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Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Centrum Kształcenia Zawodowego i Ustawicznego in Oława once again would like to offer its students internships in the most interesting places in Europe. The mobility project „Internships in Europe – better professional future” is targeted at the students of technical secondary school with hotel (hospitality), tourism and catering profiles. The project provides students of the mentioned profiles with professional trainings, which are to take place during two trips: to Majorca/Spain – May 2017 and to Malaga/Spain in July 2017. Both professional trainings will last 4 weeks and will be carried out in the enterprises of the tourist trade (hotels, restaurants, travel agencies and other places connected with tourist service) which will ensure high quality traineeship. The cooperating institutions are IES Consulting Expat Intern S.L./ Spain and Ekip Europa/ Spain, which have many years’ experience in carrying out such projects.The project aim is to support students of the technical secondary schools in gaining the following competences – acquiring vocational experience abroad, increasing command of foreign languages, broadening their knowledge of other cultures, gaining new skills, increasing students’ sense of belonging to Europe, strengthening European cooperation in vocational education and ensuring better recognition of competences acquired abroad. The programmes of traineeships were prepared on the basis of the core curriculum, the school time schedule of traineeships and the traineeship schedules for specific profiles. The programmes of mobilities followed the quality guidelines and were established and approved by the school headmaster and host organisations. 32 students of the of 2nd and 3rd grade (two groups) selected according to the rules of recruitment process will participate in the traineeships. Both groups will be accompanied by two qualified teachers.The project will be carried out from the first of September, 2016, it will last 14 months and cover activities in three stages:I. The first stage of preparation will include:• Organizational activities related to arranging high quality of traineeships with the host organizations, publicizing and dissemination of information on the project. • Two recruitment processes for the trips, as a result of which 16 students + 2 substitute ones will be selected during the competition. • Preparation: 30 hrs of Spanish, 15 hrs of English, 8 hrs of the culture and 10 hrs of the workshops “Music and cuisine of Spain”, 10 hours of pedagogic, 2hrs of safety with the police for each group.II. The second stage will concern carrying out the mobility:• Stay and undergoing of the high quality vocational traineeship on Majorca – May 2017 and Malaga – July 2017 in the selected enterprises.• Providing support for students from the recruitment stage, particularly during preparation before the training to the stage of staying in a foreign country and undergoing the traineeship. III. The third stage involves the activities after finishing the mobilities: • Summarizing and completing the traineeship and project: obtaining certificates Europass Mobility, language certificates, preparing reports. • Popularizing and dissemination of the project results.• Providing the monitoring of carrying out the project by the school headmaster. Carrying out the project will bring benefits to:• project participants: students will get vocational qualifications and experience in different posts connected with the service of hotel guests, restaurant consumers, work in the restaurant or tourist places, which will help them overcome the communication barriers, learn about another culture, achieve Europass, raise their value as an employee in the European job market;•applicants: enlarging the offer of traineeships for students, promoting school in the local community, supporting students and motivating them to life long learning, improving school’s ranking, increasing competitiveness of school offer in comparison with other schools in the county, extending the European dimension of the school activity;• the region: preparing qualified employees for employers of the region, copying good European standards in the local companies, reducing the cultural distance and preventing unemployment. Centrum provides comprehensive education to its students and offers not only knowledge and traineeship but also enables students to have a better start into their professional future. These goals are achieved by carrying out projects which involves international work experience, disseminating and popularizing of the project work. Carrying out the project also contributes to the raise of awareness among students, parents and the local community of the meaning of the European dimension of school activity.Students underline the benefits of taking part in such projects, show lots of interest and involvement, aim at building their vocational future with the European dimension.
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