SELFMADE INSTRUMENTS START UP Erasmus Project

Project Title

SELFMADE INSTRUMENTS START UP

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: Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues); International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

(See summary in FRENCH file A5)

This project is aimed at pupils aged between 16 and 18 from the 4 partner high schools: Germany, Czech Republic, Spain and France. The pupils will be from secondary and vocational education.
Our 2-year project will consist in creating a European company selling musical instruments to be assembled by the customer with the help of assembly instructions and videos to be bought online with an online shop.
The main objective of this project will be to make pupils discover how to create and manage a European company. Pupils will have to create the business administratively, create a currency that will allow real purchases to be made but with a currency that will have no market value and therefore no profit. They will have to create musical instruments using everyday or recycled materials. They will write editing instructions and record videos and music. They will sell their products online, conduct a sales and process analysis at the end of the project to verify the reliability of the company.

The company will operate in this way, and intermediate learning objectives will be derived from it:

IDENTITY OF THE COMPANY
– Company name: Students will determine the name of the company.
– Address: The company’s head office will move with the mobility. This is how a Management Board will be created. It will be composed of 2 students and 1 teacher in each team. This board will meet during the mobilities to take all the decisions concerning the company. For this reason, we need a European grant to enable the teams to meet, to pool their work and to take important decisions together, such as: name of the company, choice of logo, choice of products to be sold, method of payment, supply of products…
– The workshops for the production of the products will be installed in the 4 high schools.
COMPANY VALUES
– The values needed to create a company will be in line with those of our priorities identified in this project:
○ To develop innovative practices and encourage the creativity of pupils by creating the products that will be sold (instruments, instructions, sounds, music, videos…).
○ Fostering the practice of technical English in business and commercial settings
○ Develop students’ entrepreneurial spirit and encourage international cooperation.
○ To raise the level of young people in the fields of mathematics, science, ICT, thanks to the processes and platform to be set up to ensure the management of a company.
○ Promote the discussion of ideas and define decision protocols.
○ Evaluate its processes and products.
ORGANISATION
– The company will be managed by a Board of Directors as indicated above and 6 departments each led by a single team in parallel to the Board of Directors:
○ Communication and Marketing: Germany
○ Administration and finance: Spain
○ Digital service: Czech Republic
○ Sustainable product manufacturing and distribution management: France
○ Publications and design: Spain
○ Quality department: all teams
– Each team will present its work and progress to the Management Board during the mobilities. The latter will define the company’s priorities and validate the choices of the different departments. The financing by the European Mobility Agency will allow all the services to come together and work together for the good running of the company and therefore of the project.
The expected results of this project will be the real creation of an accessible company with the real sale of products.
PLANNING OF THE MEETINGS OF THE COMPANY MOBILITES
– This schedule will correspond to the mobilities for which we wish to obtain a European grant:
○ C1-Teacher’s meeting to define the exact dates of the mobilities, validate the objectives of each mobility and define the work to be done between each mobility. Create a new project via E Twinning on the Twinspace platform.
○ C2-Mobility in Spain: the pupils will take all the decisions to create the company: name, role of each service, logo, organisation chart, board of directors.
○ C3-Mobility in Germany: pupils will validate the payment process with the creation of the currency, the web page of the website. Each department will present the progress of its work. A process for the creation of musical instruments to be created oneself will be presented.
○ C4-Mobility in France: Students will present their instruments, manuals and videos. They will test the online shop and define the adjustments.
○ Between C4 and C5: This will be the period when the online shop will be open for the sale of the products.
○ C5-Mobility in the Czech Republic: Students will evaluate the performance of the company as a whole (sales, process, problem, attractiveness of the company, etc.).
○ C6- Teachers’ meeting to evaluate the whole project and write the final report.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99169 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC OZANAM & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Eduard-Maurer Oberstufenzentrum
• SMICHOVSKA STREDNI PRUMSLOVA SKOLA
• Fundación Patronato Avemariano de Granada CE AVE MARIA SAN CRISTOBAL