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Higher education student and staff mobility projec..
Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
This project is designed for all the students of high grade vocational studies from Instituto Politécnico Easo. Our students fulfill the FCT module in EU companies gaining skills that are unable to be learnt at a school environment. The aims are to increase their practice-theoretical knowledge, launch initiatives, autonomy, and adaptability to a new environment and promote the learning of languages and different cultures as an integral part of their education. During the internship, students come out with new forms of work and rise new expectancies. The experience gained at work, eases their insertion in the labor market and their adaptability to face new challenges in a company.
After an amendment, 11 grants for students and 3 for teachers have been provided to our vocational school and eventually, for students coming from another vocational school from habitual networks. We start spreading information about our project from the moment in which the guidelines are given by the National Agency. Students will have to fulfill the workplacement FCT module in companies. Throughout this period, they will put in practice the skills and tasks apprehended during their medium grade vocational course. The host companies will be directly related to the vocational courses studied in Easo. Tutors, vocational teachers, direction board and the European project coordination board take part in the selection process. We assure a clear and objective selection process. The selection of the host company will be meticulous and will respect the student’s profile. For teachers, the International department collects all applications and together with the direction board, decides which ones will be implemented.
The impacts expected are diverse, the personal one for the student, the Instituto Easo’s and the benefits for companies and society in general. First of all, students validate the FCT module and, after their mobility, they will have their high grade vocational certificate and, at a personal level, they develop different skills, such as, autonomy and adaptability to work. The 3 teachers that have fulfilled the mobility, have learnt new ways of work, the real needs of the enterprises in their daily duties and, at return, they have explained their department teachers which have been their conclusions and the matters that need to be improved to adapt their teachings to the enterprise. Easo benefits in that there are some students that select our school in order to have a chance in participating in a Erasmus+ program, along with it, the students’ final evaluation allows teacher to adapt their theoretical teaching to the reality of the labor market, shortening the distance between school teaching and labor market. The experience undertaken by the teachers allows them to also to prepare the students for a job where the international relationships is a must. For the companies, when students start working have a better adaptability to their new tasks. An finally, for society, it is important because these students come back with new horizons, expectancies… and many of them become aware of the necessity of continue their education process, that is, they start high grade vocational courses or update their knowledge and skills.