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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 1 juin 2016 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

In the course of their two years of Brevet de Technicien Supérieur in International trade the learners have to carry out a work placement abroad for a minimum duration of 8 weeks. This work placement is compulsory at the end of their first year. Its length has been extended to 9 weeks to allow students to benefit from Erasmus support. Our school obtained the Erasmus charter in 2012 for the first time and the first call for proposals that we answered was in 2013. In this first project 7 students benefited from mobility grants from June 1st, 2013 to August 30th, 2013, and then 12 students left from May to July 2014, bringing the total to 19 mobility grants over two years. In the 2014 project which only concerns the departures from May 2015 to July 2015, there were 13 Erasmus departures, which shows that the increase in the number of students per session continues. The objectives of this learner mobility are various: - validate customer prospecting skills, thus allowing the participating students to obtain 7 ECTS for this training unit, - prepare the students for the foreign language negotiation course as the activities they carry out during their work placements are used as a basis for their class negotiation cases, which will therefore help the students to obtain 10 more ECTS, - finally make the students benefit from linguistic and cultural immersion in the host country, which will allow them to improve their knowledge of the host country and their level in the language . The participants to this project are exclusively learners in Brevet de Technicien Supérieur in International trade because this is the only Higher Education course in our school. Student mobility always takes place at the end of the first year of this BTS. In the 2014 project, 13 students benefited from the Erasmus grant, 10 girls and 3 boys. 9 of them went to Spain while 3 went to Great Britain and 1 to Ireland. We have noticed an increase in the number of work placements in these two countries, indeed the cost of accommodation in these countries had been an important obstacle for the students so far. The students were able to carry out various activities such as updating and creating prospect databases, direct marketing to customers on the domestic market and participating in international prospecting events. Some students were able to go through the whole process of choosing the right target, looking for prospective customers and obtaining their order. In the long term, thanks to this work placement, our students can enhance their Europass Curriculum vitae with this work experience, develop their autonomy and their sense of responsibility, but they can also broaden their linguistic and intercultural horizon in a very fulfilling way. 90 % of our students continue their studies and intend to apply for another period of international mobility. The first year of their international Master’s Degree is easier then.

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