The main objective of the centre is "to train the best professionals, recognised for their high qualification and human quality"; this has been and will be the central axis of its strategic planning and of the Erasmus projects developed, in which students are offered the opportunity to carry out an internship (FCT or postgraduate) and teachers a period of job-shadowing or teaching in European host institutions, in order to achieve the following objectives: - To foster competences: linguistic, social, work-related and personal. - To generate job opportunities for students. - To learn new methodologies and techniques in European host institutions; improving the professional profile of students and teachers. - To use new technologies in daily work. - To expand the network of collaborating centres and companies in the EU. And consequently, enrich their lives and open their minds towards internationalisation.
The SOPEÑASVET NEW CHALLENGES project was requested by the Vocational Training Centre SOPEÑA SEVILLA in the call for 2019, in order to continue developing its Internationalisation Plan, posing new challenges; in addition to promoting quality European mobilities of students and teachers of Intermediate Vocational Training, it was proposed to offer this opportunity to our students and teachers of Basic Vocational Training, to carry out a 14-day internship in EU companies, as our experience in European programmes has allowed us to verify how these mobilities contribute positively to the strengthening of professional, personal, social and linguistic competences of students. As far as the teaching staff is concerned, the development of this project would open the minds of our teaching staff towards internationalisation, as they would have the opportunity to learn how the Vocational Training system is configured in other countries, as well as to discover new working methodologies applied in the training centres, motivating them to review, improve and innovate in their teaching work, which means an improvement in the quality of the training of our students.