Entrepreneurship – Media – Languages in School Erasmus Project

Project Title

Entrepreneurship – Media – Languages in School

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

Our school partnership with schools in Czechia and France occurs on various levels and thereby intends to be conducive to a good and sustainable internationalization of our schools.
Through mutual personal visits and regular exchange through various opportunities, which modern media provide (e Twinning, Office, 365, Email, etc.), a lively and active exchange with French and Czech colleagues to create lasting joint projects is expected to be established and maintained.
The participating students are aged between 14 to 19 years old and will be advised by the respective teaching staff (Languages: German, French, English; Logistics, Business, Media).
We have planned to establish and maintain contact with students via eTwinning and other digital platforms. The collaboration of the students via the practice firms and junior firms is of particular to us. Maintaining and regularly evaluating contact will be the responsibility of the faculty. Aside from that, mutual visits between partner schools have also been planned. The purpose of these trips is to help students between the ages of 16 and 19 and teachers become acquainted with their respective exchange partners. What is important to us is not only taking part in educational and linguistic exchange with the involved parties in this Erasmus Project, but also cultural exchange.
Furthermore, this project supports a proficient use of new media. Digital communication and the ability to make oneself understandable to counterparts through the most diverse array of new technologies, e.g. e Twinning, One Note, etc., are central to our project. In cooperation with the Czech partner school, we will organize a media workshop.
Starting with the first years (14 years old), the students in the Perg Business Academy learn French. Aside from that, a Czech intensive course will be offered to the students of our school within the framework of this exchange project. In this way, students can use their newly acquired language in practice. Aside from that, we will resort to English as a lingua franca in some situations, through which it will be applied to real-world situations as training for the student’s future.
Starting with the third year students (16 years old), we have planned a personal exchange between individual classes. There, the students will take part in classes with their exchange partners. This project also offers the opportunity to organize trips to Czech and French businesses that specialize in sales, trading, accountancy, and other related sectors.
We consider this project to be an initiation, which will nurture our students into even more open-minded and intercultural citizens of the world and will impart upon them a transnational European perspective and way of thinking. Thus, we will make an important societal contribution and our students will simultaneously be prepared for the European labor market.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84077 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Perg & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Gymnazium, Stredni odborna skola ekonomicka a Stredni odborne uciliste, Kaplice, Pohorská 86
• LPO Jessé de Forest