{"id":3160847,"date":"2022-12-21T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/the-maribor-effect-enhancing-professional-skills-abroad\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:13:32","slug":"the-maribor-effect-enhancing-professional-skills-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/en\/the-maribor-effect-enhancing-professional-skills-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maribor effect: enhancing professional skills abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThe EU-funded Intervet project helps increase and create new opportunities for learning mobility in the Western Balkans.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engjull Miftari is a 17-year-old high school student from Kosovo. He is in the final year of the \u201c7 September\u201d Vocational Education School in Prishtina. Engjull says he\u2019s been fascinated by the catering business since a very young age. He explains that this was probably because of his father: \u201cMy father was a chef in a restaurant for over 17 years, and I would sometimes accompany him to work; I fell in love with this profession,\u201d Engjull says. As it wasn\u2019t possible to study cookery at high school, he chose to study tourism in general, including managing tourism agencies and reception desks, and he says that he doesn\u2019t regret his decision &#8211; and even if he had a wider choice, he wouldn\u2019t now choose a different professional school.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cThe internship experience in Prishtina was very useful. However, I had the feeling that I needed more practical work experience as well as variety.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engjull proved to be a very good student, with high grades and praise from his teachers. As a result, he was assigned to a four-month internship at the reception desk at the Grand Hotel, one of the historical hotels in the centre of Prishtina. \u201cThe internship experience in Prishtina was very useful. However, I had the feeling that I needed more practical work experience as well as variety,\u201d says Engjull. This opportunity came very soon when the EU-funded Intervet project launched a call for international internships for Vocational Education (VET) high school students from Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a VET School student, Engjull heard about this opportunity from his English language teacher and instantly decided to apply. He fulfilled the criteria by being a good student and having knowledge of English, and he was chosen among the young students from Kosovo who would join a one-month internship programme in a mountain hotel in Maribor, Slovenia. \u201cI was very excited,\u201d Engjull remembers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cMy experience during the internship in Maribor was excellent. Not only did I upgrade my professional skills, but I also learned about the culture and developed my language skills too.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About the project: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of the EU-funded Intervet Western Balkans\u00a0project is to\u00a0create opportunities for learning mobility\u00a0in Western Balkans training centres, the internationalisation of the VET System and\u00a0an improved culture of learning mobility\u00a0in the field of VET. To achieve these, the project is implementing activities at two levels: on the one hand, the\u00a0mobility of VET learners\u00a0and on the other, the\u00a0competence building of VET staff. Their consortium includes\u00a0business and education associations,\u00a0small and medium-sized enterprises,\u00a0VET centres,\u00a0chambers of commerce\u00a0and universities\u00a0from the six Western Balkans and eight EU countries, while Prishtina REA is the Kosovo country partner of the project. By the time it is finished, the project aims to have implemented 56 PRO-type mobilities, 360 placements\u00a0of one month, 54 job shadowing experiences, participation of\u00a036 VET teachers in summer schools\u00a0\u2013 in Amsterdam, Bologna, Lyon, Maribor, and Seville, and participation of\u00a072 VET teachers and managers in activities hosted by the Malta College of Arts, Science &amp; Technology (MCAST), ROC Da Vinci College (The\u00a0Netherlands) and\u00a0SEPR (France)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the internship in Maribor, Engjull practised his skills in various positions, from administrative support to the hotel maintenance service section, to restaurant service, reception desk and the spa. Apart from gaining professional experience, in his free time he also had an opportunity to visit the city with other students and to learn more about the culture. They visited the city museum and main attractions and also had the chance to visit Ljubljana, and the city of Graz in Austria which is not far from Maribor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All in all, this was a great learning experience for Engjull and other students. \u201cMy experience during the internship in Maribor was excellent. Not only did I upgrade my professional skills, but I also learned about the culture and developed my language skills,\u201d says Engjull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU-funded Intervet project helps increase and create new opportunities for learning mobility in the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3160848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[],"area-of-cooperation":[482,412],"country":[247],"opportunity-type":[],"class_list":["post-3160847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","area-of-cooperation-education-and-training","area-of-cooperation-youth","country-kosovo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Maribor effect: enhancing professional skills abroad - 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