With the implementation of this project, we wanted to: 1) To provide students of the Jelgava Technical School with opportunities to increase their professional skills and competitiveness in the international work environment, supporting the development of skills necessary in the job market, thus promoting the competitiveness of graduates in the Latvian labor market, providing the opportunity to supplement the knowledge, skills and competences in an international environment. Despite the fact that students learn a professional foreign language, they do not have the full opportunity to apply the acquired knowledge during practice, working only in Latvian companies. In order to promote competitiveness, it is necessary to improve them in an international work environment; 2) To increase the management capacity for sustainable and effective management of educational institutions and resources in order to become a "learning organization" that offers diverse learning opportunities, learning environments and approaches to diverse audiences with a high level of professional competence of management, pedagogues and academic staff, a strategic operational vision ...
Jelgava Technical School is the largest vocational education center in the Zemgale region, which implements vocational secondary, education, continuing and interest education, education in prisons, and organizes the evaluation of professional competence acquired outside the formal education system. The technique focuses on approaches in its activity: 1) Qualitative, accessible and versatile lifelong professional education - to promote the development of lifelong learning and the compliance of competences with the needs of the labor market; 2) Development of a modern, innovative and sustainable educational environment - developing infrastructure, social networking and introducing innovative solutions on the way to the Center of Excellence; 3) Increasing the capacity of professional education pedagogues - by integrating industry specialists into professional education; 4) International cooperation – for the transfer of good practices and the offer of education to foreigners. Therefore, the aim was to promote the competitiveness of graduates in the Latvian labor market, providing an opportunity to supplement the knowledge and skills acquired at the school and competences in an international environment.