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"Ferrolterra Higher Education" es la continuación de nuestra estrategia transnacional para expandir nuestra red para nuestros profesores y estudiantes. CIFP Ferrolterra es una institución de educación superior con una amplia oferta en estudios industriales (electricidad, electrónica, mecánica, madera, vehículos...) y servicios comunitarios (eduación infantil). Nuestra estrategia de mejora continua implica una fuerte relación con nuestra creciente red de socios. La base de estas relaciones es el flujo constante de profesores y estudiantes. Esto implica intercambios enriquecedores de técnicas de enseñanza, buenas prácticas y excelentes oportunidades laborales.

Nuestro OBJETIVO principal para esta propuesta es mantener y expandir nuestra red al tiempo que incorporamos nuevos proyectos. A medida que lideramos y cooperamos en nuevos proyectos, nuestros profesores y estudiantes alcanzarán nuevos conocimientos tanto en habilidades técnicas como interpersonales. Por lo tanto, esperamos un aumento general en la empleabilidad de nuestra institución.

Las ACTIVIDADES que pretendemos llevar a cabo con respecto a nuestra estrategia internacional comprenden:

• Movilidades para la formación de estudiantes. Deseamos continuar enviando tantos estudiantes como podamos a realizar sus FCT (Formación en Centros de Trabajo). La formación en el trabajo cuenta como una asignatura obligatoria para todos los estudiantes de HE nivel EQF5 en España. Al hacer una movilidad internacional para sus prácticas en empresa, nuestros estudiantes crecen de muchas maneras (técnica, lingüística, madurez, una comprensión más profunda del mundo ...). También ofrecemos movilidad para recién titulados que deseen probar la experiencia internacional en el año siguiente a terminar sus estudios. La movilidad de estudiantes funciona en ambos sentidos, ya que también organizamos y ayudamos a colocar a los alumnos de nuestros socios en empresas de nuestra región. Nuestro sentir es que las relaciones internacionales siempre deben ser bidireccionales. Por ejemplo, antes del brote de COVID alojamos movilidad para socios franceses y finlandeses.
• Movilidades para la prácticas de personal. Nuestros profesores quieren y necesitan seguir aprendiendo durante toda su carrera. Una de las formas de fomentar este "anhelo de aprendizaje" es enviándolos a las instituciones de nuestros socios. Allí, aprenden otros métodos de trabajo tanto con los estudiantes como con las empresas de la región de alojamiento. Las movilidades entrantes, en el último año llegaron a más de 50 personas, incluido el personal de Grecia, Francia, Irlanda, Alemania ... Este "flujo de personal" es la base del siguiente punto, los proyectos KA2.
• Liderar y participar en nuevos proyectos (KA203). Nuestras relaciones con los socios tienden a llevarnos a un terreno común. Cada vez que recibimos o visitamos a alguien, las conversaciones fluyen naturalmente a algo como: "¡Deberíamos hacer XYZ juntos en un proyecto común!". Creemos que los proyectos amplían y amplifican nuestras relaciones y conocimientos. Tenemos la intención de liderar nuevos proyectos en la próxima década, proyectos que involucren tanto alta tecnología como una profunda cooperación entre nuestros socios y nuestra región.

Los RESULTADOS que esperamos alcanzar son un aumento general en la empleabilidad de nuestros estudiantes y una mejora en las capacidades e intereses de nuestros maestros.

Las SALIDAS se mostrarán en nuestro informe anual de resultados. Además del número de movilidades y proyectos esperados, nuestro objetivo es crear un amplio repositorio web para publicar los resultados de nuestros proyectos en un formato disponible para que otras instituciones lo utilicen.

 

Translation into ENGLISH:

"Ferrolterra Higher Education" is the follow-up of our transnational strategy for expanding our network for our teachers and students. CIFP Ferrolterra is a HE institution with a wide offer in industrial studies (electricity, electronics, mechanics, wood, motor vehicles...) and community services (kindergarten). Our continuous improvement strategy involves a strong relationship with our ever-growing list of partners. The basic foundation of these relationships is the constant flow of teachers and students. This involves an enriching exchanges of teaching techniques, good practices, and great job opportunities in every part.

Our main OBJECTIVE for this proposal is to maintain and expand our network while incorporating new projects. As we lead and cooperate in new projects, our teachers and students will reach new knowledge in both technical and inter-personal abilities. We thus expect an overall increase in the employability of our institution.

The ACTIVITIES we intend to carry out regarding our international strategy comprise:

• • Mobilities for student training. We wish to continue sending as many students as we can into international on-the-job trainings. The on-the-job training counts as a compulsory subject for all HE EQF5 students in Spain. By doing an international mobiliy for their training, our students grow in many additional ways (technical, linguistic, adulthood, deeper understanding of the world...). We also offer mobilities for recent graduates who find themselves wanting to try the international experience in the next year after finishing their studies. Student mobilities work both ways as we also host and help to establish internships for our partners' students. We deeply feel that international relationships must be bi-directional. For example, before the COVID outbreak we hosted mobilities for French and Finnish partners.
• Mobilities for staff training. Our teachers want and need to keep on learning through all their career. One of the ways of fostering this "learning yearning" is by sending them to our partners' institutions. There, they learn other working methods both with students and with the enterprises in the hosting region. Incoming mobilities, in the last year reached more than 50 people including staff from Greece, France, Ireland, Germany.... This whole "staff flow" is the foundation for our KA2 projects.
• Leading and participating in new projects (KA203). Our relationships with partners tends to take us to common grounds. Every time we host or visit someone, the conversations flow naturally to something like: "We should totally do XYZ together in a common project!". We feel that projects expand and amplify our relationships and knowledge. We intend to lead new projects in the next decade, projects involving both hi-technology and deep cooperation between our partners and our region.

The RESULTS we expect to reach are an overall increase in our students' employability, and an improvement in our teachers' capabilities and interests.

The OUTPUTS will be shown in our yearly report of results. Apart from the number of mobilities and projects expected, we aim for creating an extensive web repository for publishing the results of our projects in a format available for other institutions to use.

CIFP FERROLTERRA ERASMUS POLICY STATEMENT

Annex to the Erasmus Policy: Phases of Erasmus + project:

The CIFP Ferrolterra is a centre committed to quality and continuous improvement. One of our goals to continuous improvement is the "internationalization" of our centre. Definitely this experience will enhance the employability of our students and will increase its competitiveness in the face of job hunting on the one hand, and promote a higher level of education among the students on the other hand. Furthermore, the linguistic skills and interculturalism of the students will be better and they will learn working methods of other countries that may lead to entrepreneurial projects in ours.

Our overall strategy is focused on student mobility to practices in workplacements abroad.

1º: Our organization will advertise the Erasmus + project in a variety of media, reporting the number of places, scholarships, possible destinations, candidate selection criteria, assessments, etc. . The media will be:

- Website

- Projection in the centre hall

- Informing teachers of students

- Group Presentations

- Local press news

The selection criteria will look for the accuracy of the candidates and will be:

• ACADEMIC RECORD (30 % ) of the studies to date

• LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE (30 % ) of the country of destination and / or English by an oral interview.

• PERSONAL INTERVIEW (10 % )

• TEACHER TEAM EVALUATION (30 %) of the accuracy of candidates based on: maturity, autonomy, motivation, commitment, flexibility, responsibility and interest in the work, attendance, correction in communication, appropriate personal behaviour to situations, degree of initiative, teamwork ability, overcoming difficulties or conflicts, organizational skills and acceptance of criticism.

• Students who have obtained a scholarship in a previous program and had rejected without good reason evidence are discarded.

2º: Once publicized, we will establish a deadline for applications for approximately one month. The form will be available on the website and will be spread in the centre, as well as the selection criteria, politics and procedures.

3º: Various committees will be formed for assessing candidates and they will be formed by a representative of the management team, the coordinator of international programs and teams of teachers according to the specialty of candidates.

4º: Personal interviews will begin approximately in December or January. Following the interview and after confirmation of an email contact, the Coordinator of International Programs will request by email to the candidates their Europass CV and other information needed to perform all the steps of mobility. Four requirements for student will be sent with a lapse of one week between each requirement. If after that time the student has not answered and sent all required documentation (unless justified by force majeure) it will be considered that the candidate refuses and it will be removed from the list and its place would be for the next candidate . This procedure is valid for the entire process to ensure its agility.

5º: It will start the language training of the various destination countries, culture and specific technical terminology of professional families.

6º: The ordered result list of applicants including reserves will be published on the website. That list will be sent by email to the stakeholders and tutors. The approximate publication of the list will be in June.

Lists of medium level vocational students will be separated according to flows of mobility and type of mobility, (mobilities of FCT from September to December, mobilities of recent graduates and mobilities from March to June 2016, or other depending on how the regional government provides us the scholarships.

Lists of high level vocational students will be published together because we know a priori how many scholarships we will have because they have own management and therefore it is possible to do so. The same applies to scholarships Praxeuropa Consortium.

In addition to this, the tutors of the students will be called to inform them about the selected students and the process.

7º: Remaining in the list implies that two months before the mobility students are able to do it, that is, those students who have failed modules at that time without a positive report from their teacher teams about a high probability of passing, will be deleted from the list. This is because it is needed at least two months to find a company abroad, accommodation, preparing documentation, managing insurance, inspection authorizations etc. In this case this would be replaced for the next candidate. This approach is absolutely dependent on the grade record on that date, 2 months before the mobility and it depends on the tudent exclusively to stay in the starting position in the list.

Also if at any point of the process the candidate fails to comply with any standard of living of the CIFP Ferrolterra and / or rules of the FCT (DOG) it will be excluded from the process.

8º It will be coordinated with the host partner if any and if not directly with the company the accuracy of the job training. Students can seek their companies for training if they wish.

9º: Students will be helped with the travel management: purchase flights, search for accommodation, travel insurance and other needs that arise.

10º: Once in the destination country there will be a permanent contact with the students and the hosting company to coordinate practices or help if there is any problem. Everything related to the documentation required for carrying out the practices will be electronically coordinated.

The student is required to send by email to his tutor a monitoring report every 15 days.

In the case of students of high level of vocational studies the project module will be managed directly between tutor and student, without any intervention of international programs.

11º: Once back, the documentation will be completed and will be advertised again the whole experience: pictures, students’ talks, website, press releases, etc. . . .

The student is required to fill and submit all required documentation to close the project.

12º: We will track the employability of these students or whether they go on studying or not. 

 

We are currently publicizing to our foreign partners our willingness to accept or host foreigner students for company practices in our environment. In this case:

1º: We will collaborate in preparing the necessary documentation for partners

2º: We will search for companies depending on the applicants

3º: We will help to manage stays, meals, transportation and integration of the students in their company practices.

4º: Students will be received by the coordinator of international programs and a member of the management team to show them the centre, accompanying them to the company and help them with documentation, signing contracts, etc..

5º: During the stay we will be in close contact with the trainees, with regular visits to the work placement to ensure proper development practices and a pleasant stay.

6º: We will advertise it in local press, website, talks, etc. . . .