Project background:The motivation for this project results from the observation that especially young people in Europe are affected by high unemployment. This is confirmed by several statistics. However, it is also a part of the daily routine at the vocational schools of the participating teachers. A lot of their students face the risk of being unemployed at one point of their professional lives. In several educational discussions the students address the topic “Globalization – knowing the chances and the risks”. In this context “living, learning and working abroad” is an important focus, which intrigues the aspect of working in Europe, formulated as “Working abroad – why not!”Project aims:In order to prepare young people to work in Europe and to increase their motivation of working in another European country, they should know some key facts. These facts include the local working and living conditions as well as the taxation systems, social securities or important contents of the local labour laws. Moreover, the students should be familiar with the different costs of living or leisure facilities. In order to present these information the students are going to develop an app. This seems to be a suitable medium for the target group and helps the students to increase important digital skills. Number and profile of participants:The participating institutions are two vocational schools in Germany and Finland, which look back on a long-term partnership. Additionally, another vocational school in Estonia will join the partnership. This school will be able to benefit from the others’ experience. Out of organizational reasons the number of participating students is limited to 24 for each school. Young people with educational, economical and social disadvantages are equally been taken into account. Description of activities:The German vocational school is going to work on the working conditions of Germany. The app will be developed in special working groups. Then the students travel to Finland to present and explain their information and the app. Together the German and the Finish students collect and insert in-formation on the living conditions in Finland. After that the Finish students work on their working conditions and insert the information in the app. Together with the collected information the stu-dents travel to Germany and present their findings. On-site Germans and Finish collect the living conditions of Germany and insert the information. In the end the Germans and Finish are travelling to Estonia to present and explain their findings. Germans, Finish and Estonians are going to research the Estonian living conditions and insert the information in the app. The Estonian students are going to collect their working conditions and insert the information. Proceeding and conduction:The information the students are going to collect have to be researched with the help of the internet and different school books. This has to be done in school lessons. The app is going to be developed in extra courses with the help of an app inventor. The information on the living conditions is going to be collected in bi- or even tri-national teams of students in the different host countries. The communication will take place in English. The vocational schools in Germany and Finland are responsible for the correctness of the collected information. Short description of the pursued results, their effect and their long-term usage:The app, called "Work APPlication for Europe", is going to be linked as QR-code on the homepages of both partner schools. In the long term, information of all European countries will be added. This is going to happen in additional ERASMUS+ projects. Moreover, interested stakeholders are able to use and add information to the app. This can be seen as an additional service and benefit for external users. Moreover, the students that are taking part are going to improve their professional and methodical expertise. Additionally, their language, social and personal competences are going to benefit. All together this should lead to a strengthening of their motivation, personal initiative, self-confidence and the willingness of lifelong learning. The students’ performance is going to be appreciated by the Europass MobilitätThe project is going to be advertised via the homepages of each school, eTwinning, Facebook and Instagram. Beneficiaries will therefore be apprentices, employers, other schools, job agencies or chambers.
Project background: The motivation for this project results from the observation that especially young people in Europe are affected by high unemployment. This is confirmed by several statistics. However, it is also a part of the daily routine at the vocational schools of the participating teachers. A lot of their students face the risk of being unemployed at one point of their professional lives. In several educational discussions the students address the topic “Globalization – knowing the chances and the risks”. In this context “living, learning and working abroad” is an important focus, which intrigues the aspect of working in Europe, formulated as “Working abroad – why not!” Project aims: In order to prepare young people to work in Europe and to increase their motivation of working in another European country, they should know some key facts. These facts include the local working and living conditions as well as the taxation systems, social securities or important contents of the local labour laws. Moreover, the students should be familiar with the different costs of living or leisure facilities. In order to present these information the students have developed an app. This seemed to be a suitable medium for the target group and helps the students to increase important digital skills. Number and profile of participants: The participating institutions were two vocational schools in Germany and Finland, which look back on a long-term partnership which should be steadily expanded. Additionally, another vocational school in Estonia joined the partnership. This school benefits from the others’ experience. Out of organizational and financial reasons the number of participating students was limited to 24 for german and 10 for finnish school. We tried to take young people with educational, economical and social disadvantages equally into account. Description of activities: Both vocational schools worked on their own working conditions in regular school lessons. The app has been developed in special working groups. During C1-activity in Finland we put our results together, inserted contents into the app and in additional the living conditions. A one-day work visit to estonia was done by all those involved at this time, because the EU has shortened our budget. We met the EU-coordinator of the vocational school Rakvere and talked about results and goals. During C2-activity in Germany a professional communication designer gave new input, so that completely revised the app with regard to design and contents. Also the name of our app has been created: "YEUGO". Proceeding and conduction: The information the students have been collected had been researched with the help of the internet and different school books. This had to be done in school lessons. The app was going to be developed in extra courses with the help of MIT app inventor. The contents of the APP have been written in working language English. The vocational schools are responsible for the correctness of the collected information. Short description of the pursued results, their effect and their long-term usage: YEUGO has been linked as QR-code on the homepages of both partner schools. In the long term, information of all European countries will be added. This could be happen in additional ERASMUS+ projects. Moreover, interested stakeholders are able to use and add information to the app. This can be seen as an additional service and benefit for external users. Moreover, the students that took part improved their professional and methodical expertise. Additionally, their language, social and personal competences have taken benefit. All together this lead to a strengthening of their motivation, personal initiative, self-confidence and the willingness of liefelong learning. The students`performance has been appreciated by the Europass Mobility Certificate. The project has been advertised via the homepages of each school, eTwinning and facebook. Beneficiaries will therefore be apprentices, employers, other schools, job agencies or chambers.