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. . . .
