80 nap alatt a tányér körül
Start date: Jun 1, 2014,
End date: May 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Our school has been running for mobility programs for young adults learning in secondary or vocational trainings since 2004. The students of the school are between the age of 14 and 23, most of them are underprivileged socially or cumulatively.
In our school English language prep -, secondary -, vocational - and formal adult trainings are going on in the following professions: cook, pastry-cook and waiter.
We can boast of our relationships of long-standing in Germany and Finland. Within this project we organized professional trainings to Italy and Spain with the help of intermediary companies and we kept contact with a training hotel in Slovakia.
Our school mobility programs fit to and are part of the students’ professional trainings which are proved by the working program, the comprising possibility and our tracking - and Learning Outcome based evaluation system.
Our aim is to train such skilled workers who can do well both on the national and European Union’s labour market together with a wide range of knowledge, routine and the knowledge of speaking foreign languages.
For years the mobility program is part of our Pedagogical Programme and our ISO quality assurance programme.
Between 2014 and 2016 we integrated 50 beneficiaries totally into the project. Our German partners ((Hotel König Ludwig, Gasthof Woaze) have been hosting our students for trainings for many years. The owner - hotel manager knows our program and can help in tracking and evaluation. In Germany 10 studens spent their 3-month professional training in 5 terms between 1st May and November.
In Finland Savon Consortium for Education provided for the host Hotel Savonia for our cook and waiter students and City Market Peiveranta for our confectionar students in Kuopio where they could take part in school lessons and practise in the partner school kitchens. Besides the students prepared presentations about our school, the country, our traditions and gastronomy to the Finish students in English lessons. Our Finish partner school were waiting for 5 students each in 2015 and 2016.
The Spanish Animafest is a student labour exchange office which set our students up in beach hotels and on the Balearic Islands. In the summer of 2015 they provided 4-month-long summer training option for 5 students. Animafest uses an internet-based system for tracking and evaluating of the students.
The Italian Marco Polo has been dealing with mobility programs for many years. This year they visited our school and as had agreed they employed 10 beneficiaries (students and freshly qualified workmen) in Grado luxury hotels and restaurants for 4-month trainings between April and September 2015.
You can find Hotel Kastiel in the area of Slovakia mostly lived by Hungarians works as a training hotel for students. Our students spent 2 months in this hotel in the summer of 2015 mentoring by teachers from our school alongside the whole period.
Our students were helped by mentor teachers in conformity and making contacts at the beginning of the trainings. Moreover, we escorted the students during the onward and backward journey, too. In every country during the 1st week there were mentoring processes during the training done by our school teachers.
Before the training abroad we organized prep trainings for the students in language, cooking and servicing. The aim of the trainings were learning about the theoretical and practical knowledge of gastronomy. During the prep training the students attended occasions held by the school psychologist and mental hygiene specialist whose purposes were team-building, improving communicational skills and handling conflicts, homesickness and living far away from their families.
In the course of a parent meeting the coordinator informed parents about the organizational process, the training program, the budget, the contracting - and students' reporting duties.
The prep trainings and the working processes were created by professional teachers based on the valid vocational exam requirements and the offers of the national curriculum but acted upon the ECVET based Learning Outcomes to assure the exact preparatory process and to agree with the national standards.
On the school website a tracking and reporting system was being created to check the students’ career not just during and after the trainings abroad but after leaving school to see how they progress. With comparing the career of this group to the control group - students not involved in any foreign training – we could check the success of the mobility program.
Our aim with putting through this project is to educate adults who are self-confident and successful in their profession and fulfilling the requirements of the national and EU labour market, they enhance the reputation of our school.
We held a dissemination event for informing about the results of the project to the leadership of BVHSzC, teachers and students who took part or would like to take part in mobility in the future.
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