The partnership project entitled "International school cooperation a chance for better vocational education" was created at the initiative of the Complex of Electrical Schools in Kielce, the project coordinator. The partners in the project are: Colegio Salesiano Santísima Trinidad from Seville in Spain and CINEL - Centro de Formação Profissional da Industria Eletronica, Energia, Telecomunicações, e Tecnologias de Informação from Lisbon in Portugal. Another educational institution: IBD Solutions Limited from Portsmouth, England is also a partner in the project. The aim of the project is to develop cooperation with the above-mentioned vocational schools in Spain and Portugal in order to raise the qualifications and skills of project participants, exchange experience and teaching methods in vocational education and cooperation in the organization of professional internships for students of partners' schools. An important aspect of the project is the development of key competences such as knowledge of English or IT competences. The project assumes several areas of cooperation, the most important of which is to create a common training online platform where teachers of professional subjects will share their teaching experience. This platform would be divided into the School Zone, the Teachers' Zone and the Student Zone. It is also planned to develop the partnership of schools through training workshops for teachers teaching the profession carried out in all partner institutions. During the training workshops, teachers of vocational subjects will have the opportunity to observe lessons taught by their foreign colleagues and to train their own skills. The next area of activities in the project will also be the improvement of language skills. It is planned to train ZSE teachers in Portsmouth, England which will bring added value to the project when it comes to communicating in English on a daily basis, not only during language courses, because the lack of such skills was indicated by the teachers in the analysis of needs. As the most important matter at school is a student, the next area of cooperation is the participation of a delegation of students from the schools participating in the project in the lessons conducted in partners' schools. The students will take part in vocational courses, according to their own education profile, lesson will be taught in English and in workshop classes. In addition, students will take part in an on-line training webinar using the Skype program. Students will post their observations and impressions of their stay in foreign schools in the Student's Area on the created online platform, which will make their voice, as the most important target group in improving the school's quality, also present. The project will be widely publicized locally and its results will be upheld by all partners in all possible ways. It is planned to include information about the project in the media, the Internet, the Erasmus + Results Platform and on the websites of all project's partners. It is assumed that after the end of the project financing, the joint training online platform will continue to operate on the basis of the partners' own resources, which is defined as a permanent result.
The partnership cooperation project entitled "International school cooperation as a chance for better vocational education" was initiated by the Electric School Complex in Kielce, the project coordinator. The partners in the project were: Colegio Salesiano Santísima Trinidad school from Seville, Spain and CINEL - Centro de Formação Profissional da Industria Eletronica, Energia, Telecomunicações, e Tecnologias de Informação from Lisbon, Portugal. The training company IBD Solutions Limited from Portsmouth, England was also a partner in the project. The project aimed at development of cooperation with the above-mentioned vocational schools in Spain and Portugal, in order to improve the qualifications and skills of project participants, exchange experiences, teaching methods in vocational education, and cooperation in the field of organizing short professional internships for students of partner schools. An important aspect of the project was the development of key competences, such as knowledge of English or IT skills, both among students and teachers. The project assumed several areas of cooperation, the most important of which was the creation of a common online training platform where teachers of vocational subjects shared their experiences in teaching. For this purpose, the MOODLE platform was used, with materials useful for teaching vocational subjects. This platform was initially planned to be used in the project for distance teaching and shared lessons, unfortunately, the pandemic thwarted these plans, as most schools in Europe introduced the need to use distance learning and the TEAMS application during the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in less interest in the MOODLE platform and courses posted there. Nevertheless, teachers have received training in using this platform and many still use it. The school partnership was developed in the project through training workshops for apprentices at all partner institutions. There were 6 such visits, two in each project country. During the training workshops, teachers of vocational subjects had the opportunity to observe the lessons conducted by their foreign colleagues, discuss methods used in other countries and train their skills. The next area of activity in the project was the improvement of language skills. They were improved throughout the project, as the language of the project for Poland, Spain and Portugal was English. As only Polish teachers reported the need to improve their language skills, especially in speaking at specialist courses, before the start of the project, two language courses were organized for them, in the first and second year of the project, in Portsmouth, England, at the IBM Partnership institution. Another area of partnership cooperation was the participation of a delegation of students from schools taking part in the project in mobility at partner schools. There were 5 such mobilities. Students took part in lessons of different vocational subjects, conducted in English, as well as in workshop activities and the cultural program. Students posted their impressions and thoughts on the blog (student and teacher zone) of the project page, which was linked to the home pages of the partner schools so that their voice as the most important target group was also visible. Instead of the previously planned training webinar for students, an online electronics lesson using the ZOOM platform was held for students from three countries: Poland, Portugal, and Spain, even before the mandatory introduction of distance learning in these countries. The project was widely publicized in the local community, and its results were disseminated by all partners by all possible means. Information about the project was published on a specially created project website, in local media, on the Internet, on the Erasmus + Program Results Platform, and the home websites of all project partners.