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VET Mobility Estepona-Vasteräs- Enniscorthy
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The IES Mar de Alborán is a Secondary Comprehensive and Vocational State School allocated in Estepona, Málaga, a town on the western Costa del Sol with a growing population of almost 70.000 inhabitants; its main economic activities are tourism , commerce and fishing. Our secondary school is very dynamic and offers a full range of studies from lower and middle secondary education to higher secondary. The Vocational School comprises three areas of study: Electronics, Business Management and Finance and IT. The new management team has set among its objectives to incorporate the school to European programs and educational projects, aiming to improve our standards with European collaborative experiences. We wish to give the opportunity for students to fulfill credits included in their official catalogue in a foreign institution, and specially the training placement .We aim to promote both student and teacher participation to raise attainment levels and the relevance of our VET courses in the labour market and establish educational and professional links as well as empowering enriching transversal skills and creating an open-minded and less fearful mentality. Another central objective is linguistic, since we are the only secondary school in the municipality which is not yet involved in a Bilingualism Project. We want to bridge that gap by enhancing a multicultural spirit and foreign language acquisition. IES Mar de Alborán has a set of general goals for Internationalisation and also sees the need to start involving our VET students and teachers, who have not had the opportunity before to live a mobility experience, enhancing motivation and creating a bandwagon effect with others in the school. In order to meet our needs we have been looking for organisations to form long term relations and work together and which have a good level of English to reinforce our linguistic objectives. We have two partners in this project: A Swedish Secondary School, part of Vasteras City Council Consortium, and an Irish Business Centre in Ennyscorthy. We believe that both partners fully comply with all the criteria we stated in our Erasmus Charter: DIVERSITY, COMPLEMENTARITY, ADDED VALUE and REPERCUSSION AND IMAGE. The Swedish school has ample experience in this kind of mobility projects. We have started preliminary work with them and have already had 4 preparatory meetings in Estepona to arrange different projects. Whereas to the Irish partner, it is specially enriching because of its double profile, providing training in Business Administration and support for micro start-up businesses, which complements well our institutional VET courses. We are all applying for K102 funding and are willing to collaborate in other international projects, having agreed to work hand in hand to comply a dossier of common procedures and documents.It is a 2 YEAR PROJECT FOR VET STUDENT AND STAFF MOBILITY, which would cover the following: 1st.Secondary Education student mobility VET traineeships:16 students - 4 for each year in both destinations, during 4 weeks. 2nd. Staff mobility: job-shadowing- 8 teachers- 2 for each year in both destinations, during 5 days. The participants involved in both mobilities will have gone through a clear and public selection process run by the European Projects and Educational Mobility Commission of the School, The target groups of the student mobility activities are VET students (ISCED/EQF3). The profile will be that of a responsible, motivated student with good academic standards and sufficient language competence to enable communication in everyday and professional situations. The VET teachers participating shall be motivated and committed to share and disseminate the experience, will be actively involved in the projects and will also have a minimum proficiency in English. The European Projects and Educational Mobility Commission together with the students/staff, will agree on the activities to be undertaken. These activities will match learning outcomes and competences to be acquired by the participants. A Learning Agreement will be drawn up for the students and a Mobility Agreement will be designed for staff. All actions will have a follow up and evaluation process, which is regulated by the European Mobility School Commission.Finally, to make more extensive the experiences and share our results, we will disseminate them within our educational community through our school website, intranet, teacher´s blogs and in our regular meetings and share our experiences with the regional teacher training centers. Outside the educational community, we will inform on all the European Mobility activities in our school web page, our school blog and on a specific Erasmus blog. We will also disseminate activities and results in our municipality and province on the local press, TV and in the tabloids, both in Spanish, English and Swedish, and in institutional events with our partners and the local authorities.

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