The aim was to provide additional linguistic, cultural and technical qualifications for those directly involved in the project. Moreover, further teachers should be motivated to get involved in EU education projects through the transfer to the entire teaching staff. In this way, existing reservations and obstacles that stand in the way of the professional European mobility of interested teachers could be reduced. The project formed an important module in a network of targeted training measures that are planned in response to changing requirements in everyday teaching.
Our school, the "Herwig-Blankertz-Schule Hofgeismar/Wolfhagen" (HBS), located at the centre of Germany, has got several years' experience in preparing, managing and evaluating European-funded mobility projects. By taking part in European projects, we would like to highlight the international aspects in vocational training for our school, our students and our teachers. In this particular project called "Enhancing European Expertise of HBS Teachers 2020" it was planned to send three teachers of vocational education to further training courses in the field of using ICT in an efficient way for modern lessons, taking place in Barcelona and Dublin. Please also see: https://www.teacheracademy.eu/course/tablets-smartphones-as-educational-tools/