C4 Mobility C4 in Bucharest, Romania
during the period January 21-25, 2019
The objectives of this meeting were:
• Researching the link between school-based competences and business requirements;.
• Investigating the skills needed for problem-based learning;
• How to create partner networks in social entrepreneurship;
• Dissemination and presentation of teaching units;
• Learning to use the Exelearning program to build educational resources;
• Acquiring analytical techniques from business;
• Presenting examples of good practice in the field of entrepreneurship in each country;
• Preparing and proposing activities for the next C5 meeting in Bucharest;
• Creating opportunities for the development of students' entrepreneurial skills within the international partnership;
• Improving cooperation and friendship between our centers;
• Sharing work methodologies, experiences and ideas;
• Improving ICT training;
• Acquiring information about the European business network;
• Analysis of the results of the C3 assessment meeting;
• Deepening young people's collaborative techniques in entrepreneurship.
JURNAL OF THE MEETING C4
After the presentation of the school and the guests, the activities of the first day - Monday, January 21 - continued with the SWOT Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship, materialized by the Romanian team, which was a basis for discussion for our partners as well as for the guests. They exemplified the activities carried out by each one in addition to one part of the analysis. Mrs. Elena Gurgu, PhD, completed the SWOT analysis, arguing with activities carried out by the "Spiru Haret" University, in the field of social entrepreneurship.
The Czech team has coordinated an initiation work-shop to use the eXeLearning program, a free software tool to create educational content. It allows the creation of easily navigable web pages, including text, images, interactive activities, image galleries, or multimedia clips. All educational materials generated with eXeLearning can be exported in different digital formats used independently or integrated into a Learning Management System (LMS), such as Moodle, which is why it is intended to use it to continue with the manual entrepreneurship this time in digital form.
We enjoyed the support we had from the Dean of the Spiru Haret University, Dr Mariana Iatagan, and the presence in our school of the TV reportage track TVH KIDS CHANNEL – a television dedicated to children and parents.
We completed the day's information with the introduction in the history of our place, our school being in the vicinity of the zero kilometer of the capital, so from St. George's Church Square we headed to the Historical Center Assembly, otherwise listed in the Historical Monuments List in 2010. In -a period decoration, preserving much of the history of Bucharest, the Old Court, Manuc's Inn, the Stavropoleos and St. Anton churches, as many other old buildings have been in the spotlight of our invitations. The buildings on Lipscani Street were built mainly in the 19th century. the nineteenth century in the neo-classical and neo-baroque style completed the mute history of Bucharest.
Tuesday began with an exciting speech “Connections between the competences formed in the school and the requirements of the business environment” given by lecturer Miltiade Stanciu of "Spiru Haret" University, which has led to reflection on related topics such as the future of education. The teacher even proposed radical solutions to education reform in order to adapt education to the requirements of modern man and contemporary society.
The students coordinated by Prof. Daniela Carmen Paraschiv provided an example of good practice proving the competencies acquired through the practice of the Erasmus (“BENCHMARKING INNOVATIVE in Technological Education and Tourism for Sustainable European Cooperation”)
During our visit to the Financial Supervisory Authority, we have been informed about the way in which Romaniatries to develop, acquire and deepen some elements of financial education at the level of primary educationgymnasium, high school, university and adult education in accordance with the National Strategy for Financial Education and an exchange of views on how the objectives of this type of education are achieved in the countries participating in the project.
We continued to offer our guests moments of enjoyment accompanied by information on the history of the country by visiting the Cotroceni National Museum, a museum of memorialistic heritage opened 27 years ago, one of the most interesting museums in the country and one of the best preserved monuments from Bucharest. The Cotroceni ensemble is the most important building of the prince Serban Cantacuzino in the second half of the 17 th century, but the history of the palace bears the prints of many personalities, such as Şerban Cantacuzino, Constanin Brâncoveanu, oan and Constantin Mavrocordat, Tudor Vladimirescu, the ruler of Unirii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Carol I and the heir prince, later King Ferdinand. The museum is situated in a historical monument representative of the Romanian architecture at the end of the 19th century, the royal palace Cotroceni, which remarkably integrated a part of the medieval architecture of the monastery founded by Walla Walla Wallachia, Şerban Cantacuzino, towards the end of the 17th century.
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, we received information from a representative of the largest international organization for economic and entrepreneurial education, Junior Achievement-Romania through Mrs. Cristina Alice Duţu, Senior Manager, regarding social entrepreneurship projects. I have noticed that there is a deal about this type of project and the range of concerns. For example, SOCIAL INNOVATION RELAY is a project supported by JA-Romania through which high school students from different countries participate in a competition of innovative business concepts based on social needs or issues. The project aims to give high school students access to the practical experience and entrepreneurial expertise needed to start a successful career and facilitate their communication with business professionals so that they:
- to gain a better understanding of the concepts of innovation and social entrepreneurship in an interactive and practical way;
- be more aware of existing social problems at local and global level;
- develop team work skills, creative thinking, problem-solving ability and decision-making.
This practical experience helps them establish connections between the theory and the requirements of everyday life.
How do we create partner networks with the business environment of entrepreneurs? - there have been experiences shared by our high school students and their coordinators following the practice internships in the country and outside the country.
An example of the Partner Networks in the field of entrepreneurship was presented to us by Prof. Dr. Manuela Mocanu Jaber, through the dissemination of the NETINVET project.
The Romanian National Opera gave us the show "Nutcracker", superlative ballet full of magic, color, fascination and dynamism on the music of Piotr Ilici Tchaikovsky, a story between reality and the dream of a little girl. We have lived the story alongside the characters, witnesses enchanted by this ballet enchantingly in the realms of magic.
On Thursday we also discovered the world of stories and the realms of dreams by visiting two castles: Bran Castle and Peles Castle but also by admiring the wonderful landscape of the Carpathian arch. We have also seen tourism entrepreneurs at home, a subject of reflection on the challenges of Romanian tourism. The full winter snow over the snowy layer or even the frozen rain and the sky did not diminish the college's fascination with the beauties offered by the Prahova Valley.
Skills developed through project-based learning are a subject of reflection based on materials made available by organizers for Friday, and the online feedback quiz provides analytical material for our organizing team to see the degree of achievement of goals meeting in the opinion of the participants in the meeting.
Following the talks, the work assignments for the preparation of the next C5 meeting to be held in Bucharest as well as the pupils' activities within the etwinning project associated with the Erasmus + project were established. Echoes of our project are also found in the print media, the Nation Review editorial writing an article presenting this event.
In conclusion, it was a week in which many activities attributable to this mobility were carried out according to the calendar of the project, complemented by cultural activities to bring partners to the atmosphere of Bucharest today and yesterday, we experienced the experience of the entrepreneur in tourism
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