OBJECTIVE 1. Upgrading professional competencies. Providing vocational training for participants in a European environment to motivate them for achievements in their professional development. OBJECTIVE 2. Improving language and digital competences. Providing opportunities for improving the language and digital competencies of students and staff to enhance their professional development OBJECTIVE 3. Strengthening transversal skills. Providing opportunities to improve the transversal skills of students and staff to support their personal and professional development OBJECTIVE 4. Expansion of socio-cultural inclusion. Providing positive incentives for socio-cultural inclusion in European values to support civic self-awareness OBJECTIVE 5. Effectiveness of dual training and European model certification. Getting to know and implementing good practices in VET in the institutional development and internationalization of the school.
National Secondary School of Forestry and Woodworking "Sava Mladenov" Teteven, Bulgaria seeks to internationalize the proposed VET through a direct link with the requirements of the European labor market and the innovative approaches in VET. The analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the current participation in the Erasmus+ Program shows that we need to expand the opportunities for the development of professional, language, digital, cross-cutting skills and civic competencies of school staff and learners in a European environment. Since 2018, the school has faced the challenges of dual training in the two main curricula in forestry and logging and furniture production. Despite the successes and support of business and the public, the school faces insufficient knowledge of the dual system. It needs to study the European experience - transition from school to the labor market, career development and transparent certification.