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Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

A two-year project „With Computer Literacy to the World“ is a successfully accomplished mobility project consisting of monthly traineeships of secondary school students in Ireland. The submitter of the project proposal (sending organization) was Business Academy, Ostrava-Poruba, contributory organization. The foreign partner (host organization), who secured internships abroad, was Swan Training Institute, Dublin, Ireland. The declared aim of the project was to increase the competitiveness of sending school students on the labour market in the regional, national and European scale, as well as to improve their professional skills and combine them with the use of English as the necessary condition for a promising future job. The aim of the project was to enhance professional skills, abilities and experience of students studying at Business Academy and Information Technologies fields of studies. These aims were fulfilled through the month internships which were held overall in 15 companies, enterprises, government and non-governmental organizations in Dublin in Ireland. Project participants were altogether 20 students of the 3rd grade in the field of studies Business Academy and Information Technologies (12 boys and 8 girls). They set out on a 30-day internship to Ireland in 2 parts – 10 students in May 2015 and another group of 10 of them in May 2016. Both above mentioned fields of studies were represented equally, which means that among Business Academy students 10 participants were chosen and the same number were selected from Information Technologies field. Moreover, the presence of four teenage pupils sought the presence of an accompanying person. That teacher saw to pupils in mobilities in each cycle during the first week of the work program. Contents of internship activities were tailored to individual skills of trainees and their professional preferences (based on a prepared CV and covering letter) to maximize the benefits achieved. The students worked in the following sectors: - Creating documents in basic office software (MS Office - especially compiling tables and calculations in Excel, various documents in Word, creating promotional PowerPoint presentations, etc.). - Work with software products in the economic system of enterprise-level accounting software and supply - data entry and accounting in the accounting software, the use of software modules (eg. Payroll module, warehouses, etc.), evidence of increases and decreases, inventory valuation; - Programming in basic programming languages and tools, which the company or institution uses in its work; - Creation of websites designs (eg. for the purpose of advertising corporate products) and web design; - The creation and revision of e-shop tools; - Independently solving accounting problems (compiling, filing and archiving of accounting documents, work with forms of financial statements and operational records); - Implementation of treasury operations; - Work in logistics and supply flows; - Retail sales; - Communications with clients at providing commercial and public services. All participants of professional mobility in the internships workplace followed the instructions of a supervisor. The supervisor in determining job assignments co-operated closely with the partner organizations worker who was responsible for monitoring the course of the internship and who was familiar with the professional profiles of all participants. When doing assigned tasks, responsibility and independency were emphasized strongly. Students were according to their language abilities motivated to take active part in communications in the workplace (both with their team colleagues when solving assigned tasks and customers or service clients as well). The results and impacts of the project can be described by increasing the skills of all the participants for finding good permanent jobs after completing their studies. Unfortunately, nowadays, secondary vocational schools in the Czech Republic lack good practice, which is a part of education highly evaluated by the employers and generally requested. During the month internships abroad our students have confirmed that they can tackle the entrusted tasks in both professional and language level. As a result, employability of such complex personalities is, of course, significantly strengthened. Experience and skills provided by this mobility will be definitely useful with further studies - not only in our school but also in the course of higher education at universities and colleges. Mobility participants received Europe-wide standardized certification (Europass Mobility, ECVET), which describes the internships participants’ tasks in detail and which clearly defines acquired knowledge, skills and abilities. Our school strives for better understanding of the European labour market within the context of offered fields of studies and for providing the best preparation before entering it. In the notice, the Erasmus+ program for 2016,
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