The project STEP (Share, Test, Exchange, Practise) gathers 6 secondary schools of agriculture from 5 European countries (Luxembourg, Poland, Netherlands, Germany and France) towards one objective : allowing students aged 16 to 20, studying in technological or vocational trainings specialised in agriculture, to study, exchange and produce technical and vocational projects according to their studies, thus enabling them to improve transferable skills.During the first year, the work concerns the design and landscaping of a large empty concrete pond, located on the site of one of the French schools, into a recreation space. The pupils will work according to their competences in the green sector (Landscaping, Horticulture, Floristry, Forestry, Agriculture, Environment...) on the theoretical aspects, exchange on the results of their work, and eventually finalise the production in common by arranging the pond, in practice, on site. All these tasks will give the pupils a real project methodology, enabling them to visualize all its steps.A team of Luxembourgish pupils and teachers will produce an example of technical video tutorial, based on videos taken during the implementation of the landscaping of the pond, this being a pedagogical method commonly used in their school.Then, during the second year, one Luxembourgish teacher will train a few teachers from the partner schools, who will master this method and will put it into practice with their pupils to create new tutorials. These tutorials will be tested and assessed in common at the end of the year in the school in Luxembourg.The students who will participate in the project are often locked up in their own representations. They will then have the opportunity to develop a real professional openness. The project will also develop their curiosity on the different methods, initiatives and culture of the partners.Also, the common work made by pupils from different countries, schools and trainings will allow all to know better the partner school systems in agriculture.Eventually, the communication with European peers will enable all the participants to improve their skills in foreign languages (English, French, German) and their skills in using ICTs.
The STEP (Share, Test, Exchange, Practise) project gathered 6 secondary schoold of agriculture from 5 European countries (Luxembourg, Poland, Netherlands, Germany and France) towards one objective : allowing students aged 16 to 20, studying in technological or vocational trainings specialised in agriculture, to study, exchange and produce technical and vocational projects according to their studies, thus enabling them to improve transferable skills. During the first year, the work focused on the design and landscaping of a large empty concrete pond, located on the site of one of the French schools, into a recreation space. The pupils worked, according to their skills (in Landscaping, Horticulture, Floristry, Forestry, Production, Environment...) on the theoretical aspects, exchanged on the results of their work, and collectively finalised the production by arranging the pool, in practise, on site, in April 2017 (participants : 86 pupils + 20 staff). All this work gave the pupils a real project methodology, allowing them to visualise all its steps. The landscaped pool is now being used by all the pupils of the school during their free time, most of the pupils being boarders. At the beginning of the second year, a Luxembourgish teacher trained some teachers from the partner schools to create video tutorials, a pedagogical method used in his school. The participants then used this methodoogy with their own pupils to create tutorials about technical subjects taught in their institutes. With this new skill, the pupils from each delegation met in Luxembourg in May 2018 (participants : 76 pupils + 20 staff) to create together tutorials on technical topics or on wood constructions implemented during Year 1. This work has taught pupils to take some distance with a technical topic and to explain it in a both simple and organised way, using ICTs. All the activities proposed during the European meetings gathering pupils from all the partner schools (1 week in April 2017 and 1 week in May 2018) were done in multinational teams (samll groups with at least 1 representative of each partner) in order to enable the best collaboration and communication between the participants. The pupils who participated in the project are often locked up in their own representations. They have had the opportunity to develop a real professional openness. The project has also developped their curiosity on the different methods, initiatives and culture of the partners. Also, the common work made by pupils from different countries, schools and trainings has allowed all to know better the partner school systems in agriculture. Eventually, the communication with European peers has enabled all the participants to improve their skills in foreign languages (English, French, German) and their skills in using ICTs.