Berufsorientierung und Lebensplanung in einer bewegenden Realität Erasmus Project

Project Title

Berufsorientierung und Lebensplanung in einer bewegenden Realität

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Two secondary schools from Germany and Greece and three secondary schools with sixth form from Lithuania, Slovakia and Turkey took part in this project.
Project activities of the student groups went as planned. The short-term exchanges of pupils were the main focus of the meetings. The planned objectives for the project meetings were mostly met The preparation for the short-term exchanges went according to the application. The project meetings were intended to practise the professional orientation of each participating country. The workshops took place in traditional communities of the participating countries. The students were even able to work, discuss and exchange their opinions with their fellow countrymen abroad. The European added value lies in the students` realisation of the open European job market and its demand for them, with the possibility for them to work in other European countries after the completion of their studies.
For the first exchange in Greece the students prepared topic presentations about career orientation in their education systems. Apart from that they dealt with their own families’ professional CVs and professional CVs of former students from their school. The presentations and video films were prepared with this aim in mind and presented to the partners in the hosting school. Those presentations formed the basis for the opinion exchange that followed after. The preparations for the second short-exchange in Lithuania went according to plan. The students worked on the topic of ‘The most and least popular occupation in your country‘. Besides that the students also filled in a psychological test for the choice of occupation that is regularly used in the Lithuanian school. It was administered to two classes and subsequently evaluated. The third hosting institution was the German school. The main topics were: ‘Vocational schools and the German dual system of education’ that is unique in Europe. The hosting students presented the types of vocational schools in their country. The German students presented ‘The Dual system of education’, ‘Dual studies’, and ‘Vocational education in the State of Hesse’.
The fourth short-stay exchange took place in Slovakia. The subject of this meeting was presentations about the possibilities of college studies not only in their homeland but also abroad. The students visited the oldest universities in Slovakia and Austria. The differences were discussed and compared, including the scope of learning opportunities, college-admission requirements, domestic and foreign studies.
The fifth exchange took place in Turkey. The focal point was the topic ‘occupations in tourism’. All the participating groups prepared presentations of occupations typical for the travel industry and the tourist landmarks in their country. The students presented many options for tourism studies in different universities.The planned photo exhibitions did not take place because the photos were integrated within the presentations. All the project`s presentations were published on the conjoint project`s homepage, http://jjanonis.su.lt/erasmus/, which is made available to all the participants. There are also all the photographs, films, certificates of almost all of the visited institutions, and programmes available on this website.
The project participants did not go ahead with the idea of having a printed brochure. This was, instead, to be realised as a portfolio only in digital form. Its layout was discussed extensively during the meetings. It was agreed that the conjoint outcome of the project would be a portfolio in a form of a digital App. A German school student was entrusted with its preparation. The idea of the ‘App’ was born because the portfolio should be modern, and most European students own a smart-phone, that serves him/her as a small office, so s/he is able to use this app.
This app contains an occupational orientation of a student during his studies, complete with the project activities and description of the vocational school systems. A link to the final product of the project is attached to this final report.
Working days in hosting schools were not done according to the plan. The students and teachers participated in workshops and visited a variety of traditional companies and enterprises in the hosting countries instead. They also joined seminars. The European added value lies in bringing the students closer to the European job market in conjunction with the vocational preparation. The innovative part of this project was the students`opportunity to meet in other European countries, become acquainted with traditional enterprises, occupations, vocational schools, universities, traditional crafts, and they also had the opportunity to widen their horizons. The idea of the app itself is also innovative because, after some adjustments, it could be used across the whole Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136909 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hessenwaldschule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Siauliu Juliaus Janonio gimnazija
• 2.Gymnasio Chalkidas
• Gymnázium Grösslingová
• Muhittin Mustafa Bocek Anadolu Lisesi