Project context, the number and type / profile of the participants:Prof-tourism: ,, European Competencies for professionals in tourism '', Key Action 1 - mobility of people, Project Reference, no. : 2016-1-RO01-KA102-024239.Between September 2016 - August 2018, ,, Vasile Bacalu'' Highschool Mahmudia takes part in the Erasmus + for professional training (VET). The project beneficiaries are 40 students(organized in four streams - streams 1 and 2 -20 students with mobility in 2017 and flows 3 and 4 -other 20 school children with mobility in 2018) from Xth grade vocational education lasting 3 years(Hotel worker qualification), XIth and XIIth grade highschool classes(specialization-Technician in tourism), profile services.Training through mobility and European investment means the chance to compare school systems, to know the hotel system and travel agency policies - European level, the way they operate.The project is implemented by a team of teachers and aims: supporting Romanian participants to gain work experience in an European environment in order to facilitate professional integration, developing professional skills and personal communication, cooperation in labor relations, cultural skills, in order to increase graduate’s competitiveness (vocational and highschool education), creating models and collaboration strategies at institutional level which adds to Romanian technological education institutes to provide and train relevant qualifications for the labor market.Objectives:O1Developing the specialized technical competences of training modules through internships in companies in the EU, which allow students to organize and lead activities within tourism companies, to base marketing strategies, develop product offerings and services of the company, to conduct economic and financial efficiency analysis of the company;O2Facilitating and improving the transition from school to active life through entrepreneurship, increasing employment opportunities on the labor market of the future graduates, by creating learning contexts in a real business environment;O3Language development and communication skills in Romanian and English, needed for the performance or workload required for future professionals in tourismO4Developing social and interpersonal skills, as well as intercultural skills of the participants through contact with other peoples and cultures.Regarding the provisions of the initial application, we mention that a letter extending the target group set out in the project was sent, including classes X and XI, professional education because livestock from high school classes did not provide the number of students needed which was stipulated in the project application. We must specify that the application was approved by the National Agency for Community Programs in Education and Professional Training.

"The project ""VETRINA TOSCANA IN EUROPA: Azioni di mobilità per lo sviluppo delle competenze nel settoreenogastronomico"" (VET-EU) aimed to connect the objectives of the Tuscany Regional Authority Programme ""VETRINATOSCANA"" (Network of enhancement of the typical Tuscan products that involve different economic and institutional actors)to a mobility experience in Europe to 80 young graduates from five Tourism and Catering VET Schools based in Tuscany.The project was leaded by Mentore di ConfCommercio Toscana in cooperation with an articulated partnership of local actors(Tourism and Catering VET Schools, Tuscany Regional Authority, UnionCamere Toscana, ConfCommercio Toscana,CIPAT-Consorzio Istituti Professionali Associati Toscani) and a wide number of European hosting partners.“VET-EU” aimed to offer to the 80 young participants a great opportunity to became highly qualified in a European contextand provide high quality services to the tourism and catering sector by performing a 3-months mobility experience in fiveEuropean Countries: Malta, Spain, Portugal, France and the United Kingdom. All participants were selected from the targetgroup who already participated in the training activities of the Regional project “SCUOLE VETRINA TOSCANA”(sub-programme of “VETRINA TOSCANA”) that, only in 2013 and 2014, involved more than 500 students. “VET-EU”, in fact,aimed to complete with a EU mobility experience the training path of a target of participants, who, having acquiredcompetences and skills of cooking and culinary art in VET School context, carried out also an intra-curriculum training pathon the valorization of the characteristic of the local products of the Tuscany Region.Participants, after their selection carried out by the five Tourism and Catering VET schools (sending partners of the project),received an intercultural preparation as well as being stimulated to self-study on the hosting country, in order to improve theirlanguage skills and to actively participate throughout the European path. The preparation, therefore, involvedmulti-disciplinary pedagogical, linguistic and cultural preparation aimed to provide information, even of a practical nature,including various aspects of an internship abroad as well as knowledge and skills useful to a full integration into the contextof the hosting country (e.g. highlights on the cultural aspects of the host country, lifestyles and working conditions). Thetraining and learning programme abroad included an internship in selected companies in the tourism and catering sector, toacquire knowledge and skills within the sectors and compare the various professional techniques, and activities aimed at theinclusion and integration in the context and for the improvement of language skills and to better know the culture of thehosting country. The main results from the project included: the rise of the personal and professional skills of the learners,and the promotion of key competencies related to the real exercise of active citizenship; increasing the employment potentialof the participants, the introduction of innovative training methods as a complement to existing practices and pathways andthe improvement of the educational level of technical and vocational schools, the development of relations between thetransnational partners and the promotion of processes of cooperation and exchange of good practices between the partnersinvolved, with a significant impact in improving the educational and vocational guidance.The Consortium, with this project, therefore, aimed to give momentum to the internationalization of institutional relations andcooperation at European level. The opportunities for economic and social growth cannot be separated from the desire tocreate strong interdependence and synergy between educational and training institutions and strong partnerships with localand foreign business realities. The project was, besides, implemented in an European context considering the Europeanpriority and thematic approached such as ""ECVET for transparency and recognition of learning outcomes and qualifications"".The development of ECVET began in 2002 after the Copenhagen Process emphasizing the need for a credit transfer systemfor VET. “VET-EU” was a project based on the concrete responses to the questions of developing ECVET in the Europeanmember States and corresponding to the 2009 EU Recommendations on the establishment of the European Credit systemfor VET. The project worked, in particular, to realise a European area for Lifelong Learning in the Tourism and Cateringsector. The whole activities were implemented by regarding a strong European perspective which was reflected in all projectactivities and results. The project aimed to increase the knowledge of ECVET and its technical specifications and ensuringthat the added value of ECVET was understood and perceived inside and outside the partnership."

The summary of the Project In the Project called ‘ Job Shadowing in Europe’, Çankaya İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schooll students are going to train in Portugal . Our overseas partners are Hotel do Terço- BRAGA-Portugal, Apulia Praia Hotel-BRAGA-Portugal and A.I.A.M.(Associação Intercultural Amigos da Mobilidade) - BRAGA- Portugal. Job shodowing in Europe is prepared for students in 10th and 11th classes . The students are between 15-18 years old and they are from our school . They were Accomodation and Transport and Food and Beverage students .In this Project, 9 students trained in Portugal at 4 star hotels. In both hotels the participant students were from Accomodation and Transport and Food and Beverage Departments . .Vocational knowledge and skills are very important and necessary for our students but it is not satisfying alone. In long terms, not only vocational knowledge and skills but also vocational foreign language is important and necessary to find a place in Tourism sector at international level. With this project ,we aimed to fulfil this deficiency of our participantsAnd we did so. It was important for our participants (students from Accomodation and Transport and Food and Beverage departments) to adopt international and European standards, to improve their vocational education and skills, to improve not only their basic foreign language knowledge and skills but also to improve their vocational foreign language knowledge ,which is very important in tourism sector.They also learned Portuguese while living everyday life.Now they can understand and speak Portuguese at starter level.The lenght of the project effected language learning positively. Our students are still texting their friends from Portugal both in Turkish and in Portuguese.Our students were so hardworking both in vocational skills and language skills that; some of them were offered to go back after their graduation and work in the hotels in Portugal. By the help and contribution of our overseas partners, Braga in Portugal , our participants worked at 4 star hotels. 3 Accomodation and transport students worked in Hotel de Terco ,2 accomodation and transport ( Front Desk) and 4 Food and Beverage students worked in Apulia Pria Hotel. Our participants worked 8 hours a day. At the hotels the master trainers guided them at their training departments. They went to the hotels and came back to the house by the services which were planned by the organization company.Our students started their job shadowing after the first week because the hotels were crowded with the trainees from the other countries.That week ,our students had orientation activities at the organisation company's campus. At that education campus they worked as receptionists, waiters, cooks and house keepers.During 3 monts ,our students worked,trained and lived with their English as a language,We did not use s translator.Because of the lenght of the project they also learned Portuguese while living everyday life.Now they can understand and speak Portuguese at starter level As a result, in long terms, their obtained goals will be used as a step at job applications and to jump their levels at their present positions. With this Project our participants : 1. Took part and worked in context in international standards . 2. Observed the different technics which were practiced in Portugal and had the chance to compare and contrast them with Turkey’s technics.They provided to transfer the differences between these technics. 3. Increased their self –confidence by going abroad as selected participants and did their training in European countries. 4. Enhanced the interest to Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High Schools. 5. In long terms, our graduate students are going to be preferred personnels in Hotel and Tourism sector in Turkey and in Europe. 6. We are going to disseminate the Project at the other Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational Schools in Türkiye.The dissemination activities are as follows:a) It was published in our school's website.b) We opened two blogsAccomodation and transport students' blog and Food and Beverage students'blog.c) Performance of the project including 3 months for both to the teachers and to the students.d) Preparing boards about project at our school.e) Banners,pens,brochuers ,cases and some other materials.These materials will be distributed at the meetings ,both at our school and at the Education of Ministery meetings. 7. Create strong bonds between our school and the partner organizations. 8. Improve their Vocational knowledge and skills and they will be aware of the innovations in tourism sector. 9. İmprove their foriegn language and vocational foreign language ,which they learned in theory in Türkiye,by practising and establishing dialogues. 10. Be aware of the importance of European Citizenship .During the project;our school's project team and the managers always in contact with both the accompanying teachers and the students.And they provided help when it was necessary.At the second ( middle) visit,the accomodation house and the hotels were visited and controlled and there were no problems found. When we visited the house where the students stayed ,we understood that there were lots of benefits that the students gained.The programmes made by the accompanying teachers ( household chores , shopping , cooking) brought lots of positive things to students' lives.These workshops made the students to stand on their feet and to live their life easily and confidently in a foreign country.The students were checked at the hotels by the accompanying teachers every week.Our students Works were writte in their jobshadowing notebooks of our school.They were checked by this notebooks ,too.They also studied English online at the OLS system and it was checked by the accompanying teachers.And the hours of the online linguistic studies were checked by the project team online regularly. At the end of this Project,our school ‘s Project group will have meetings to transfer the obtained information, experience and innovation to our country.We will announce the project’s results to the other Hotel Management and Tourism High Schools in Türkiye by e-mails about giving information about the project’s blog and the web page in dissemination activities . In order to encourage our school students to participate to these Erasmus Projects, we will record the participants' studies and show the records to the other students.

"The project ""European Placements in Competitive Environments - Increased Chances on the Labor Market!"", Which took place for a period of 14 months, benefited from the mobility of 67 students, as follows:-17 students from the 11th grade, high school, technological line, professional qualification: Veterinary technician level 4-10 students, 11th grade of high school, technological branch, basic training: Mechanics (vocational school)-18 students, grade 10th, lower secondary school, technological branch, basic training: Tourism and food (vocational school)-22 students from the 10th grade, the lower cycle of the high school, the technological branch, the basic training field: Commerce.The project aimed at gaining work experience in a European work environment connected to the study field of the participants in order to facilitate the professional integration on the labor market. At the same time, the placement also supported personal development, communication and cooperation in working relationships, improving language skills and cultural competencies, in order to increase the competitiveness of the technical high school graduate and the vocational school in relation to the labor market.The objectives of the project were:1. Improving the quality and efficiency of the educational act and the vocational training initiated by acquiring specific skills validated abroad and transferred to the country in order to better transition from school to the labor market.2. Personal development of the students by acquiring in real contexts some key competencies specific to the work place, in order to increase the employment opportunities;3.The use of transnational partnerships and European tools to facilitate the mobility and transparency of qualifications in order to increase and develop the European dimension of institutional management.Practical training sessions were held as follows:-For the field of tourism and nutrition, the Qualification of the Waiter (chef), a food salesman (professional school) in June 2018, in two restaurants in the city of Barcelos - Portugal - Hotel do Terço and Terraço dos Petis, diversified especially based on fresh meat, fish and seafood, and on serving the right meals.-For auto mechanic qualification - professional school - in January 2018, in two car service in Granada - Talleres J. Calero Motosport and JOMASUR AUTOMOCION who carry out complete diagnostic and repair services for cars.-For the field of commerce, the Qualification Technician in economic activities, in February 2018 in two companies specialized in accounting, payroll, audit, tax consultancy and business consultancy.-For the veterinary technician qualification - in January 2018, in the Aris Fettas Veterinary Clinic in Paphos - a performance veterinary clinic.All the objectives proposed in the project have been achieved, following a good organization of the partnership. Connections with receiving organizations were established through intermediary partners: MEP Europrojects Granada - Spain, Amigos de Mobilidade, Barcelos-Portugal and Rivensco Consulting, Paphos, Cyprus."

Within the scope of our project, our 20 students have been internship in Italy and Portugal vocational training institutions and tourism enterprises for 3 weeks accompanied by our 4 vocational teachers. 10 students from the Accommodation and Travel Services area of our school and 10 students from the Food and Beverage Services area participated in this internship activity. 12 students and 2 vocational teachers to Italy flow, 8 students and 2 vocational teachers to Portugal flow have been participated.In this context, our students from the Accommodation and Travel Services area got a job in the front office and housekeeping departments of the hotel companies, which are our project partners in both countries. Students who have been internship in the front office department of the hotels defined the work and organizational structure of the hotel. Also they have received practical training from the authorized personnel of the hotel about provide information about the hotel and the city, filing the documents, guest welcome, do check-in, arranging the documents, transferring the guest records to the computer environment, solving customer demands and complaints, making reservations. In the housekeeping department, our students have received hands-on training from experienced hotel staff about topics such as room and bathroom cleanliness and layout, bedding, hygiene, general area cleaning, customer requests.Our Food and Beverage Services area students got a job in kitchens and service departments of the independent restaurants and of the practice restaurant of the vocational training institution, which are our project partners in both countries. Our students who have work in the service department have received hands-on training from experienced staff about topics such as reservations, customer service, service preparation, lounge and table arrangement, order taking, food and beverage service to customers. Our students who internship in the kitchen department have taken practical training from skillful kitchen staff about topics such as preparation of kitchen work, local, national and international meat and vegetable dishes, preparation of various sauces, cooking methods, plate preparation and presentation methods.In this process, our students found a chance to communicate directly with the managers, staff and clients of the institutions they have been intern with, to get to know their cultures and to learn their habits. Thanks to this interaction, they were able to grasp the importance of foreign language and to develop it. They also have been knowledge of tourism education, service understanding and quality of tourism enterprises in the countries where they. Again, our students have participated in cultural excursions and activities in the countries they have visited, and have had the opportunity to learn about the history, culture and food habits of the countries concerned.Our project participant students have been started their 2017-2018 academic year local business internship immediately after the end of their mobility. Our participant students were placed for local business internships, which lasted for about five months, to five star hotels and holiday villages in Antalya province (they service foreign guests mostly), and to our school Practice Hotel. They have thus been able to transfer the knowledge and skills they have acquired in Europe directly application and transfer their experiences, which are indirect beneficiaries of the project to local businesses, other the students and their coordinator teachers.Since the start of each phase of the project, it has been aimed to transfer the achievements gained by sharing through the local press, EBA website, school web site and social media and these studies have also made a significant contribution to the promotion of our school.The success of our project mobility activities and the sharing of acquired knowledge and skills with local businesses, teachers and students has influenced upon the development of international quality of our institution, the enhancement of the quality of education and to be preferred institution. With the motivation given by the success of our last two project, our project numbered of KA102-56454 that we wrote during the 2018 call period has been accepted by the Turkish National Agency.Our school, which aims to cultivate qualified intermediate staff and administrators for the tourism sector, will continue to contribute to our students and teachers by participating in similar international projects.