EURO MOV'

Ensure equal opportunities

Erasmus projects for vocational high schools: ensuring equal opportunities for all students

Living the international experience within your institution

Going abroad is an opportunity, living the international experience on a daily basis is important! The member schools of Euro Mov' have understood this and organize numerous projects throughout the year. This international impulse is driven by the teachers who also benefit from Erasmus+. Many of them have the opportunity, each year, to go and train in a foreign language or to observe their foreign counterparts in order to bring back the best practices to France.

Internship for high schoolers

In the French education, every high schooler in a vocational training must do an internship at the age of 16/17 years old. It is mandatory for their official exam of the Baccalauréat (to know more please go to French Education).

In Catholic education we believe that a teenager that had had the chance to go abroad during his/her studies will, first of all, be willing to continue her/his studies after high school, and second of all, will have a better chance in his/her professional life thanks to his/her open-mindedness.

So in order to do that, we have built EURO MOV' to help them find foreign schools that are willing to welcome them during a month and to assist their research of companies.

What kind of vocational training do our high schools provide?

The Skills competition

A new way to discover their field!

Indeed, high schoolers have had since the Erasmus+ Program, the possibility to discover a foreign vocational high school and therefore, how their courses are taught abroad.

Linked with a project between the two high schools (e.g.: finance a charity, a sport competition, a vocational fashion week...), the student can strenghten their skills by practicing them with foreign high schoolers.

The job shadowing

Each culture is different, and furthermore, school isn't taught the same way all over the world, even in countries that seem to be alike.

So, six years ago Erasmus developed a job shadowing program intended to the teachers and the schools members, to help them embrace their difference and take advantage of it.

In 2018, there was only one school member that was willing to do a job shadowing in our consortium. Today there are thirty-one schools members seeking for a job shadowing all over the European continent and beyond.

What does it consist of?

A teacher/school member express a desire to observe for a week his/her foreign colleague:

• How he/she includes specific topics to his/her courses (Environmental issues, European citizenship...)

• How he/she handles difficult subjects (Well-being of the pupil, bullying, support for the pupil in need...)

• Teach courses (Pedagogical education...), and so on.

It's a teamwork between the school member and us to define the details of the job shadowing: which country, when, for how long, if they agree to host in return the colleagues for a job shadowing, etc.

When the project is approved, we begin the searching step and it's when you come along. Indeed, we contact you and your high school to build a partnership and make this project happen.

Who can be part of the project ?

Everyone is included : teacher, director, librarian, janitor, and so on.

The language training abroad

Some of our teachers or schools members would love to go in another country and see how the educational system works but they don't feel comfortable enough with their language skills (English, German, Italian, Spanish...) to go on their own.

Therefore, we have decided that each year, we will make an Erasmus application to have funds in order to train them before doing a job shadowing.

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