Our project is the Erasmus Plus Vocational Education Mobility Project, which includes students who receive vocational education and training in the field of Food and Beverage Services, Cookery at GERZE VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL ANADOLU HIGH SCHOOL. It is an extremely important project in terms of the professional development and professional knowledge of the project participants. Our project is an internship activity. Our project consists of 5 students and me as companion teacher. The mobility period of our project is 3 weeks. (Departure Date: 19.06.2022 Return Date: 09.07.2022) Participating in Erasmus plus vocational education projects is an important opportunity for our school and its students. Thanks to these projects, the participants both increase their professional knowledge and skills and make a good investment for their professional future in the enterprises where they go to the European Union countries and do their internship. Project participants experienced an increase in their professional knowledge and skills during their internship at the Hilton hotel business in Malta. Under the supervision of kitchen chefs, they learned how to present plates in the kitchen, how to cook meat and seafood, and how to make desserts, cakes and cakes. Participants were given a Certificate of Participation by the host partner as well as Europass Mobility Certificate approved by both institutions was given.
Our school focuses on vocational education, to ensure that the technological innovations and innovative practices applied in the hotel business in the field of Tourism in Europe (the most demanded soup varieties in Europe, main course and dessert varieties) are learned from the countries in the European Union and presented to the knowledge and skills of our students in our country.This let the students to increase the interest in vocational education by training qualified intermediate staff needed and to achieve new gains as a result of applications, new technologies, knowledge and experience. Recognition of these achievements have been practised in the form of certification. Through this way we aimed to ensure the development of foreign language knowledge of the students in the field of vocational education by practicing, to encourage the learning of modern foreign languages with the Project, to strengthen the ties between the host partner and our school by providing mutual cultural interaction, to encourage more qualified and willing students to tourism. With the project, applications were made in order to make a strong cooperation with Food and Beverage Businesses in EU countries and to increase the number of businesses operating in EU countries, so that our students could perform internship activities in EU countries.