Cross Competence Exchange Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cross Competence Exchange

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

The project ‘Cross competence exchange’ is both an educational-intercultural and a vocational training project. It aims at exchanging teaching and learning practices in order to develop students’s technical and employabilty skills in the field of industrial automation. The two school partners come from Italy (Lucca) and Germany (Burgdorf) and will mainly involve 10 participants each, 8 secondary school students and two accompanying persons for the physical mobility, that is to say the physical exchange. The participants in this project belong to the two schools that insist on a territory with a high technical vocation. The German partners have a high technical culture in the automotive industry, while the Italian ones are influenced by a technical culture based on the paper tissue industry. Both can find common elements in the field of industrial automation (and innovation which are the basics for the Industry 4.0 concept).
Since the European job market has new requirements, employees and workers are confronted with upcoming challenges over time.The planning, execution and evaluation of new aspects of different technological realities such as those from which the students come from, are part of the tasks that future workers must face in the European market. Therefore, the comparison between the two technical fields of industrial automation will provide the pupils with a better insight on innovation and above all, will widen their competences in terms of acquiring knowledge and skills in a new branch of interest respectively. The activities carried out during the project, involving both virtual and physical mobility, will open up horizons on the fields of excellence in industrial automation in the two European countries, Italy and Germany, showing the pupils techniques, methods and strategies of working.
The project will last 12 months starting from November 2019 and will consist of different learning and training activities corresponding to diverse phases of project development:
-pre-departure phase: selection of participants, training of the working group, virtual introduction of the groups of the two Institutes, recognition of needs and problems of implementation, coordination and selection of the work to be carried out, definition of the timetable for each Mobility step
-Mobility (1 step): German students and teachers will come to Italy for a week. They will observe lessons and school structure and will carry out a two-three days internship in local pulp and paper tissue firms
-Mobility (2nd step): Italian students and teachers will come to Germany for a week. They will observe school structure, be active part of theoretical and practical lessons, will carry out a two-three days internship in local automotive companies
– post-mobility evaluation phase: analysis of the results and impact of the experience of mobility and cultural exchange between the two Institutes, evaluation of the obtained product, recognition of the experience with credits, dissemination of results at local level.
The entire project will be based on blended learning, combining virtual and physical mobility, thanks to the constant use of the Etwinning platform that will serve as a virtual classroom, as repository of materials and as a digital tool for communication in English, the foreign language for both groups. The combination of virtual and physical will cater for all students’learning styles and will enable them to acquire new competences in many fields, in a trasversal way. The teachers of both Institutes will build up teams of support, management and monitoring to follow the project in the best way and in order to acquire, on their behalf, an innovative approach to teaching methods.
The latter aspect will have a profound impact on the educational offer and quality of the two schools, which will consolidate and widen their international perspectives. As a matter of fact,t he project will make an important contribution to the internationalization process of the two Institutes, both at the methodological-didactic level, but also at the intercultural level. The project aims to be a first experimentation of virtual and physical mobility between the two Institutes, which can be transferred, enhanced and expanded to other Italian and German Institutes, and also to companies and organizations of various kinds (eg agencies training). In other words, the project will aim to ‘create networks’ between various educational institutions and not, to promote new paths of learning, mobility and work-based learning to be carried out through an international project. The products created and the methodologies used during the mobility will be presented to other schools and companies in order to involve and improve the results obtained, but above all to adopt different points of view and embrace new project ideas to be implemented.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 9000 Eur

Project Coordinator

POLO FERMI GIORGI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Berufsbildende Schulen Burgdorf der Region Hannover