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Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

This project is part of the strategic plan of the Centro San Viator, and hence has its origin. We seek to enhance the international dimension of training and we want to do it by means of a global project in which we involve both students and education professionals. The need to work in another way, leaving behind outdated traditional methods, makes us to consider educating in a different way; that we seek for new approaches. We need to study new ways of doing, educate. Our main goal was to complete the training of our students as well as teachers. Provide the participants a European professional experience that will help them to improve their professional skills and, in the case of students, enhance their opportunities in the working world. We wanted the project to be a reflection of our school. This is a project of inclusion with a long-haul; it started in 2007 to offer the same opportunities to a group of students that, because of their special needs, didn't enjoy the benefits of the mobility. Within this project we prioritize and promote equality and standardization. We have a high number of students at risk of exclusion, with fewer opportunities than others to train and, therefore, enter the labour market on equal terms. In addition to looking better specific technical training, we wanted to improve the cross-cutting aspects, such as the digital competences (online training), learning other languages, social competences. Participants have been divided into four groups: • 7 young people between 16 and 21 years old, mentally handicapped enrolled in a program that combines basic training with specific training carried out in workshops of different specialties: automotive, electricity, trade retail and horticulture. With this training students of this section prepares for employment not only in protected enterprises, but also in ordinary companies. • 10 young people between 15 and 19 years old who have not reached the minimum goals in ESO (compulsory secondary education) in their centres of origin and attend the Centro San Viator. These students came to us with serious self-esteem issues and dragging problems (social, cognitive...) that have prevented them getting their degree. • 6 VET students of electro-mechanics and bodywork. • 6 education professionals, plus 4 accompanying persons. The professionals who attended training have been: 1 - pedagogues or teachers with training in new methodologies. 2 Technitians/teachers in retail. Designed activities were as follows: Preparation of mobility: information to students, teachers, partners; selection of the participants; signing of the MoU and other necessary documentation with partners, preparation of participants Mobility: adaptation socio-linguistic, training courses, in company training and visit to VET schools with interviews to different professionals. Evaluation and reports: validation of the acquired competences; europass; prepare the annual report of activities; conducting interviews and surveys of satisfaction; implementation of corrective measures; diffusion and dissemination. Following the directions on recognition and transparency of EU tools, we have credited all what was learned using the methodology developed through our project Your ECVET (Memorandum of Understanding, Learning Agreement, Assesment Sheets) and Europass. The impact for students have been measured through aspects such as: overcoming the compulsory module FCT, obtaining of accrediting certification of the corresponding speciality, achievement of the corresponding degree and the acquisition of key competencies that will enhance their training and increase their chances of employability. Through the participation of students and teachers in the program Erasmus+ has increased the visibility of the school through the appearance in press and media. The impact on the Organization of this project will mean a step forward in the evolution of the Centre towards a European model of vocational training. Long term, this means that with each mobility more and more students and teachers are interested in receiving training abroad, which means an increase in the educational quality of Centro San Viator. The socialization of the knowledge acquired will consolidate a teaching-learning process innovative and geared towards the continuous improvement of teachers and students and the educational community.
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