The intercultural and project management skills of those responsible for the Erasmus+ team should be significantly improved. Requirements for a school that is open to Europe are not only specialist skills intercultural skills, interdisciplinary competences and professional project management. It was very important to us that teachers take courses visit together with teachers from other countries and learn that intercultural Learning not only takes place during the seminar time but also during the whole week can. Through the European training courses, our colleagues should Get the opportunity to get to know potential project partners, and then easier Being able to plan student exchanges, mobility with internships or job shadowing. This led to the plan to have 2-3 colleagues in the further training in other European countries who have sufficient language skills, since international exchange activities are primarily conducted in English. The acquired experiences should contribute to more intensively to participate in European projects, the European idea in the college and in the To anchor students and to integrate appropriate content into the lesson.
The change in the regional labor markets towards a European labor market has Demands on our vocational college changed. Our school aims to introduce our students to Europe and the European job market to prepare. As part of our internationalization strategy, we have in all strategic areas activities planned. In the strategy field "International activities and mobility" we are planning more Mobility for learners and for VET staff. In the strategy field "International Qualification content" we very successfully held two "Small Europe Days" in December 2018 organized. Here, Erasmus+ interns, teachers and companies shared their experiences in Europe with Erasmus+ lectured and discussed in front of approx. 200 vocational school students. We have this concept further expanded in 2019. A teaching unit "Working in Europe" was held on a small scale in the 2nd Half of 2018 tested in two classes of the dual system. In the strategy field "International Activities + Mobility" we have the work in the network of the Euregio Rhein-Waal, especially that engagement in the logistics platform and a mobility of mixed teacher /Student groups carried out.