Enhanced Skills, Competence And Practice for the Economy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhanced Skills, Competence And Practice for the Economy

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: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Teaching and learning of foreign languages; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

• The project ESCAPE is aimed at increasing the skills and competence of the students of the schools taking part in the project. This will be acomplished by joining students in international online groups to work on specific topics. We will also apply for being accepted as a project within the EUSDR (PA 09).
• We compared curriculums from different countries to work out new teaching and learning materials for the subjects English, Geography, ICT, Business Studies, Ecology, Economics and Business Behaviour with a view to creating something like a curriculum for a Business Academy for the Danube Region. We offered students certificates for tasks and competitions they did take part in. We came together at training events where we dealt with 7 topics (transport, energy, environment, education, economy, tourism and employment). We tested the newly developed teaching material both at our own schools and in international groups during training events, and evaluated the outcome with the students involved. We investigated job creation schemes alongside national action plans. The outcome of the whole project should be better job opportunities for our students due to the international approach of the activities

Objectives
• Fostering tourism in each country
• Learning to present assets and a create a positive image of your country
• Getting involved in economic aspects, like promoting package holidays or certain local products
• Learning how to fill in application forms
• learning about job opportunities abroad – where to search for and where to find a job opportunity (e.g.on the EURES portal)
• Increase in language proficiency
• Intercultural learning in an intercultural team
• Support for better integration into the EU
• Raising awareness for people in need and supporting measures for charity projects
• Transfer of educational knowledge by passing on teaching materials
• Learning basic words of language of project countries and producing a basic guide for tourists
• we learned how to fill in booking forms
• we compared curriculums in different countries and try to pass on contents that work well to be adopted by the others. We offer this material also to other schools
• we worked together with local chambers of commerce
• we fostered an exchange of cultural aspects between the countries involved
• each school got in contact with tourist information centres to source information about the region in languages of the partner schools
• During each training event we learned some basic phrases of the local language.
* We established a PR/dissemination group to make the results of our work known
* On top of the multilateral meetings we held one training event just for teachers for special evaluation purposes and job shadowings and future sustainable plans for the time after the project meeting.
* we worked with eTwinning, where we also integrated a school from Ukraine
* we focused on the Danube Region for the cooperaton of further schools from further countries
* by that we wanted to expand our activities beyond current EU countries and link up with candidate countries and others in the region
* we were accepted as an official EUSDR programme project
* we created awareness for the importance of the macro-economic Danube Region
* we aimed at helping integrate economic activities in the region
We communicated by
• Bimonthly newsletters
• eTwinning
• a website created for the project
* email and skype

• Number and profile of participating organisations; 6 funded and 1 linked via etwinning
• Description of undertaken main activities; (see training events)
• Results and impact attained; (see European Project Results Platform)
• If relevant, longer-term benefits.( we have a pplied for a follow-up project)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 256490 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Linz & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Colegiul National Coriolan Brediceanu
• Profesionalna gimnazia Asen Zlatarov
• Gymnazium-Gimnazium, Adyho7, Sturovo
• Ekonomska sola Ljubljana
• Pápai Szakképzési Centrum Jókai Mór Közgazdasági Szakgimnáziuma és Kollégiuma
• Obchodni akademie a Vyssi odborna skola ekonomicka, Tabor, Jiraskova 1615