Stora Segerstad has together wtih the German partner developed ECVET units primarily designed for forestry students. In this project the scope is widened to the rest of the green sector, with the aim to use and develop a teaching material that has been developed in order to make use of "content and language intergrated learning" methods. Objectives: 1) to make the vocational students better prepared to cope with a different culture, and to get a better understanding of what it means to be a foreigner and increase the tolerance towards immigrants coming to Sweden 2) Integrated language and professional training methods need to be tested and further developed 3) Ecvet units applied and tested in three different areas ; machine operation, environmental management and social skills 4) The interactive teaching material "Tools for skills" that has been developed in a KA2 project will be tested and further developed
European forestry and agriculture has gone through a rapid change during the recent decades. Manual work of unskilled staff has been replaced by modern computerised machinery . In the same time the demand for other services from the land based industires has increased especially in equine, animal care and tourism This developement has increased the request for competent and well trained staff who also have social skills, being service minded and communicative also in English. For machine operators the increasing mobility is a partly a result of frequent storms throughout Europe causing large areas of storm felled forest in a random distribution between countries. English is mostly used language in manuals, spare part catalogues and computers and it is necessary to have a basic level of english to operate a forest machine and work in another country. For people working with services in equine and animal care, social and communicative skills (including English) are necessary in tourism related activities