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COOPERATION WITH EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND CURRENT EDUCATIONAL ISSUES
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our school aims to establish a solid cooperation with European Vocational Institutions i.e. the Ava Gymnasium, in the fields of Vocational Training and in Current Educational Issues. Encouraging educators and students to become involved in European Mobility Programmes is one of the goals that the school’s headmaster set every year since the involvement with such projects. The implementation of such projects will give them a great opportunity to develop their personality, self-esteem, competences and skills. The participants are educators, members from the administration personnel of the school and students. The administration of our school, having in mind the need for further personal and professional development of the educators, staff and students of the school, decided that 2 members of the administration, 8 educators and 18 students should take advantage of the benefits that Erasmus+ Programme offers. The participants will be students attending a catering course in Culinary Arts. The students during their second year in school, they must undergo practical training in hotel and catering establishments for 20 weeks, a pre - requisite for obtaining their school certificate. 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 are inspecting and evaluating the students. The educators and the students of the Hotel and Catering have participated in similar projects and the results were very beneficial and enjoyable that gained a lot from similar projects in the past. This mobility project consists of three main activities: Action1: a group of Educators of the sending organization will observe and attend various lectures and practical training concerning methods and teaching skills that the receiving organization follows. Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to teach lectures of similar courses using teaching techniques that we use as well. Action 2:The participants students will attend training in hotel and catering departments over a three week period in hotels and restaurants in the area of Taby. Our analytical curriculum includes International Cuisine, so this exercise will be part of it. Action 3. A group of administrators will visit similar to our vocational and technical school in order to examine new methods and trends that they introduce in order to improve management skills. Action 4. The students of the Electrical Department in corporation with another vocational school with experience in the field of Industrial Electrical installations and Automation will visit an industrial area in Heraklion in Greece where there are big modern industries. 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 will set up the measures of evaluation upon the completion of the project; for all the partners taking part in this Mobility Programme. 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' intercultural awareness and finally increase their self-esteem. Educators and administration staff, in the future would support the promotion of such mobility actions; upgrading their competences in teaching and training would be another great value and finally they would try to implement different systems, and policies in education. The main objective for our Electrical is to Enrich knowledge in the Industry Automation. Regarding our school the greatest benefits of all is to establish a continuous cooperation with European Vocational Institutions. In the long run this kind of projects promotes and establishes the European Values. Such projects between two or more countries confirm the principle of lifelong learning.
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