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Our school aims to establish a solid cooperation with European Vocational organizations. This will raise the image of our School, promote staff competence, improve students' learning, help students to understand and come closer to a European multicultural environment and improve students' employability. As stated in school's development plan one of the main goals is the encouragement of all educators to be involved in European mobility programmes. Furthermore, taking part in such programme will give students a great opportunity to develop their personality, self-esteem, competence and skills. The participants are educators and students. The management administration of our school, having in mind the need for further personal and professional development of the educators, staff and students of the school, has decided that 2 members of the administration, 10 educators and 39 students should take advantage of the benefits that Erasmus+ Programme offers. The participants will be students attending a catering course in Culinary Arts, computer engineering and students attending Apply Arts. The students of the Catering department, during their second year in school, they must undergo a practical training in hotel and catering establishments for 20 weeks, a prerequisite for obtaining their school certificate. The same applies to the students of the Computer engineering and Apply Arts. On their 3rd year, they have to undergo a practical training of 180 hours. All teaching and administration staff have work experience within their fields. Especially, the instructors of the Hotel and Catering department work closely with the industry since, during the training program of the students (20 weeks training period), which is compulsory work experience, the educators inspect and evaluate their students. The educators and the students of the Hotel and Catering have participated in similar projects and the results were very beneficial and enjoyable to all. This mobility project consists of three main activities: Activity A1 Flow 1: 13 students from the Hotel and Catering department will attend a two week period training in hotels and restaurants in Riga Latvia, in the area of service and cooking. Our analytical curriculum includes International Cuisine, so this exercise will be part of it. Flow 2 : 13 students from the Computer and network department will attend 2 weeks working placements(internship) in computer business in Madrid, Spain. Our analytical curriculum includes a practical training, so this will be part of it. Flow 3 :13 students from the Apply Arts department will attend 2 weeks working placements(internship) in computer business in Viborg, Denmark . Flow 4 : 4 students from Civil Engineering and Architecture department will attend 2 weeks working placements in drywall and insulation issues Activity A2 Flow1 : 4 teachers from Civil Engineering and Architecture and Carpentry - Furniture Design department. The training is about drywall and insulation issues . Note that the program will be operated parallel with two other technical schools from Cyprus (B Technical School Limassol and Paphos Technical School) and in total students sixteen (16 ) and(14) teachers will be meet at Thessaloniki. Our Institution will carry out the management of the project, as explained in section F of this application. Our school will work closely with our partners in order to set up the learning agreements, concerning the procedures that both partners will follow and set up the standards for meeting the desired learning outcomes of the project. Furthermore, in cooperation with our partner organizations . As it is previously mentioned, one of the main objectives of this project for our school is to establish a solid cooperation with European Institutions in the field of VET. Upon meeting the objectives of this project an important result would be the improvement of qualification of teaching personnel as well as the establishment of processes regarding validation of experience gained during learning (for students) and teaching (for educators) periods in another country. Students, by improving their language skills, will improve their learning performance; upgrading students’ awareness of the European Union values and European Mobility projects will eventually upgrade the students' inter-cultural awareness and finally increase their self-esteem and employability. Educators and administration staff would, in the future, support the promotion of such mobility actions; upgrading their competences in teaching and training. All the above aim, at the end of day, to assist students to accomplish their smooth induction in the professional and social life, their competition for a place in the Tertiary Educational Institutions in Cyprus or abroad, their share in the lifelong Education and training, so as to be able to view and implement innovations in a fast changing world.
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