SUSTAINABILITY, POWER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, EUROPE AND DEVELOPMENT Erasmus Project

Project Title

SUSTAINABILITY, POWER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, EUROPE AND DEVELOPMENT

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Energy and resources; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

We worked in long-term cooperation by means of:
– local and transnational conference meetings. This project is based on four of the “Europe 2020” targets, namely: Employment, Climate change and energy sustainability, Education and Fighting poverty and social exclusion. By means of a partnership among six different schools and various local stakeholders we aimed at a mutual goal and product: to make all the students involved in building up a students’ firm with each partner school representing a branch of the same firm, with specific tasks and roles. The general aims are concerned with fighting social problems and hazards concerning young people and their future chances of proper professional and social realization by improving education and training processes and thus offering them adequate skills and strategies of making successful career.
Specific objectives:
– to give an effective basic orientation for young European students in terms of their prospective possibilities of professional development and realization not only in their home countries but also throughout Europe;
– to have a better knowledge of the job world and its rules;
– to profit and choose from different experiences and training offers created by our respective extracurricular partners in all six project-member countries:
-to widen the horizons of our students concerning their future career chances not only on a local or national basis, but also more globally, in the European Union;
– to start their own independent enterpreneurship;
-to deepen their competence in a foreign language as a useful tool of mobility throughout Europe.
For the schools:
-to include the project’s theme into the respective local/national curricula;
– to cooperate with local stakeholders by organizing workshops and training practical courses;
– to enhance team work and cooperation on both national and international level;
– to agree and exchange good practice and methods of working ;
-to internationalize each school partner which will be guided to work on a transnational level;
-to create and sustain mutual cooperation as a basis for future projects.
Methodology:
Both students and teachers took part in conferences, seminars, meetings, workshops (cooperative learning and peer to peer), lessons (lab based activities, flipped classroom and CLIL) short term exchanges with partners, e-platforms and the common website.
Instruments: Website, Skype, emails, video conference, Facebook account.
The participants also worked with extracurricular professional partners who counseled and coached the young people by organizing and implementing seminars, workshops and practical training courses.
Final results:
1) the creation of a students’ firm in Germany which will manage the concrete project’s product: an e-filling station on the school campus in Osterburken. Each school partner represented a branch of the firm with a specific role:
a) Communication Plan: Hungary;
b) Overall Business Plan: Sweden;
c) Humarn Resources management: Belgium;
d) Technical research and prototype production: Italy;
e) Marketing analysis: Romania;
f) Financing and administrative sector, foundation of the firm, construction of the e-filling station: Germany.
2) the creation of a proper documentation in all the partners’ languages and in each partner’s school, guarantees the sustainability of the project.

All the experiences in each school have been exchanged among the participants and reflected on, thus giving the practical skills and knowledge about the labour market specifics aiming at gaining independence and professional competences for our students. Thus, this European project aims at becoming “a key for the future” of our students in a European sustainable context.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 107740 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ganztagsgymnasium Osterburken & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Sint-Leo Hemelsdaele 2
• Hultsfreds gymnasium
• Colegiul National Ion Neculce Bucuresti
• ITT G. MARCONI
• Halásztelki Hunyadi Mátyás Általános Iskola, Gimnázium és Alapfokú Muvészeti Iskola