ORGANIZATIONAL ABILITY • The participants had to get to their internship places themselves and manage with a budget. They could meet themselves with their internship location or with contact students who were also at the internship location. Since the students stayed in groups in the apartments, they had to meet up with each other and organize things and make agreements with each other. RECEPTION + FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE SKILLS: The students had to be aware of correct manners with companies, employees, ... In Spain, English was the language of communication. Communication usually went smoothly. Since the internships were in tourist places, they could make themselves understood everywhere. CRITICAL ATTITUDE • Because people lived together with different students in an apartment and the connection with students from other schools and employees of companies, people constantly came into contact with both feedback about their work and attitude. They had to weigh this up thoroughly. In consultation with the supervisors, this was placed in a constructive context. Our mobilities in Spain could not continue due to COVID the first year.
Within five years, we wanted to offer every student and staff member of school group Impact! a foreign experience where languages, working techniques and cultural differences mean professional and personal enrichment. With this, Impact strives for maximum learning gain and total personality development, and Impact! lifelong learning and active, entrepreneurial citizenship. The result is a sustainable international network that results in innovative, attractive and high-quality education. Due to COVID, this plan has been somewhat delayed by stimulating initiative and entrepreneurship, we noticed that demand from schools is increasing ,we are still catching up with the two years we lost due to COVID. With this project we have focused on optimizing communication in a foreign language, encouraging lifelong learning and cultural involvement. In addition to these aspects, (mental) social inclusion was one of our priorities. Students focus on the digital world, which means they miss real-life opportunities. We centralized everything at school group level so that everyone had access to the necessary information. LANGUAGES• CRITICAL ATTITUDE • CREATIVITY • SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS • RESISTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES• LEARNING SKILLS