Business Academy of D. Skutecký 8, 975 16 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Business Academy of D. Skutecký 8,975 16 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia The school project Living and working in EU

is the educational programme of the European Union The aim: a support of the international co-operation between the participating countries projects mobilities

The participating countries • The countries of the European Union: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Austria, Great Britain, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, The Slovak Republic, Slovenia • The countries of economic field (cooperation): Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway • The candidate countries: Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey

Comenius Erasmus Grundtvig Lingua Minerva Research and innovations Common acivities Additional activities All the aims of the Socrates programme are organized and arranged by means of the following subprograms:

Comenius subprogram of the school education The objestives: • to improve the quality and to enhance the European dimension of school education • to support co-operation of schools • to support professional development of teachers • to support learning and teaching languages • to support intercultural awareness

The aims of the Comenius subprogram are implemented and organized in three parts 1. Partnerships of schools Comenius 1 2. Further education Comenius 2 3. Creating of nets Comenius 3

Comenius 1 the partnerships of schools The support of three types of partnerships: • school projects Comenius 1.1. • language projects Comenius 1.2. • project for school development Comenius 1.3.

Comenius 1.1. The school projets The objectives: • to share information • to develop partnerships among schools • to improve knowledge of individual European nations Results: students´works: brochures, magazines,books, calendars, web-sites, multimedial materials,...

programme subprogram Erasmus, Grundtvig, .......... parts types

The project team – the teachers Edita Masná Viera Chovancová Viera Vongreyová Marcela Hudecová Iveta Jagošová deputy head Elena Maslíková Mária Erneková headteacher

The project team of the students • Žofia • Martin • Michaela • Lucia • Marek • Petra • Linda • Lucia • Katarína • Monika • Petra • Marek

The preparatory visit - Bűhl (Germany)12 January – 16 January 2005 • Finland: 2 teachers • Germany: 3 teachers • Slovakia: 2 teachers • The Greek school withdrew from the project

The objectives of the visit • to get acquainted with partnership schools • to agree on the project theme • to fill in the application forms • to work out the action plan forthe first year of project activity (school year 2005/2006) • to discuss and agree on the intentionsfor the following years

The first business meeting – Kitee (Finland)24 October – 28 October 2006 • Finland: 4 teachers 3 students • Germany: 3 teachers 6 students • Slovakia: 2 teachers

The objectives of the meeting • to evaluate the activities of the participating countries • to work out the plan and to share the project work with the partners for the first and second project years • to fill in the application form together - prolonging the project Comenius 1.1. (2006/2007)

The 2nd business meeting – Bűhl (Germany)20 March – 25 March 2006 • Finland: 4 teachers 3 students • Germany: 3 teachers 4 students • Slovakia: 2 teachers 4 students • Italy: 2 teachers

The objectives of the meeting • to improve English language competence • to use English as a means of mutual communication • to discuss the achieved results of project work • conditions for the project work in the particular schools • forms of the project promotion • the presention of the film about the business meeting in Finland (Germany) • the presentation of the video-film about the simulation of the job interview (Finland) • the presentation of the role plays simulating job interviews (the students of the project teams) • to assess, discuss and complete the facts about the project work for the website being prepared by Finland

Tasks for the first project year • to describe and compare the professions of the particular schools involved in the project • to work out the examples of CV and job application • to work out questionnaire about the work conditions in multicultural companies in the countries involved in the project • to prepare the job documents required in the countries of the EU to be published in the handbook • to prepare the 3rd business meeting in Banská Bystrica (9 October – 14 October) • Italy, a new member of the project, to be involved in the work

Excursions • a visit to the vocational school Elly –Heuss Knapp (Bűhl) • a visit to Juvena, the companyproducing cosmetic products (Baden Baden)

Excursions • a visit to KABA, the company producing security mechanisms (Bűhl) • a visit to the European Parliament (Strasbourg)

Excursions • a visit to the Museum of modern art (Karlsruhe) • a visit to the Employment agency (Rastatt)

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Business Academy of D. Skutecký 8, 975 16 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia