After the information visits done by the Erasmus+ HE Coordinator to all terminal courses of higher education short cycles, next Monday 25th of September is going to begin the application period for the KA103 trainneeship mobilities for students for training 2017-2018. All the students interested in the programme must apply for their place in the project. Must be recalled that the applicants have to study 2º or 3º course of higher education short cycles.

From this day to Monday 2th of October, the applicants must present the Application Form and their CV form in the Secretary of the high school to participate in the selection process.

The General Direction of Vocational Training and Adult Education (DGFPEA) of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of Canary Islands CA has confirmed centers participating in Erasmus+ student mobilities projects providing a financial support. Since that organism’s use of support is recommended to increase the number of mobilities according to the so-called Erasmus+ “Zero Grants”.

The IES Puerto de la Cruz – Telesforo Bravo, through the school Erasmus+ Coordination, has decided to use this economic contribution to increase the number of places for mobility trainees during 2017-2018. Another two grants are available from previous KA1 project of 2016-2017. Thus, we will have the initial 19+2 mobility workplaces funded by Erasmus+ grants and 1 added traineeship place funded by the DGFPEA, so we can finally have 22 places for student mobilities. The amount of this support will be slightly less than the Erasmus+ budget, but enough to face mobility.

IES Puerto de la Cruz – Telesforo Bravo has been successful, as last years, for Erasmus+ Students Mobilities for Practices KA1 Project. The Spanish National Agency (SEPIE) has selected our application and has granted the Project with 19 mobilities for students and 4 mobilities for staff.

To these mobilities for students will be added 2 more SMP ones left from last year KA103 Project. Then, 22 of our higher short cycle students are going to have the opportunity of taking part in the Project and do their traineeship in an European country.

Last multiplier event celebrated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife get show Talented Europe project by press releases in different medias: local, regional and national newspapers, and regional radio and TV.

After see the amount of press releases, we hope that this event will contribute to the development and the dissemination of the output showed in http://talentedeurope.eu.

Links to press, radio and tv publications:

• Interview to Talented Europe project members in Canarias TV
• Interview in the radio program Hoy por hoy of Cadena SER with Juan Carlos Castañeda
• http://eldia.es/canarias/2017-04-06/29-app-canaria-ayuda-conseguir-trabajo-fuera.htm
• http://agencias.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=2466424
• https://twitter.com/search?q=%23talentedeuropeTFhttp://www.canarias7.es/articulo.cfm?Id=460800
• http://www.laopinion.es/sociedad/2017/04/06/centros-crean-app-fomentar-formacion/764699.html
• http://eldia.es/canarias/2017-04-05/10-Crean-aplicacion-informatica-facilitar-empleo-jovenes-Europa.htm
• http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3004746/0/dos-centros-tenerife-crean-aplicacion-para-ayudar-jovenes-encontrar-trabajo-europa/
• http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20170405/421469502457/dos-centros-de-tenerife-crean-una-aplicacion-para-ayudar-a-jovenes-a-encontrar-trabajo-en-europa.html
• http://www.antena3.com/noticias/tecnologia/crean-talented-europe-aplicacion-informatica-que-facilita-empleo-jovenes-europa_2017040558e4c0910cf2f2c87557f7ac.html

On April 6, 2017 was organised in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Talented Europe multiplier event that was aimed at disseminating and publicizing the project ‘Erasmus+ 2015-1-ES01-KA203-016176’ and also to share the intellectual outputs of the project with a wider audience was. The Multiplier event dubbed ‘Talented Europe Tenerife’ was hosted and organised by CIFP Cesar Manrique and IES Puerto de la Cruz at the Auditorium of Tenerife “Adan Martin”.

All the partners involved into the said project were attending this event. We are here talking about: European Projects Association – EPA, IES Puerto de la Cruz, Technical University of Košice and the University of Bedfordshire.

The 4th Transnational Meeting for the Talented Europe project (Erasmus+ 2015-1-ES01-KA203-016176) was held at the Centro Integrado de Formación Profesional (CIFP) César Manrique in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain on the 4th and 5th April, 2017.

The main objective of the meeting was to review undertakings and to develop strategies for the next phase of the on-going Talented Europe project, an Erasmus Plus sponsored project which aims at connecting students to employers across Europe with endorsement of their universities and increasing their employability opportunities.

Our center actively collaborates as a partner in the European Erasmus+ KA2 project “Talented Europe“, whose main objective is to develop a computer application to connect companies with talented students from all over Europe. The novelty in this application is that there are academic validators, who certify the talent of the students.

On Thursday, April 6th will be held the #TalentedEuropeTF broadcast event at the Adán Martín Auditorium. We encourage you to participate in this event using the following registration form and also to register on the project website, choosing the appropriate profile (company, student or educational institution) at the address www.talentedeurope.eu.

In recent dates, one of our staff teachers, Ana Delia Hernández Hernández -Head of the department of Training and Labor Orientation (FOL)-, has returned from her Erasmus+ KA1 mobility. She has gone through KA1 for higher education staff mobilities for training project for one week, in the city of Prague -Czech Republic-. This formative stay has consisted of the visit of the Barceló hotel chain, knowing first hand the Czech labor market and the Erasmus + student who practices in these hotels.

She has already returned absolutely satisfied with the experience, both in proffessional and personal senses. IES Puerto de la Cruz – Telesforo Bravo congratulates for these possitive experience.

During late March and early April have gone to their destinations the students selected by the IES Puerto de La Cruz – Telesforo Bravos to perform the work experience in different European cities, through 2016-2017 KA1 project for Higher Education and within the Erasmus+ Programme. These are the countries and cities where our students will pass the next nine weeks doing their traineeships:

• Poland: There will go 2 students of Computer Systems Administration, 1 from Automatization and Robotics and 2 Web / Cross-platform Applications Development ones. The city will be Cracow.
• Germany: In the área of Berlin will stay 3 Tourist Guide students.
• Italy: One student of Hsotelry and Tourism will work near the city of Catania, in Sicily. 4 students of Automatization and Robotics are going  to stay in Bologne.
• Scotland: One student of Cross-Platform Applications Development will work in the city of Edimbourgh.
• Portugal: In the área of Braga will stay and do his traineeship 1 Tourist Guide student.