The Project
One of the targets of the strategy “Europe 2020” by the European Union is the increase of the employment rate and the reduction of early school leavers. This is what we want to support with our project “Career Perspectives in Europe – Chances and Challenges”. Strengthening the attractiveness of Europe´s higher education and strengthening the training and labor mobility is an important matter of this project.
Our students are in the middle of an identification process and they will soon graduate. Visions and fear of unemployment are omnipresent as the unemployment rate among young people is rising. With the open job market in the European Union new opportunities and challenges apply and have to be made accessible for the students. So this project will prepare the students as best as possible for the chances that await them in the European Union.
The range of the participating schools implies a lot of different questions. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland display an interesting reflection of the members of the EU. The different schools and the combination of the students are also different and all participating schools and countries have to deal with different problems when looking at the job market. The Polish school for example faces unemployment problems because it is situated in an area with no industry and students have to leave their home when desiring a university degree. The Italian school on the other hand is situated in a bigger city with a wider range of chances. Here, universities, companies and industry have much more to offer. With the project we want to work against the economic imbalances and teach, train and motivate our students to reach for higher goals in the European job market. We want them to open up and consider their opportunities on a different level.
About 150 participants and accompanying persons of the participating schools will take part in this project. But at the local meetings other students and adults will join the events.
The students will prepare the topics of the meetings. The project “Career Perspectives in Europe – Chances and Challenges” will concentrate on different topics, which are set in a chronological order and consider the needs of the different participants. At the first meeting in Bologna we will start with an introduction and we want to take a closer look at what is done at each school to prepare the students for a career. A joint guideline, which will be helpful for all schools, will be conducted here as well as a survey, which will give us a feedback on the students' needs. The second topic (learning activity in the Netherlands) deals with “work chances in each region” and is followed by the third topic – “CV and application in Europe” in Poland. The Europass CV as well as language and mobility will be of much help here. The meeting in Hermannsburg complements the topic with “Opportunities and Challenges after school”. After these different issues we will concentrate on the European Union and “Challenges for the European Union” will be the focus in Italy. It´s to emphasize that cooperation with big and small companies like VW, training institutions and working parents are very important for the different learning activities.
Different results will complement our project, support the students, teachers and the school and accomplishments will be disseminated (e.g. joint guideline on how to prepare students, leaflet of pros and cons of working abroad, Europass CV, language, mobility, interviews and videos, project calendar, surveys, PowerPoint Presentations and many more).
The impact will be positive in many ways. Students have the possibility to recognize and use their free mobility since options become visible for them. Our encouragement will motivate them.
For students as well as for teachers the project establishes a consolidation of the foreign language and the intercultural competence. The contact with students from other countries will also be interesting for the parents of the native students. They will learn about the customs of the European countries.
Finally, we hope to implement our achievements, results and the learned input in our schools’ curricula. In the end we hope that we can make a lasting impact on the European Union and we want to make a change to ensure that our students are prepared for Europe after their school life.
Our students are in the middle of an identification process and they will soon graduate. Visions and fear of unemployment are omnipresent as the unemployment rate among young people is rising. With the open job market in the European Union new opportunities and challenges apply and have to be made accessible for the students. So this project will prepare the students as best as possible for the chances that await them in the European Union.
The range of the participating schools implies a lot of different questions. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland display an interesting reflection of the members of the EU. The different schools and the combination of the students are also different and all participating schools and countries have to deal with different problems when looking at the job market. The Polish school for example faces unemployment problems because it is situated in an area with no industry and students have to leave their home when desiring a university degree. The Italian school on the other hand is situated in a bigger city with a wider range of chances. Here, universities, companies and industry have much more to offer. With the project we want to work against the economic imbalances and teach, train and motivate our students to reach for higher goals in the European job market. We want them to open up and consider their opportunities on a different level.
About 150 participants and accompanying persons of the participating schools will take part in this project. But at the local meetings other students and adults will join the events.
The students will prepare the topics of the meetings. The project “Career Perspectives in Europe – Chances and Challenges” will concentrate on different topics, which are set in a chronological order and consider the needs of the different participants. At the first meeting in Bologna we will start with an introduction and we want to take a closer look at what is done at each school to prepare the students for a career. A joint guideline, which will be helpful for all schools, will be conducted here as well as a survey, which will give us a feedback on the students' needs. The second topic (learning activity in the Netherlands) deals with “work chances in each region” and is followed by the third topic – “CV and application in Europe” in Poland. The Europass CV as well as language and mobility will be of much help here. The meeting in Hermannsburg complements the topic with “Opportunities and Challenges after school”. After these different issues we will concentrate on the European Union and “Challenges for the European Union” will be the focus in Italy. It´s to emphasize that cooperation with big and small companies like VW, training institutions and working parents are very important for the different learning activities.
Different results will complement our project, support the students, teachers and the school and accomplishments will be disseminated (e.g. joint guideline on how to prepare students, leaflet of pros and cons of working abroad, Europass CV, language, mobility, interviews and videos, project calendar, surveys, PowerPoint Presentations and many more).
The impact will be positive in many ways. Students have the possibility to recognize and use their free mobility since options become visible for them. Our encouragement will motivate them.
For students as well as for teachers the project establishes a consolidation of the foreign language and the intercultural competence. The contact with students from other countries will also be interesting for the parents of the native students. They will learn about the customs of the European countries.
Finally, we hope to implement our achievements, results and the learned input in our schools’ curricula. In the end we hope that we can make a lasting impact on the European Union and we want to make a change to ensure that our students are prepared for Europe after their school life.
Christian-Gymnasium Hermannsburg, GermanyHermannsburg, which lies in the administrative district of Celle, is part of the region "Lüneburger Heide".
Hermannsburg is situated between Hamburg and Hannover and the area is characterized by agriculture, military bases and big companies like Rheinmetall. About 8000 people live in our little town. We are a secondary school in a rural area and 85 teachers educate a little more than 900 students from year 5 to 12. A lot of our students live in the surrounding area and come to school by bus every morning. After graduating, our students receive the general qualification for university entrance. |
Marnix College Ede, NetherlandsMarnix College is a secondary school with its location in the middle of the Netherlands. The school has a population of 1600 students and more than 140 teachers. It is one of three major schools in Ede. Ede is a small town in the Netherlands with a population of 70.212 in 2014. It also has some neighboring places that belong to the same political structure and with those places the population in Ede is 110.655.
The school is divided in three departments that teach different levels of education. The biggest part is the VWO with a gymnasium and TTO department (two = education in two different languages). Then there’s a HAVO and also a MAVO department. The last one is the smallest group of students. |
ZSO w Hajnowce Hajnówka, PolandOur school is located in the borderland area of Poland. Moreover, much of our region is protected either by National Parks or Nature2000. Because of that, no industry can be developed here and the community, previously employed in timber and other industries, is faced with employment problems. The idea of sustainability becomes crucial for our town and its vicinity. New ideas for the future need to be worked upon and the young generation has to be educated about their future perspectives here – both for economic and ecological reasons.
Our students come from different backgrounds, sometimes from disadvantaged families suffering from unemployment. |
Ist. d'Istruz. Superior Aldini Valeriani - Sirani Bologna, ItalyOur school, IIS Aldini Valeriani – Sirani, is the biggest technical and vocational upper secondary school in Bologna in the North of Italy.
The technical school lasts five years and is attended by students from fourteen to nineteen. At the end of the five year course they get a diploma in one of these branches: Chemistry, Building, Electronics, Computer Science, Mechanics, Graphics. The Vocational School may last three or five years which match different levels in two qualifications: Mechanics and Welfare Services. The majority of our students are male. |