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Praktyka zagraniczna kluczem do sukcesu zawodowego
Praktyka zagraniczna kluczem do sukcesu zawodowego
Start date: Dec 31, 2014,
End date: Dec 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
A group of fourty-five students of Mechatronics Technical School and Technical School for Tourism and tourism-related enterprise served a four-week training in Leipzig and Seville under supervision of three teachers of Vocational Schools in Chocianow. Students served their training in countries in which the respective branches are the most developed and the foreign partners guarantee interesting job offers.
Thanks to numerous business contacts of our partner Europa-Haus, the students of mechatronics could take up training at the following plants in Leipzig, Germany: Abschlepp und Bergungsdienst Scholz, B&M Autoservice, LE-Dreamcar maintenance and repair shops and Autoverwertung Richter car recycling plant. Part of the students served in electrical installation repair companies: Peter Hoffmann Elektroinstallation, Rolf Trommer Elektroanlagen and Pakendorf. In those companies, our students were working in repairing current electrical and electrotechnical failures and electrical installation dismantlement in Leipzig, as well as in the companies chosen by Kommunaler Eigenbetrieb Leipzig, namely ZOO Leipzig and Amt für Stadtgrün und Gewässer workshops. They also serves as a technical staff for SAH “Martin Andersen Nexö” Städtisches Altenpflegeheim’s electrical installations.
The students of tourism gained their work experience serving in the following hotels in Seville: EME Catedral Hotel, Los Seises by Fontecruz Hotel, Zenit Sevilla, Taberna del Alabardero and Hotel Don Paco. The training included jobs concerning accommodation, restaurant, kitchen and scullery duty, as well as housekeeping. The jobs were guaranteed by our Spanish partner euroMind, that works with tourism sector companies in Seville and Ubeda. The students also took part in an intensive course of Spanish (level A1), which was taught in English.
The training schedule in both instances was very rich. Among the points we managed to carry out, we are particularly satisfied with the trips to BMW plant and classes at Porsche plants in the youth Centre for Education and Technology GaraGe in the former industrial district of Leipzig. At BMW participants were able to acquaint themselves with a course of the production and technological process, starting from the car body production, through the paint shop, to the final assembly and testing of the ready cars.They could also observe a practical employment of industrial robots there. At Porsche plants, the classes concerned construction and diagnostics of the cars as well as assembly and disassembly of a boxster Porsche engine. Apart from those, the students saw the Monument to the Battle of the Nations, a Leipzig ZOO, a Market Square, the Museum of the Contemporary History, the Grassi Museum and other monuments of Leipzig. They could also admire Leipzig view from the river during the cruise. Leipzig EFA Trade Fair—focused on electrical installations, PLCs and electric drive vehicles—and a concert at a hall were additional attractions. The students could vote at an election at the Polish Institute, use a fitness club, gym and a sauna, and visit a Polish church in Plagwitz district. In Sevilla, the itinerary included a trip to Malaga and sightseeing of Sevilla. Our students admired the Plaza de España, the Cathedral and the Giralda, the Alcázar Palace among others. They took part in Tapas Night and visited Metropol Parasol as well. Our students did not only do some sightseeing. They were able to experience a different, Southern lifestyle, some Spanish cuisine, and to meet some interesting people.
At the end of the training, all the participants received a certificate of completion from the project partners and Europass Mobility documents, which confirm the work skills gained during the training. The training provided a full execution of the main goals—an improvement of vocational qualifications of the students and shaping mobility attitude on the evolving job market, an improvement of linguistic skills, a promotion of the European aspect in vocational training, an increase in professional competence and qualifications, gaining knowledge of the work culture and people’s mentality, development of people skills, exploration of the rules of business workings based on European patterns, putting a theoretical knowledge gained at school in practice, learning new technologies, improving team work and communication skills, as well as personal independence and responsibility.
Regarding the needs of our region, the training ensured the fulfillment of set goals by increasing the students’ chances for finding a job after graduation, providing better quality of vocational education, extending and enriching of the vocational training offers of our school, raising resourcefulness, innovativeness and creativity of our students, improvement of students’ professional standing both at the local and European job market. For its participants, the training will surely prove to be a key to a professional success.