The implementation of the project gives students a chance to acquire broad professional competences so that they can successfully apply for a job in modern companies in the country and abroad, it helps to educate a technician who can manage on the European labor market. By joining the project, we wanted to achieve the goals: raise the level of key competences and skills useful on the labor market raise awareness that lifelong learning is a key competence of the employee increase the effectiveness of language learning, strengthen the motivation to learn them, build the awareness of the multicultural EU, teach respect for being different, which is a condition of democracy; prevent radicalization deepen professional knowledge and the ability to apply it in practice get acquainted with modern technological processes, methods, work organization in foreign companies strengthen the synergy of vocational training at school and in a workplace develop the skills of planning, independent and team work, build respect for competences, knowledge, responsibility for actions taken, communication in a foreign language improve the quality and effectiveness of education, the results of vocational exams stimulate the desire to improve qualifications.
Internships abroad are a priority in the development of the school, they improve professional and social competences of students. Gaining professional qualifications and the ability to use them in practice is possible when school education is combined with practice in workplaces, then students can verify their skills in real conditions, improving their qualifications. It was crucial to provide students with contact with modern technological processes, work organization and management methods in foreign enterprises. We wanted to ensure that they acquire competences important for the future employee: teamwork skills, responsibility for tasks, and combining theory with practice. We wanted them to be open to different cultures, teach them to overcome language barriers. Our goal was to equip students with competences that would enable them to be mobile at work and motivate them to constantly improve their qualifications. By organizing internships, the school acquires knowledge about the European labor market and modifies curricula in accordance with it, teachers learn new methods of work in order to teach in school practice competences important in working abroad. The implementation of internships improves the quality of ZST work.