Jyväskylä Educational Consortium has received a quality certificate overseen by CIMO, Finland's Centre for International Mobility. Behind the award of the certificate lie the consortium's active and dedicated efforts to develop mobility projects.
The certificate was awarded to a mobility project entitled "Promoting EUCINMOVE - from theory to praxis how to remove obstacles of international mobility", which forms part of the European Commission's Leonardo da Vinci cooperation programme.
"Mobility projects are aimed at the international exchange of both students and staff. A good example of this are the periods of on-the-job-learning students spend abroad. These are arranged chiefly in companies and organisations in different parts of Europe," underlines Aino Malin, Manager of International Affairs at Jyväskylä Educational Consortium.
Jyväskylä Educational Consortium, owned jointly by municipalities in Central Finland, is one of the largest institutions of vocational education in the country and actively engaged in developing work-life practices. Students in vocational education are required to complete a period of on-the-job learning as part of their studies; around 300 apply each year to spend this time in another country.
During this period of on-the-job learning students learn the rules by which work-life is conducted and acquire a deeper knowledge of their future profession.
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Timo Sillanpää