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Can internships be the key to a professional career? Results of the tracer study on the careers of former participants of internships and traineeships funded by European programmes in the field of education
By Michał Pachocki Michał Pachocki
Abstract This article investigates the outcomes of vocational trainee placements abroad, which were funded by different European educational programmes over the last decade. The target group of this research were the former mobility participants and the study was conducted with the use of quantitative and qualitative methods. The results include the participants’ perception of their work mobility, the identification of acquired skills and their usefulness in further professional life.
is an educational researcher, philologist, anthropologist and evaluator. He is also an author of reports and articles about education and learning outcomes and a member of the Polish Evaluation Society. Since 2009 he has been working for the Foundation for Development of the Education System.
Introduction The European Commission defines the term “transnational learning mobility” as a trip abroad aimed at acquiring new knowledge and skills, learning a language and developing broad intercultural competences. Such mobility can be implemented at any stage of education, including vocational education and training1. In view of limited financial resources available to schools and school governing authorities in Poland, primarily European programmes in the field of education provide access to transnational mobility for training to students of vocational schools. Thanks to such financial support, people at the initial phase of vocational education and training can serve internships in enterprises or practical training institutions in other European countries.
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The term used above can be found in the document Green Paper – promoting the learning mobility of young people adopted by the European Commission on 8 July 2009.
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Initially, he supported quality assurance of projects implemented first under the Lifelong Learning Programme and later under Erasmus+. Currently, he works in the Research and Analysis Unit.
KEYWORDS Vocational education, Learning mobility, VET graduates, Transnational training, Labour market
