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Learning Experience Abroad for Professionals and Students
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The reason why Køge Business College applies for Erasmus + 2014 is that in recent years, we have a greater focus on internationalisation in the school's strategy. As we offer LDV stays for students, teachers and staff, it is a good opportunity to anchor internationalisation in the different departments of the school, along with the other international activities which make globalization sustainable and meaningful to both students and staff at the institution. The past years the school has sent our Upper secondary and Vocational education students abroad in work placements after graduation. We consider LDV stay as a good tool to enhance the participants cultural, linguistic and personal skills in relation to succeed as Work placement Abroad student later, likewise a LDV stay in general can help to highlight career paths in the participants' subsequent education. The vocational training and upper secondary students are offered a three week LDV stay in either Spain, Germany, the UK or Malta. The participants are offered internships within the field of retail and office work. Furthermore, all the partners in our application offer cultural activities as one of our main goals is to strengthen intercultural competences. Moreover, we want to strengthen the language output of our school’s primary languages, English, German and Spanish. The Participants represent two different departments at the school and students have different academic and personal needs. Therefore we have two different procedures. The most immediate difference of the two groups is that the vocational students only are offered Malta as a destination and an accompanying teacher always will travel with the students the first week of their stay. For the vocational training students, the goal is especially to give them more confidence regarding their second language training and on the personal level. An accompanying teacher will give the students the safety they need to make such a stay a success. For both types of students the project's overall objective is that the students throughout their LDV-stay have a good experience abroad and gain great confidence in their professional and personal qualifications. A goal in itself is that after graduation a LDV stay can motivate the students to go abroad in work placement, which many of the returned LDV students have already expressed in their internal evaluation. The two coordinators are responsible for the project and have selected partnerships in the UK, Germany, Spain and Malta. The partnerships are chosen because they offer a wide range of companies for internships that can meet the needs of both types of students at KHS, and because they offer language school courses. The coordinators continually are in dialogue with partnerships in relation to monitoring and improving LDV stays. The coordinators are also responsible for selection of participants, monitoring and evaluation of the LDV stays. Moreover, the coordinators also organize the cultural and linguistic preparation courses to make the students ready for the three-week stay. The coordinators have developed a process that ensures that all stages before, during and after LDV stays are implemented and evaluated in order to continuously develop the students LDV stay. The coordinators work with the school’s marketing department to disseminate the results and experiences of the LDV participants both internally and in the surrounding media. Another target group in this application is VETPRO participants. We have good experience with sending the professional staff on a 1 week VETPRO stay focused on inspiration and training. The coordinators bring together interested candidates twice a year for an information meeting together with the Vetpro participants who have already returned home. The goal is to create a platform for inspiration and knowledge sharing of VETPRO experiences. We apply in this application for LDV stays for 90 Vet students and 2 accompanying teachers for the period 2014-2016. We have prior to this application sent 100 Vet students and 10 Vetpro professionals abroad. Therefore, we believe we can guarantee good student stays and competent partnerships abroad and hereby realizing the objectives of this application. LDV stays are an improvement of Køge Business College's international profile and enhance internationalisation to be anchored in the school´s strategy for the benefit of the individual student and the school as an institution.
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