“New Hopes for Our Children”
Name of the organization: Kırklareli Teknik Lise ve Endüstri Meslek Lisesi
Responsible person: Hasan Burçin MENTEŞ
Number of Participants: 18 participant (16 students + 3 teachers)
Duration: 4 weeks, May 2011
2010-1-TR1-LEO01-14057
This project was a Leonardo IVT project. As planned the project’s beneficiaries were chosen from ICT department students of Kırklareli Vocational and Training High School and Kocaeli Vocational and Training High School. Especially parentless students or students living under deprived social conditions had a priority for this selection. With this project, we created new chances for career planning for the students who are affected by negative living conditions.
Students from Kocaeli and Kırklareli were informed and trained in their branch and they prepared a project with Italian partner students. But also technical visits, workshops, projects, development of application codes and cultural visits were realized with the participation of both the visitors and host students.
At this project, disadvantaged students improved their vocational skills, foreign language skills and got the experience of living abroad. All those experiences affected their self esteem positively. After the placement activities, the students prepared a program to transmit their experiences and indicated that they gained new knowledge.
Cultural Programme
In the free time they had chance to visit some beautiful places in Sicily, and know Italian cuisine thanks to the local restaurants.
IVT Program
- Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
General Skills and Competencies Acquired:
- Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources in the field related;
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: learning on developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others;
- Development of specialized Italian language skills;
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems;
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making;
- Developing social perspectives and being aware of reactions of other co-workers and supervisors;
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying and taking the time to understand the points being made.