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VET- Youngsters from Lofoten to London
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 1, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The mobility-project “VET-Youngsters from Lofoten to London” is a partnership between Aust-Lofoten videregaaende skole (Aust—Lofoten upper secondary high School) and ADC College in London. Our partner ADC College is a professional development and language tuition organization, involved in vocational and professional training for more than 20 years. The target groups for the project are students attending our Department for Vocational and Educational Training in the fields of Healthcare (Child- and Youth-care included), Business Management and Traveling studies and IKT and Media. The project period is 24 months consisting of 15 student mobilities and 2 teacher mobilities every year. In addition to practical training in companies and work places in London, there is a detailed plan for pedagogical and practical preparation and for projects after the training period, both to be worked out at school. In the period after the training, students will produce different products, such as films, Guide for intercultural communication, news-paper articles and marketing material to be spread at our home page, facebook and used for marketing of the vocational and educational studies. The three phases of the project will secure the achievement of both concrete knowledge skills outlined for the students in every subject, as well as achievement of the more overall goals for the project. Evaluation sheets containing knowledge skills and other goals for the practice period are designed for the firms or work places that the students are going to work in. The roles and responsibilities of each of the two partners in the project are specified in detail in the Letter of intent. The goals for the project are to reduce the number of VET-student dropping out of school, motivate the students to continue their vocational training into their profession and to increase the attractiveness of the vocational studies and our school. In addition, the goals are to increase the student´s and the teacher´s language skills, and to increase consciousness and skills due to intercultural communication. By involving the teachers, we have a goal of an increased international orientation, not only by traveling and working abroad, but also in the classroom. We believe that the project will increase the motivation for the everyday school life, and our goal is that the international orientation will gain all, also the one not traveling out to work. The goals outlined above must be seen in relation to a situation of today where too many of our students quite school and where the recruiting to vocational education and training is far too low, taking the needs in the local, regional and national business and labor market and the demographic change, facing an ageing population, into account. In addition, the need for language skills, especially English, and knowledge about intercultural communication has increased because of the multicultural society and international labor marked due to increased migration and globalization. In a long term view, we hope to continue this and other international projects, being able to build more cross cultural networks and knowledge. We hope to fulfil our goals of increased attractiveness for the vocational studies and motivation for our students, both to choose vocational studies and to fulfil school.
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