By placing our sixteen (16) students in businesses in Bucharest, Romania, we aimed for them to acquire certified vocational training and multi-dimensional know-how skills as well as digital skills, to become competitive in the job market. Also: - to improve their basic abilities & skills and acquire new ones - to come into contact with a different European labor regime by comparing it with the corresponding Greek one - to adopt good practices that will enable them to integrate them in their own professional area - to become familiar with problem solving inside and outside the workplace - cultivate their critical thinking - transfer new know-how to school - gain intercultural empathy - practice English - experience a different cultural environment. In addition, to encourage students with few opportunities to acquire a European identity.
Our school is a Vocational High School with the fields of a. Health Care & Wellness b. Information Technology c. Economics. Many of our students come from immigrant families, mainly from the Balkan countries, Roma & often refugees. The specializations of Aesthetics & Hairdressing are the only ones in the entire prefecture of Achaia & accepts students from the mountainous regions of our prefecture. Students with learning difficulties also attend, since dyslexics learn better by doing. In the context of the quality & internationalization of our school, we want it to become more attractive & our graduates to meet the needs of the modern labor market, acquiring professional training in multidimensional skills of know-how & digital literacy with practical training in real workplaces of their specialty. In this way, we believe that the transition of our graduates from school to work will be facilitated while simultaneously improving career prospects at national and European level. We also want it to become friendlier and to develop within it, relationships of solidarity, self-respect and mutual respect, reducing the chances of intra-school violence