Polish-German co-operation project and internship programme: Learn about your Neighbouring Country - Entdecke Dein Nachbarland!

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The Polish-Saxon borderland is affected by migration of young people and scarcity of qualified craftsmen or nurses, however it shows an expandable capacity within catering and tourism. These structural challenges may be better overcome by intensive cross-border co-operation. The project “Entdecke Dein Nachbarland!-Learn about your Neighbouring Country!” offers a programme of internships for students and ensures an opportunity to start or continue co-operation: 1. As part of the internship programme, the partners act as intermediaries in finding internship positions in the neighbouring country for young people from the eastern Saxony and Lower Silesia who are learning handicraft, nursing, catering business, and tourism. The schools participating in the project are planned to carry out trade language workshops preparing the trainees for internships. Also annual meetings are scheduled for all the students participating in the project. The purpose of the project is to strengthen the co-operation in vocational education and to increase the students' intercultural and professional qualifications. Thus, the project prevents the outflow of students from the borderland and the insufficiency of qualified workforce. 2. The project also envisages co-operation offers for multipliers of vocational education in the support area: Polish-German co-operation markets will be held twice per year (in Zgorzelec/Bolesławiec/Lubań and Bautzen/Löbau/Görlitz) in order to initiate cross-border co-operation in business and vocational education, but also to demonstrate the existing forms of co-operation. Workshops devoted to commencement of co-operation, to be organised for business people and teachers, together with a bilingual Internet platform will enable exchange of experience, development of new forms of co-operation, and will cover with a co-operation network the initiatives concerning vocational education within the support area.

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