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Learning Experience Abroad for Students and Staff2

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-DK01-KA116-046850
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Learning Mobility of Individuals | VET learner and staff mobility with VET mobility charter Funder Contribution: 190,658 EUR

Learning Experience Abroad for Students and Staff2

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On the basis of Koege Business College's international strategy 2017/19, appendix 3, we send students and staff abroad on Erasmus+ mobilities. Today we have a lot of experience in Erasmus+ KA1 and since we were awarded the Charter in 2015, we have developed a clear international strategy which is updated every year in close cooperation with the management of the school. Today the focus on internationalisation from the management is more significant and we continously work on improving and developing international initiatives. Today we have a procedure regarding Erasmus+ Vet and staff mobilities with a well-run cooperation and a good knowledge about our foreign partners, who fulfill the conditions we both have signed in MoU. This cooperation we want to continue with our partners in Germany, Spain, UK and France the next two years with our Upper Secondary Education(HHx). We hold on to our development plan concerning information about Erasmus+ to students, selection on the basis of teachers' assessments and students' maturity, prepartation and signing of Erasmus+ documents, parents' evening, stay abroad, assessment of stay and writing recognized ULOs in the students' Europass Mobility Certificate. We continue sending Erasmus+ participants in three week stays where workplacement and language tuition are included as these are assessed very well by the students. We send students abroad three weeks before and after the autumn vacation and in March as these time slots fit into the two departments' annual cycle. The vet students we send to Malta in autumn and as they have social and professional challenges and are not experienced travellers, they travel with one accompanying person the first week so the students feel safe when they travel, are accomodated in apartments and start their work placements which challenge the students and therefore the accompanying teacher is involved in this process. On the basis of our experience, we now select EUX students(combined vocational and general upper secondary education)individually and no longer send an entire class. We have experienced from assessments from students and accompanying teachers that this concept works well. In autumn 2017 we sent 8 EUD students to a new partner in Malta which worked out satisfactory. For some of our EUD and EUX students a Erasmus+ stay is a motivational factor to complete their studies. The students are rather young when we send them to Malta and therefore we apply for two accompanying teachers, one week, for the 25 EUX students and 1 accompanying teacher, one week, for 8 EUD students. The accompanying teachers help the students with everything from departure from DK, accomodation, transportation, visiting workplacements and help when problems arise. Furthermore, the accompanying teachers work out a cultural program in Malta and give relevant information about trade between Malta and Denmark and country information. In the English lessons in Denmark the students receive lessons about how to write a good CV and information sheet and how to present yourself when Skyping with our Maltese partner. Hereby subjects such as Marketing, Economy and English are part of the students' Erasmus+ stay. In our international strategy our focus is also to participate in the Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnership programme. We now participate in the project Qual4T2 with four other partners and in Sowing the Seeds with the trade union 3F as lead partner. Another topic in our international strategy is to formalise and make Erasmus+ staff visits more systematic. In Qual4T2 we have started a cooperation where each partner makes an interesting five day programme for staff participants and you can as staff sign up for the programme from the four partner schools. In this concept we try to improve the quality of the staff visits. This concept enhances our cooperation and network with our partner schools and is a good opportunity for staff exhange. However, if staff want to improve their competences in another country and school, this will still be a possibility in close cooperation with the management of the department. We were very inspired from TECHCOLLEGE's presentation by Gitte Rye Larsen in Fredericia at our annual seminar on internationalisation. We are right now in the planning process and would like to send a HHx class to GB in 2019 and approach the same partner as TECHCOLLEGE uses and therefore we apply for 25 mobilites more for this destination. The 3 week Erasmus+ stay links part of the students' curriculum with elements from specific subjects and focus is on marketing and presentation techniques. We think that TECHCOLLEGE's idea of combining the students Erasmus+ stay with two teachers' staff visit in GB is good, however, the first year we would like to use two accompanying teachers to start this new concept. This project does not appear in our International Strategy as we first heard about it in autumn 2017.

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