year project duration, which will continue to be cultivated.
• Through the industry internships in Salzgitter, the guests have realized that there are opportunities outside their national borders to develop professionally.
• Personal contacts and the generated brochure support interested students in their decision to orient themselves professionally in other European countries.
• All project participants have developed personally because of the project participation, for example in the area of conflict management.
• Cultural-historical visits in each region have contributed to a better understanding of the partners’ cultures.

Participating institutions:
As vocational schools the three participating institutions from Salzgitter, Rawa Mazowiecka and Ordizia have a lot of similarities (occupational fields, age of students, school size, internationalization strategies). This has been an important requirement for the successful course of the project. The schools complement each other in terms of their training priorities and have the necessary contacts to the economy. In the course of the project other institutions were involved in addition to the participating schools.
• LES BBS Salzgitter: City administration of Salzgitter, local press (Braunschweiger Zeitung, Hallo Salzgitter), europe direct, a media center in Salzgitter, local companies (Volkswagen, MAN, Alstom, Salgitter AG, Stoll, Landessparkasse Nord LB), cooperating schools
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Main activities:
• September 2016: transnational kick-off meeting for the detailed planning of the teachers’ project in Ordizia, Spain
• September – December 2016: Preparation and implementation of the first mobility phase in Salzgitter (output: application videos)
• January – April 2017: Preparation and implementation of the second mobility phase in Ordizia (output: European application documents, job-interviews, simulated trial days)
• May – September 2017: Preparation and implementation of the third mobility phase in Rawa Mazowiecka (output: promotional material for the project and Erasmus +, factory tours)
• October 2017 – April 2018: Preparation and implementation of the fourth mobility phase in Salzgitter (output: trial days and final presentation, project brochure)

Effect achieved:
• industrial companies are willing to admit and train interns from other European countries
• level of awareness of Erasmus + has increased in the respective regions
• guest families have opened up for international contacts

Results achieved:
• increased students’ motivation in foreign contacts with companies
• international friendships
• project brochure
• application videos, application documents
• improved language skills
• extension of school partnerships and internationalization strategies
• expansion of personal competences and growth of experience of all persons involved

Long-term benefit:
• new foreign contacts for schools, companies and students
• international project experience (in the areas of planning, implementation and evaluation) of teachers
• Europeanization of school life by e. g. the implementation of a Europe Day
• improvement of contacts with stakeholders

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 68250 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ludwig-Erhard-Schule Berufsbildende Schulen Salzgitter & Country: DE

Project Partners

• GOIHERRIKO HERRIEN EKINTZA
• Zespol Szkol – Centrum Edukacji Zawodowej i Ustawicznej im. Mikolaja Kopernika