The following objectives were set for carrying out the project: 1. Improve the experiences, values and personal abilities of the students. Through the development of activities, achieving improvement in values and capacities such as autonomy, responsibility, self-management, solidarity, broader vision of their environment (European vision), tolerance, respect, conservation of the natural environment... 2. Expand the technical capacity of students and expand their labor market. The type of activities that are intended to be carried out are new in the training of these students, and require high specialization. The vision that seeing them in other environments and countries will provide will be a very important work benefit for the students. Furthermore, this knowledge and training in other countries will allow them to access new labor markets. 3. Improve communication skills and mastery of another language in participants. 4. Improve teacher training, allowing them to access new methodologies, and learn about other labor markets in their field.
IES Sierra de Mijas is a public school located in Mijas, Málaga. It has around 1,500 students and 100 teachers. This school offers: secondary education, vocational studies and adult education. It's a Bilingual center. Our school participates in educational programs such as digitalization and innovation in education (PRODIG), environmental education (ALDEA), communication (COMUNICA), healthy lifestyle (FORMA JOVEN) and some about culture such as "Living and feeling the heritage". The professional training offered is from the professional family of "Physical Activities". And specifically, two cycles are taught. One higher level "Higher Technician in Teaching and Sociocultural Animation and another intermediate level "Technician in Guide in the Natural Environment and Free Time". The latter is what this project refers to. It prepares students as professionals in the field of physical activities in the natural environment, both terrestrial and maritime. And it is the latter, the maritime environment, where the objectives and activities of this project have been framed, which has tried to develop aquatic activities in the neighboring country, Portugal.