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How our Erasmus project was spent the first two years of the Corona virus period

In the autumn of 2019, we started our latest Erasmus project with three other schools. Title is future job. With this project we want to help our students in career choice. We think it is useful to discuss this topic regularly, but if students from other countries and schools exchange experiences on this topic, it can add value to the work.

The most important events of the Erasmus project are the international student meetings, which start by several months of preparatory work. The first student meeting was planned for March 2020 in Budapest, for which we started preparing in December 2019. The main event of the meeting would have been a game job fair. International groups of students would have invented companies with a company profile and advertised job applications. Other students of the Hungarian school would have been the job seekers.

In addition to the main program, all sorts of interesting programs would have been added to the week of the meeting: factory and company visits, questionnaire and data evaluation, graphic work, etc.

We were still hoping in February, but by the beginning of March it had already become doubtful and a week before the meeting it became clear that we had to cancel. 

Well, no matter, we thought, and then we'll meet in France in April 2020. We talked about it for a few more days, but it soon became clear it does not work either.

Then everyone immersed themselves in online teaching and we put Erasmus aside. We thought we would get over it all by autumn and then we could finally meet in Transylvania.

Unfortunately, this was not the case. However, since it turned out that we couldn’t travel and it wasn’t even apparent when we were going to be able to travel, we thought we should start something.

During the autumn, we started organizing online teacher meetings, which we have been running on a monthly basis ever since.

In these teacher meetings, we prepared exercises for students.

The first task was for students to make a video or essay about their experiences during the coronavirus period or to present their city and school.

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The first online student meeting took place in January, an ice breaking conversation.

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The approx. 75-minute meetings were held so that everyone could learn what to do in a common online room, and then the students split into 3 groups and worked together.

For the second student meeting in February, students had to take a photo of their surroundings with related questions. The other students tried to answer the questions, if they didn’t know, the presenter told me about the curiosities related to the photo.

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For the third student meeting in March, students had to make a job tree. For several generations back, what work their ancestors had done. Then at the meeting, they introduced this to each other and discussed the lessons learned.

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The April meeting had two topics. Students had to select an image from a collection of images that best represented the working conditions they wanted to work. Their other task was to describe what strengths and weaknesses they thought their personality has.

The students shared with each other this during the meeting and then we tried to draw lessons from them as well.

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The fifth meeting can no longer take place, but the students were given the task of making a short essay entitled Dream Occupation.

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I really enjoyed working together and I saw the students as well.

I would like to thank the partner teachers and students for their cooperation, I thank the English teachers of Bornemisza for their help in each of the preparatory tasks and I also thank the Hungarian students for their active participation.

We hope to meet you in person in the fall after 2 years of online work