A career is "a succession of professions, skills and positions that a person has during the active period of life" (Davitz J.R. & Ball S., (coordin.) - Psychology of the educational process, EDP, Bucharest, 1978).Education is the "force for the future" because it is one of the most powerful tools for change. The organizations involved in the project also respond to these challenges with difficulty. Similar needs are highlighted: students are required to have transversal skills, in order to continue their professional career and after graduation. Teachers need a portfolio of new and fresh methods that will stimulate learning to be meaningful to students as well as a solid foundation for strengthening the profile and reputation of the teaching profession. Due to the struggle with an increasing number of young graduates unable to succeed in the labor market in the participating countries, the project is trying to develop skills and competences that are essential for the success of one's professional and personal life. The long-term objectives of the project are based on the increasingly bad situation at European level regarding the integration of young graduates into the labor market. To reach the goals, the first step is to modernize the education systems, to focus our efforts on motivating students who face any kind of ostracism and discrimination. In this project, 96 students and 36 teachers will be directly involved in learning activities that will be hosted by the participating schools. Around 450 students and 30 teachers will be involved in the project indirectly through skype / online learning activities - VIRTUAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES and e-twinning activities that will be organized between learning activities and their role is to involve more people / students and teachers .They will work internationally mixed teams to improve their language and collaboration skills. Thanks to the various courses will be able to approach tasks from different angles. Students participating in learning activities study in the following courses: Business Academy, International business relations, economics, technology, computer science disciplines and Business Administration and bilingual subjects. Teachers from all participating countries ask for opportunities to share ideas, support from more experienced teacher colleagues, and informally exchange examples of best practices among the European countries. In each learning activity, the participants will create their own modules on the collaborative innovation centers - VLC. Each module will consist of tutorials, presentations, interactive activities on the twin-space platform, worksheets, self-assessment tests and many more that will be available to students, teachers and the public, not only in the participating countries, but throughout Europe. By implementing an innovative approach - using learning and teaching modules / through Moodle / blended learning concepts and flipped classroom, introducing methods for improving teaching and Foreign Language Learning: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), we will be able to provide the skills and competencies required not only to students but also teachers by participating in both types of learning activities. In this project we want to focus on the implementation of entrepreneurship education, so young people studying different courses can start their own companies, businesses that could operate on the labor market want them to overcome fear and doubts, because due to active participation in the project they can become entrepreneurs young confident, ambitious and active. Through the activities of the project the students will overcome the stereotypes and will value themselves. Through collaborative activities of blended type and e-learning they will create businesses in which they will contribute not only to the well-being of the country, but also to the European level. They will learn how to follow the marketing rules that promote local and regional suppliers to meet environmental needs from the point of view of the friendly and ecological nature. The main results of this project are: - development of key skills and competences, such as critical thinking, communication, financial literacy and very important collaborative skills (ability to cooperate in the multiracial, multicultural and multilingual environment). They need to be goal-oriented and creative in order to solve problems and come up with innovations. Thanks to the Moodle Virtual Learning Cooperation platform all participating countries will be able to improve the education and students learning outcomes.Due to its feasibility and accessibility this ambitious project has a potential to serve as an open source learning platform and ensure its long-term sustainability. All participating countries plan to share project outcomes in other projects and cooperation on different platforms, such as e-Twinning;
The project was named START-UP through VIRTUAL LEARNING COOPERATION. Coordinator was: COLEGIUL ECONOMIC"HERMES"PETROSANI Romania Partner Organisations: -32 SU s izuchavane na chuzhdi ezici "Sv.Kliment Ohridski" Bulgaria -Agrupamento de Escolas de Penacova Portugal -Gulbenes 2.vidusskola Latvia - Sule Muzaffer Buyuk Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi Turkey -Technical and Vocational School of Education and Training Paralimni Cyprus The target group of the project: Directly participate to the project were students between the age16 to 19, their teachers; Indirect participants will be the students aged 16 and 19, teachers, parents relating to the around organizations in local, national and international In this strategic partnership project between schools, we focused on the implementation of entrepreneurial education, so that students from the final grades can experience through courses offered in the partner schools how they can establish their own companies, the businesses that could work on the labor market want them to to overcome fear and doubts, because they actively participated in the project activities. During the 3 years, they acquired the skills of good confident, ambitious entrepreneurs and active. Through the activities of the project, the students overcame stereotypes and valued themselves by sharing common work experiences coordinated by their teachers. Participating in LTT type activities students learned: -what are the components of a business plan - what are the stages of setting up a company and the setting up rules in the partner countries in the project -how to follow marketing rules which promotes local and regional suppliers to meet environmental needs from the point of view of the friendly and ecological nature. The main results of this project were: - developing key skills and competencies such as critical thinking, communication, financial literacy and very important collaboration skills (ability to cooperate in multiracial, multicultural and multilingual environment) to be goal-oriented and creative to solve problems and come up with innovations. Thanks to the Moodle Virtual Learning Cooperation platform as the main result of the project, all the countries participating in the project were able to create courses, useful learning materials that they made available to everyone. The platform is also available after the end of the project, ensuring long-term sustainability. All participating countries cooperated with their students on e-Twinning until the site was closed, but the coordinating school received the E-twinning Label award for the implemented project; Activities have been implemented: -1 Short-term joint staff training events -5 Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils -virtual learning cooperation between students, teachers on zoom, g-meet and e-twinning -in each school local activities as: implementation, evaluation , monitoring and dissemination of the project, workshops with students coordinated by their teachers related to HOW TO CREATE A BUSINESS PLAN, Establishing the type of business and setting up the company, THE POWER OF MARKETING, FINANCIAL ASPECTS, How should the necessary personnel / human resources be selected, tips to TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL EUROPASS CV , activities to create Logo of the project, Develop e-Twinning project, Collecting and summarizing the best practices carried out with all project partners. -Seminars for teachers, parents, students, local authorities in local/national about project activities and the results of the project. The most important objectives of the project as how to teach students to create businesses in which they can contribute to the well-being of the country, how to comply with fair trade rules by promoting local and regional suppliers, how to comply environmental needs in terms of friendly and eco-friendly nature, how to apply methods such as critical thinking, communication, financial literacy and importance collaboration skills, all were achieved. New technology used in the project also contributed to the development of digital skills for teachers, both in local activities with their students and during LTTs, working on virtual learning activities, working on e-safety, attending workshops to work on a joint project – VIRTUAL LEARNING. Tangible results: -VLC platform with 10 modules -E-twinning -Business Dictionary -Web-site - E-twinning Labels Most important project results were presented on EPRP-Erasmus platform with all projects results.