2023.03.06.

Programmes for school children in wood and nature education, career guidance (EFOP)

In the project EFOP-3.2.5-17 Career Orientation, with special emphasis on the development of MTMI skills and competences in the institutions of the Sopron Education Centre, our Foundation – as a contractor – was responsible for the following project elements:

During the project, we organized 4 career orientation days at the University of Sopron, and these events aimed at supporting the career orientation of students, with a special focus on the choice and promotion of technical careers, such as wood- and paper industry, mechatronics, industrial products and design, as well as IT and the development of related competences. The aim was to introduce students to the diversity of professions and the opportunities offered by their career models through interactive and creative programmes. The events also aimed at promoting informed adult career building as well as a successful labour market participation in the future while acquiring necessary skills for doing that.

During the project, 30 interactive programmes were organised for groups of 20 upper primary school students at the LIGNEUM Visitor Centre (University of Sopron).

In addition, the project included 5 sessions of workplace presentations related to MTMI disciplines for groups of 25 students in classes 7-12. During the study tours, students visited engineering workplaces where they could get to know the daily life of the enterprises involved in the project and the representatives of the MTMI (Mathematics, Science, Technology and Informatics) specialisation in a playful way. The laboratories and workshops of the Natural Resources Research Centre (NRRC) of the University of Sopron provided an excellent opportunity to demonstrate engineering work (laboratories, training facilities), and therefore the project included 2 visits to the NRRC. In addition, the project organised a thematic and professional summer camp for 50 students.