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Students on the International Road
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Students on the International Road project's main objective is to prepare and train young people and adults who live in the agrarian environment for the current labor market demands and needs. Another objective is to increase students' understanding of small-scale industry, internationalization and entrepreneurship. Third goal is to familiarize students with special needs with internationalization and on the job learning in a foreign culture . Students on the International Road is a two-year project, in which 82 students of the Southwest Finland municipal education and training consortium work abroad from 2 to 10 weeks, and one graduated student for a half-year period. The amount of teacher mobilities is 10. The two-week periods are planned for young people with special needs and the longer exchanges to other students. We are planning to send abroad approximately 8 students with special needs. The host institutions are from Estonia, Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Italy and Norway. The project will include travel, language and cultural training, entrepreneurship and professional coaching before on the job learning as well as a separate training for students with special needs. Participants are performing a vocational qualification or vocational examination and there are students from all three educational institutions and from all fields of education. Students participating in the international exchange are at least 18 years old, and they represent both sexes and part of the students are with special needs. Students practice during the period their professional skills in practice and they give a skills demonstration. The project is expected to have an impact, as well as for the participating students and teachers as well as for the organizations which operate at the local and regional levels, such as educational institutions and enterprises. The effects will be seen in the students' ability to understand international issues that improve their employability and ability to operate in demanding tasks. The project develops teachers' professional knowledge and opens up opportunities to develop their own field. Provincial companies get labor that truly understands the importance of international cooperation. One of our slogans in our strategy is called "license to try" and through this project we will achieve a lot of valuable information and tools to put it into practice.
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