Project Partners - About Us
Jåttå videregående skole
Jåttå is a medium to large public high school in Stavanger, Norway that offers many different study programmes, both vocational and general. We offer electrical engineering, construction, health and childcare upbringing, and restaurant and food processing as VET programmes, and the two programmes of sports and supplementary programme for general studies. We have around 1000 students and 230 staff, which includes 5 councillors. Each of the councillors is esponsible for two study programmes, and offer both career and guidance counselling for students attending that programme.
Jåttå Upper Secondary School has been involved with four counsellors who are responsible for their various departments at the school. All counsellors involved have education in career guidance from various educational institutions in Norway. The counsellors involved also have extensive experience of working as counsellors. The counsellors from Jatta have combined positions and are both social advisers and career counsellors. Jåttå upper secondary school has also been represented by an ICT teacher who is also responsible for internationalisation at the school.
Mission: Reconnect (non-profit organization)
Mission: Reconnect (non-profit organization)
‘Mission: Reconnect’ is a group of people who’ve experienced living and working and volunteering abroad. Nevertheless, at one point they came back to their town Prerov with the idea of sharing experiences, and most importantly, encouraging young people to be curious, explore, and use various opportunities to both self and professional development.
During the first years of its existence, ‘Mission: Reconnect’ functioned as a non-formal group of people, later, it was transformed into a non-profit organization in 2019.
The work of ‘Mission: Reconnect’ lies on three key principles.
Firstly, it is the connection to the town of Prerov, Czechia. The town faces many economic and social challenges. The goal of ‘Mission: Reconnect’ is to bring in activities that would encourage people to be actively involved in their community and work out the challenges together. With such a goal ‘Mission: Reconnect’ organized the so-called ‘Human Library’ in 2022 with the support of the Visegrad Fund. This Human library got together people of different age, opinions and beliefs to talk to people who were willing to share their life histories, and thus breaking stereotypes and prejudices.
The second key element lies in exchanging practices with organizations and schools from abroad. We believe that we can learn from others and we organize international training courses and study visits to bring people all over Europe to Prerov. We had the opportunity to host representatives of civic society from various EU and non-EU countries and we keep working on creating new opportunities for international and intercultural exchanges, especially with the support of the Erasmus + Programme.
Thirdly, we see the biggest value in creating connections with already existing local institutions involved in education such as high schools. We believe that the cooperation is giving us chance to target the local community, complement the formal education patterns with the non-formal ones, and offer them information and experiences that can provide new opportunities for development and positive change.
In relation to the third point, we strongly believe that young people in Prerov need opportunities to think about their future and their careers, and that’s why the participation in the project ‘Shaping Career Counselling Towards Students' Empowerment, EHP-CZ-ICP-04-028 is an important milestone for ‘Mission: Reconnect’. It provides us with inspirational insights into practices of our Norwegian partners, reflection and opens discussion on improving guidance services.
Gand videregående skole
Gand videregående skole is a medium to large public high school situated at the centre of the town Sandnes in Rogaland, Norway. We offer many different study programmes, mostly vocational, electrical engineering, construction, health and childcare upbringing, IT and media, technical and industrial subjects, and service subjects as VET programmes. We also offer supplementary programmes for general studies. We have around 1100 students and 200 staff, which includes 5 counsellors. There are 2 counsellors working in career counselling and 3 counsellors doing social counselling for the students at our school. They also work closely together with the rest of the staff as part of the team surrounding each student.
Gand upper secondary school has been represented by two career counsellors who both have education in career guidance and extensive experience from their work as career counsellors. They are responsible for their various departments at Gand Upper Secondary School They have also had a counsellor with them who works specifically with minority students.
Střední škola gastronomie a služeb, Přerov, Šířava 7
The Secondary School of Gastronomy and Services is a vocational secondary school attended by 515 pupils - boys and girls aged 15 to 21, and there are also 3 distance learning classes for adults (with no age limit).
The school offers seven fields:
- cosmetic services and make-up artist (four-year field of study with a high school diploma)
- hotel industry (four-year field of study with a high school diploma)
- hairdresser (three-year field of study)
- chef (three-year field of study)
- waiter (three-year field of study)
- confectioner (three-year field of study)
- salesman (three-year field of study)
Practical learning is concentrated in modernly equipped workplaces of the school, which cooperates with renowned suppliers of materials and aids for practice. Students work in groups under the guidance of vocational training teachers. In higher grades, students can be individually transferred from the main workplace to the so-called contract workplace, where they hold professional training under the guidance of instructors. In the field of study, vocational training accounts for 50% of teaching.
Since 2003, the school has been regularly involved in various international projects.
The project team consists of five people:
- a manager of the project, a career counsellor who is specialised in assistance and support of students with specific needs and disadvantaged students and manages social inclusion projects,
- a deputy manager, whose work also involves career counselling, works closely with career counsellors and manages and organises on-the-job-trainings, internships, job opportunities, Erasmus mobilities both abroad and in the Czech Republic
- teacher of professional subject and practical training
- a coordinator of international projects
