Study trip/excursion • Békés
In the Wake of Slovak Historical Heritage in Hungary
Our institution and our sister school in Slovakia consider it important to help our students to create international contacts based on personal experiences and to become more open to learning about the culture of other countries.
The main goal of the mobility planned in Hungary is for Slovakian students to learn about their own nation's historical and present-day ties to Hungary and for Hungarian students to learn more about the culture of a significant number of minorities living in the territory of their country.
During the development of the program, we aim to provide the participants with a form of knowledge that can be acquired in a natural environment through life-like experiences and thus applied with natural ease and efficiency.
With regard to this project, we would like to pass on such valuable, valid and usable knowledge to the participating students, in addition to improving their foreign language communication, digital and social competence.
We plan to develop all program elements of the mobility in cooperation with our sister school in Slovakia in order to make the project a valuable forum for the participating young people to be able to connect the two mobility programs and to ensure that the joint work does not end when the mobilities are over.
Even before the first mobility, we are planning to organize online "brainstorming" meetings for the participants and in order to create a common product we are already assigning tasks in advance.
With these methods, we develop the social and digital competences of our students and encourage them to be effective participants in the project.
During the mobility, we try to give the participating students every opportunity to get to know the students of the sister school during teamwork to express themselves in a foreign language and to be able to be valuable members of an international group.
During the program elements, we try to visit places where the information they get about the culture of the Slovaks in Hungary will provide them with the most useful knowledge possible.
The tangible product of the project will be a brochure which the participating students will be responsible for compiling.
The brochure will be an international tool for disseminating project results which can be read by those interested in three languages.
The mobility program planned for Hungary, as well as the project as a whole, will be linked to gastronomy in many ways, thanks to which the students will be able to expand their professional knowledge in an international environment.
The participants of the project will receive an international certificate of participation which they will be able to receive in the form of a EuroPass mobility card.
The product and their experience are presented in a professional class for which they receive a grade.
Eight Slovak students and two accompanists will participate in the mobility in Hungary.
The students are studying catering, the importance of which lies in the fact that we plan to organize the historical and cultural footprint research along the lines of gastronomy.
The students will be selected during a recruitment process, during which the goals and content of the project will be presented to the students at our sister school, and then they will be able to indicate their intention to participate on an online application form.
In addition to the basic data, the application form will contain questions that can be used to measure commitment to the topic and willingness to be mobile.
Among the applicants, a council consisting of the schoolmaster, class teachers and special teachers select the participants of the project, making sure that there is also a reserve student who can be included in the project in case of cancellation.
Main selection criteria: behavior, diligence, English language skills, interest in the topic of the project, involvement in school life.
Eight Hungarian students and two teachers will participate in the mobility program in Hungary who will later also participate in the mobility in Slovakia.
These students also major in catering and their selection procedure corresponds to the system of our sister school in Slovakia.
In addition to the mentioned 20 participants, additional Hungarian students and school workers will also be involved in connection with certain program elements.
Such a program element is the cultural history presentation at the school.
The activities of the organizations included in the mobility program are all related to the Slovaks in Hungary and the preservation of their cultural and gastronomic traditions.
Among the organizations involved, I would like to highlight the House of Slovakian Culture, the Slovak Landscape House, Haluska Farm which preserves the gastronomic traditions of the Slovaks in Hungary and the Csaba Sausage Festival in whose traditional sausage-making competition the participants also take part.
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