Petroc GO Chinon
Start date: Jan 1, 2015,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Petroc Go Chinon ! is a Key Action 1 project, which will allow 16 students and 8 staff from Petroc, a large General Further Education College in Devon, to undertake 2 week work placements and training opportunities in France (Chinon), in 2015 and 2016.
The project targets participants in an isolated rural area, who face barriers to accessing education, training and personal/professional development opportunities. The area suffers from poor public transport, a low-skill low-wage economy, and a high cost of living. It also has a significantly higher than average proportion of micro-businesses, who lack the capacity to provide meaningful work experience opportunities to support young people to develop their aspirations and employability skills.
The participants in this project will be drawn from students taking Supported Learning courses with Petroc at the Mid Devon campus based in Tiverton.
The project will enhance participants’ employability skills, as well as their cultural horizons, though the following range of activities:
Tailored work programmes in a college staff restaurant, local bakeries cafes and restaurants in Chinon, France.
As an addition to the current Petroc Go! project ( 2014-1-UK01-KA102-000500) The project will be overseen by the College’s highly experienced Projects Administration Team, working alongside curriculum staff to ensure participants are able to maximize the opportunities available to them in the various partner countries in order to enable them to develop a greater cultural understanding of life in modern Europe; increase their self-confidence; raise their aspirations; and, most importantly, develop skills which will considerably increase their employability and boost the economic development of the North and Mid-Devon areas.
Through this project, a larger number of participants will be involved in European mobility than ever before, in a strategically planned manner, which will form part of a longer-term strategy to increase the involvement of young people in the Erasmus+ Programme throughout Devon.