3D Students
Dialogue, Democracy, Digital.
ABOUT
This project wishes to promote the contemporary European values, like is stated on Article 2 of the European Union Treaty, which is one of the main goals of the Erasmus + programme.
In horizontal terms, following the Paris Declaration, it will develop the social, civic and intercultural skills. As it also uses OER - Open Educational Resources, developed by students, in order to educate through informal and sustainable ways, it also goes for an open and innovative education.
Partners
Portugal
INSIGNARE is a non-profit association located at Ourém, in the center of Portugal. We have several working areas - two VET secondary schools, with more than 550 students (EPO - Ourem Vocational School and EHF - Fátima Hospitality Vocational School), one local employment centre (GIP, with more than five hundred people enrolled) and one guidance and validation centre (CQEP).
Both schools have diversified teaching staff, full-time and part-time, because as much of the teaching staff is also integrated within the labour market, knowledge and experience of the labour force can be and is transmitted to the students. All the courses are level IV and grant equivalence to 12th grade.
Ourém Vocational School (EPO), founded in 1990, the one involved in this project, has Management, IT and Multimedia, Metalworking, Industrial Maintenance, Mechatronic and Electronics courses, following the strategic decision of becoming an industrially focused VET school. EPO is fully equipped with the facilities needed to proper and efficient work environment training.
Although we have VET courses, they also include sociocultural subjects, where national and European citizenship is included within several ones, but mainly “Integration” and “Economy”.
Our students and learners come from two regions, as our municipality is the border between those two - we cover an area of almost half a million inhabitants: the two VET schools have a regional scope, but the employment service is mainly local.
All of our working areas have experience dealing with LLLP and already under Erasmus +, with several projects already approved.
Italy
The I.I.S. "Falcone Borsellino" includes three departments: A.F.M.(Administration Finance and Marketing), CAT (Construction, Environment, Territory) in Palau and Scientific High School in Arzachena in the north-east of Sardinia. It is named after the two heroic Sicilian Magistrates Falcone e Borsellino who generously devoted their life fighting against Mafia and died tragically in two car explosions. For this reason the school is involved in projects and activities in order to preserve the memory of their moral strength and ideas of justice and to educate students to be more aware of the importance of legality, active citizenship and personal responsibility.
In specific "Liceo Scientifico Mossa" is a secondary high school whose main aim is to prepare students for the university career, especially for scientific courses as the basic subjects are Mathematics and Science (Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science). Other subjects are Italian Literature, Latin, English Language and Literature, History, Geography, Philosophy, Physics, History of Art, Physical Education and Religion.
The course of study Costruzioni Ambiente e Territorio ( Building and Environment) has developed in the last five years a steady cooperation with Ordine dei Geometri (Surveyors Association) of the Province. Training seminars for professionals are regularly held at our school and senior students join them. Third- and fourth-school- year students are also involved in apprenticeships by local firms or public instititions.
Throughout the decades the school organization has striven to expand and enrich the activities to limit the number of “dropout” students (unfortunately Sardinian rate is the highest in Italy) and to adopt measure of prevention. The leading idea is to promote the school as a melting pot of ideas and activities so as to increase the motivation to learn and confidence in the students and the awareness that knowledge and creativity can be rewarding. Thanks to the teachers’ efforts the school has recorded a reduction of “dropout students” recently, but it may not be enough to overcome other disadvantages such as living on an island far from the mainland where most of international conferences and cultural events take place, or having inadequate material and tools for innovative experiments.
Spain
Spain
Ntra. Sra. Del Carmen school is a General Education school. It is a very traditional Catholic School whose ethos is to promote human values through education following its founder´s own style.
It is also a bilingual school where some subjects are taught in English. The school has its own language and music school. It's situated in the old part of the city and it belongs to a Religious Congregation of the Carmelites sisters. There are about 70 teachers and almost 1000 pupils aged 1 to 18. It includes pre-school, primary, secondary and "bachillerato" (2 years before going to the university) and it's also a boarding school only for girls whose families live in rural areas. The school has pupils from different economical conditions and immigrants but it is mainly formed by local students.
Poland
Poland
Zespol Szkol nr 1 is a vocational secondary school for students from Koszalin and surrounding area. The main mission is to prepare students for their future professional careers and help them reach maturity independently. The school teaches future technicians in: tourism, hotel industry, economics, logistics and gastronomic services.
The school is attended by 800 students aged 16-19. Many students come from disadvantaged, often single-parent families, and what is more, the unemployment rate in the area is very high. Therefore, requiring a proper job, especially in the field of tourism or gastronomy is a chance for the young people. The Pomeranian region, is a good option for them as it is known for its well-developed hospitality industry.
The school puts efforts to provide the best opportunities for its students. A special attention is paid to teaching foreign languages and introducing modern technologies into the pedagogical process. Moreover, the students take part in numerous projects, competitions and international school exchanges. As a vocational school, the students are provided not only with theoretical knowledge but also hands-on professional experience via numerous internships and projects. This helps the students to improve their IT, language and interpersonal skills. In 2014, the hotel industry and catering students took part in an internship in some hotels of Lisbon, Portugal. Similarly, in 2015 a group of 16 students attended a professional training in the hotels in the northern part of Portugal.
The first contact between the students and the local labour providers is available during regular meetings and annual Recruitment Fairs. The students attend practical trainings in hotels, restaurants, travel agencies and other local companies.
Turkey
Afyonkarahisar Atatürk Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School is for students from Afyonkarahisar province and neighbouring towns. Our Mission is bringing students up who have own organizational culture and science, protect and perform in their life, teach and give importance of family’s life principles, are at peace with oneself and their environment, look from a broad perspective the events, appropriate global norms also, know our moral and moral values, are full of human love. Our Vision to the students; could be an intuition to open the changes and the World in accordance with Turkish National Education. There are two departments at school: Emergency Medical class and Nursing class. Emergency medical class: a person trained to ensure invaliding the sick, injured or the victims to the health centres in case of the individuals in the society have an accident or illness mentally or physically, to practice the first aid and emergency care services with the knowledge and skills that exact the medical, is called Emergency Medical Technician. EMT training period is 4 years in our institution. In Vocational training, vocational courses and practical courses are given in addition to general culture courses.
Medical Vocational High Schools have an important role in society’s health development in terms of being institutions that groom intermediate professional staff who is needed by the health tourism and health sector. In the health field, the much-needed professional staffs are nurses and they inform individuals about how to protect from diseases, implement the medical treatment that given by a physician in case of deterioration of physical and mental health, and plan, implement, oversee and monitor the patient care. Nursing training period is 4 years in our institution. In Vocational training, vocational courses and practical courses are given in addition to general culture courses.
The school has 542 students aged 14-18. It gives education in health field.