The aim of the project "Closer to the profession through Erasmus+" was to implement SHORT-TERM (A1) international mobility for VET students and LONG-TERM (A2) for recent graduates in companies, to prepare the future workforce, facilitating thus acquiring new knowledge, skills and abilities in accordance with the requirements imposed on the current and future labor market. The objectives proposed within the project in order to achieve this goal were: Ob.1: The acquisition by 30 students and recent graduates between 2021/2022 of the professional skills required on the current and future labor market through training activities in the EU in the fields of specialization Ob2: Improving language skills, optimal adaptation in a European work environment, understanding and developing the European identity of 30 students and recent graduates between 2021/2022 Ob.3: Developing partnerships with VET institutions and employers in the EU to offer the opportunity for professional training to the standards required by the changing labor market.
The Puskás Tivadar Technological High School located in the municipality of Sf. Gheorghe, Covasna county, which generally educates students with fewer opportunities and special needs, applied the mobility project "Closer to the profession through Erasmus+" with no. 2021-1-RO01-KA122-VET -000021090 starting from the challenges and needs faced by the institution, the most important of which would be: - the integration of students into society and insertion into the labor market, obtaining support and viable cooperation with economic agents and training bodies from other countries, finding of alternative learning paths, attractive, flexible, centered on practical activity that stimulates students' desire to learn, ensuring a European dimension to the education and professional training offered at the high school level. Thus, it was identified as a strategic priority to support training activities in the EU for students in the qualification field for the acquisition of relevant skills for the labor market (professional skills updated to modern technologies and market insertion work in the field studied by the participants, internationally recognized, linguistic, cultural, social and personal skills).