Our objectives were: • To give our students the opportunity to learn about how to do business in an international atmosphere, to increase the awareness of our students on an international level as well as to educate them on the basic knowledge of management, setting up a firm, work successfully at the international markets. • To engage our students in a creative and innovative manner to learn about the practical implications and possibilities of being involved in all aspects of the business –marketing- selling products. To give them the opportunity to be creative and innovative using their own ideas. • To help students learn the various degrees to which a business must go through in order to produce a product, or how to create a CV and to apply for a job on an international level. • To grow the confidence and presentation skills of our students. • To offer the opportunity to create bonds between students from different countries through mobilities. • To gain confidence in speaking and learning English as well as learning to work in a multilingual environment. • To develop ICT skills of our students using modern/new digital marketing techniques
We needed this project because of two main reasons. One of them was the unemployment rate and the other one was the evolution of the working World. The first requirement of this project: a new report finds the world’s unemployment rate has dropped to five percent, the lowest level since the global economic crisis in 2008. The International Labor Organization reports the jobs being created, however, are poor quality jobs that keep most of the world’s workers mired in poverty. The second requirement of this project: Technology is moving at an increasingly fast pace, with every facet of our lives now linked intrinsically to microchips in one way or another. While this might all be in the name of progress, it is also having a negative effect on many traditional careers, which are becoming more and more automated. As a result, it is important to avoid choosing an industry that is made up of disappearing jobs. There are already warning signs. A recent study by the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) found that nearly 60 percent of young people in the country are currently training for careers that will be two-thirds automated in the next 10 to 15 years. That is a huge waste of skills.