Our project had two main objectives: To improve the IT skills of our colleagues. We wanted to improve the skills of our IT staff. We know that digitalisation is essential for the development of education. Our aim was to familiarise our colleagues with online applications, knowledge bases, music, films and animations in their daily work. We also wanted to make our students more motivated. Another key aim is to develop 21st-century-skills in our teachers. These 21st-century-skills are new methodological and learning management tools that increase the effectiveness of teachers' work. We also aimed to widen the range of participants in the project, so that the Erasmus project is not just about summer training for language teachers, but also includes teachers of other subjects. Fortunately, we have several colleagues who, although they teach their subjects in Hungarian, have the language skills to complete a course. We therefore believe that the Erasmus project can bring improvements in all areas of education in the school.
Our overall objective was to increase the international embeddedness and networking of our institution and to seek to broaden our knowledge in a broader, primarily European dimension. We consider it important to include study abroad opportunities in the professional training of our colleagues. It is important to expand our opportunities for continuing training because the main profile of our school is teaching foreign languages and learning about foreign language cultures. This can only be done effectively if our teachers have a broad international perspective. It is worth mentioning that 20–-30% of our graduating students go abroad for further education, so our teachers also need to be informed about the international world. Our institution has a long tradition of internationalism. Until 2015, we were a vocational school for tourism and participated in Comenius programmes, and since 2015 we have regularly submitted Erasmus applications, which have been supported in several cases. Previous projects have led to a growing support for Erasmus in our school, so it was almost natural to submit the current application. Previous Erasmus projects have been well received by parents and the project leader.