Eco- citizen solidarity Entrepreneurship

"<< Background >>We applied for this project because we fully believe that cooperation partnerships, the opening to internationalization and innovative practices are the best ways for our students to get motivated, to give sense to what they study and to get better job opportunities. We also believe that this kind of project open wider opportunities to students with special needs and fewer opportunities. The needs we have addressed related both to our partnership and to our target groups by answering to European priorities in the fields of Education and VET training, developing internationalization and employability, leading project management activities, including the activities into the students' curriculum, giving them the opportunity to meet true professional needs such as working in a team, acquiring global professional skills and opening to European employability. Either students with special needs or fewer opportunities got he chance to learn in an innovative way and to fully take part in the project. << Objectives >>Our cooperation partnership wanted to implement a coherent, comprehensive and variable set of interconnected activities to enhance innovation in vocational education and training, general education. Our main objective was innovation through jointly developing and implementing new learning and teaching methods, developing solutions for challenging issues through the collaboration of students, teachers, firms and charities, Developing a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mind-sets, competences and skills, developing new teaching methods and learning tools that incorporate transversal skills learning and application aimed at strengthening employability, creativity and new professional pathways, introducing wherever appropriate a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship in a given discipline and curriculum, course to provide students and teachers with the competences, skills and motivation and introducing more ""student-centred approaches"" with students tailor-making their own educational pathways. Our project was also aimed at developing training content for all partner school profiles both in the fields of training programms and project management. << Implementation >>As our project was an hybrid project, the activities both took place in the countries of the organisations participating in the project (transnational teaching and learning activities) and in the partner schools through an etwinning project. In addition, activities involving sharing and promotion of results also took place in partner countries. Moreover, as well as complying with the formal criteria, the following elements did define our plan of activities : - HORIZONTAL PRIORITY : COMMON VALUES, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION with focus on the opportunities to participate in democratic life and social and civic engagement through formal and non-formal learning activities and focus on a common value of the EU : solidarity - ADDITIONAL PRIORITIES : Developing key competences and promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration, the development of assessment and validation of key competences, improving the attractiveness of VET (Promoting open and participatory learning environments, supporting and facilitating the recognition of learning outcomes and the use of Europass), Contributing to innovation in vocational education and training and implementating new and more relevant approaches to teaching and learning establishing a dialogue with partners, through applied research and and awareness-raising activities. The activities of our project promoted equal opportunities and access, inclusion and fairness across all its actions. To implement these principles, an Inclusion and Diversity Strategy was devised to support a better outreach to participants from more diverse backgrounds, in particular those with fewer opportunities facing obstacles to participate in European Projects. Organisations designed accessible and inclusive project activities, taking into account the views of participants with fewer opportunities and involving them in decision making throughout the whole process. The digital dimension of our cooperation also defined our strategy with virtual and blended learning opportunities which are key to a successful project. The detailed plan of activities can be found on the enclosed PDF doc (Annexes) and included : - the development of tools and methods for development of students and teachers; - the development of non-formal learning methods, especially those promoting the acquisition/improvement of competences, including media literacy skills; - the development of new forms of practical training schemes and simulation of real life cases in society; - the development of new forms of notably strategic use of open and flexible learning, virtual co-operation, open educational resources and better exploitation of the ICT potential; - the organisation of events/workshops/exchange of good practice for cooperation, networking, awareness raising and peer-learning purposes - the organisation of mobility activities for students in order to test tools and methods developed by the partnership. All the detailed activities which were implemented can be found on the annexe : planning of activities.<< Results >>The concrete outputs of our project were : 1- Introduction to the project and Twinspace ""tips"" In English 2-Creation of a local subsidiary per partner country with 5 poles 3- consumer survey4- Preparation of the oral presentation of the local subsidiaries and products + costing of the product5- Presentations and creation of the international firm6- Report and logo, search for the target charity per country, business plan7- Preparation of the logistics8- Preparation of sales actions9- Implementation of sales actions10- Dissemination and promotionThe results related to the above outputs were : the integration of project members, the development of written and oral skills, reading skills, monitoring, processing and exploiting of the information, of business and commercial knowledge and practice, the development of digital skills, and the development of creativity and initiative. As for the production of results, each partner school had a special responsibility and results were produced in the field of promotion and dissimination, assessment and business."