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Kształcenie praktycznych umiejętności w bielskim H..
Kształcenie praktycznych umiejętności w bielskim Hotelarzu kluczem do kariery w zintegrowanej Europie.
Start date: Oct 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The beneficiary of the project: ‘Practical skills development in the Hotel Management College in Bielsko-Biała is the key to professional career in the integrated Europe’ was Zespół Szkół im. J. Tuwima w Bielsku-Białej, which educates students in the profession of hotelier and tourism technician. The participants of the project were the students of the second and third year (all the students are over 18 years old) of the College who held their professional apprenticeship at our project partners: one college in UK (Grantham), hotels in Spain (Barcelona), a vocational school in Austria (Zwettl), and in the Austrian guesthouse (Fusch a.d. Grossglockerstrasse). The purpose of the project constituted practical trial of the professional knowledge that was gained during school studies, acquisition of new abilities in the scope of new techniques and work approaches for hotels and tourism centres.
Project was launched in 2014-2016. The Partners hosted and took care of some multi-personal groups of participants in subsequent months of the project implementation from September 2014 till June 2016. We sent (for 5 weeks apprenticeships) 66 beneficiaries: , 3x10 persons to the Partner in UK (Grantham), 16 persons to Austria (6 to Zwettl and 10 to Austria ( Fusch a.d. Großglocknerstraße) and 2 x 10 persons to Spain.
The partnership was multi-institutional, because all the institutions that took part in the project are strictly co-operating with the hotels of the highest standards or possess such hotels, where the practical trainings and internships are organized for both kinds of students: local ones and participants of the previous and mentioned project. The main part of the internship was followed by cultural, behavioral and professional linguistic training. The participants s attended the training under our school guardian - who is a teacher of our school. Due to specific working conditions in the hotel and tourism industry and restrictions referring to the quantity of the beneficiaries holding simultaneously internship in the hotel, the groups leaving for particular partners will include 6 to 10 persons each.
Permanent development of hotel and tourism services is connected with the requirement to shape practical abilities on the highest level. The states where our partners are headquartered the mentioned services are considerably developed. It meant that the participants gained opportunity to improve and upgrade their skills in the framework of the abilities that are currently more and more searched on the labour market in connection with upgrading knowledge of professional English, German and Spanish. Meaningful aspect of the practice constitutes knowledge of new manners and rules of rendering hotel and tourism services in European Union, developing abilities to apply new reservation systems, creation different possibilities and ways of client’s free time animation, perfection of professional expressions in foreign languages. The above profits meaningfully increase professional chances on the labour market.
We prepared numerous, various forms of the project results wide spread. They cover, among others, multi-media presentations, which are directed to the employers who created the project together with the project co-ordinators. Some of these events will shape the form of the “Mini Labour Possibilities Fair”. In the scope of this event the participants obtained opportunity to present their skills, professional knowledge and gained experience to future possible employers. These “Mini Labour Possibilities Fairs” were held during “The Days of Hoteliers and Tourists” which were organized in March 2015 and March 2016 in our school. Information referring the project were also published on the college’s, town’s and partners’ websites, as well as in local press and professional( trade) magazines. All the participants received relevant certificates, including Europass - Mobility document. We certified the results of the project in the framework of the ECVET system. The project evaluation was made referring both to each group of participants as well in general, assuming the project totally.