Let’s Make a Deal Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Make a Deal

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Context and objectives: The project idea originates from the needs identified by the coordinator school.Then it was discussed by the partner schools. It was concluded that we all show similarities in terms of our students lacking skills: they need support to turn the theoretical knowledge into meaningful practical tasks. They need real life learning to be able to bridge the gap between the classroom and real life. Marketing students must be equipped by skills and usable knowledge they will need at their wokplaces: the process of setting up businesses, marketing tools to advertise and promote products and services, building up business relationships with other companies, writing CV-s, conducting job interviews as interviewers and interviewees, designing websites, carrying out business online, making business correspondence, negotiating, describing products, preparing questionnaires, making SWOT analyses etc. In addition they need to improve their Business English speaking skills, they have to learn how to stay confident in unexpected situations, how to solve problems, how to make portfolios and reflect on their achievements and failures. The title of the project – Let’s Make a Deal – refers to the process of bargaining, an important element of enterpreneurial skills. Throughout this project we want to facilitate productive collaboration among each partner at the same time increase their career chances in their future profession.
Number and profile of participants: 5 countries – Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and Hungary – will work with high school students between 14-18 years old. In 4 schools (Hungary, Italy, Spain, Slovenia) the students learn business related subjects, marketing and/or enterpreneurship. Starting their own business enterprises is a real opportunity in each partner country, as the rate of unemployment is generally high everywhere. The school in Turkey has immense experience in realising e-twinning projects, so their expertise will be used to promote digital and real life collaboration among partners . The school is now introducing financial literacy in its curriculum in order to make students internalize the concepts of earning and spending money, making investment, risking, starting entrepreneurship.
Description of activities: 2 short-term joint staff training events are planned to work out the strategise we are going to use to realise the aims of the project: students founding companies, carrying out business-related, professional activities by collaborating with their international project partners. 4 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils are planned to carry out the project activities each built around a key element of business strategy from company foundation through establishing business relationships to exchanging products.
1st short-term exchanges of groups of pupils: students learn about job-interviews and they conduct simulation interviews
2nd short-term exchanges of groups of pupils: students found and introduce their companies
3rd short-term exchanges of groups of pupils: students study legal requirements in real business environment
4th short-term exchanges of groups of pupils: students create their company website and company newsletter
Methodology: promoting experience-based learning, project-based learning, collaboration, team spirit, the use of digital appliances and online platforms, working on e-twinning.
Results and impacts: students will develop transversal competencies, practical knowledge about how to set up a business, carry out business activities, pay attention to copyright issues, conduct commercial corespondence. This project also promotes multicultural education, tolerance to different cultural environments and business environments. Students will be equipped by practical, real life knowledge that will complement the theory behind the concept of enterpreneurship. Teachers will develop professionally by applying project-based learning and experience-based learning. They will share the good practices acquired during the project, their professional knowledge will be wider. By promoting and distributing the results and products of the project at various scenes of school life – lessons, teacher meetings, workshops – we will promote the quality of the teaching profession in each partner school. We will make our schools more attractive to young
people and their parents, also the strenghten the image of our schools in our local communities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 76512 Eur

Project Coordinator

Nyíregyházi SZC Sipkay Barna Kereskedelmi, Vendéglátóipari, Idegenforgalmi Szakgimnáziuma, Szakközépiskolája és Kollégiuma & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Srednja sola za gostinstvo in turizem Maribor
• Istituto Istruzione Superiore “Isa Conti-Eller Vainicher”
• Hasköy Ortaokulu