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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: May 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The Public Local Farm School of Rethel (EPLEFPA) provides short-term higher trainings on its two sites, the LEGTPA (High School of General and Vocational Farm Education) with its BTSA ACSE (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur Agricole: analysis, management and strategy of farm business) and the CFPPA (Vocational Training Center for Farm Promotion) with its BTS MUC (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur: HND in Management of the Business Units).
The main partner of the institution is the University of Farm Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of IASI in Romania; Exchanges have been regularly held since 1999 between both institutions within the Erasmus Programme:
- outgoing teacher mobility: attending classes in the university course of the students attached to the Farm Department
- incoming teacher mobility: attending classes within the course of either BTSA ACSE or BTS MUC training
- outgoing training mobility : for French administrative staff since 2015
- incoming training mobility: for Romanian administrative staff from 2014.
- incoming student mobility for studies: at least 3-month studies with Romanian students attending BTSA ACSE classes
- incoming student mobility for work placements: at least 2–month workplacements. The EPLEFPA provides placement sites, generally in a farm located in Champagne – Ardenne. It also provides logistics and the follow – up of work placements.
The Romanian partner institution has been chosen according to its training field. As the Romanian and French institutions both provide training in the field of agriculture, this partnership can contribute to the quality of the training provided in every institution. So, according to the VIII Rural Code Book, which defines tasks of farm education, Rethel’s EPLEFPA:
1- provides a general, technical and vocational education
2- takes part into territorial coordination and development.
3- contributes to school as well as social and vocational integration of young people
4 - contributes to the activities of development, experiment, farm and agribusiness innovations.
5- takes part into international cooperation actions promoting the exchange and the reception of pupils, students, teachers and administrative staff.
On this basis, RETHEL’s EPLEFPA fulfills the European dimension in the implementation of its training objectives:
- educating European citizens, making them autonomous and able to adapt to society changes. The EPLEFPA promotes the knowledge of foreign languages and associated cultural facts; It ensures the spreading of information throughout the European Union. The International dimension contributes to cross-cultural training as well as personal and vocational integration in the international context.
- training professionals in agri-business fields, sensitive to European problems and aware of marketing constraints, mastering new technologies and integrating the context of the single European market and international trade: international mobility and targeted interventions of teachers from the partner institutions allow wider knowledge of many different production systems. This international dimension of vocational training is a key factor for the young people entering the job market.
- taking part into the farmers’ training : the school finds work placements for foreign students in farms or other types of businesses. The presence of young foreigners in the farm and agribusiness field in Champagne Ardennes contributes to making companies aware of the reality of the European single market, as well as of the Europe of citizens. Taking into account this dimension allows to boost companies competition and local farm development. International mobility is carried out through visits organized by foreign students, through contacts for looking for work placement sites and through outside actions. Thus, the different farm and agribusiness partners are widely requested.
On the whole, the reception of people in mobility actions along with their integration in a different lifestyle through study trips abroad, help promote a collective thinking about the training provided and its improvement, by comparing other institutions’ experience and practice, by allowing every student to benefit from these contributions and finally, by promoting the involvement, of both teachers and administrative officers, into the actions being carried out.