Regarding students: Foster VET students’ internationalisation facilitating students from disadvantaged socio-economic environments. Improve studies and competences in job and education environments from other European countries. Increase job opportunities Increase students’ motivation to continue their studies in higher education. Improve their linguistic competence Reinforce the European identity and belonging Regarding teachers: Improve the quality of education offered using innovative methodologies learnt from other education. Consolidate partnerships and plan new projects including a good-practice exchange. Extend the contact list for future partnerships. Foster the participation in European projects as a resource that permits opening lessons to the world, fostering students’ personal and professional development. Regarding our high school: Offer good-quality and innovative training which permits students to access the job market. Offer an European scope view of our VET studies. Increase mobility opportunities for students. Foster students’ awareness of cultural diversity.
The European projects in which we have been participating meant a great revolution in terms of internationalisation, influencing positively both in our school community and in the perception of our school. New students enrolling in our school show a great interest in participating in our Erasmus+ programs because they are able to do their internships in a European country. An improvement in tuition has been detected since we are widely open and have broadened our European school contacts to contribute to our students’ European identity. Due to our results in these previous years, we needed to offer a wider range of mobility opportunities for our students and staff. VET students are in general characterised by lack of motivation, matureness and low job expectations, especially students who come from basic VET programs, due to their school profile. The participation in these European projects meant a total change in student’s motivation, attitude in class and aptitudes towards work as we consider these items very valuable when shortlisting them. In addition, we also give priority to students who come from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds and Erasmus permits all students to have the same opportunities.