The project "A Fictious Trade between the Czech and Slovakian school" is focused on cooperation between the realizing company Obchodní akademie, SOŠ a JŠ s právem státní jazykové zkoušky in Hradec Králové and the partner Obchodní akademie Banská Bystrica in the field of active business cooperation of students from signing frame business contracts and realizing fictional trade operations through the internet to personal business meetings. The main objective of this project is to strengthen previous business skills of the students, which are being practiced in Fictional Firms classes in their home countries, and to enlarge these skills into the field of foreign commerce. This will lead not only to improvement of ICT and language competences, but also the whole education process will become more attractive. The methods used are mostly video-conferences, exchanging business skills, transacting fictional businesses as well as promotion of firms through e-mails, web pages and Facebook profiles and last but not least through personal business meetings during the fairs of fictional firms. Direct participants of the project are about 200 students of the 3rd and 4th grades of both business academies in school years 2015 – 2017. The project will also have an indirect impact on students of other grades as well as on all students who are involved in Fictional Firms classes in the framework of the CEFIF organization and who will be informed about the project directly at fairs, on web pages of both schools, by e-mails and promotion of the most successful realizer´s firm at the International Fair of Fictional Companies in Prague. Expected outputs are questionnaires filled by the students at the beginning and end of each school year, documentation of realized fictional businesses when keeping legislation terms of both countries, reports of personal meetings during fairs and annual reports of all participating firms. All of this documentation will be accessible to students also in the following years, which will lead to quality and attractive education. A long-term effect for those students directly involved in the project is improvement of their entrepreneur and social competences, abilities of individual decision-making and of their orientation in the problems of foreign trading, which will all lead to improving of their position in the labor market after leaving the school. Also teachers of Fictional Firms classes will be able to share their experience and new transnational contacts with younger students. A long-term impact of the project is most of all a newly built relationship of two European nations having many aspects of the language, culture and history in common.
The project "Fictitious Trading between the Czech and Slovak Schools" was aimed at cooperation between students of both participating schools as a part of their school subject -the “Fictitious Company”. During two school years, students participated intensely in various business activities - concluding framework contracts, fictitious trading via e-mail and personal participation in fictitious fairs. Thanks to the cooperation of students from the two countries, the principles of international trade were practiced. A side effect of the international communication was the improvement of the students’ language skills. The direct participants of the project were the students of the 3rd and 4th year of the two business academies in the school years 2015-2017, the total of 210 pupils, of which the best 16 of each school were chosen for personal meetings. Indirectly, the project affected and influenced students of all years from both schools, and also the students who were involved in the teaching of fictitious companies within CEFIF organization, who were informed about the project directly at the exhibitions, on the websites of both schools, e-mails and at the promotion of the most successful company at the International Fair of Fictitious Companies in Prague. Some of the project's activities took place within the framework of electronic communication (videoconference, e-mail and social networking). The outputs of the project were questionnaires completed by students at the beginning and at the end of each school year, documentation of fictitious transactions carried out in compliance with the legislation of both countries, reports from personal meetings at fairs and annual reports of all participating companies. All this documentation will be accessible to students in the next school years, which will again improve learning and make it more attractive. The long-term effect on the students who were directly involved in the project is the improvement of their entrepreneurial and social skills, and the ability to decide independently and understand foreign trade issues, which will increase their chances in the job market after their graduation. Also, the teachers of the subject of the “Fictitious Company” can pass on the newly acquired experience and the established contacts of the foreign cooperation to the younger students. The long-term impact of the project is primarily bringing closer students and teachers from two European nations which have much in common linguistically, culturally and historically.