- that our students by doing a foreign experience will get an improvement of their professional development, an increase in their personal and cultural development - our students will be better prepared for the labor market that is getting more international every day. - Increasing students' motivation, personal motivation by experiencing the training outside the “safe” environment of the school - social skills (like independence,self-reliance) from our students will be stimulated - the teachers of the hairdressers' department will also obtain more practical experience, better techniques, better competences - that our students could get in contact with the basic ideas of European citizenship. (they are the citizens of tomorrow) - our students will be better trained so that we will also achieve a quality improvement of our school - by the Erasmus-funding we could provide an inclusion of all students (of the hairdressers' departments). In this way poverty was tackled. - hoping that the participants would make future students more enthusiastic so that we can avoid a drop-out of students - to pick up ideas which the school could integrate and apply in its own way of working.
We all expect from a hairdresser that he/she behaves in a social/empathetic way. So our students have to develop skills related to creativity, independence and empathy. But we noticed that if our students stayed in their safe cocoon (safe school environment ), it didn't help them to improve these skills. We had heard from different colleagues from the school we merged with some time ago (and who were already doing Erasmus-projects for a long time) that an experience abroad by our students would be a big improvement of their personal development/motivation and they could push their boundaries. Besides that, we found it very crucial to prepare our students better for the labor market, because our labor market is getting every day more international. Also the teachers of the hairdressers' department found that they could use some extra experience by getting in contact with other ways of teaching, new techniques so that they could develop better competences. Finally we experienced that most of our students (among other things by financial reasons) never got the opportunity to get abroad, nor in contact with the basic ideas of European citizenship (understanding of their role as active citizens in a multicultural and diverse society).