Our institution trains highschool pupils and higher education students specialized in landscaping, wildlife management and environment.We have optional modules in English European section, photography, rugby and mountain hiking.We have been organizing school trips in European countries for many years and since 2009 we have developped European mobilities for students and staff members thanks to European programmes.We have partnerships with Ireland, the United Kingdom, Spain, Finland and now Sweden and Slovenia.We opened a European section taught in English in 2009 which now concerns 7 classes. Higher educaton students from Hungary, Spain and Slovenia joined us to spend six months in our school as cutlural and language assistant in 2014, 2015 and 2017.Our involvement in European exchanges and international cooperation is more and more important. Our goals:- improve our learners professional and language skills and their employability. - help them understand other countries professional methods- open their mind to other cultures- acquire more autonomy- increase the number of students and staff mobilities- increase the partnerships- improve the quality of the mobilities. Thanks to a better organization we managed to reach most of our objectives. Our steering committee defines objectives, plans our actions, selects candidates and works out monitoring documents. We allowed more students than planned in the project to leave abroad but unfortunately the staff mobility was cancelled too late to organize a new one. We organized mentoring meetings to help applicants achieve their projects and we planned preparation days before the departure. When back to school they met the future candidates for a questions and answers session on the mobilities for example.Students and staff present their experience to new classes and teachers present their new skills, knowledge and projects to the whole staff.Results:These mobilities have a ripple effect on the European dynamics of our institution with more and more students and staff applicants.All the participants were really satisfied as they had a great experience and improved their professional , personnal and language skills .The persons in charge of the projects developped methods to be more effcient and the educative team is increasing regularly and is really implied in international projects.We would like to go on developing new partnerships with European schools in order to have more placements and more educational and technical exchanges.

"1. Project backgroundMobility for learning purposes is part of our continuing education courses for the ""Certified Technician for Viticulture and Oenology"" as well as ""Certified Technician for Horticulture"" and Certified Technician for Gardening and Landscaping ""The project consistently joined the series of internationalization activities that we have carried out since 2005 either alone or in collaboration with consortium partners - and have planned for the duration of the current and future Erasmus program generation.Mobility as a staff development measure was again offered under this project.2. Project goalsAs part of our mobility project, we pursue goals at the participant level (learners and teachers / VET officers) as well as at the level of participating institutions (sending and hosting institutions).The focal point of our measure was the professional learning / development needs of the participants.The need for personal and social skills played an important, albeit subordinate role at the same time.At the level of the participating institutions, the declared goal was the expansion and consolidation of the already existing partner network and exchange.3. Number and profile of participantsThe project involved the deployment of 31 learners and 15 teachers / VET officers. 3.1. Learners | As part of our continuing education courses, students acquire the qualification of ""state-certified technician"" after the second year of study (DQF Level 6). The stays abroad are completed in the time interval between the 1st and the 2nd year of study.3.2. Staff in vocationaleducation and training | This target group consisted of members of our educational institution whom work as teachers, educational responsibles or mobility coordinators (Erasmus mobility). 4. Description of the activities4.1. LearnersThe stays abroad were completed during the internship periods specified in the curriculum.- Phase I: 15.07.17 - 15.11.17 - Phase II: 15.07.18 - 15.11.18 The learning stays were completed in companies, in a teaching and research institute with affiliated production company in the form of internships. The duration of the stays abroad varied depending on the field of study or the individual learning needs of the participants (21 - 63 days).4.2. Teachers and vocational training officersTeachers and those responsible for vocational training completed hoping / job shadowing or stays for educational purposes lasting between 4 and 11 days.The stays took place in educational institutions, companies or umbrella organizations (garden and landscaping).5. Effect and benefits of the projectThe project had a primary impact on the actors directly involved: participants, sending and receiving organizations. Participants were able to acquire / expand occupational and personal skills.As an educational institution / sending institution, we have gained experience and knowledge that is important for the continuous updating of our educational measures (content and formats) and their alignment with labor market requirements.Thanks to the transfer of knowledge, skills and experience to and from the participating institutions, fields of activity, regions / countries, the project had a positive impact for those all.The mobility measure also led to the further promulgation of the Erasmus + program, its objectives and benefits at the level of directly involved or affected institutions, sectors and regions / countries."

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