The idea of creating Erasmus Intensive Programme focused on presentation skills was conceived by Hana Kuzdasova, Institutional Erasmus Coordinator at Mendel University.
„I work with a lot of students and I have realised that many of them lack soft skills important for developing their future career. It is a challenge to find a job now, especially for fresh graduates. Young people might have innovative ideas and be willing to work hard but if they are not able to sell all that, they may loose chances to make the best of their potential.“
IP Objectives
1) To foster development of effective presentation skills of further education students and staff, bearing in mind the realistic range of specific puproses in intercultural professional environments.
2) To develop innovative methodology combining formal and non formal approaches and use its evaluated version in the existing lifelong learning study programmes, including multimedia tutorials for self study use.
Taking place in Brno, at Mendel university, in June 2014, the IP will bring to cooperation 20 students and 6 staff members from three European universities, namely Mendel University, Czech Republic, Siauliai University , Lithuania and Okan University, Turkey. Participants will experience an intensive 12-day course, combining theory and practical training. The highlight of the course will be a public conference presenting participants´work attended by stakeholders to give critical feedback.
Methodology
Lectures, workshops, practical training sessions and work on practice related tasks combined with non formal methodology, such as ice breakers, games, role plays, debates, simulations, site-specific tasks, evaluation activities.
Learning outcomes
Update of existing presentation knowledge as well as development of new skills of effective presentation for specific purposes and in various professional settings, including the international ones.
Participants will also improve their self evaluation and evaluation skills as well as the ability to work in international teams and communicate in English.
Learners will also experience the mix of formal and non formal methods.
Tangible outputs
Textual, graphic and multimedia study material will be put together, available for further self study use. Resulting from the follow up stage, evaluated methodology and a self study tutorial in multimedia format suitable for sharing online will be produced.