Higher education student and staff mobility projec..
Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014,
End date: May 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Context and antecedents of the project:
- Professional field Computer Science and Communications: Higher Technician in Development of Web Applications, Higher Technician in Multiplatform Applications Development and Higher Technician in Computer Network Systems Management.
- Internship embedded in the student's curriculum, counting towards the degree (FCT), and the possibility of making extra-curricular internship for students and also for newly-qualified higher technicians.
- Some of the subjects in these degrees are taught in both our native language and a foreign language, which is either English or Portuguese, depending on the subject.
- Previous experience: 5 years in Erasmus, 2 years in LdV, 2 years in Erasmus+ KA102 and 2 years in Erasmus+ KA103.
- eTwinning projects with European Quality Labels, with national and international prizes.
- Intermediate partner of LdV and Erasmus+ KA102 mobility.
- Sending and hosting partner of job shadowing.
Objectives of the project:
- To improve the language skills in the foreign language
- To extend the job opportunities abroad
- To facilitate the mobility of students in their curricular internship and in their subsequent working life.
- To acquire a sense of belonging to the European Union
- To increase the attractiveness of the VETs
- To know other countries' education system in relation to Computer VET.
Number and profile of the participants:
- Curricular internship: 10 students (5 of Computer Network Systems Management, 3 of Development of Multiplatform Applications and 2 of Development of Web Applications).
- Extra-curricular internship: 1 student of Development of Multiplatform Applications.
- Job shadowing: 1 teacher.
Description of the activities that have been carried out:
- Internship period:
* 11 weeks: 4 students in the autumn of 2014, 6 students in the spring of 2015 and 1 student in the summer of 2015.
* Destinations: companies in Dublin, London, Prague and Naxxar.
- Job shadowing:
* 1 week in spring of 2015.
* Destination: Trinity College, Dublin.
* Supplementary activity: monitoring of 4 students who were doing their curricular internship in Dublin.
Learning outcomes and validation and recognition of acquired skills:
- Performance of tasks of computer technicians related to the speciality of each computer VET degree.
- Performance of new supplementary tasks, related to other aspects of computer science.
- Acquisition of organisational skills and competences.
- Training activities provided by the companies.
- Improvement of language skills of the participants, with the possibility of certification by Spanish Oficial School of Languages, Cambridge, CAPLE-FLUL, etc.
- Incorporation of the results to the Europass CV and Europass Language Passport.
- Europass Mobility Certificate issued by the sending and receiving organisations.
- Europass Supplement of the diploma.
- Certificates of foreign language courses issued by the sending and receiving organisations if appropriate.
- Application for Quality Label of the eTwinning project as an example of good practice in the use of the TwinSpace for management of mobility projects.
Expected benefits and possible long-term impact:
- Job in the same companies for some of the the participants.
- Employment potential in other companies of the same city.
- Employment in Galician companies after including this experience in the CV.
- Certification of their level in foreign language to improve their employment prospects.
- Increasing the attractiveness of the VET studies at IES San Clemente through the dissemination of the project results.
- Appreciation of the VET studies at IES San Clemente by Galician and Portuguese institutions, after sending letters to disseminate the project's results.
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