Develop together new learning methods : This project is a partnership between 4 training institutions in horticulture from Belgium, Germany, Slovenia, Latvia and the Luxembourgian association AG-EU-Garden asbl with about 80 participants in the mobilities and further around 1000 beneficiaries. Main goal: The learners search for their own possibilities, find out how they can implement the offered topics and practice to structure their own practice-oriented learning. They must also find ways to publish what they have learned and carry out the publication. This is accompanied by the training of the teachers, who can orient themselves in their teaching methods to the learning methods. The participants in the activities are trainees and participants in further education in horticulture and their teachers and trainers. During the activities, they receive a concrete, practically oriented task, which must be solved. There is not the individual person in the foreground, but the group, which has to develop jointly solving strategies. In doing so, the participants have to work independently on knowledge areas and skills and are therefore encouraged to structure their own work and their own learning methods. In these phases, the teachers are available as coaches and provide support for various learning methods. The implementation of a presentation of the results into the actual task automatically leads the students to deal with different presentation possibilities and representations. Through the obligation to publish reports on the activity, participants must also deal with public relations and advertising. This exchange is intensified by the transnational groups. Previous working methods of the participants are questioned and an exchange is automatically carried out via the methodological procedure. The professional subject and the concrete task implement an intrinsic motivation of all participants who are interested in their profession, since the tasks correspond to a challenge and a concrete approach from the workplace. This sets the foundation for the motivation of the later employees to find solutions for emerging questions, to constantly develop themselves in their area, to make themselves independent, to promote themselves and the profession, and thereby to contribute to the job creation. In addition to the already mentioned main subject we expect a motivation increase for teachers / trainers and pupils / trainees as well as unskilled and unemployed graduates to look beyond the borders. In doing so, we also see the national borders as well as the demarcations within horticulture (horticulture, floristics, gardening and landscaping, nature conservation, ...). In addition, foreign language competency is encouraged as participants recognize the need for foreign language skills. In addition to the fact that learners are accompanied by teachers who are themselves participants (and not just companions), we also organize a seminar specifically for teachers, without accompanying students. Teachers will also have the opportunity to learn and compare the skills and competencies of various European partners. Our partnership is, therefore, also very explicit ment for teachers, who are enabled to get a different perspective on the learning methods of the pupils, since the teacher does not preach the method, but the pupils themselves develop in their own responsibility. The practical tasks, in cooperation with various companies, are in the areas of gardening and landscaping, computer - aided planning / creation of the green space of a social institution, addressing the needs and wishes of customers and users, plant knowledge, culture and use / processing of plant products such as fruit and herbs / medicinal plants, peat in the horticultural production, influence of gardening activities on environment and environment care. In view of the fact that the seminars have been chosen for professional topics, which are within the teaching programs of all the partners , they will continue to be addressed during the following years, and the results, the new learning methods will continue to be applied and even further developed. Thanks to the experience gained in previous projects, we can also assume that the pupils / trainees as well as the trainers / co-workers participating in this partnership will continue to contribute to the maintenance and dissemination of the results of this partnership, even after the project has ended. In addition, the garden for blind and visually handicapped people remains open to the public.
Develop together new learning methods This KA2 project was a partnership between 4 horticulture training institutes from Belgium, Germany, Slovenia, Latvia and the Luxembourg association AG-EU-Garden asbl with around 80 mobility participants and a further 1000 beneficiaries. In order for the students of all organizations to be able to benefit from the project in the best possible way, we set ourselves the following goals: "The learners research their own possibilities, find out how they can implement the topics offered and practice structuring their own practical learning. You also need to find ways to publish what you have learned and publish. Along with this is the further education of the teachers, who can orient themselves in their teaching methods to the learning methods. " During the activity, the learners were given a concrete, practical task that needed to be solved. The focus was not on the individual person, but on the group that was to develop joint solution strategies. The participants had to independently develop knowledge areas and skills and were thus encouraged to structure their own work and their own learning method. In these phases the teachers were available as coaches and gave assistance to different learning methods. The implementation of a presentation of the results in the actual task automatically led to the students having to deal with different presentation options and presentations. Due to the obligation to publish reports on the activity, the participants also had to deal with public relations and advertising. The students preferred to work with the following methods: Individual work, group work, create checklists, self-organization, work on the project, simulation, create demonstrations, discuss. It was very important for them to be able to choose what they should work on and when and how to organize their own work steps. At first, most students were reluctant to approach unknown classmates. The approach was partly after a few hours, with some participants only after 3 days. At the end of their week together they sometimes felt disappointed that they had not sought contact faster. Everyone was pleased with their "aha experiences" in learning and working with others.