ERASMUS POLICY STATEMENT (overall strategy)
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Our international (EU and non-EU) strategy
[ a) how we choose our partners; b) in which geographical area(s) and c) the most important objectives and target groups of our mobility activities (with regard to staff and students in first, second and third cycles, including study and training, and short cycles).]
IES As Fontiñas contacts candidates for partnerships through different ways:
• We have taken part in numerous European projects before: Petra, Comenius, Grundtvig, Leonardo... So, that is our first way to reach target companies. Currently we are also a partner of a Long-life Learning Project: EuroCatering / Eurocathos. With our experience in this kind of projects, we have now contacts - both enterprises, non-governmental organisations and educational institutions - in: Ireland, UK, Norway, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland ...
• We also have good contacts with other Galician colleagues who assisted us finding new foreign contacts: Romania, Malta...
• The Spanish Erasmus National Agency distributes offers for mobility.
• Internet can also be used, with precaution in these cases.
The hosting institutions are approached by the Erasmus coordinator, the Erasmus team members check the fullfillment of quality standards; then other members of the institution (i.e. FCT coordinator, tutors and skilled staff) are involved in checking adequacy of workplacements.
The selection of countries will also depend on the possibilities the enterprises offer to innovate in knowledge and work streams, together with long-life learning of our students as an essential tool for incorporation into the labour world.
Geographical areas depend on how found workplacements adapt to curricula, the quality of the position and environment, likelihood to develop professional and language skills, meeting new work streams and environments, the possibility to get job opportunities abroad and at home.
The main target of our projects is giving new labour opportunities to our VT (short-cycle courses) students, by improving their language skills, but also by giving them the chance to work in a new environment:
• for Business Admin trainees, it is essential to develop their language skills and IT to perform their job in a real work environment, also meeting other ways of business management they can bring to enterprises in the local area or adapt to a job position in the receiving country.
• Building and Civil Works trainees can increase their raising-awareness environmentally sustainable practices during their traineeship and can motivate their performance towards innovation in building and town planning.
Diverse cultures and work methodologies will enrich their job perspectives. Getting to know other cultures, other work streams or the improvement of languages favour worker’s mobility, designing and putting into practice innovation in relation to their jobs and the cooperation with same-sector workers in other countries.
We also would like to help staff broaden their perspectives, helping them improve language skills and learning other methodologies that can be applied to our courses. They will benefit from exchange during their mobility, but they will also benefit our institution and students.
We would like, therefore, to develop cooperation with partners in other EU or non-EU countries in the framework of a strategy for internationalization (both as sending and hosting partner).
Our institution's strategy for the organisation and implementation of international (EU and non-EU) cooperation projects in teaching and training in relation to projects implemented under the Programme.
International projects let us work with small and medium-sized companies, research institutes, universities…; thus bringing us into cooperation between education institutions and enterprises. This will help promoting creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, adaptation to new environments, favouring long-life learning of participants.
We will be open to organizing and implementing international cooperation projects in teaching and training under Erasmus, should they help modernizing and improving the quality of our institution’s courses and the job perspectives for our students and skills of our staff.
We will try to have international projects based on ideas coming from Erasmus mobility experiences, taking into account expertise of skilled teachers, hosting enterprises and trainees.
Expected impact of our participation in the Programme on the modernisation of our institution
IES As Fontiñas undertakes to contribute to the European Union's modernisation and internationalisation agenda in higher education, which includes 5 priorities:
1 - Increasing attainment levels to provide the graduates and researchers Europe needs.
Our higher-education students are ready to perform technical jobs as autonomous multi-skilled workers, with environmentally friendly, qualitative, innovative and safe criteria.
Our participation in the Erasmus Programme has benefited and will benefit improving the quality of VT learning. It will open borders to our students, who will get to know new working possibilities abroad. Europe’s free circulation of workers allows our students to work in other European countries; the Erasmus Programme will help them get the attainment level Europe needs nowadays.
2 - Improving the quality and relevance of higher education.
Students’ and staff’s intercultural perspective is essential to let the exchange of knowledge among professionals from different countries produce innovative results that can be applied to diverse work environments. Thus professional aims will be reached in a range of activity sectors. From the experience under this Programme, staff will retrieve new concepts and methodologies that can be applied to our courses, thus improving them (feedback).
3 - Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation.
Not only will this Programme help us, but it will be a means of exchanging information and technology among partners in Europe (cross-border cooperation). Comparing systems of work and education through mobility, we can improve the quality of our courses (feedback should be essential).
4 - Linking higher education, research and business for excellence and regional Development.
The Erasmus Programme is the perfect link between labour, research and education worlds. They can benefit from each other. Thus incoming trainees and staff can bring new ways of doing things into our local enterprises and the other way round, our outgoing trainees and staff will share our way of doing things with enterprises in other countries. All of them will bring feedback that is extremely useful for designing new curricula and for adapting to current socio-economic reality in the frame of the EU and non-EU countries to increase the likelihood of workers’ labour mobility.
5 - Improving governance and funding.
Through the participation in the Erasmus Programme, we will have the opportunity to meet new more efficient management systems, both from other education institutions, from enterprises and from the Erasmus procedure.
Our institution policy includes the promotion of mobility and acquisition of language skills among students and staff; this is not easy to get for a small-sized institution without external funding.
It also includes offering equal opportunities to all students/staff and broadening new labour and educational perspectives inside and outside Europe.
[ a) how we choose our partners; b) in which geographical area(s) and c) the most important objectives and target groups of our mobility activities (with regard to staff and students in first, second and third cycles, including study and training, and short cycles).]
IES As Fontiñas contacts candidates for partnerships through different ways:
• We have taken part in numerous European projects before: Petra, Comenius, Grundtvig, Leonardo... So, that is our first way to reach target companies. Currently we are also a partner of a Long-life Learning Project: EuroCatering / Eurocathos. With our experience in this kind of projects, we have now contacts - both enterprises, non-governmental organisations and educational institutions - in: Ireland, UK, Norway, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland ...
• We also have good contacts with other Galician colleagues who assisted us finding new foreign contacts: Romania, Malta...
• The Spanish Erasmus National Agency distributes offers for mobility.
• Internet can also be used, with precaution in these cases.
The hosting institutions are approached by the Erasmus coordinator, the Erasmus team members check the fullfillment of quality standards; then other members of the institution (i.e. FCT coordinator, tutors and skilled staff) are involved in checking adequacy of workplacements.
The selection of countries will also depend on the possibilities the enterprises offer to innovate in knowledge and work streams, together with long-life learning of our students as an essential tool for incorporation into the labour world.
Geographical areas depend on how found workplacements adapt to curricula, the quality of the position and environment, likelihood to develop professional and language skills, meeting new work streams and environments, the possibility to get job opportunities abroad and at home.
The main target of our projects is giving new labour opportunities to our VT (short-cycle courses) students, by improving their language skills, but also by giving them the chance to work in a new environment:
• for Business Admin trainees, it is essential to develop their language skills and IT to perform their job in a real work environment, also meeting other ways of business management they can bring to enterprises in the local area or adapt to a job position in the receiving country.
• Building and Civil Works trainees can increase their raising-awareness environmentally sustainable practices during their traineeship and can motivate their performance towards innovation in building and town planning.
Diverse cultures and work methodologies will enrich their job perspectives. Getting to know other cultures, other work streams or the improvement of languages favour worker’s mobility, designing and putting into practice innovation in relation to their jobs and the cooperation with same-sector workers in other countries.
We also would like to help staff broaden their perspectives, helping them improve language skills and learning other methodologies that can be applied to our courses. They will benefit from exchange during their mobility, but they will also benefit our institution and students.
We would like, therefore, to develop cooperation with partners in other EU or non-EU countries in the framework of a strategy for internationalization (both as sending and hosting partner).
Our institution's strategy for the organisation and implementation of international (EU and non-EU) cooperation projects in teaching and training in relation to projects implemented under the Programme.
International projects let us work with small and medium-sized companies, research institutes, universities…; thus bringing us into cooperation between education institutions and enterprises. This will help promoting creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, adaptation to new environments, favouring long-life learning of participants.
We will be open to organizing and implementing international cooperation projects in teaching and training under Erasmus, should they help modernizing and improving the quality of our institution’s courses and the job perspectives for our students and skills of our staff.
We will try to have international projects based on ideas coming from Erasmus mobility experiences, taking into account expertise of skilled teachers, hosting enterprises and trainees.
Expected impact of our participation in the Programme on the modernisation of our institution
IES As Fontiñas undertakes to contribute to the European Union's modernisation and internationalisation agenda in higher education, which includes 5 priorities:
1 - Increasing attainment levels to provide the graduates and researchers Europe needs.
Our higher-education students are ready to perform technical jobs as autonomous multi-skilled workers, with environmentally friendly, qualitative, innovative and safe criteria.
Our participation in the Erasmus Programme has benefited and will benefit improving the quality of VT learning. It will open borders to our students, who will get to know new working possibilities abroad. Europe’s free circulation of workers allows our students to work in other European countries; the Erasmus Programme will help them get the attainment level Europe needs nowadays.
2 - Improving the quality and relevance of higher education.
Students’ and staff’s intercultural perspective is essential to let the exchange of knowledge among professionals from different countries produce innovative results that can be applied to diverse work environments. Thus professional aims will be reached in a range of activity sectors. From the experience under this Programme, staff will retrieve new concepts and methodologies that can be applied to our courses, thus improving them (feedback).
3 - Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation.
Not only will this Programme help us, but it will be a means of exchanging information and technology among partners in Europe (cross-border cooperation). Comparing systems of work and education through mobility, we can improve the quality of our courses (feedback should be essential).
4 - Linking higher education, research and business for excellence and regional Development.
The Erasmus Programme is the perfect link between labour, research and education worlds. They can benefit from each other. Thus incoming trainees and staff can bring new ways of doing things into our local enterprises and the other way round, our outgoing trainees and staff will share our way of doing things with enterprises in other countries. All of them will bring feedback that is extremely useful for designing new curricula and for adapting to current socio-economic reality in the frame of the EU and non-EU countries to increase the likelihood of workers’ labour mobility.
5 - Improving governance and funding.
Through the participation in the Erasmus Programme, we will have the opportunity to meet new more efficient management systems, both from other education institutions, from enterprises and from the Erasmus procedure.
Our institution policy includes the promotion of mobility and acquisition of language skills among students and staff; this is not easy to get for a small-sized institution without external funding.
It also includes offering equal opportunities to all students/staff and broadening new labour and educational perspectives inside and outside Europe.
Última modificación: martes, 19 de xullo de 2016, 10:29 AM