The strengthening of our teacher’s international competences. The cooperation allows for a differentiated view of school and education. We get to know other school and organisational systems, we can compare them and adapt advantages to our system. This new partnership is a building block especially for students in the IT and business administration sectors. We create models and procedures for mobility and collaboration in the future. A concrete plan. Models for mobility procedures. Methods and models for collaboration. A plan for the next step - future cooperation and implementation or mobilities. With a procedural plan for the year 2022, we will have developed a concept for a promising cooperation that is satisfactory for both partners, with concrete real and virtual offers for teachers and students. This corresponds to our wish for longer-term cooperation. An enlarged European network. Create motivation to get European experience and knowledge, learn and work abroad. Participants gain an increased understanding and knowledge of the other participating country and the school system, something that will simplify future mobilities, as the threshold to participate will be lower and the culture clash lighter.
ÅYG’s motivation to initiate and apply for this project was primarily an identified need to develop, being the sole VET-education provider on an island, we need outside collaboration in order to be able to give our students the readiness to live and work on our island as well as to have the whole world as their possible work field. ÅYG did not, before this project, have established mobility- and exchange procedures. We wanted to learn how mobility functions, learn from experienced organisations and test for ourselves. We wanted to widen our horizon and start a strong European network, where knowledge and innovation are in focus. This was a great opportunity to share ideas about pedagogy and didactics, learn new teaching methods and start up the internationalisation process. KOS needs and goals were the need of an expanded European network for long term partnerships, find partners in the field of business and administration as well as the IT-sector and an intellectual exchange with foreign partners in order to learn about different organisational structures. This partnership with subject specific, methodical and didactical topics would improve the participating teacher’s competence and thus their teaching quality.