Aim of the project: 100 participants(students, trainees, trainers and teachers) of different middle schools and voc.higher schools as well as Vocational Schools of the region Carinthia take part in this project to gain international work experience as well as three accompanieing people. Our partners abroad are in Italy, Finnland, Great Britain, France, Malta, Spain and Ireland.The organisators of the project help the participants before the actual start of the traineeship, between the traineeship and after the traineeship in various fields of needed organisation (contracts, memorandum of understanding, learning agreements, preparation, monitoring, evaluation) At the end of the project a big presentation with representatives of the schools as well as the media is going to take place.Description of the activities: The participants do a traineeship abroad.As Europe is in the need of workers with international experience and linguistic competences this project is going to give international expercience to the participants. Also the linguistic compentences can be developed in the traineeship. One more aim of the project is do develop open-minden European citizens.The project is going to take place in: AT, IT, UK, FI, MT, IE, FR, LIT from the 1st of June 2015 till the 31st of May 2017.

Aim of the project: the participants(students, trainees, trainers and teachers) of different middle schools and voc.higher schools as well as Vocational Schools of the region Carinthia took part in this project to gain international work experience. Our partners abroad are in Italy, Finnland, Great Britain, France, Malta, Spain and Ireland.The organisators of the project help the participants before the actual start of the traineeship, between the traineeship and after the traineeship in variuous fields of needed organisation (contracts, learning agreements, preparation, monitoring, evaluation) At the end of the project a big presentation with representatives of the schools as well as the media is going to take place.Description of the activities: The participants do a traineeship abroad.As Europe is in the need of workers with international experience and linguistic competences this project is going to give international expercience to the participants. Also the linguistic compentences can be developed in the traineeship. One more aim of the project is do develop open-minden European citizens.The project is going to take place in: AT, IT, UK, FI, MT, IE, FR, ES from the 1st of June 2014 till the 31st of May 2016.

The project aims to respond to the challenging vision of the North Karelia Educational Development document to become known as a national and international player with excellent learning outcomes and competences. This means to get PKKY to be known as an active international partner for trustful cooperation and further educational development. The aim of the project is to promote the goals of North Karelia Educational Strategy for developing the internationalization and international skills of the students and the staff. The project provides equal mobility opportunities for students and staff, also international development of skills beyond the college boundaries.A survey for the international know-how and related needs of the PKKY-staff was carried out in spring 2013. The results reveal the strong need for an increase in working life cycles carried out abroad. In addition to faculty also administrative staff consider the international know-how an important part of their task especially when communicating with foreign partners in project management and administration issues. Thus, North Karelia Educational Development document aims to strengthen the international know-how of the staff. Also one of the measures of the PKKY international strategy is to achieve set objectives through job shadowing that also strengthens and develops the competence of the faculty on an international level and improves the global awareness in their profession. For the students, the exchange period provides development of key skills, professional identity, as well as strengthens, of course, work experience in the international business environment. In this project we have embedded the process of improving professional and personalized international study path based on the ESF-funded "Internationalization of vocational training - international school" project. This process is adopted in all PKKY educational and training divisions and in all educational sectors. The study paths shall be further developed based on the experiences gained during the training periods. Successful and diverse coaching is an important part of the international exchange, and training is developed according to the "Inno-training" (innovative training) concept where in addition to language and cultural aspects the students self-awareness is stimulated to bring up own strengths and innovative skills during the exchange period. Inno-training shall be tried out in this mobility project and will be carried out in small groups of students from different divisions and PKKY colleges.The project will promote the internationalization in PKKY colleges and increase equal opportunities for all students and staff to participate in international activities regardless of the differences in international resources available to each college. Through student exchange periods the international processes will be specified and the developed processes will be described on consortium level. Hense this will facilitate practical operations, such as the orientation of new employees to international operations. Cooperation with partners shall be deepened by taking part in meetings and discussions using different media tools, as well as though continuous participation in the assessment process of the project operations.

PROJECT BACKGROUND:North Karelia municipal education and training consortium development work is based on 2016-2019 development strategy. International operations are specifically aimed at promoting the effectiveness of developing student's skills for working life, and contribute that the student will find his/her position in the labor market.By enabling staff´s and students mobility international know-how will increase.TARGET GROUPS:Staff, students and working life and foreign partnersMEASURES AND PRACTICES:The project sub-areas:1. Possibility to include and evaluate the training abroad as part of studies 2. To enable the mobility of the representatives of educational institutions and business partners to work as international workplace trainers3. To invite international teachers and partners to teach and coach Finnish staff and students.Other areas:4. To give a possibility of mobility to students with special needs. 5. To develop a sector-specified, international e-coaching environment and the preparation to mobility with collaboration of students and working life : before, during and after the mobility.

Aim of the project: 49 participants(students, trainees, trainers and teachers) of different middle schools and voc.higher schools as well as Vocational Schools of the region Carinthia took part in this project to gain international work experience . Our partners abroad were in AT, IT, UK, FI, MT, IE, D, SE, CK, SI, DK. The organisators of the project helped the participants before the actual start of the traineeship, during the traineeship and after the traineeship in variuous fields of needed organisation (contracts, learning agreements, preparation, monitoring, ECVET-evaluation) At the end of the project presentations with representatives of the schools as well as the media was going to take place.