‘World is opening to us’ - Svět se otevírá pro ná..
‘World is opening to us’ - Svět se otevírá pro nás
Start date: Jul 1, 2014,
End date: Jun 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The aim of project - ‘World is opening to us’ - was to gain specialist knowledge for students of 1, 2 and 3 grade of aprenticeship Gardener and Lumberjack in Jyväskylä Educational Consortium Jyväskylän koulutuskuntayhtymä in Finland and students of third grade of A-level study programme „ Veterinary studies“ in Sachsisches Landesamt für Umwelt Landwirtschaft und Geologie in Köllitsch, Germany.
18 students took part in the educational stay - 6 girsl from first grade of aprenticeship Gardener, 6 boys of second and third grade of aprenticeship Lumberjack and 6 girls of third grade of A-level programme Veterinary studies in three 14 day cycles with one accompanying person in each term. The participants of the stay actively joined the practice in specialised classrooms and other places where the practice was held in both Finnish and German schools.
Students joint in the usual routines of the host organizations. Students of aprenticeship Lumberjack gained in Finland knowledge and skills in practical work with multioperational machines, on simulators of harvesting machines, they assorted materials and they also worked with wood mining machines in a forest and with chainsaw and subsequently had to measure and adjust mined wood. Students of Gardener aprenticeship were multiplying vegeteble grows and re-planted them in greenhouses, they also cultivated the fields with special machines, cared for the flowers in greenhouses as well as outside on the grounds of college, they also assorted the flowers for arrangements for sale in college shop. Veterinary studies students in Germany were working with animal husbandry and in specialised classrooms (training of milking, preparation of feeding formulas). They cared for animal health in kettle farming, sheep farming, pig farming and horse farming, they also monitored breeding, then they learned the correct manipulation with animals with the use of mechanization and they examined the animals including vaccination under supervizion of a local vet.
The importance of project was in intensification of skills and in gaining new experience in different working environment, furthermore in another country. The newly gained skills helped students with their independence in working, ability to make decisions about working processes and work in one team with foreign students and workers and to improve their language skills. Specialized activites made excellent preparation for final exams. All of the students gained working habits which will help them in the future in finding a job in labour market.
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