The name of our project "Czechoslovak reciprocity in crafts" was created by a common decision of participated schools to cooperate in the training and education of their students, particularly in the field of vocational and language training in artistic fields. Students of two secondary art schools will be involved in this project. This institutions educate teenagers aged 15-19 years. In initial phase, students should increase cultural awareness, language competence (especially lesser-used languages of the EU) as well as competence in information and communication technologies (ICT). The project duration is two years with aim to pass the professional skills and competencies to each other in two different art techniques to professional teaching staff and pupils. The main objective of the project is to link the theoretical study of students in school with practical work, to adapt and implement training techniques of work in selected fields of art and design. The added value of the meeting is developing of information and communication technologies, linguistic and professional competence. Participants will receive the necessary information about the working environment, working tools, work procedures and practical formation of selected techniques (mastering the technological process). Among the partial aims belong: a) Pass to each other vocational skills and competences in selected fields - teaching staff and pupils. b) Help young people to entry to the European labor market after graduation. This entry we would like to support by providing of Europass Mobility and Europass CV for the particular participants. c) Create Description of learning units within ECVET. d) Mobility participants will be led to an understanding of cultures and mentalities of partner schools. They will become familiar with other systems of education, environment, pupils, teachers and people from EU countries – Czech Republic. e) Use of English and Czech language for communication in the new environment. f) Creation of educational material at range of approx. 50 pages. g) Increase of the professional qualifications of involved teachers and subsequent use of newly acquired knowledge and skills in the professional education. The project covers the following target groups: a) 8 participants from teaching staff of each school (a total of 8 directly involved educators), b) 24 students from each school (a total of 48 students of the partner schools), Four workshops will be held for teachers and selected groups of students during the project. Meetings will be directed to four areas of professional specialization: studio painting, drawing, photography and creating of visual object (artistic processing of fabric and serigraphy). The topic of common output of student groups will be selected to capture the most significant feature of their venues. The studios will work on the following selected topics: Jihlava - Artistic rendering of fabric (various textile techniques), Zilina - Man and Nature (manual and computer graphics by linocut technique and artistic photography). While working in the studios will also run special events, such as the common language training in English, Czech and Slovak language and other cultural and social activities. Each of the meetings will be finished with collective exhibition and opening, at which the works will be presented to other teachers, students and to the public, too. The teaching staff will be familiar with selected techniques during the project meetings. They will form a Description of learning units in ECVET for each technique. Students will be assessed on the last meeting on the basis of these materials. The project will also provide ongoing communication of working teams on co-operative created website. We also plan common production of trilingual dictionary (English - Czech - Slovak) focused on the special terminology of Art and basic terminology, as well. Learned lessons and bonded professional contacts will be a lasting contribution to everyone who will be associated with the project. During the project meetings each participant will be provided with the tablet, with which their activities on assigned tasks will be documented. Collective movie will be created from student film-records. All activities will be published in a common project site from which also promotional DVD will be produced. Pupils acquire new knowledge, skills and competencies within the scope of 12 days according to Description of learning units in ECVET. Also educational material in the area of selected techniques of approx. 50 pages will be created. Before each mobility the electronic communications between selected pupils (virtual mobility) would be realize. They would be mutually kept up to date with the outputs of the selected technology.
Strategic partnership "Czechoslovak reciprocity in crafts" was created by a common determination of participated schools. They decided to cooperate in developing vocational education and training in artistic fields by means of unconventionl teaching methods as well as technological procedures in following kinds of design – garment, photography, space, product and advertising. Students of two secondary art schools from Žilina and Jihlava were involved in this project. These institutions educate teenagers aged 15-19 years. The project was running from 01. 09. 2017 to 31. 08. 2019 with the aim to transfer reciprocally professional knowledge, skills and competences in unconventional artistic techniques. The target group was represented by students of secondary vocational schools. The main objective of the project was to link the theoretical study in artistic fields with practical work, to adapt and implement training techniques of work into educational process and reciprocally exchange proved procedures between partner schools. The added value of the meeting was developing of information and communication technologies, linguistic and professional competences. Participants of the project received the necessary information about the working environment, working tools, techniques, work procedures and practical work in the field of art and design. Among the partial aims belonged: a) Present to each other vocational knowledge, skills and competences of students in selected art oriented branches of study. b) Help young people enter to the European labour market after graduation. c) Implement Description of learning units within ECVET into educational process. d) Compare history, art and cultural development, system of education and vocational training in the area of Czech-Slovak cooperation. e) Use of English, Slovak and Czech language for communication in the new environment. f) Create relevant information outputs resulting from project activities. g) Increase professional qualifications of involved teachers and subsequent use of newly acquired knowledge and skills in the professional education. h) Spread proved procedures in the field of vocational education between partner schools. The project covered the following target groups: 8 participants from teaching staff from each school and 24 students from each school (total of 48 students). Four workshops were held for teachers and selected groups of students during the project. Meetings were directed to four areas of vocational education: studio painting, drawing, photography and creating of visual object (artistic processing of fabric and serigraphy). The topic of common output of student groups was selected to capture the most significant feature of their venues. The studios worked on the following selected topics: SPUŠ Jihlava - Artistic rendering of fabric (various textile techniques, serigraphy), SSUŠ Žilina – Art and Design (computer graphics, linocut technique and artistic photography). While working in the studios also special events were running, such as the common language training in English, Czech as well as Slovak language and other cultural and social activities. Each of Czech-Slovak meetings was finished with collective exhibition and opening, where the artworks were presented to other teachers, students and to the public as well. The teaching staff became familiar with selected techniques during the project meetings. They formed the Description of learning units in ECVET for each technique. The students were assessed on the basis of these materials on their last meeting. The ongoing communication of working teams was the constituent part of the project and it was provided on co-operative created website. The output of the project was production of trilingual dictionary (English - Czech - Slovak) focused on special terminology of art and design. Achieved knowledge and bonded professional contacts became a lasting contribution to everyone who was associated with the project. During the project meetings each participant was provided with the tablet, through which their activities on assigned tasks were documented. Collective movie was created from student film-records. All activities were published in a common project site from which also promotional DVD was produced. Students acquired a new knowledge, skills and competences within the scope of 12 days according to Description of learning units in ECVET. The educational material in the area of selected techniques of approx. 40 pages was created at the same time. Strategic partnership has contributed to both innovation of vocational education and training as well as to making teaching art oriented vocational subjects in a more effectvie way at both schools.