Teacher Jaume Font Planells in Germany

 

From April 24 to 28, 2023, I had the opportunity to participate in an international training

mobility program in the field of Logistics and International Trade in Hamburg and Hannover

(Germany), financed by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.

It has been a very powerful experience to learn first-hand how DUAL Vocational Education

and Training is organized in Germany and to see its implementation in practice. With

participants from other schools, we visited and spoke with heads of the chambers of

commerce, directors and teachers of the educational centers, with companies and students.

The great involvement of the companies, from the students' selection to the curricula's

definition, the active role of the Chambers and the demand and form of evaluation of the

students, have been some of the features that have had the most impact on us. In addition,

we enjoyed the visits to the Port of Hamburg, the DHL Airport Logistics Centre in Hannover

and The MegaHub fast transhipment facility in Lehrte, which enriched our view of the

logistics and international trade sector.

The group of almost twenty people from different professional training centers in Barcelona

and other institutions in the sector who participated in the stay (organized by the Barcelona

FP Foundation) took away a handful of ideas to give more spin and improve our teaching

and job guidance activity!