Cross-Cultural Practice & Learning
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
The Erasmus+ Mobility-Project "Cross-Cultural Practice & Learning - CCPL" of Richard-Riemerschmid- Berufskolleg offers VET students of design related professions and teachers the opportunity to gain professional experience abroad.In regard to the development of VET students RRBK pursues four different objectives within this mobility project:1. Increase of mobility of VET students due to improved foreign language competencies.2. Development and consolidation of the students' individual standards and values due to examination of foreign cultures asfoundation for working in creative professions.3. Expansion of the students' intercultural competencies to facilitate the integration into labor markets not only nationally but also internationally.4. Development of professional skills and techniques and expansion of individual professional competences.The achievement of these four objectives will foster the development of the students' personality development. The students willraise their self-confidence due to feeling their self-efficacy. Additionally the students will experience the diversity and the commonground of the various European cultures. This will help to nurture the idea of a common European identity. RRBK designed this mobility project for two different forms of vocational education: for 26 full-time school-based VET students of the program "gestaltungstechnischer Assistent" (design assistant) respectively "vocational Gymnasium" (design assistant with full matriculation exam) and for 18 VET students within dual-system vocational education programs. The students of the full-time school base VET-programs will be able to conduct their mandatory up to 12-week-internship (or parts of it) in one of the European countries. The students within the dual-system VET programs will be offered to execute an optional (minimum) 14-days-internship in companies throughout Europe. Especially this part of the project focusses on students that do not belong to classical target groups of transnational projects.As a result of a multiple step application procedure RRBK will select suitable students and prepare them for the sojourn abroad.Special attention will be paid to intercultural preparation. During the internship all students will be coached by mentors within thecompanies, by mentors from the partner institutes and supervised by staff of RRBK. Within the internship period students will start producing short project reports that will be published on the RRBK website and in the RRBK newsletter. Additionally apprenticeship companies at home will be informed periodically. Besides the added value for students RRBK will use the Erasmus+ Mobility Project to enhance and sharpen its international profile. Additionally this project will promote vocational education in general.The mobilities for teachers are supposed to foster developments on several different levels:1. Job-shadowings will enable teachers to gain deeper insights into the organization of partner colleges and into classes with their methodical-didactical concepts in similar VET-programs. These insights will nurture the reflection of their own individual teaching processes and raise teacher's motivation.2. Examination of specific, for RRBK relevant issues at partner colleges to support school- and teaching development.3. Consolidation of partnership relations between RRBK and its partnering colleges.
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