Seduworks
Start date: Aug 1, 2014,
End date: Jul 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
There will be an opportunity for 142 SEDU-students for on-the-job learning abroad and for 30 staff members an opportunity to develop their skills in working life oriented and learning outcome based education through Seduworks project in 2014 - 2016.
The mobility periods will be carried out in the following partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and UK.
For students the periods will last from 4 weeks to 12 weeks with the exception of the students studying in Preparatory Vocational -programme who will have a two-week mobility. The sfaff exchanges last from 3 days up to 2 weeks.
Students in all study fields of SEDU are eligible for the learning period abroad. The staff members participating in the exchanges have been mapped out during January-February 2014 by a survey in each department. Personal development discussions have supported the survey. The students applying for the period abroad might have special needs. This is taken into consideration when preparing for the placement abroad as well as regarding the tutoring and guidance during the placement. The students of preparatory vocational programme will be accompanied by a teacher for the whole period. In addition to this we apply for three more grants for accompanying persons to be able to support the special needs students participating in the exchanges.
The mobility periods of the students have been agreed in general level together with international partners and in most cases the cooperation with different qualifications has been formalized in the form of Memorandum or Understanding. The Learning Agreement (LA) sets out the conditions for the mobility period of an individual learner. In staff mobilities the goals of the visit have been discussed during the survey in January-February 2014 and they have been communicated to receiving partners. The mobility periods of the staff are tailor made to the needs of the qualification or the developing aspect of the education provision specially named. The topics of the staff exchanges vary, being for example developing the working life connection of the education (work placement in a company), strengthening the validation and recognition of learning and learning outcome approach. (administrational development work and/or teaching in a partner institution) to job-shadowing.
As a result of the project we are looking for the education witch better meets the needs of the individual and working life through strengthening learning outcome approach to education. The idea is also to support the life long learning skills of each participant by offering them a possibility to learn in another cultural setting.
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