ERASMUS IN SEVILLE
Dolores Sopeña Foundation
“Finsih out your studies overseas”
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The Erasmus projects that we carry out for you, will be received by diverse recognitions by the European Commission and motivate us to continue supporting globalization in your Professional Training. Are you ready for this experience?
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Would you like to have a global experience? Would you like to carry out your apprenticeship in companies in other countries from the European Union? Would you like to meet new people? Other cultures?
The Dolores Sopeña Foundation in Seville, gives you the possibility to carry out your training in Apprenticeship companies in Italy, France, Poland, Ireland, Malta…endless possibilities for students who study Basic Vocational Training, Intermediate and Superior Vocational Training. Are you ready to live an Erasmus experience?
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In our Sevilla centers we support the educational improvement in Vocational Training since the participative vision and the investigation with other european centers to continue advancing in the training of our students.
Teachers and students participate in european projects of investigation to improve our educational service. Do you want to learn about them?
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We are host centers, where we open our doors to students and teachers from other schools and countries. We work with other European Schools and host students who want to carry out specialized training and their apprenticeship in companies from Seville.
Do you want to be an associate center with us? Participate in making a bigger european network of collaborating centers and we can start to create projects together.
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How is Alvaro in Paris? How is Valeria in Malta? How is Carlota doing in Rome? Get to know the Erasmus experiences in our different destinations. Do you want to be the next?
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Are you an innovative School? Do you support a European Vocational Training? Our network of European Schools is in a continuous expansion and we are open to collaborating with you in all of our projects. And you, do you want to form part of our future projects? We invite you.
ERASMUS IN THE SOPEÑA SCHOOLS
We are a school with an international mission and we offer our students the opportunity to enjoy Vocational Training in other countries of the European Union, living unique experiences that change lives.
Our Educational Strategy
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Students from the Dolores Sopeña Foundation:
With the objective to train the best professionals, the Dolores Sopeña Foundation intends to offer their students through the ERASMUS program, the opportunity to carry out a part of their theoretical and practical training in another european country, in order to form the best professionals. Not to mention that they attain their professional competences with the ability to work and communicate with other people overseas. By doing so, students are creating a stronger professional profile that is more competitive at every moment.
This general objective is specified in the following specific objectives:
- Create a mobility for young people with the finality to strengthen their interest for other cultures and languages within the european environment.
- Improve the knowledge of foreign languages with the objective of their studies, fundamentally English and French. As well as acquire the basic knowledge of other languages that are not used as much in the international scene but are equally interesting as an open door to other european cultures.
- To facilitate the andalusian students with the possibility to have their first experience in a distinct european country and contributing to the specific way of their personal, social and professional development.
- The need to adapt oneself to different methodologies of theoretical and practical training, utilized by educational institutions and hosting companies, in order to achieve a global vision of their profession.
- Acquire the knowledge of different organizations and work systems in other countries.
- Create a collaborating transnational network for training with contact to establish between educational andalusian institutions and welcoming schools and companies.
- Make possible the entry in the labor market for andalusian students as european citizens.
- Utilize the new technologies, not only as an instrument for habitual work but also as a follow-up tool and evaluation, through the periodic contact that maintains between students and their tutors in the origen school and between them with the host tutors.
Teachers of the Dolores Sopeña Foundation
With reference to the teachers, the Dolores Sopeña Foundation supports counting on highly qualified teachers, as a fundamental tool to overcome the quality training in students. For this reason, the Dolore Sopeña Foundation facilitates and animates the faculty to participate in the ERASMUS program, with the objective to learn about how other european schools function and create collaborating ties and agreements with schools and companies of other european countries.
Host Students/Teachers by the Dolores Sopeña Foundation
Therefore the Dolores Sopeña Foundation considers an enriched experience for all of the educational community. The host action of our school and collaborating companies, students and proceeding teachers of different european countries, that support our methodology and a global vision with innovation.
The Dolores Sopeña Foundation intends as a long term goal to create a network for exchanges of students and teachers which come from different european countries, creating an exchange program according to the outline of: “Duo System”: “student 1” resident in “country 1”carried our theoretical and practical training in “country 2”, host and accompanying for “student 2” and continuing that “student 2” will carry out theoretical and practical training in “country 1” hosted and accompanied by “student 1”
European Programs Department
The coordination of the ERASMUs stays will be carried out through the European Programs Department, with help of the Foreign Languages Department. This department has entrusted the following functions:
- Student/Teacher Selection that will be carried out for other european countries.
- Selection of the european countries, schools/companies where they develop the stays.
- Preparation of agreements for studies and apprenticeships.
- Organization of: trips, hotels and travel insurances in the destination countries.
- Training of students (linguistic and cultural) prior to departure.
- Follow-up of the stay: maintenance of periodic contact with the mentor in the destination.
- Evaluation and academic recognition of the stay (according to established validations in the agreements.
- Reception and follow-up of foreign students in the Dolores Sopeña Foundation.
- Diffusion of the results, through: the webpage, european programs blog and social networks.
- The host countries will be selected based on the possibilities that we have to set up our students in schools and companies where they receive theoretical training or carry out the apprenticeship that is most adequate for their profiles. Concretely the schools will be selected based on the following criteria: The Quality that they offer on their services.
- The offer of theoretical/practical training that is most interesting for our students.
- The experience in training programs.
- The capacity to welcome the number of designated students.
Cooperative Project : “Dual Training”
The principal objective of this project is the training of teachers in the methodology for the dual training, in which students share their training in the classroom and in a company simultaneously. Ee base the development on Royal Decree 1529/2012 of November 8 on the distinct learned modes, whether it is in-person, hybrid or online. The same for our installations and in the company.
This mode of professional training is new in Spain, therefore through student/teacher exchange with european centers where dual training is already instilled. It is intended to see the best subsystems of dual training in order to acquire the adequate qualification that permits design, development and evaluation of the project that develops within the company.
At least, a new necessity in our teachers: to acquire a plenary knowledge about the labor practices in the host countries to value the adaptation in distinct branches of their profession. They stays will be useful for teachers to exchange ideas and practices, along with opinions. The work will be fruitful as it helps everyone share their visions and establish goals for the established process of follow-up and evaluation.
The realization of the present project will suppose that participants have the power to improve their training capacities and develop innovative projects with companies. It will serve for their personal and professional development for which it will improve their professional, personal and social competences, not only permitting them to exercise to improve their profession, but orientate the productive sectors and companies in putting forth the education and professional capacity to the direct service of the employment.
Objectives
The economic crisis in which Spain has found itself immersed, has shot up the numbers of young unemployment, which obligates our students to look for the best qualifications. The Dolores Sopeña Foundation is very conscious of this situation and the difficulties that they will find students to get the first job, for this motive we support an “an innovative educational offer” adapted to the needs of the labor market each time that is more competitive.
The projects of international cooperation, previously mentioned, will permit to develop some innovative modes of Vocational Training that supposes and enrichments of the educational offers in our school based on:
- Increase the number of graduated of superior teaching, with the offer of in person Dual Training, Hybrid and Online
- Improve the quality of the teaching, utilizing the most innovative methodologies.
- To train the best professionals, capable of competing in a job market that is continuously more competitive.
- Offer opportunities of training overseas, which will permit students and teachers to achieve a professional profile which is versatile and multi-skilled. Therefore to acquire and improve the knowledge of the different languages and cultures of the host countries, acquiring the competences with the power to access the job market of other european countries.
- To create agreements with schools and companies of other european countries with the objectives to learn about other methodologies, being able to compare and improve our own school. As well as strengthening the international contact of members in our school with other european training institutes and companies to compare and improve our own center.
Strengthening the international contact of our faculty members with other european training institutions and companies with the final objective to create a “European Job Network”, that helps us be permanently in cutting-edge international professional training.
The development of the european programs favor the modernization of the organization. The European Programs Department will give publicity and visibility (local, national and international) to obtain the impact by mobilities in the following areas:
Announcing informative meetings and forums (through the web page) in which they will enter in the contact with students/teachers that have carried out mobilities with the students/teachers interested in carrying out new mobilities, with the objective to transmit new experiences.
Through social networks: Linkedin, Twitter Youtube Channel and Facebook(http:www.facebook.com/sopenasevilla) in which they will publish articles and interviews of students/teachers that have carried out mobilities to other european countries as well as students and teachers that have been welcomed by our institutions.
The European Programs Bog: https://www.sopenasevilla.org/erasmus/experiencias/, designed specifically to give weekly publications about our students’ experiences from the country where they are carrying out their apprenticeship,as well as the experiences that students and teachers have had here in Seville with us as a host country.
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