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Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2017 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

The project is submitted and coordinated by Business Academy and HPS Valašské Meziříčí (further BA) which plans to send students into international mobilities (2 flows) offering work experience in the UK. Regarding the fields of study at the school, the UK seems to be an ideal place because it combines our students’ needs for high-quality employers and language benefits because English is a must in the IT and business fields.The main objective of the project is the applying, improvement and verification of professional competences, skills and knowledge in work experience with an active use of professional terminology in English. Other objectives are qualification extension by work experience abroad, obtaining high-quality experience within real companies, improvement of key professional abilities and skills regarding the labour market, personal skills development (e. g. ability to work on one’s own and responsibility), the extension of international dimension of education and vocational training and their synergy with the labour market, the internationalisation and innovation of education, implementation of good practices into educational process and daily activities at school, the innovation of specialised subjects curricula to meet potential employers’ requirements and improvement in competitiveness and reputation of the school. The work experience will involve 25 students of the 3rd and 4th year of study studying Business Academy, Information Technology and Public Administration. There will be 2 flows. The students might work as: receptionists, administrators, web pages graphic designers, web pages editors, IT technicians, sales assistants and customer service assistants for companies or organizations such as travel agencies, shops, educational institutions and local community organizations. The trainees will have a full-time job, which means an 8-hour working day. The trainees will be carrying out some of the following tasks according to their positions:copying, faxing, scanning, word processing, e-mail correspondence, using MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint, repairing computers, notebooks and another IT equipment, web research, updating, marketing, products promotion, ordering goods, dealing with complaints, taking photos of faulty goods, market research, web pages design and editing, working with multi-media files, using internal software of the company, filing, using Photoshop, sale, dealing with customers, business correspondence, bookkeeping etc.The partner organisations are The IBD Partnership and ADC College, which are responsible for the choice of high quality employers according to filled documents. In addition, they will arrange accommodation, transfer, local transport and insurance for the trainees. BA is responsible for the selection of the trainees according to the stated criteria (e. g. test in specialised subjects, motivation, test of language skills and good manners). BA will organise preparatory courses in specialised subjects, language and cultural background and risks prevention training. BA will also arrange transportation to and from the UK.Project and quality management will be legally ensured by the following documents:1) Letter of Intent and Memorandum of Understanding, 2) contracts between BA and the partners, 3) individual contracts between BA and the trainees:a) Participant Agreement stating rules for work placement financing, insurance, the conditions of grant return if the trainee does not finish the work placement; b) Quality Commitment c) Learning Agreement including an ECVET unit of learning outcomes.Mentoring and monitoring will be carried out by 3 subjects: 1) accompanying persons, 2) the managers and/or coordinators from the partner organisations, 3) mentors at particular work places. There will be issued 2 certificates, i. e. Europass Mobility documents and partners’ certificates. Final reports will be completed after the work experience. We are going to use the ECVET system.The trainees are expected to gain new theoretical and especially practical knowledge and competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) with respect to the labour market and further studies. Longer term benefits for the students are: motivation towards further study, participation in other projects, the extension of qualification, higher chances to be admitted to universities, improvement in competitiveness at the labour market. Longer term benefits for BA are: implementation of gained knowledge and experience into the curricula of specialised subjects and English followed by their innovation, improvement in work experience management in our country, improvement in teaching, better reputation, increase in the number of applicants for study, colleagues’ motivation to be involved in other projects, better preparation and management of further projects, the internationalisation of education and higher awareness of EU programmes.

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