Short-Term Exchanges of Groups of Pupils in Ramnicu Valcea (Romania)
"Designing a firm knowing regional and european rules"
The week in Romania was dedicated to the project work that was pupil-centred and allowed the student’ involvement in decision making. Starting from the activity title - Designing a firm knowing regional and European rules, the objective was to make students to work togheter in transnational groups using research methods and determined information which is relevant and interesting for their partners about Globalisation and its effects on Romanian economy, similarities and differences between partner countries. The main activities were optimized respect to the original agenda, and they can be summed up as follows:
DAY 1 - Presentation about : Personal finances, Creating ideas in business, Business etiquette, Designing a firm knowing regional and European rules, PPT presentation about the best Christmas moments of the students from every country. A Workshop at the Chamber of Commerce about the real economic environment of the County in the light of Globalization; Supporting successful local entrepreneurs was organized and students work in transnational groups establishing 10 rules to be a successful entrepreneur.
DAY 2 - Meeting at Uzina Mecanică Vâlcea – The development of a successful business with Romanian capital on the western European market; Meeting at Boromir - 25 years of success in the bakery business; Meeting at Sanovita - Business ideas - how to start a business and turn it into a successful one; Workshop – each country made an analysis of the territory including the local products, Short movies produced by each country were presented – interviews about the impact of globalisation and glocalisation at the local level ; Presentations of the virtual companies of each country (logo, vision, mission, and products to be sold within the international marketplace applying glocal strategies).
DAY 3 – Visits to the Gossamer Family factory; the Pottery Street in Horezu (pottery workshop), the Horezu Monastery (UNESCO monument); Workshop – students, in transnational groups presented different ways to promote a product of the ones seen during the trip. Each group had its own subject: Audio advertising, Video advertising, Poster, Booklet, leaflet.
DAY 4 – Visit at Sibiu – Digital Museum; the Workshop was dedicated to Digital competences for entrepreneurship and techniques/strategies for making the film. During the activity, the students shared the techniques and the strategies used to create a perfect storytelling; moreover, they investigated the matter using specialised web sites.
DAY 5 – the first part of the day was dedicated to Heidi Chocolate, a Romanian premium brand; Workshop - How to conduct a research so that a local product becomes international. The student’s completed a questionnaire to launch a new assortment of chocolates;
A teachers' progress meeting was held in order to discuss the next steps of the project and the program of next mobility in Portugal. The group participated at meeting at City hall. The workshop activities will be configured taking into consideration the “Cooperative Learnig” and “Learning by doing” methodology.
Results and Benefits
The results of this activity were: 1) a better use of the instruments to create movies and interviews; 2) establish strategies and techniques to transform the products from local to Glocal; 3) a better knowledge of the documents to register a firm. At the end, it was spread a questionnaire. The program was shared before in order to enable teachers and students to make research about the topic and integrate the program within the normal educational activity. The training activity was focused on improving the direct participation of teachers and students in the project, giving instruments and technologies to design a firm taking in consideration the regional and European rules. The benefits of the partnership can be listed:
1) the active involvement in the project and the increase of the teachers’ and students’ motivation, including the work group, creativity and spirit of enterprise.
2) Improvement of knowledge and skills in economics subject;
3) development of technical linguistic competence
4) increasing study motivation and quality
5) development of entrepreneurial skills in informal environment;
6) the concept of virtual firms linked to the valorisation of the cultural heritage within a strategy related to the development of our territory;
7) the possibility to exchange ideas, experiences and examples of good practice in order to give the possibility to the participants to improve links between training sector and labour market, promoting cooperation with municipality council and other regional educational establishments.
Programme
Program of mobility in Romania.pdf
Documents and Partner presentations
Best moment in Christmas 2019
Christmas break in Spain.pptx
Christmas in Poland.pptx
Christmas in Lithuania.pptx
Christmas In Sicily.pptx
Christmas in Portugal.pptx
Best Christmas moments in Romania
My first design of a virtual company
Lithuania
01_Lithuania Kibinai.pptx
02_Lithuania AutoDeal.pptx
Poland
01_Poland_PROZIAK PROJECT.pptx
Spain
01_Spain_stravagant.pptx
02_Spain_CUSTOM GLASS COMPANY.docx
Italy
01_ITALY_SICILIAN POTTERIES.pdf
Romania
01_Romania_ROMTRADE.pptx
02_Romania_EVENTS.pptx
Portugal
01_Portugal_TAAC_Tradition at a click.pptx
02_ Portugal_On the Spot Firm.pptx
TASK
How to create eBook_Lithuania.docx
Interviewing_Video_Guidelines_Lithuania.docx
Satisfation Survey
analysis of feedback forms.pdf
Sign in Sheets
Sign in Sheets.pdf