Participation of the PKNG PoltNTU delegates in the mobility project ERASMUS + in Turkey
Poltava Oil and Gas College of PoltNTU actively developing international cooperation in the field of higher professional education as an important factor in integrating the national education system into the world educational space. With the support of the Poltava National Technical Yuri Kondratyuk University, which has significant experience in projects within the Erasmus + program, our college lecturers and students have for the first time joined a foreign project of this magnitude.
Erasmus + is a modern academic exchange program of the EU that promotes and supports educational projects, activities, partnerships, and mobility in education, sports and youth. The Erasmus + program motivate learning integrity, because the acquired knowledge greatly facilitates future professional life. It is important to accumulate the best experience that promotes personal development.
The mobility of students and faculty is one of the main principles of modern European education. Studying, internship and research work abroad enriches the individual experience of the person, gives it the opportunity to learn more about other models of creation and dissemination of knowledge, and allows it to expand the network of contacts and communication, to deepen the knowledge of foreign languages.
Participation in such competitions enables educational institutions to improve the skills of managing international projects, to improve organizational capacity, to open new horizons for the internationalization of higher education both at organizational and individual levels, to modernize educational programs, to introduce new teaching and learning methods, to introduce disciplines in English and other foreign languages, improve institution management to improve the quality of higher education and enhance cooperation with partners from around the world.
From April 20 to 29, lecturers from the Poltava Oil and Gas College of PoltNTU Sofia Rudenko (Team Leader), Alexandera Ageycheva, Olena Marchenko, Serhiy Zhabsky, and students Vitaliy Matiash, Vladislav Mikhailuk, Yevgeniy Kurilo took part in the mobility project ERASMUS + (KA105) "SCHOOLS ARE FUTURE, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR FUTURE ", which held in Dortyol, Hatay, Turkey.
Participating countries: Romania, Poland, France, Bulgaria, Turkey and Ukraine (42 participants). The project was devoted to the prevention of early school leaving, which included simultaneous work at several levels: work with teachers, parents and work with students. "Dropping out" has many reasons: feeling powerless, absurd, or lack of motivation.
Part of the project concerned the acquisition of competences that prevented early school leaving. Participants presented the experience of solving the identified problem at the national level. In addition, they learned about the methods of co-teaching with schoolchildren who risk leaving the school (intercultural dialogue, pairs / groups, role plays, discussions, expert advice and practice examples, etc.).
It is nice to note that on April 23, our group joined the Independence Day and Children of Turkey. And in the main square of the city named after M. Ataturk, we performed the Ukrainian folk dance in national costumes.
Within the framework of the project, the participants attended the Kuzukular Primary School, the Dortoul Lyceum and the Syrian Refugee Shelter.
Ukrainian cultural evening, where our group impressed with its hospitality and the ability to treat guests, did not leave anyone indifferent. All participating countries with pleasure tasting national delicacies, doing sephi near the photo zone and applying patriotic symbols on the faces with aquagrym paints.
At the end of the project, at the meeting of the Dortyol Chamber of Commerce, Sophia Rudenko highlighted the main reasons for early school leaving in Ukraine and proposed a strategy for solving this problem at the legislative level.
The outcome of the project was the video of the participants, who, on the basis of their knowledge, demonstrated a high level of awareness of the research and tried to convey the message to the peers of the common problems of young people in Europe and the world, in particular.
All project participants returned to Ukraine with enthusiasm, creative fervor, incredible energy from communicating with the participants and determined to participate in future international projects !!!
We are grateful to Melih Sadik Aras, chairman of the organization of the youth folklore club "TUFAK" (Ankara, Turkey) for the invitation to participate in the project and we hope and cooperation in the future !!!
P.S. We are in Turkish media