The Project FinGerBel - Finding New Skills and Sharing Good Practices aims mainly at developing a strong relationship between the partner schools Riveria (FI) BBS Basgeige (DE) and Bernardusschulen 5 ( BE) while encouraging students to experience the challenges of teamwork, improve their communication and multicultural skills. English is the main language of the project. MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT 1- Encouraging students and teachers to take part in partnership projects All the partner schools aim at increasing the involvement level of students and teachers in international projects. Individual student mobility has great impact on the skills on a personal level. However, taking part in strategic partnership projects brings added value to all the partner schools and raises the activity level of international operations within the organisations. It brings improvement to the teaching and learning processes, also to the environments mostly through the sharing of good practices. The project will include 8 activities of short-term exchange of student groups and 3 short-term joint staff training events. - Students will make use of their existing skills in HAAS Tech - During the project the participant teachers will share and improve their pedagogical skills. - A Project management session will be organised for the teachers and other staff taking part in the project. 2- Boosting the digital skills of the participating students and teachers. The students and the teachers will boost their skills in communication and use of digital technology. During their activities they will document their work using photos and videos, and share them with the others. Thus social skills, intercultural awareness, as well as the participants’ foreign language skills will improve. The students will have also basic knowledge about the Finnish, Flemish and German languages of the three partner countries. Improving communication skills of the students on vocational and cultural levels is necessary for the lifelong learning of every individual. 3- On European level, the participants will have better knowledge about the industry (metal and machinery) and the job opportunities in the partner countries. MAIN EVENTS - Starting conference combined with exchange of student groups in Goslar, Germany. - Final conference (dissemination event) combined with exchange of student groups in Joesnuu, Finland. The students will also learn new practices in machining technology and HAAS Tech in specific, where the teachers will exchange good pedagogical practices and experience and test the capacity of their students within multicultural environments. The project includes short-term exchanges of student groups as activities, where a group of 5 students from every partner will travel to a partner country. Prior to travel, all the groups will be communicating and sharing information using Skype for online meetings, different file sharing platforms for sharing documents and social media for non-formal communication. - One of the outputs of every activity will be the design and later machining of a different metallic parts that the students will start working on already before the exchange. The different parts/modules shall together form a complete structure. - Another output will be preparing lists of terms and phrases in English and also in Flemish, Finnish and German. - Prior to every exchange, the chosen students will be given preparatory training called International Preparatory Training - IPT developed by Riveria. The model will be used by the other partners as well and adapted later by their schools. - The students will have also different group activities will also include also cultural programmes. The project will have a Facebook page by the name FinGerBel where the general information and events will be public.
The Project FinGerBel - Finding New Skills and Sharing Good Practices aims mainly at developing a strong relationship between the partner schools Riveria (FI) BBS Basgeige (DE) and Bernardusscholen 6 ( BE) while encouraging students to experience the challenges of teamwork, improve their communication and multicultural skills. English was the main language of the project. MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT 1- Encouraging students and teachers to take part in partnership projects All the partner schools aimed at increasing the involvement level of students and teachers in international projects. Individual student mobility has great impact on the skills on a personal level. However, taking part in strategic partnership projects brings added value to all the partner schools and raises the activity level of international operations within the organisations. It brings improvement to the teaching and learning processes, also to the environments mostly through the sharing of good practices. The project included 8 activities of short-term exchange of student groups and 3 short-term joint staff training events.The events had to be rescheduled we even included the virtual meeting option from the very beginning of the Project. - Students developed communication and social skills using their existing vocational skills in HAAS Tech machinery and and other mechanical technology. - During the project the participant teachers shared and improved their pedagogical skills. - During the Project the teachers and other involved staff developed their skills in Partnership Projects. 2- Boosting the digital skills of the participating students and teachers. The students and the teachers boosted their skills in communication and use of digital technology. During their activities they documented their work using photos and videos, and shared them on Facebook and other social media. Social skills and intercultural awareness of the participants improved. The students got basic knowledge about the Finnish, Flemish and German languages of the three partner countries. Improving communication skills of the students on vocational and cultural levels is necessary for the lifelong learning of every individual. 3- On European level, the participants acquired knowledge about the industry (metal and machinery) and the job opportunities in the partner countries. MAIN EVENTS - The first conference combined with exchange of student groups took place in Goslar, Germany. - The final conference (dissemination event) combined with exchange of student groups in Joesnuu, took place in march. Together with participants from every partner country, students and teachers. This even was right before Europe locked down for COVID-19. The students learned new practices in machining technology and HAAS Tech in specific, also the teachers exchanged good pedagogical practices and experienced and tested the capability of their students within multicultural environments. The project included short-term exchanges of student groups as activities, where a group of 5 students from every partner traveled to a partner country. Prior to travel, all the groups communicated and shared information using Skype/Teams for online meetings, different file sharing platforms for sharing documents and social media for non-formal communication. - One of the outputs of every activity was the design and later machining (or hand crafting) of a different metallic parts that the students started working on already before the exchange. The different parts/modules together formed complete items. - The students got familiar with professional terminology and common phrases in different languages English also in Flemish, Finnish and German. One of the most influential factors was the family-stays that was organised by the hosting partners. - Prior to every exchange, the chosen students were given preparatory training. - In addition to the above the activities also included cultural programmes. The project was disseminated on Facebook pages of every school by the name FinGerBel. In spring 2020 the three Partners agreed to transfer the Project to eTwinning and disseminate the results on Twinspace. The outcome was the https://twinspace.etwinning.net/116164