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EUROPEAN WORK EXPERIENCE III
EUROPEAN WORK EXPERIENCE III
Start date: Jul 15, 2014,
End date: Jul 14, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
“EUROPEAN WORK EXPERIENCE III” is a pioneer project in Spain consisting of the transnational mobility of students. This project covers the whole province of Alicante, in the Valencian Community. The economic sector where our students are going to have work opportunities is the active Tourism. The coast of Alicante is crowded and it has reached its peak. This is the main economic engine of the province but tourism is changing, it demands new offers, it needs the contact with nature, it wants to be active and there it is where the main aim of the project lies, the opening of the inner active tourism sector. The province of Alicante is much more than coast and sea, it is surrounded by natural landscapes, well preserved ecosystems, accessible mountains, countless paths and routes, etc. All the educational centres of our province offering the Professional Family of Physical Activity in their schools have joined one partnership to create EWE III (IES Haygón from San Vicente del Raspeig, IES 8 de Marzo from Alicante, IES Historiador Chabàs from Denia, IES Montserrat Roig from Elche, IES Mare Nostrum from Torrevieja, IES Monastil from Elda, International School Lope de Vega from Benidorm, IES La Creueta from Onil). Moreover, due to the experience obtained from the former projects, two more Professional Families have joined, being a new member of the project IES La Foia from Ibi with the Professional Family of Management Administration. The idea comes up because we want to develop this growing offer of tourism in the province, and thereby, to create new quality enterprises with high qualified workers, both linguistically and technically speaking.
It is a must for these new companies in order to be successful that their employees can communicate in a foreign language and that is the reason why we are going to send within this new project, EWE III, 70 participants to Ireland, North Ireland (UK) and France, 2 of whom are disable (56 to Ireland, 12 to North Irelanda (UK) and 2 to France) in just one flow. The election of these two countries is based on their tradition in this type of economic activity, on the high quality of the companies of the sector and on their language (French or English). 54 of the participants belong to the Formative Cycle of Technician of Physical Activities in the Natural Environment and the other 16 left belong to the Formative Cycle of Technician in Management Administration. We have a large number of companies in which these students will carry out their training period in workplaces (FCT) for 3 months. The completion of this training will lead them to obtain their certificate of Technician, apart from the other EUROPASS certificates that will credit them with the competences acquired during their training experience. We intend that productive ties can be established among the participants so as to create future enterprises in the active tourism sector in the province of Alicante since the technical and the administrative part are present in any company as a whole. All the development of the project will be coordinated by a Committee made by the representatives of every school who will ensure that the outcome of the project is positive. The coordination of all the actions and teamwork makes EWE III a very clear example of how to carry out a successful idea working together. For all this, it is necessary to work with quality protocols which have been implemented project after project. In the short and long term, we intend to increase and to make employment for our youths better in the companies of the active tourism sector and in that way, to acquire the desirable technical competences, thus improving the skill of communicating in a foreign language in order to be able to access to more clients. We will foster “Entrepreneurship” and in the short and long run new companies will be created thanks to the LEARNING BY DOING acquired in their training period in workplaces. The benefit resulted from this will be shown in a new productive tissue inside a sustainable development framework which will make the province of Alicante a clear example of innovation as a means of getting out of the crisis.