The internationalization of our school: our main goal. We wanted to establish our school as a European business and start-up school in our region: - to strengthen our school's European profile - to include bilingual teaching as an integral part of our curriculum - to establish our school as a European economical Start-up School - to implement new methods in the classroom - to improve our foreign language skills - to offer inclusive vocational training - to promote social skills, including entrepreneurship - through networking with colleagues in other European countries during further training and shadowing - through social learning, cooperation and mutual appreciation in the school We decided for this Erasmus project and focus on the acquisition of social skills and intercultural learning, as well as learning new teaching and learning methods, e.g. brain-friendly learning, film as a creative method in the classroom in combination with the promotion of foreign language skills.
Between 2020 and 2023, we carried out our Erasmus+ project entitled Hospitation/Job Shadowing and training courses in focus on CLIL, Inclusion and innovative Methods in the classroom. As a school of diversity, more than 50% of our students have a migration background (German not as a mother tongue). As part of our school development, we decided to focus on the European inclusive business school. We are a school location that is confronted with many social challenges in the society, we wanted to strengthen our new international profile and to be a part of the Erasmus+ program. Thanks to this Erasmus project with a focus on CLIL, foreign language skills, inclusion and innovative methods in teaching, we managed to develop - our intercultural and methodical-didactical concepts, to improve our skills, to teach bilingual the school subjects GSK and BSK as a compulsory (optional) subjects- to strengthen our European profile.