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Let's go pro in Europe
Let's go pro in Europe
Start date: Jun 1, 2016,
End date: May 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
Every year, our vocational school trains 400 students to a variety of jobs: Electrotechnics, Maintenance of Industrial Equipment, Personal Caring, Administrative Management, Security and Business.In 2012-2013 we carried out a first (Leonardo) professional mobility project in Denmark.This project allowed us to mobilize our forces and achieve our wish to open our school to Europe. The new dynamics enabled us to open a European section in the Business department in September 2014. With this 3-year training and through our new student-mobility project, the image of our vocational school will be more dynamic. Thus, our school will be distinguished from the others via a specific European training.Today, we are setting up an Erasmus+ mobility project which will be carried out in Malta in the beginning of 2017 for a part of our students and in the beginning of 2018 for the other part.18 students in our European section in business are concerned. The average age will be 19 years old at the time of the professional mobility. The majority of these students suffer from low self-esteem and a lack of confidence because of their personal and/or educational background. The Maltese multi-language environment is more flexible and therefore more favorable to the fragile level of English of our students. They will realize their internships in clothes shops, ideal places considering the objectives to achieve for our students degrees.Over three training years, the European section students will do extra training courses: business in English, Standard English and European knowledge. They have to do a 4-week work placement in a European country and take a specific exam to get the European section mention on their diploma. So, they will increase their chances to access higher education, better their post-diploma results and improve their integration in the job market. In other words, we will ensure them a better future.We also have as a main aim the sustainability of our European section by training a larger number of our staff members. A third class will be welcomed in September 2016.In our strategy for our staff members, we bet on internal and external trainings, and the “learning by doing” theory. We will make sure that the unexperienced persons always work with the experienced ones on European projects. This would level everybody up and let us set new teams who will be able to do the training and sending abroad of our other European sections to come.We plan to give a deepened training to our students in France within two years and a half before going abroad: 169 hours in addition to the usual courses, and a week English Language course in Malta aiming at helping them to live their mobility in good conditions, and to pass the exam of the European section speciality. The mobilities will take place this way: first, two members of our staff will go to Malta with the group of students. They will stay with them to give them confidence and allow them to adapt progressively.Then, during weeks 2 and 3, the pupils will be under the responsibility of our partners who will make sure that the work placements go well. On line and by phone, a follow-up from France will be ensured by members of our team.The last week, two teachers of the business section will go to Malta to do the final evaluation of the work placements and the Europass certificates. Eventually they will go back to France with the students.Shortly afterwards, our school team will work with the students for 3 days to do a report on their professional and personal experiences and organize the evening event about the mobilities.We will pay particular attention to the external communication of our project, via the press, our school brochure, the regional education office and during an evening event. In the long-term, we consider asking the “European high school” label. Then, after a 7-year experience, we will enrich the “educational preparation guide to mobility” which will have been done in our previous project. The new version will be delivered to the teachers in the educational training centers.To conclude, we plan this long-term mobility project as a unifying and formative project.