As the largest vocational school for car mechanics in VAVM school feels a growing need for European mobility and international cooperation. For both VAVM vocational teachers and students of car mechanics and electromechanics it is important to develop their professional competencies in the context of internationalization. In multinational companies, English is often used as an internal working language, but it is also growing the need to speak other languages. • Personal traits such as curiosity, productivity and skills are increasingly needed in working life resilience - they are also linked to international skills. • There is a growing need for car mechanics to be able to provide services to customers of different cultures and languages. • Working in a global business requires not only language skills but also the ability to operate in a multicultural environment environment, different work cultures. VAVM aimed at preparing staff for modern professional challenges. Learners, in turn, were to become more competitive, in-demand in the market, has a good knowledge of foreign languages, work / work experience experience in Lithuania and abroad, able to adapt to constantly new technological requirements.
The application for this project was the need to implement an international project that would enable: • Analysis of the intercultural experience of foreign partners - to improve the understanding and tolerance required promote openness to the world through communication and cooperation with different cultures; • Analysis of the experience of organizing and conducting practical training of foreign partners - to ensure professional improving the quality of teaching, the application of innovative teaching forms and methods, modern tools for teaching process; • Quality teacher traineeships to ensure the development of professional skills; • Quality traineeships for students in vocational training institutions and companies in European countries to further the development of students' practical and technical skills; • Enabling participants of mobility visits to acquire social and intercultural competencies, to communicate abroad language to increase the sense of European citizenship which would be achieved via high-quality preparation of visit programs and adequate allocation of time for various activities. All this will implement the school’s strategic Objective: to ensure competitive vocational training that improves achievement.