The two general OBJECTIVES mentioned were: (1) to motivate the students: In fact, as soon as they heard about the project, they already asked for English lessons to be able to greet the foreign partners in English and (2) to make them see that they are NOT "weird", that there are special students like them with similar problems and qualities all over Europe. Nevertheless, there are a number of objectives which are different for each individual student and that can be summarised as follows: 1. Objectives to improve students’ personal autonomy (hygiene habits, dressing, eating...). 2. Improving students’ ability to relate socially with known and unknown people. 3. Improving students’ ability to cope with unfamiliar situations. At the same time, students learn from each other as they have different abilities and capacities. On the other hand, the environment (which is “familiar” to the hosts but “new” to the visitors) has also provided learning opportunities for both groups.
The aim of this Project was to motivate Special Education Students from Vocational Training. The MOTIVATION was through two motivating and innovative activities ADAPTED to their abilities carried out together with a partner centre that had a similar type of students (Special Education students from 18 to 25 years old in Vocational Training). Finding the school partner was NOT easy, but since once we had the contact established, we have been very excited (both the students, their teachers from the school, the management team,...) with good future prospects.