Number and type/profile of participants: The application was for the following: Activity A1 Flow: 80 participants representing 4/10 departments Activity A2 Flow: 10 GTI staff training / Work shadowing / CPD- however, was not realised due to pandemic Activity A3 Flow: 30 Accompanying persons The following were the planned objectives: - The enrichment of professional working relationships with other European organisations, developing established partnerships with the KA1 project as well as with future KA2 applications. - The provision of opportunities for GTI learners in relevant vocational placements enhancing work experiences for their CV. - Another 25 GTI learners can now list their E+ experience on their CV bringing our total to over 824 since 2011. - The enhancement of employability prospects in a European context nurturing European citizenship and cultural empathy. - To build on participants’ competencies engaging with learning in formal and informal settings - To deepen awareness that life-long skills developed are transferable across all European boundaries - To provide real-life context for participants to improve linguistic skills (second language acquisition) and intercultural communication to empower networking internationally. - To develop participants’ vocational skills adapting to new surroundings and different ways of achieving goals e.g. teamwork, working on own initiative (self- confidence), communication, information technology, critical evaluation, and enterprise skills. - To experience working with project partners and develop new types of funding applications.
GTI's collaboration with over 40 European partners in engaging with the Erasmus + programme is a testament to our commitment to meet local, national, and European needs with a proven track record of learner and staff mobility opportunities across the EU. This provision is at the core of GTI’s Erasmus + programme and promotes our internationalisation strategy. We collaborated with 5 different project partners in Europe in this project due to Pandemic constraints. We were awarded the VET charter in 2015 and aimed to continue achieving Erasmus + objectives as per our internationalisation strategy. Also the benefit to learners / staff vocational placements- 800 learners and 45 staff have been involved in both KA1 and KA2 projects since 2010 and we wanted to continue our provision of placements on an inclusive basis.