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Aprendizagens para a Construção de uma Cidadania Europeia e uma Carreira Profissional
Start date: Sep 8, 2014, End date: Sep 7, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

In the mobility program, our school as well as five other organizations and partner companies, will all be involved in the preparation, mobility and evaluation phases and will be interconnected to provide project support in the host countries. The aims of this project are to achieve and develop the following objectives: • Promote the employment of young people in Europe , particularly recent vocational school, thus fulfilling one of the objectives defined by the European Commission and this project itself; • Facilitate the professional integration of young people and helping them enhance their work experience and progress in their future career ; • Facilitate and promote the use of efficient work methods (at the organizational level) using the resources and tools in both the school context and in Portuguese companies where the beneficiaries may be hired as a specialized technician; • Contact with the business reality of other EU countries; • Understand job performance in other socio-economic contexts ; • Develop skills that promote professional projects and job creation; • Provide the development of vocational skills relevant to the labor market ; • Contact and experience a different socio-cultural reality in a European learning environment; • Recognize and acquire new language skills as well as acquire and use knowledge, skills and qualifications to promote personal development, employability in the European labor market and mobility. The partner companies are based in England, Germany, Spain, Italy and Bulgaria. These countries will host the young participants in the internship program. This project has two different kinds of training programs .The first one is aimed at vocational school graduate students completing their training courses. The other program is intended for young people who have had difficulties finding employment upon completion of their training courses. In this case, the duration of the internship will be 12 months. With 12 month internships, our focus is to create new opportunities for our secondary level graduate students, thus facilitating their integration into the labour market as well as minimizing the effects caused by youth unemployment. This has been a serious social problem not only in Portugal, but also in the European Union. With the implementation of this project, it is intended that each beneficiary is given a project theme related to his/her area of training and accompanied by experts from the host company. With the implementation of these internships as well as the individual project, we are providing the students with two challenging experiences that are an essential part of the school curriculum. I would like to highlight the fact that the beneficiaries of this project live and study in a disadvantaged, rural region in the interior of Portugal with an infrastructure and development deficit. The internships will take place in companies associated with the partner organizations. The curricular internship will take place between 27 April and 18 July, 2015. As for the long-term internship for recent vocational school graduate students, the mobility period is September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015. There are 55 young people who will participate in this internship project. They are from various areas of training such as: Computer Science, Electricity and New Energies, Business Administration, Chemistry, and Tourism and Hospitality. Students and recent vocational school graduates reside mostly in the North Interior Pinhal region. The beneficiaries of this project are young people between the ages of 16 and 21. Before the mobility takes place, an educational plan will be implemented which will include the different types of jobs carried out. Then they will be presented to the school community in scheduled sessions. This project will provide many short and long-term benefits that will be advantageous to the young beneficiaries’ level of training and qualifications. This experience will provide them with more opportunities and enhance their regional employability. In regards to our school, this project will help us improve our organization skills and work methods. It will also help us integrate models and processes in our practices, thus promoting quality and good results. The region will benefit from the qualifications of human resources and its experience in these projects. As a result, the adoption and influence of organizational models, work methods, processes and tools that companies and organizations use, will improve its level of competitiveness.
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