Cars and Light Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cars and Light

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

GKS-Muellheim and Gospodarska Skola Istituto Professionale Buje have been working together at improving VET since 2018. The new project “Cars and Light” puts students to the challenging task of developing a real life, state of the art, comprehensive and practical teaching unit of lighting systems in cars. Not only will students need to find out about new technologies, they will also have to think about methods and didactics of presenting their results. Working with authentic parts they will come up with a finished product that can serve as state-of-the-art teaching material in VET. After planning their project and visit together digitally for some months ahead each group of students will spend 14 days at the partner-school. Next to regular lessons students will join in mixed teams each day to work on their project – hands-on learning while at the same time enhancing their inter-cultural, personal and language skills. Knowledge about the actual state of the art is ensured by visits to work-shops in both countries, cultural experiences are provided for by additional field-trips and excursions.
Primum mobile of the exchange is the international cooperation within the EU and the promotion of students’ inter-cultural competence including communication and language skills (with English as common language). Midterm aim ist to standardise VET in both countries. This will significantly contribute to both qualification and mobility of our students. The project may serve as model of practical quality development, since it combines learner-focused hands-on learning with the current state of the art of technology and at the same time it helps remedy the lack of appropriate learning equipment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 31254 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gewerbliche und Kaufmännische Schulen – Berufliches Gymnasium Müllheim & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Gospodarska skola Istituto professionale