“Individuelle Förderung – eine Herausforderung für Schulen in einem zusammenwachsenden Europa” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Individuelle Förderung – eine Herausforderung für Schulen in einem zusammenwachsenden Europa”

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 vocational education and training

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; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The Louis-Baare-Berufskolleg is a vocational college where students complete their traineeships or obtain general educational qualifications. As a so-called “European School” and “School of Individual Student Support” we try to help our students to gain the new skills and competences they need in European and international context. As teachers we continually face the new challenges in the field of education and labour market, which we wanted to tackle together with our partner schools in Poland and Turkey.
OUR GOALS:
In our project, we intended to improve the measures of individual student support practiced at our schools in order to enhance the skills and opportunities of our students. For this purpose we worked on an educational concept with an inventory, a comparison, optimization and extension of the student support measures at the participating schools in Germany, Poland and Turkey. Through a transnational project implementation, we expected new, innovative insights for our educational work. Together with the participating students we wanted to consider how we can support them individually at acquiring new skills. The students taking part in the transnational project received the opportunity to improve their skills as well as their cultural and political awareness.
PARTICIPANTS:
In order to carry out the project, an organizational and technical support and participation of many teachers, the school administration and the numerous students of the partner schools was necessary. In the transnational project meetings the number of participants was limited to 5 teachers and in the student activity part to 5 students and 2 tutors per participating school. This enabled the 4 participating schools an effective cooperation and organization of the meetings.
ACTIVITIES:
In our project activities we compared the School Laws of the individual countries and the EU regulations concerning the individual student support requirements. We exchanged our experiences and already practiced measures, but we also concentrated on such latest popular issues as mindfulness, digitalization or inclusion and discussed their possible implementation in our educational work.
The students worked on the topic of individual support and determined what they criticize and appreciate in their own school systems, what their priorities concerning educational and labour market opportunities are and what measures of individual student support could help them. They took part in surveys, produced short films and photos and prepared PowerPoint presentations about their “dream schools” and wishes concerning individual support at school. They had the opportunity to meet students from politically and economically different countries, exchange their views and win new perspectives as well as practice their language and PC skills.
LONG-TERM BENEFITS: The long-term benefit can be expressed by the acquisition of new expertise about European educational systems, new skills and requirements and how to support them individually. Moreover our goal was the revision and extension of the measures of individual student support and thus increasing the educational and labour market opportunities of our students. We established sustainable school partnerships – a “spring-board” for new international projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 102795 Eur

Project Coordinator

Louis-Baare-Berufskolleg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• TORBALI PIRI REIS MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI
• Emlakbank Süleyman Demirel Anadolu Lisesi
• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych w Myslenicach