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European Information Communication and Technology

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-1-DE03-KA219-022823
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only Funder Contribution: 99,825 EUR

European Information Communication and Technology

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EURICT stands for European information, communication and technology. It is a cooperation between three vocational schools in Gdynia (Poland), Kiel (Germany) and Vaasa (Finland). The schools (ZESPÓŁ SZKÓŁ CHŁODNICZYCH I ELEKTRONICZNYCH, Gdynia; RBZ TECHNIK, Kiel; VAMIA, Vaasa) have collaborated before, so we able to build on prior experiences of working together.Our work revolved around the goal of all schools working collaboratively on technologically challenging projects dealing with remote controlling and automatization. The students had to work interdisciplinary and internationally to reach their goals. Thus, the project helped developing the students’ and teachers’ professional, didactic, methodological and social competences. It also helped furthering European concepts and ideals.The students involved take part in full- or part-time vocational training programs in the fields of electrical engineering, mechatronics or ICT.Refugee and migrant students were temporarily actively involved in the project work and were part of our target demographic in order to interest these minority student groups in technological subjects, technological professions and trans-national cooperation. At the same time we sought to heighten our main participants’ awareness and compassion for migrant students’ biographies and to counteract impulses of xenophobia and general reservation.Another goal of EURICT was to raise the overall interest level and participation of young women in technology and technological professions.Furthermore, EURICT aimed at offering participants the opportunity to gain confidence in using and improving their English skills in a variety of quite natural professional settings, when organizing group efforts, discussing technical challenges and learning about the differences and similarities in vocational education and student life. English was the main language of the project and we were able to successfully boost our students’ language skills and their confidence in those abilities.Because of the project, the students had the opportunity to learn about and discuss the (vocational) educational system and the job opportunities in the partner countries and got a first-hand experience of Europa as a culturally rich realm of possibilities. To encourage these discussions and aspects we organized visits of major local companies and businesses.Generally, European ideals and amicable cooperation were promoted through our collaborative work which led to strong relations between students, the schools and the respective communities.The project was divided into three parts or rounds. In each round different student groups from the three partner countries worked on transnational projects together. All in all, we had nine transnational meetings which were defined by a cycle of planning, implementing and presenting our projects. Within each round all three countries were hosts to the other groups. The student groups reached their specific project goals and produced a remote controlled vessel, various ways of monitoring and controlling moving-head lighting equipment and different variations of gaming consoles.Apart from the aforementioned abstract and specific project goals, EURICT helped to strengthen and better the vocational education at the partner schools. The various technical projects were incorporated into class subjects and teachers were able to further work on their didactic and cooperative competences. Through presenting our project work at school, in our partner companies and to the general public we were also able to further heighten and specify our school profiles and to be a part in spreading European ideals and values.

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