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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Hospitality and Catering College Alexandre Dumas, located in the Euro-metropole of Strasbourg, a bordering city, is the biggest hospitality school in France and among the most reputed ones. We welcome 1200 students. Because all of them have to do a compulsory work placement every year and because some of them, especially those of CLIL sections or higher education students attending a Higher Btec / Higher National Degree / National Vocational Qualification Level 4-5 specializing in front office and housekeeping management based on a European curriculum with the emphasis on two foreign languages, namely English and German, we send 120 students to work placements or internships abroad every year, that is one in ten. That is why we are twice committed to Erasmus key action 1 for students and staff, on the one hand in the so-called Mostra consortium for senior vocational high school students and staff, and on the other hand, we are most committed to Erasmus + for higher education. The management team, the teachers and students alike, everyone one is fully aware of the benefits of mobility to improve linguistic and vocational skills, to become more familiar with other ways of life, to adapt more easily to a new professional environment, to simply be more employable on the European job market. Not only do our students have to do internships abroad, but they are also quite interested in studying abroad and some of them expect to keep studying at a vocational degree level, therefore they are quite interested the opportunity of study mobility abroad. Therefore we have decided to constantly broaden our network by striking new bilateral partnerships, the first one with the South West College of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, UK, about to bear the name of University, and the second one with the Tourismusschule of Salzburg-Klessheim in Austria, adding up to our two original historical partnerships, the Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and the I.E.S. Hotel School of Madrid. These partnerships open up new perspectives as far as study mobility or work placement are concerned. As far as the signature of the agreement with the South West College goes, to really establish solid and sustainable links on sound ground, we have organized a work trip for nearly the whole team of teachers of English funded by the Organization of Mobility. It happens to the Erasmus Student Network to do presentations of the Erasmus programme for our students. However, this is not really necessary for our students are necessarily convinced by the benefits of European mobility. There is a very strong pressure from the students to go abroad. Every year, there is a ratio of two applications to one mobility. We have also organized four in-coming mobilities: one for a study period for a student of front office and housekeeping management from Hotel Escuela in Spain, two work placement and a teaching mobility for the ITT of Dublin. Besides, we have welcomed three delegations, one from Spain to further negotiate the learning agreement and the credits, and two delegations to sign new agreements, the first one being with he South West College of Enniskillen and the second one being with the Tourismusschule of Salzburg-Klessheim in Austria. As far as numbers are concerned in the final report, we managed to reach our target of 12 mobilites altogether. However, are results are small in comparion with our needs and expectations: five SMS, 3 SMP, 4 STA when staff and students are enthusiastic about Erasmus, which is not reflected in the figures. We are quite reticent about non-funded mobility to increase the number of mobilities, for two major reasons: first, this takes away time from the amount of time every student is entitled to for the ones going to University later on, and then, contrary to what happens at University, there is no specific staff in charge of Erasmus +. Everyone does things for Erasmus on top of one’s usual daily ground so that it represents some additional workload for teachers. We have become more talented at dealing with mobility, however as each and every mobility requires tailor-made attention, we are not fully certain we are in s position to do more, this would require extra workforce to manage more mobility. Sticking to the European rule of transparency, for the students to have an easier access to mobility, also to have all students at an equal footing, we have also introduced a new bilingual – French and English - Erasmus page for outgoing and in-coming students on the new website of the College. http://lycee-hotelier-adumas.fr/

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