Enter Europe



Tiina Hellström, Juha-Matti Mattila and Tomi Launo

Valencia 31.10.-4.11.2017

Tuesday, 31st October

Travel to Valencia

Keskuspuiston staff is going to take part to Mobility Project: Enter Europe. This will be our first time in Valencia.

Wednesday, 1st November

Cultural Visit to the City

During the two hour city walk, we saw many intresting buildings. And we learn a lot about Valencia´s history. The city walk guide was excellent.

Behind the Hotel Reina Victoria

On Wednesday we walked more than 10 kilometers. In Valencia you can easily also travel by metro. And we noticed that Valencia city is full of history. And of course we found many cafeterias.

Thursday, 2nd November

At the Xabec  Centro de formación profesional Xabec 

Programme at the School:

WS1: Valencia Region general overview
WS2: Xabec Educational offer
WS3: Spanish Educational System
Keskuspuiston ammattiopisto presentation

Visiting Xabec vocational school. We were given very good overview over the programs Xabec is offering for Spanish and foreign students. We also made presentation of our Keskuspuisto Vocational College. Later on visited in different departments to get a better understanding of their training and practical exercises.

Mrs. Mariamar Cevantes, International Department

Friday, 3rd November

Programme at the School:

WS4: The ”ProjectX” Methodology
WS5: The ”SAVE ARRIVAL PROJECT”
WS6: The ”PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM”
WS7: International Department

A word about ProjectX: This is a method of unifying and configuring vocational tasks and skills demonstrations and especially their assessments in different countries. Each participant country and college was required to produce one task for evaluation by other participants. There is a book about this subject funded by Erasmus+.

A word about "Save arrival project": A method where the risk of drop out is detected by five questions. After that drop out risk is categorised into three levels and students belonging to two highest categories are provided with support. 


Negotiating about Xabec and KPAO future co-operation as well as planning the possible time for spanish teachers to visit in Helsinki.

 

Education Manager Juha-Matti Mattila and Principal of Xabec Antonio Mir

Saturday 4th November

Travelling back home. When we will be back at  the workplace on monday, we have a lot of ideas how to make co-operation with Xabec. We are waiting for a chance to  share Xabecs methodologies and ideas for our collegues.