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Inspiring studies and future careers
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The border between school and outside-of-school-life exists for many students and very often they don't understand why they are learning different subjects at school. They ask why they need everything they have to do at school. This leads to losing motivation and early school leaving. Too many young people leave education prematurely, before achieving a qualification and it's difficult for them to find a job. Reducing the rates of early school leaving and upgrading skills for employability help to fight poverty and social exclusion. We believe that motivation is the key factor and it can be achieved through inspiring studies at school, improving the attainment of young people and acquisition of key competences. Our 14-15-year old students will be entering the labour market in 2020-s. By that time more and more jobs will require higher level skills. If we want the EU to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy, education needs to improve the attainment of young people, particularly those at risk of early school leaving as well as pay more attention to the transversal skills needed to ensure young people are able to be entrepreneurial and adapt to the changes in the labour market during their career. School needs to find ways how to to show young people the connections between education and their everyday life and careers. With the help of this project we would like students to think and learn how different school subjects (especially STEM subjects) are important and usable in everyday life and for their future career, how knowledge and skills learned at school can help them to solve problems in life and work. The objectives we are planning to fulfill by the end of the project: - students have improved their transversal skills such as the ability to think critically, taking initiative, problem solving and working collaboratively; - students will be involved in finding their own problems, testing ideas, receiving feedback and working collaboratively with other students beyond the school classroom; - students will have several practical entrepreneurial experiences; - students will have visited several enterprises where they have done practical tasks connected with school subjects; - students will have better understanding how their studies at school are connected with their everyday life; - teachers will have become more confident about using ICT in class and cooperating with foreign colleagues through ICT; - teachers will have improved their teaching skills of key competencies; - teachers will know more about diversity and inclusion and how to meet the needs of disadvantaged learners but also the gifted ones; - in partner schools the skills will be taught in a wider variety of in-school and outside-of-school settings; - both teachers and students will have improved their foreign language and cooperation skills; - the teaching materials and student-centered pedagogical approaches that are practiced during the project will be sustainable and enrich the school life of partner schools after the end of the project; - all partners will have improved their understanding of other nations and cultures in Europe; - connections between partner school will be strong and survive after the end of the project. The main activities during the projects are the following. The official platform for the project is Etwinning/Twinspace where we upload all the documents, images, videos and outputs generated along the project. We use eTwinning for personal profiles and personal walls, blogs, calendar, teachers rooms, pupils rooms, chat rooms. This is also an important dissemination platform. We will organize career days (inviting career counselors, work in "Graduate Roundtables" of school graduates who who can speak to the current students about what they took away from their school experience and how it has advanced their educational and employment possibilities. We will promote STEM subjects by STEM days. Students will get several practical entrepreneurial experiences during the project when organising project activities, being responsible for the results and taking leadership. Non-formal and informal learning are important elements in the learning process and are effective instruments for making learning attractive. School teams work together to find good examples and activities to connect school subjects with work life. The project will be focused on motivation, basic and transversal skills and key competencies, STEM subjects - the ultimate goal is inspiring young people in their studies and motivate them to think about future careers. We consider the promotion of entrepreneurship at all levels and improving the co-operation between education and work life important. We pursue that all the students in partner schools are motivated to finish basic compulsory education and to go on studying to get a job in the future.
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