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

IES Siete Palmas is an institution that offers Secondary Education and Higher Education. It is located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The institution has been carrying out student mobilities for placements, and staff mobilities, since the academic year 2012-2013. After the achivement of the Erasmus+ Charter in 2014, we have requested a KA103 project, for Higher Education, for the period 2014-2015. The eligible students, 40-50 per year, for the Erasmus Programme are enrolled in the Degree "Higher Technician in Networked Computer Systems Management" (forward CFGS). Most of the teachers who teach to the CFGS belong to the IT Department. The duration of this Degree is 2000 hours, distributed in two academic years. Every course unit, or 'module', is characterized by a quantity of hours and a quantity of credits (ECTS). Further information can be found on the Spanish Royal Decree 1629/2009. Our students must make their training for 2 months, in the main course module "Training at Work", and will be developed in a firm. This module is compulsory to get the degree, and at the end a student can achieve 22 credits (ECTS) if he/she completes and is successful at the training. Companies have to certify about performing the tasks. For every module the correspondence between hours and credits (ECTS) can be found at this link: http://pagina.iessietepalmas.org/sites/default/files/Archivos_pdf/Curriculum-ASIR-LOE-Ingles.pdf During this Erasmus+ KA103 Project, in 2014-2015, a 100% of the awarded mobilities have already been made: 2 student mobilities for work placements, and 1 staff mobility for learning. This Project has finished on the 30th of September 2015. In this academic year 5 participants were final candidates, being selected 2 students and 1 teacher. The teachers into the Teaching Staff, and the IT Department, collaborated in the selection process, dealing with the criteria published on our institutional web page: http://pagina.iessietepalmas.org/node/98#plazos The ERASMUS+ Coordinator worked with these 2 students in: the development of their CV's, English conversations, an outsourced course, giving them some acknowledge about the host countries; explanation about the process of the different aspects of this Programme: documentary, agreements and financial issues; advising them how to achieve a financial help from the Cabildo de Gran Canaria (500 euro), accomodation, flight tickets, insurances issues, etc. We also made some chats between students that took part into mobilities in the past, and this year's eligible candidates. Those students presented their experiences in their mobilities. In adittion these experiences are collected on some forums (a forum each academic year), based on a Moodle platform, and accessible to all the students in CFGS. All this information was given to the students and teachers in the CFGS, to the IT Department, CCP and Consejo Escolar (School Board); also to the rest of the Scholar Community through the institutional web page and social networks. The ERASMUS+ Coordinator made the most of the decisions in association with the IT Department, Teaching Staffs and the Institution Management Team. The students have made their practices into two companies in Malta: "Enriquez Imports" and "AtoZ Electronics". They have developed the tasks described in both Training Agreements. Monitoring and communication with the students was conducted by telephone, email and through a forum in a Moodle platform, created for this purpose. Both students passed the module "Training at Work". A Higher Education teacher conducted a learning placement in Poland. The company Proyecto Ibérico, based in Krakow, was responsible to accomplish the Learning Agreement. The main tasks consisted of studying the Polish labor market, the educational system, and the 'state of art' and the use of New Technologies in some Polish companies. Our main goal within the Erasmus+ Programme is to improve our students skills, with stays in European Union member countries for carrying out work placements during the module "Training at work". It is also an important goal for this center, to complement the training of our staff by exchanging with other European Union institutions. In addition, the Erasmus+ Programme is seen as an opportunity to internationalize our institution, and adopt best practices of other European Higuer Education institutions, and firms, in order to increase the quality in the services we offer.
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