KA103 - Higher education student and staff mobility within programme countries 2015

This is a Higher Education Student and Staff mobility Project implemented in all our Short Cycle Studies which are two degrees integrated in Vocational Education and Training (VET) studies: Child Care and Education and Social Integration Short cycles. This Project consists of student mobilities for training (SMT) and staff mobilities for training (STT) in UK and Finland.
Background of the Project: the institution has seven-year previous experience in HE Europe funded mobility activities The Project is intended as the best way to give continuity to an European student and teacher training mobility experience which started under Erasmus Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP) 2007-2013 in 2008. The institution has been participating in student mobilities since then. In 2013 the institution started a new activity under the Erasmus LLP Programme: Erasmus staff training because we were awarded with the Erasmus Extended University Charter 2013-2014 which allowed us to implement this new mobility action. The institution has achieved to offer quality mobility through host companies and organizations related to our academic profile in Child Care and Education and also related to our teacher's areas of teaching: Sociocultural and Community Services and Occupational Training and Guidance at Work thanks to this Erasmus+ project. Students and teachers carry out work placements as part of their degree and job shadowing activities for training in another European country of their choice in order to imporve their learning performance in a real work environment, their employability and career prospects and foster foreign language competences.
The objectives proposed for our students are competency-based, such as Cooperate and participate in the Nursery with a professional approach; To be active and integrated within the team work in social and child care; To be involved in planning and implementing activities according to methods, spaces, schedule, materials, resources in order to promote holistic child development; Understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to their role and safety regulations; Learn from effective and good practices in the host company.
There have been four participants from our institution: two female students from Child Care and Education short cycle and two female senior teachers from both High Studies Departments: Sociocultural and Community Services department and Occupational Training and Guidance department. The whole Higher Education section can benefit directly or indirectly from the opportunities afforded by this Erasmus+ KA1 project. The project has obtained very satisfactory learning results and impact. All original quantitative and qualitative objectives from the project have been met as described in the ECHE 2014-2020, the Grant Agreement and Bilateral ENMIENDA.
Information about SMT mobilities. Description of undertaken activities. Two students have undertaken mobilities for training: six months or 180 days in total in a hosting small company related to their professional profile in the field of Child Care and Education at the day nursery AngloSpanish in London, Uk. These mobilities for training have had full academic recognition in their official short cycle studies certificate within ' 0023 On the Job Training' module.
Information about STT mobilities. Teachers' undertaken activities: ten training days in total: Four-day Job Shadowing and one travel day for each of them in a host High Studies institution OMNIA in Espoo, Finland.
These mobilities have brought positive and long-lasting effects on the participants and the institution.