mobility

MOBILIY - experience, cases, activities

In this section you can get impressions of the College's politicies and practice
in the field og mobility.
Mobility is a high priority at the Aarhus Social and Healthcare College, and
we are developing this section to enable our partners to be inspired by and
interested in the different forms of mobility practiced at the College.

If you wish to engage in mobility activities for students or teachers,
please contact Jan Wadsholt on sskaJW@sosuaarhus.dk.

Mobility and story-telling

For quite some time now, we have been talking about getting the many interesting and instructive stories from the students’ practical training abroad across and about getting the international work and the media work “under the skin” of the college’s students.

This work has now begun in earnest as a group of social and healthcare assistants, who returned from their practical training abroad in May 2008, will be involved in the production of stories and disseminating their experiences from their stay in Portugal, England and Holland, respectively.
The idea was that the students will contribute with two kinds of stories, small ones consisting of a few words and pictures, and large ones incorporating personal and group interviews, which will be video recorded and put on the college’s international website.

Read the paper...

Laterna Nordica

LATERNA NORDICA is a cross-sectorial network with partners from educational institutions, care institutions and NGOs from Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. All the involved educational institutions are health care or medical schools, colleges or universities and the care institutions and NGOs are working with elderly people and handicapped children.
The main aim of LATERNA NORDICA is to focus on - and improve - the cooperation between education, working life and voluntary work at national and international level.
The core partners started their cooperation in 2004 and since then the network has been extended and strengthened. The projects carried out by the network have been financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers and have been related to clarify the needs and wishes of the target groups of the projects - elderly people and handicapped children – in relation to the care they receive .
The network is planning a health promotion project as its next activity.

Further information:
Bodil Mygind - sskaBMM@sosuaarhus.dk

NOBA
NOBA is a mobility project with the aim of facilitating students’ and teachers’ mobility within the NOrdic and the BAltic countries. The partners are educational institutions in Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, Estonia and Lithuanian and the first mobility activities in NOBS took place in autumn 2008.
The next exchanges of students and teachers are planned to take place this year. Through their participation in the exchanges students and teachers become acquainted with and inspired from different educational systems and working life practices in the field of care. The NOBA activities are financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Further information:
Bodil Mygind - sskaBMM@sosuaarhus.dk

Danish-Swedish mobility, Nordplus 2007 (Word)

During the autumn of 2007, Studium in Gothenburg, Sweden, has been involved in a mobility programme with Aarhus, Denmark. Three adult students taking the ”omvårdnadsprogrammet” (a healthcare programme) have been doing their practical training within the course ”social care” in Aarhus. It has been a project under the programme Nordplus Adult Learning (a sub-programme under the Nordic Council of Ministers’ educational programme Nordplus).

A very good project!
It has given me some ideas of the way the different countries work with health and nursing and how the different systems take care of their elderly people.

What impressed me was that time was found for talking with one another among the participants in the project. It was possible to get a professional answer (depending on your own interest in the education) and this without involving all participants.

But what stroke me the most was that in the Baltic countries it is the family and the NGO´ s who take care of the elderly people. Here in Denmark we are handing the caring over to the system.
It would maybe be a good idea if the family had to take more responsibility. As it is now the demands only go one way.

All together 5 stars *****

CULTURAL
- interesting to show your own city, which gave new impressions of your own surroundings.
PROFESSIONAL
- get a new view of own working life
- become aware of the things which function well.
- be impressed to see that other people were moved by seeing our system
- interesting to compare educational systems
- interesting to hear about different ways of organizing the Public Health Care in the different countries
- the social aspect of being together in a network where you have common goal,
- the interaction between people and at the same time the interaction between different cultures
- be aware of each others differences
- to think - talk - explain - understand each other although in a foreign place, everybody participated
- the elderly people found the project interesting, one of them was inspired afterwards to write her own life story
SOCIAL
- it was great fun to prepare the farewell-dinner including cooking together
- when we want the same = go together, we can reach a lot.

It was quite a challenging experience to participate in the project ”Laterne Nordica”.
My greatest concern was my english , would I be able to communicate with and oblige the people from Estonia – Latvia – Russia- Finland –Sweden ?
Luckily it was ”no problem” - We all used a broken english and we all felt at equal terms.

I experienced a feeling of beeing pride of my city Aarhus, and also of my practise-place , which I showed to the Latvian Group.
Later I quided through the city of Aarhus dressed for christmas.

We exchanged many pupil-experience, which was very exciting and instructive.
It has opened my eyes for our neighbour countries and has showed how much we can learn from each other.

Despite our differences in cultur and mentality we are as human beeings much alike.