Due to struggle with a growing number of young graduates unable to succeed in the labour market in all four participating countries, the project tries to develop skills and competences which are essential for successful professional and personal life.The long-term objectives of the project are based on outcomes of distributed and analysed questionnaires among all participants.They all have realised that the key factors of prosperity and well-being of all members of society are those stated in the project aims and objectives.They create the stepping stones of labour market flexibility ane are essential part of future prosperity of all members of EU. In order to achieve the goals, the first step is to modernize education systems,to focus our efforts on motivation of students who face any kind of ostracism and discrimination.In this project, 96 students and 26 teachers will be involved directly in learning activities which will be hosted by participating schools.Around 360 students and 36 teachers will be involved in the project indirectly through skype/online learning activities - VIRTUAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES which will be organised between learning activities and their role is to involve a greater number of target persons / students and teachers/.They will work in internationally mixed teams to improve their language and collaboration skills.Thank to varied courses they will be able to approach tasks from different angles.Students participating in learning activities study in following courses: Business Academy, International Business Relations, Logistics,Economics,Technical Maintance,Chemistry,Informatics and Business Administration.Teachers in all four participating countries call for opportunities to share ideas, support from more experienced fellow teachers and informal exchange of examples of good practice among European countries. During each learning activity participants will create their own modules on VIC - VIRTUAL INNOVATION CENTRES. Each module will consist of tutorials,presentations,interactive activities,worksheets,self-assessment tests and many others that will be available to students, teachers and public not only in participating countries but worldwide. Through implementing innovative approach - using learning and teaching modules / via Moodle/, concepts of blended learning and the flipped classroom, introducing methods to improve teaching and learning foreign languages: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), we will be able to deliver necessary skills and competencies not only to pupils but to teachers as well through attending both types of learning activities. In this project we want to concentrate on implementing entrepreneurship education, so young people studying different courses can start their own companies that might operate on global market.We want them to overcome fear and doubts, because thanks to active participation in the project and its follow-up activities they might be self-confident, ambitious and active young entrepreneurs. Our plan is to make them break stereotypes and stand up for themselves. We want to teach them how they can create businesses where they will contribute not only to the country welfare but also European community taking into account local/regional/world society needs in future. They will learn how to follow the rules of fair trade promoting local and regional suppliers and meet the environmental needs in terms of being nature friendly and ecological. Crucial outcomes of this project are development of key skills and competencies, such as critical-thinking, communication, financial literacy and very important collaboration skills ( ability to cooperate in multiracial, multicultural and multilingual envronment) . They need to be goal-oriented and creative to be able to solve problems and come up with innovations.Thank to Virtual Innovation Centre all participating countries will be able to improve the education and students learning outcomes.Due to its feasibility and accessibility this ambitious project has a potential to serve as an open source learning platform and ensure its long-term sustainability.All participating countries plan to share project outcomes in other projects and cooperations on different platforms, such as eTwinning and other programmes of European Union.
The participating organisations identified the same problem associated with the increasing number of fresh graduates, who are unable to enter the labour market. Through the project, we aimed to develop some important skills and competences necessary for successful professional and personal life in the field of business education. The long-term objectives and focus of the project were based on the results of a questionnaire survey, which pointed out the key factors of prosperity and well-being of all members of the society and identified some factors they face when entering the labour market. The first step towards achieving our goals is to modernise the educational systems and to motivate students, who face any kind of ostracism and discrimination. Through the project activities, our aim was to help the participants to overcome their fears and doubts. We also wanted to show them how they can be confident, ambitious and active young entrepreneurs, how they can get rid of the dependence on constantly changing demands of employers and the labour market, how they can become independent and to utilise their own potential. We wanted the participants to break some stereotypes and to stand up for their personal views, showing them how they can set up businesses that contribute not only to the well-being of the country, but also to the European community, also taking into account the needs of local, regional and national society in the future. Participants of the project learned how to follow the rules of fair trade which support local suppliers, taking into account the impact on the environment. Through learning activities, which were organised by participating schools, 113 pupils and 30 teachers were directly involved in the project, while more than 360 pupils and 36 teachers were indirectly involved. During training activities participants worked in internationally mixed groups and developed their language and cooperation skills. Thanks to varied activities, carried out both online and physically, they had access to tasks in different ways, using various information and communication tools. Involved participants were students from the following fields of studies: business academy, international business relations, logistics, economics, technical maintenance, chemistry, informatics and business administration. Teachers from all the four involved schools took the opportunity to share ideas, received support from more experienced teachers and had an informal exchange of examples of good practice within European countries. During training activities, participants created their own modules on the project's e-learning platform. Modules, which contain instructions, presentations, interactive activities, worksheets, tests and other materials, guide the participants from the birth of an idea, through the creation of a business plan, financial security, ad creation tools, maze in legislation, system of taxes and levies, to the ability to stand on their own feet and set up their own business. Through the implementation of an innovative approach – the use of teaching materials through Moodle, the concept of mixed teaching and blended classrooms, the application of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Teaching) and CALL methods, we made it possible for students and teachers to acquire some important skills and competences by participating in the various learning activities. In this project, we focused on the implementation of business education in order that young people studying different branches could set up their own business in the global market. An essential outcome of this project is the development of key skills and competences such as critical thinking, communication, financial literacy and important collaborative competences (ability to cooperate in a multinational, multicultural and multilingual environment). Participants need to be ambitious and creative in order to solve problems and to come up with innovative ideas. Thanks to the Virtual Innovation Centre, all participating countries will be able to improve learning outcomes and students´ results. Due to its feasibility and accessibility, this project has the potential to serve as an open learning platform and ensures its long-term sustainability. All the participating countries plan to share the project´s results within other projects and to collaborate on different platforms such as eTwinning and other programmes of the European Union.