This project aims to enhance the skills acquired throughout the project, to strengthen students' self-esteem & support them in the pursuit of studies - Acquiring new skills and greater fluency in the use of English. - Introducing our students to the world of business in a different country, its regulations and structures: a major point for them - Applying their skills in a professional environment abroad, proving their ability to adapt, to be curious, to take risks - Developping personal knowledge: increasing their employability, adaptability, open-mindedness & critical thinking. Expanding their language, social & professional skills. The code of conduct, the schedules to be respected will thus be totally accepted. The students will also increase their efforts into well behaved manners making them more responsible but also regarding the emphasis placed on this aspect of the project when presented to families and the immersion program jointly proposed by our partner in Cork. Making them aware of the European diversity and richness & all the potential that Europe can offer, if only in terms of employability. Being more confident into studies. - Raising awareness of their European citizenship: tolerance & respect of the differences
Our main goals applying fot this project were : • Fighting against dropping out an absenteeism, that are more and more frequent • Enabling our students to acquire useful skills to fulfill positions related to their specialties, and contributing to multilingualism as well as the sense of European citizenship. • Enrichir leur savoir être par l’intégration d’une culture différente de celle à laquelle ils sont habitués, l’assimilation et l’immersion de la culture anglo-saxonne Enhancing their social skills by understanding a different culture, and thanks to a full immersion, integrating the Anglo-Saxon culture • Fighting the lack of personal work and experience, as well as immaturity • Reasserting the value and improve the image of professional training often depreciated, for both the teaching and studying aspects • Expanding language and professional skills, and highlighting the relation and symbiosis of the two • Getting our students personally involved into their professional path • Making clear for our students that European cooperation make this experience a reality ; which will allow them to stand out of the crowd of the classical professional trainings.