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Train for international trail

2021-1-FI01-KA220-VET-0000281782021Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and trainingfinalizedGood practice
Countries: FI|ES|SI|AT|IT · Grant: €263,338
Creating new, innovative or joint curricula or coursesEuropean identity, citizenship and valuesInclusion, promoting equality and non-discrimination

Objectives

The primary objective of implementing the project was to enhance and promote international competences among students with diverse profiles, with a particular emphasis on using digital tools. One additional goal was to enhance the implementation of international elements into the teaching curriculum. This was pursued through creating material invented by students to students. The integration of digital tools and gamification strategies proved to be effective, serving as motivational and engaging methods for students to acquire intercultural skills and perspectives. Project results made reflect well the goals we had. The student-based approach brought the elements we looked for to the results. We wanted to increase special needs students participation in to European projects and engage them into the project content. We wanted to tie together the range of competences discovered by the students on the process of building the project results. We successfully created the material with the students' input, guided by special needs professionals. Results are accessible and have various options for students of teachers to grasp the topic of internationalization.

Background

We applied the project funds to concretize students' abilities to participate in content creating on a European project and to equalize the opportunities for internationalisation for students with special needs. We found that the material for building self-confidence and self-knowledge on international mobility was lacking and so we wanted to produce materials to support the learning process, also addressing the topic in a way that actual travelling is not always needed for empathizing these competences. Project aimed to provide ways to enhance digitalization and internationalization at home, and to build a study module to emphasize these elements in everyday teaching.

Project partners (7)