• To highlight specialized executives, who will be called upon to fill the ever-increasing jobs that arise. •To bring students into contact with application of industrial automation and control with a network of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and the new professional opportunities presented. • To connect Vocational Education with the labor market with professional visits to companies and organizations that implement industrial automation or use industrial networks in their facilities by interconnecting PLCs. • To get to know the labor market in the host country and the conditions that prevail, thereby increasing the potential for future employment or business cooperation. •To broaden their professional horizons and develop their entrepreneurial spirit. • To expand their intercultural skills, receiving rich stimuli from their contact with citizens of another country and the culture of Portugal. •To transfer to Greece the experiences they will acquire. •To improve their communication in the English language. • To improve their personal development and sociability and self-confidence.
The proposed project refers to the mobility of 16 students and 2 accompanying teachers of the "Information Technology" and "Electrical, Electronics and Automation" fields of the Polygyros Laboratory Center in Porto of Portugal for two weeks in May of 2021. Due to the pandemic of Covid - 19, the project was delayed by one year and finally took place at the begging of May 2022. The students who will be selected will know very good English, will have participated in innovative educational processes of the unit, will be willing to cooperate to achieve the goals of the program. The students of E.K. Polygyros come from agricultural and livestock farming families and from the neighboring areas of Polygyros province, they feel cut off from international educational events, most of them have not traveled abroad. Therefore, all mobility acquires additional dynamics and value for them. Within the framework of the proposed plan, we expect the achievement of multiplier results and benefits, both for the participants and for the agencies involved (sending and receiving).