Jena 06/2022

Representatives of all project partners took part in the transnational project meeting held at the IB Mitte gGmbH für Bildung und soziale Dienste in Jena. 

At the beginning, we focused on the control of tasks and compliance with the planned schedule. We also addressed the financial aspects of the project.

The program of the meeting was divided into 3 basic parts. In the first part, we focused on the ongoing processing and finalization of individual project outputs. We checked the implementation of outputs O2 and O3, which relate to the creation of educational programs and teaching materials for individual professions. The partners familiarized themselves with the existing outputs and set deadlines for finalizing the missing partial outputs. We have finalized output O1, the essence of which is the analysis of the labor market and the needs of employers. The partners harmonized the indicators and output statistics from a time point of view and devoted themselves to comparing the results from the point of view of individual countries.

As a follow-up to the individual outputs, we planned upcoming educational mobilities and transnational project meetings. In October 2022, an educational mobility for teaching staff will take place at the Croatian partner Strukovna škola Đurđevac. During the three-day event, there will be internships, open classes and joint teaching by the teachers of the participating schools. The main goal will be to verify and evaluate the processing of educational programs and teaching materials.

In November 2022, student mobility will take place at the Czech partner Secondary Vocational School and Secondary Vocational Technical College, Třemošnice. Its priority goal will be to verify the output of O4 focused on career counseling. Mobility will be part of the Science and Technology Week. Pupils of individual partner schools first prepare a program as part of joint activities and then present it to pupils of the local primary school. The mobility will also include interesting lectures and excursions as well as workshops aimed at entering the workforce.

In December 2022 and June 2023, multinational project meetings will take place with both Czech partners. The last mobility for pupils will take place in the spring of 2023 again in Durdevac, in the form of a competition of international teams. Pupils will solve tasks and assignments that were prepared as part of outputs O2 and O3. Workshops and excursions will also be included.

We plan to end the project with a final conference in June 2023.

In addition to workshops and discussions about project outputs, we had a tour of the Jenoptik company, including a discussion about the company's needs and dual education within the educational organization Jenaer Bildungszentrum. We have cooperated with the organization in the past and we would like to renew it in the form of joint technical competitions.

The cultural program included a tour of the capital of Thuringia, Erfurt, and the Buchenwald concentration camp.