The objectives set for this project were the following: - Improve the key competences of our students and, therefore, their employability. - Develop the social, professional and transversal competences of our students. - Develop a taste for innovation and initiative. - Enhance the international dimension of education and, in particular, of our Vocational Training courses. - Improve the level of knowledge of another language and its culture. - Know the structure and functioning of the work environment in other countries. - Improve the quality of the teachings of our institution. - To know hand in hand projects developed by the EU, the values that through them it is intended to transmit and to understand the real meaning of being a citizen of the EU.
The IES Isla de la Deva is an Educational Center supported with public funds, located in Piedras Blancas, municipality of Castrillón, in an industrial area of the center of Asturias. It teaches Compulsory Secondary Education, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training (FP). In this field, it has Training Cycles of Intermediate Degree of the Professional Families Electricity, Installation and maintenance and Health and of Higher Degree of the Professional Family Health. The center has participated since 2011 in mobility projects for internships for VET students and for teacher mobility in Job-shadowing mode, with agreements in Italy, Germany and Poland. The needs detected in relation to the students were the development of transversal competences: autonomy, social skills or adaptability, and the improvement of their linguistic competences in other languages. In relation to teachers, know other work systems in the classroom and improve their language skills in other languages. Finally, at the school level, the need to continue with the promotion of our VET teachings and with our process of internationalization and exchange of good practices was detected.