The mobility concerned 'staff training', in the context of placements designated as 'job shadowing periods'. This project is in line with three of the European priorities, namely the teaching and learning of foreign languages, professional inclusion, and European citizenship. This project, initiated by the the educational inspectors of the "Applied Biological and Social Sciences" (SBSSA) field, was aimed at teachers of biotechnologies, health and environment (BSE) and medico-social sciences and techniques (STMS) teaching in the vocational baccalaureate "Accompaniment, care and services to the person" (ASSP) and "Proximity and local services" (SPVL), as well as at the delegated directors of vocational and technological training. The H.E.A.L project aimed to send teachers and staff on two-week training mobility in a European partner country in order to allow sufficient linguistic and professional immersion to achieve the objectives of the mobility, but also to encourage a rich and varied exchange of practices and thus improve professional teaching skills.
The project "H.E.A.L: new Habits to develop European Ambition for professional Learners" was organized with a consortium of 10 establishments in the Dijon academy, under the impetus of the Rectorat, the inspection services and with the support of the GIP-FTLV of Burgundy, coordinator. This project is part of the 3rd axis of the academic project: "Dijon learning academy", which aims to promote the internationalization of the academy's establishments and to increase the skills of its staff. The public and private vocational high schools under contract in the Dijon academy offering training in the health and social sector are falling behind in carrying out European mobility projects for their students. There are several reasons for this situation: lack of self-confidence, a language level considered too low to expect or manage a mobility experience and teachers' apprehension about sending their students abroad. Both students and teachers need to develop professional, social, linguistic and cultural skills that will enable them, in the long run, to set up European mobility projects for their students.