The ever-changing economic reality creates an urgent need to prepare young people for the difficult role of a participant of the modern market economy. Zespół Szkół Nr 10 im. Stanisława Staszica in Warsaw takes steps to improve the effectiveness of education, the suitability of qualifications and skills of students through the organisation of foreign traineeships under European mobility programmes, including Erasmus+or POWERVET. The priority of our project, implemented under the POWER programme, was a good preparation of graduates with knowledge of foreign languages, open to other cultures, equipped with professional qualifications, adapting to the ever-increasing requirements of employers for the role of participants in the global market,. The increase in mobility of pupils and teachers, based on international cooperation, is part of the European School Development Plan. Our mobility project consisted in organising foreign apprenticeships for students educated in professions: Economic Technician and Information Technology Technician and job shadowing mobility for teachers in vocational training institutions in Spain and Ireland. The project was implemented in cooperation with ETN – Education and Training Network, which has its agencies in various EU countries, including: ETN Training Vision Ireland ltd in Cork and Tribeka Training Lab Malaga in Spain. Continuing cooperation with ETN is one of the lasting results of previously implemented mobility projects. 10 students, educated in the profession of economic technician, held 3-week traineeship in Ireland from 25/03/2019 to 12/04/2019 in administrative and financial enterprises. The practice programme included the following modules: practical English improvement, getting acquainted with the functioning of the company in the internal and external environment, commercial documentation, human resources policy, accounting with financial and accounting programmes and the company's marketing activities under market economy conditions. Two 10-person groups of Information Technology Technicians held internship in Cork on the following dates:group I: 4/03/2018 – 31/03/2018group II: 03/03/2019 – 30/03/2019Students worked for 4 weeks in IT companies such as Cash Connectors, Mallow Printing Works, Skytech Computer Repair Service and sales Cork, The Webworkhouse, IT Outlet, Wired Communications - Internet cafe - Call Shop - PC Services, in configuration, operation, assembly and maintenance of computer hardware and software.Only mobile teachers, open to new challenges, can help improve the quality of their school's work and increase its prestige in the local environment. One way to achieve this goal was to involve teachers of economic and IT subjects in a job shadowing venture. One-week teacher trips were made during the winter holidays so as not to interfere with the school's work cycle. Two 6-person groups of teachers had the opportunity to learn about the methods of organisation and conduct of practical classes, employers' expectations and the vocational education system in Spain ( 2018) and Ireland (2019). Teachers gained valuable professional experience by participating in practical classes in vocational schools in Cork and Malaga.The implementation of the project allowed for the following results: • increase of the mobility of pupils and their teachers; • improving the attractiveness and efficiency of vocational training at school; • extending international cooperation on the implementation of good practices; • acquiring professional skills at European level; • improving social and organisational competences; • use of the latest ICT technologies;Partners of the project have made effort to ensure that the project's objectives are achieved with the highest quality. Before going abroad, participants could count on linguistic, cultural, pedagogical (pupils) and organizational (teachers) preparations. Each participant, after a positive completion of mobility, obtained a certificate from a foreign project partner and Europass Mobility in Polish and English, which opens up the possibility of finding a satisfactory job, not only in Poland, but also European labour market. The basis for the completion of apprenticeships by pupils was the assessment obtained on the basis of clear criteria and units of skills, determined on the basis of the European ECVET Achievement Transfer System. This system will enable school graduates to use the skills obtained abroad for further education and professional development.

"<< Objectives >>The main goal of the project is to support the process of shaping and strengthening entrepreneurial attitudes of young people through the development, testing and dissemination of the Youth Entrepreneurial Attitudes Support Model (YEAS)The implementation of the project will improve the quality of youth work and entrepreneurship education, as the YEAS model provides educators with a new didactic approach, methods and tools to strengthen entrepreneurial attitudes and behavior of young people.<< Implementation >>The Project Intervention Logic consists of a sequence of complementary actions, which includes: Project Management; International project meetings; Research work and design of the YEAS model (developed ""YEAS methodical guide"" and implementing it ""YEAS Toolbox""); Mobility in Spain (international course for 8 educators from Poland and Spain); Local dissemination activities (2 workshops and 4 coaching sessions each in Poland and Spain).<< Results >>1 joint international project team2 international project meetings2 publications: ""YEAS Methodological Guide"" and ""YEAS Toolbox”1 mobility in Spain8 mobility participants in Spain4 dissemination workshops for local stakeholders8 coaching sessions for youth workers48 participants of dissemination workshops48 participants of coaching sessions"

The target group of the project is 14 pedagogues and 56 pupils from Jelgava Crafts Secondary School catering and restaurant services, production of flour products, hairdressers, costume design specialists, make-up artists, commercial sciences, metal working specialists. The project involves student mobility and the mobility of vocational education professionals. The first project activity is student mobility, in which students will practice for 14 days in partner organizations in France, UK, Germany and Malta, 28 days in Italy and Spain, using OLS online language support. The second project activity is the observation and exchange of experience of vocational education specialists: In September 2018 and April 2019 PARAGON LIMITED; In March 2019 TRIBEKA TRAINING; In April 2019 IBD Solutions Limited Intermediary United Kingdom; In May 2019 the Nanterre Institute of Hairdressing and Aesthetics, Marie Laurencin Secondary School, BTP CFA ILE DE FRANCE, In May 2019 the vocational training center Agenzia per la Formazione in Italy, at the Fondazione Gabriele Castellini School in Italy. In May 2019 Vitalis GmbH, Germany, acquires new teaching methods, practical skills, organization of an educational process based on the work environment, in order to ensure a qualitative learning process. The objectives of the project are: 1. To promote vocational education and the attractiveness of vocational education. 2. Improvement of the professional knowledge of Jelgava Crafts Secondary School Practicum Heads and Professional Teachers, improvement of pedagogical skills and professional competence in the form of work monitoring that would promote improvement of professional education quality at Jelgava Crafts Secondary School (increased level of knowledge and skills and quality of study process, skills of new educational programs development). 3. Jelgava Craft Secondary School teachers' introduction to student placements in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Malta. 4. A broader understanding of teachers about the use of various and innovative teaching methods, the organization of practical classes, the development of vocational education programs, catering and restaurant services, hairdressing services, beauty care services, tailor-made and metal-working training. 5. Teachers get an understanding of the organization of a work-based educational process. 6. To support and increase the ability of learners of chefs, waiters, confectioners, bakers and confectionery, costume designers, hairdressers, business people, metalworking specialists to acquire skills, skills and competences that will promote their personal growth, employment and opportunities to integrate into the work of Latvia and Europe. in the context of increased competition. 7. Catering and restaurant services in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain and Malta. Commerce in Italy, acquisition of hairdressing services in France, Germany and Malta. Learn how to make sewing products in France, metalworking - in France, Germany and Malta. 8. Improved professional English, Italian and French proficiency for teachers and students and enhanced intercultural competences. 9. To improve the level of education of Jelgava Crafts Secondary School catering and restaurant services, production of flour products, hairdressing, costume designers, make-up artists, commercials, metalworking specialist pedagogues and students. 10. Encourage mobility of students and teachers. 11. Establishment and improvement of contact with municipalities, catering services of Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Malta, flour mills, hairdressing salons, sewing, marketing, metal processing companies. The aim of student mobility is to help vocational education students learn their profession better by developing their professional skills, knowledge, skills and abilities, giving them access to new working methods in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the UK and Malta. It will raise the level of students' knowledge and skills, will give students a better understanding of their profession. The acquired work experience will provide students with an important contribution to their personal growth. Vocational education specialists and practitioners will improve their methodological knowledge in developing educational programs, conducting practical classes, organizing study work, and gaining an understanding of the organization of the educational process based on the work environment and on the educational system in Europe.

We want to continuously offer our student who wants to do their internships abroad. Students will then have the opportunity to do a part of their internship abroad. In line with our school's goals, it is our wish to provide students in the children and leisure and business and the administration program do a part of their internship abroad. Internship abroad will take place in the autumn of grade three. Internships are located in Spain and Ireland. The pupils are prepared in their respective languages, culture and working environment during their school hours before the internship. The teachers involved will help the students with preparation, contact with each internship, and keep in touch with the student and ensure that all documentation of evaluation, validation and europass are satisfactory. A period abroad would allow them to try to use another language as well as give them cultural experiences. They will become aware of both cultural similarities and differences, realizing their language proficiency. As a result, their confidence will increase and they will be sought after in the market not only regionally but also globally. We also believe that it will increase their motivation for studies and to discover that life is a lifelong learning. We also increase the popularity of our vocational programs, where the search pressure today is low.

"The project ""PROFESSIONAL SERVICE OF A DEMANDING CUSTOMER"" was held was implemented in Economic and Gastronomic School Complex in Cieszyn from 01.10.2018 to 30.11.2019.The main aim of the project ""PROFESSIONAL SERVICE OF A DEMANDING CUSTOMER"" was to create opportunity to meet the current EU standards in the field of modern methods in customer service, especially: - effective implementation and improvement of the demanding customer's service; - modernization of customer service methods along with changing standards; - company efficiency enhancement of new clients acquisition and long distance cooperation with regular clients; - interpersonal skills development (mainly negotiations with different types of customer); - development of language, cross-cultural, personal and social competence. According to the project, two-weeks abroad placement in Spanish companies in Malaga was organized and held. The first group started their internship in February 2019, the second group in April 2019 and the third group in September 2019. The foreign partner Tribeka Training Lab S.L.U.held several mobility projects annually, cooperating with different vocational institutions in the EU. The groups had also a chance to get to know other cities and culture in the region of Andalusia, Spain: Granada and Seville, as they took part in the trips organized there. Both partners settled: the scope of responsibilities, the number and profile of the members of the staff involved, initial project's schedule, working plan with tasks, policy of cooperation and contact, monitoring and evaluation of the participants and the project level, validation of acquired skills, certification, the project's and its results promulgation. Obtained skills and experiences allowed our students to become competitive at the labour market. The project was linked with ""Europe 2020"" strategy which assumed achieving the economic growth. 48 students who study in such professions as: IT technician, advertising technician, tourism technician, trade technician, nutrition and gastronomic service technician and waiter technician together with their 6 teachers took part in the mobility project. The project was directed by the project team consisted of 3 people: a coordinator, a coordinator assistant, an accountant, and its quality and implementation, including the internship programme was supervised by the school principal. The project participants were provided with logistic and organizational support along with full scope of educational, cultural and language background. The results and competence as the specific skills that the students gained during the internship were determined in the internship programme. The evaluation of the project such as activities undertaken to a successful project's assessment and terming the level of project's aims attaining were conducted at different stages: before the departure, during the placement and after the implementation of the project - its effectiveness, influence and constancy. The promulgation of the effects of the project and the concept of the Erasmus+ Programme were held at the local and regional level (local portal ""ox.pl"", the school's website and fan page on Facebook, a local newspaper ""Głos Ziemi Cieszyńskiej"").The project corresponded with the demand of this kind of the educating process organization that considered the real-life labour market references. It was also a part of the school strategy which assumed that the students would able to handle professionally with a demanding customer. The participation in the project let the youth strengthen their faith in their own abilities in many fields. First of all, they had an opportunity to gain qualifications and work experience abroad. Furthermore, the pupils learned a lot about the culture of work and had an opportunity to practice in the European companies. In addition, they had a chance to overcome the language barrier, especially the business vocabulary. The pupils also increased flexibility and mobility in the market as well as tolerance and openness to other cultures. Taking part in the project motivated the students to self-learning meaning life-long learning. The abilities, practical knowledge and Europass Mobility document gained during the internship were of great importance as their high level is essential to compete effectively in the world's labour market which is constantly raising its requirements towards workers. The meaning of the project for educating and vocational development of participants directly resulted in possibilities of great competence improving in a wide spectrum of tasks in the field of the customer service."