The goals of the project targetted students, professional staff and school development. With the students we aimed towards the following goals: - to prevent students from quitting school and to direct them to lifelong learning; - to facilitate the aquisition and development of the basic skills for the job training and orientation; - to improve learning success, employability and job prospects; - to develop their initiative and enterprise. - to increase motivation to participate in formal, informal and occasional education initiatives; - to encourage them to improve their knowledge of the second language and intercultural conscience; - to raise awareness of european projects, opportunities and values; - to aquire competences and skills from the countries with a significant impact in the area of tourism and in this way encourage the exchange of good practices. With the teachers we aimed to achieve goals like: - higher work motivation; - upgrading their professional education with the courses which cannot be offered to them by the school; - the implementation of the knowledge gained in their regular work processes. The school's goals were: - to get a European dimension; - to promote our school.
The main activity of our school - Secondary school for Catering and Tourism Maribor - is to educate students to work in the area of catering and tourism. We offer a three-year programme Secondary Vocational Education – gastronome hotelier, a four-year programme Secondary Professional Education – gastronomy-tourism technician and a two-year programme Vocational Professional Education – gastronomy technician. Our school is the largest school of its kind in the north-eastern Slovenia. The goal of the Erasmus project was to enlarge the share of the students who finish school successfully, to improve their learning skills and job prospects. To achieve this goal it is necessary to have professional staff who are motivated and professionally trained and who follow the latest trends in the area of catering and tourism. Thus the goal was to upgrade our teachers education, to improve their and students work motivation and, finally, to enable young people to have better job prospects.