The trainees should learn that gender-conscious pedagogy can be implemented differently in different countries. An essential project goal is the further development of personal, social and technical skills. This includes expanding and deepening the technical skills of the participating trainees, as well as an increase in skills in relation to organizational, communication and team skills.
Marianum Hegne is a private school in patronage of the catholic church which offers different educations. The vocational training offers the possibility to become state-approved nursery teacher. The mobility project provides a chance to collect working experience in Linz (Austria). The mobility project runs under the heading of "Gender in nursery schools - strong girls and strong boys for Europe". This topic is central to the project because it arouses the students' awareness for various approaches to gender pedagogics in different European countries. One aim is to foster professional competence an social skills in reference to gender pedagogics. All students prepare themselves for their stay in concern to culture in meetings over a six-month period. In these meetings students grapple with the project topic and reflect upon methodical and didactical transfer in their future facilities. Students also have to rely on themselves while preparing and organizing the whole stay, so this offers the possibility of personal growth in organizational skills, communication and team competence. The BAfEP (Bildungsanstalt für Elementarpaedagogik) provides the traineeships in Linz/Austria. We also welcome students from Linz and offer them accomodation and traineeships. In the end we evaluate the whole exchange by requesting feedback from our partners, from the individual facilities and from each single student and use it as a basis for improvements in future years. As a final step, students present their experiences to the other students. We also publish our activities at our website, facebook, in our anual school-magazine "Marianumsbrief" and at the "Erasmus+ Project Results Platform ". This way the project is presented to a broad public.