According to the data from the Statistical Office of the European Union the unemployment rate in the euro area amounted 11.2% in February 2015. A massive problem remaining is the high youth unemployment rate from under 25 years-old persons. Most notably affected with rates over 50% are the crisis-shaken states Greece and Spain, as well as Italy and Portugal with youth unemployment rates over 40% or 35% and Ireland, Belgium, France and others of the new southeast European member states with a rate from 20-30%. In line with the goals of the Europe 2020 agenda, the project aims at supporting the employability and mobility from pupils, trainees and students through the improvement of their linguistical and intercultural competences. Language skills are the key to a modernization of the European education system and to an improvement of the social economical structures. With the improvement of pupil’s, trainee’s and student’s language skills increase their ability for mobility and integration possibilities on the European job market. Poor language skills prohibit professional mobility abroad and impair the competence skills from European enterprises and organizations on international level. In the project ‘Teaching methodology concepts for vocational teaching of foreign languages as a contribution to a European vocational training’ the school administrations from Lleida and Osnabrück mutually with their eight partners would like on the one hand to increase the teaching practical competences and experiences of the professional teaching students of ‘Spanish’ and students of ‘German as a foreign language’, on the other hand to impart Spanish trainees vocational foreign language skills, intercultural competences and knowledge about the country. The protagonists of the projects are the school authorities, the Spanish school inspectorate, vocational schools of the two regions, the universities of Osnabrück and Bielefeld and a training location for disadvantaged teenagers. The project activities will be determined through the topics planning, companionship and evaluation of vocational teaching in German as a Foreign Language at the Spanish vocational schools. Through the didactical-systematical concept of the communicative vocational teaching of German as a foreign language, a long-termed continual strategy of the teaching classes should be achieved connected with the development and trial vocational teaching material to impart lexical, morphological and syntactical structures. The project results will be disseminated and published through the internet and in the print media. In focus is a website with all project results for the different language facilities and linguistical structures. A creation of a digital and interactive pictorial dictionary will prove the special role of the lexis for the mediation and acquisition of the vocational language (GFL). Other planned project results are a desk book of methods with exemplary teaching materials, a tutorial for (job) application training and material for the mediation of intercultural and geographical learning contents. Furthermore, the internationalization of the professional teaching education through teaching practice abroad, the improvement of the German student’s language skills as well as the setup of cooperation between institution of teacher training at vocational and academic level and the setup of cooperation between institutions of vocational education are in focus. The development, exploitation and dissemination of innovative and learning or studying-centered pedagogical concepts for teaching are aspired in order to improve the language competence in the field of vocational education. An essential aim of this project is, next to the enhancement of the language competencies and the creation of methodical and didactical concepts for teaching, the leveling of the European education level. The exceptional and innovative part of the project is that German students of different faculties (GFL and Romance studies) and the involved trainee institutions of both countries develop technical school contents and methods which can be adopted and make use of by other European education facilities. The sustainability of the project results from the activities and the benefit of language acquisition and its mediation for the involved partners as well as for different European partners.
Based on the Figures from Office of the European Union (Eurostat), the unemployment rate in the euro-area in February 2015 was 11.2%. A major problem that remains, above all in the southern and eastern European states is the high unemployment of youth under the age of 25 years. In accordance with the objectives of the Europe agenda 2020, this project aims to promote the employment and mobility of trainees, school and university students through the enhancement of linguistic and intercultural competences. Language skills are keys to modernizing the European education system and improving socio-economic structures. Improving the language skills of trainees, school students´ and university students’ resulting in increased mobility and opportunities for integration into the European labor market. Poor language skills prevent professional mobility abroad and affect the competitiveness of European companies and organizations in an international level. In the "Didactic-methodical Concepts for Vocational Language preparation as a Contribution to European Vocational Education" project, the school administrations of Lleida and Osnabruck, together with their eight partners, develop competent practical lectures and experiences of Spanish speaking students and students pursuing German as foreign language. Secondly, it provides vocational students, job-related foreign language skills (DaF), intercultural competences and cultural knowledge. The project leaders were the school administrations, the Spanish school inspectorate, vocational schools of the both regions, the universities of Bremen and Jena as well as a learning location for disadvantaged youth. The project activities were determined by the topics planning, monitoring and evaluation of vocational education in Spanish vocational schools. Through the didactic-methodical conception of the communicative job-oriented teaching of German as foreign language (DaF), a long-term lesson planning should be achieved in connection with the development and testing of vocational teaching materials for the teaching of lexical, morphological and syntactic structures. The project outcomes were available on the internet and in the print media. The focus is on a website with the project results conjugation trainer, vocabulary instructor and a picture glossary. Further planned project results, such as a methodology manual with exemplary teaching materials, instructions for application training and materials for teaching intercultural and regional learning contents were not comprehended. It also focused on the internationalization of teacher education by teaching abroad, improving the foreign language skills of German students and developing co-operation between vocational education and training institutions and establishing cooperation between educational training institutions. The aim was to develop, use and disseminate innovative and Lerner/student-centered pedagogical approaches to improve language proficiency concerning professional education. The main goal of this project, in addition to increasing the language skills and the creation of methodical-didactic concepts for teaching, was the evening out the European educational level. The special and innovative aspect of this project was that German students of various professional orientations (German as foreign language and Romance studies) and the participating educational institutions of both countries developed subject-specific teaching contents that can be adopted and applied by other European educational institutions as well. The whole project is transferable to other European partner countries both in terms of organization and content. The sustainability of the project results from the activities and using of language learning and language teaching for both stakeholders and other European partners.