We decided to implement the Erasmus+ project mainly to support and fulfill the long-term strategic goal of the school - we wanted to bring new foreign knowledge from the real working environment to the participants and through them to the whole school. Project objectives: 1. to increase the personal development of the school pupils (independence, flexibility, communication skills) and to support them in acquiring new knowledge, skills, competences. 2. Increase the language skills of the project participants, especially in the area of conversation and fluency in a foreign language. 3. To increase the organisational and linguistic competence of the school management. 4. Increase the quality of teaching at the school - through the introduction of new foreign trends in teaching. 5. Increasing the interest of the school's pupils, teachers and the public in other cultures, other countries and Europe. 6. Increase the attractiveness of the school to the public and potential pupils. 7. Increase the attractiveness of the project participants on the labour market in the Czech Republic and abroad. 8. Establishing long-term international cooperation and increasing the attractiveness of the school.
The school's long-term strategy is to regularly provide students with international practical experience in the field, learning about the foreign working environment, the opportunity to work with different types of people, to gain relevant experience in the field and through this to transfer this practical experience into practical and theoretical teaching. Therefore, the main need of the school was to expand the network of foreign partners to which both students and teachers will be able to regularly travel in the future and gain experience in the field, to create long-term foreign cooperation. Another related need of the school management was the need to strengthen the organizational and communication competences of the school staff and, last but not least, to increase the professional and linguistic knowledge of pupils and teachers. The needs of the school in the framework of international cooperation were: - To increase the awareness of the pupils and the school itself about new foreign methods. - To respond to the latest trends and also to introduce new practices, methods, technologies and approaches in the school. - New cooperation with other countries can bring new methods within the management and governance of the school. - To improve the language skills of our pupils and school staff, project team. - To establish new international partnerships. - Strengthen foreign partnerships to be mutually beneficial.