The main focus of the project is still on appropriate teaching methods, on acquisation of intercultural competence and work-orientated internships abroad. The vocational school Idar-Oberstein wants to complete the theoretical subject teaching in educational programmes and school types with indispensable practical experience. Foreign traineeshipsare now increasingly offered, so that, with the broadened learning content as in-practise approach to economic activity on European and global level can be experienced. Now, after the pandemic stop it is now intended to establish a "European traineeship" scheme, which, within the initial vocational training (upper vocational school, dual training) permanently integrates an additional traineeship of at least two weeks abroad into the school profile and the curriculum.
The aim of the school management is to facilitate the process of internationalisation in the BBS Idar-Oberstein by giving students and teachers the opportunity of participating in school exchanges and exchange of practicants (vocational training. BBS Idar-Oberstein is one of the first eighteen European Schools in Rhineland-Palatinate which was certified in May 2015. Other specific expertise bringing to our project include: Integration of groups of disabled or disadvantaged students; Comparison of the ways schools and countries with different EU-disposition deal with this topic, Inclusion of ICT; Tutorials and networking of institutions for advanced pan-Europeans, Promotion of European consciousness among teachers / students. The Erasmus team will also include teachers of foreign languages, gastronomics, gemstones work, ICT, civics, economics and other vocational subjects.