The aim of the project was to strengthen the employment opportunities of students of the Technical School Armii Krajowej in Wysokie Mazowieckie in relation to the requirements of the local and European labor market through participation in foreign professional internships in occupations educated in technical schools: refrigeration and air conditioning technician (6 people), mechatronics technician (6 people), agricultural mechanization and agrotronics technician (12 people). The specific objectives include the needs of students in the development of key and soft competences, and equal educational opportunities. The group that will indirectly receive support under the project will be 2 vocational education teachers. We assume that they will improve their professional and teaching skills. The planned period of a 3-week internship in Spain will enable the achievement of the assumed goals.
The project was a response to the identified needs in the area of key areas requiring improvement contained in the European Development Plan CKZ: • increasing the professional qualifications of students by organizing internships abroad (using ECVET as a tool to improve students' professional competences), • improving the quality of teaching vocational subjects, improving knowledge and skills regarding new technologies, organizational and technical solutions, and teaching methodology for vocational subjects, • improving cooperation with the local community (parents, local authorities, umbrella companies), • consolidating and developing, in the opinion of the local community, the image of the school as an active and dynamically developing educational institution, which in its work with students uses the latest technical and organizational tools and tries to be an institution open to the world, allowing its pupils to provide good examples of activities in a diverse world and multicultural.