Form 10, Progymnasium Altshausen
English abstract
Hello, my name is Tim Stiefel. I am 16 years old and I am in Form 10 at Progymnasium Altshausen. I participated in the Erasmus+ Programme founded by the European Union. Our project “Fit for Job“ deals with career guidance in different countries and what we can do to improve it.
My career plans are to become a physicist or an engineer. I found out a lot about career plans thanks to the projects I did at my school. I took tests about self-evaluation, my strengths and hobby analysis. It came out that my skills fit to my career choices. Besides, I took part in many activities around career orientation. I went to exhibitions about jobs and companies at different schools. I participated in work placements and I went to look at different companies. All these projects and activities helped me to develop myself and to find out which job I want to do later in life. I will attend a technical high school in September 2015 and I plan to do more work placements and holiday jobs.
With the Erasmus project, I also visited Italy in April 2015. I lived with a really nice host family there and I learned a lot about the cultural differences. We were introduced to the major of Cento and got guided tours through Cento, Ferrara and Bologna. We also visited Ferrari in Maranello and other different companies. We worked together with pupils from Latvia and Italy. We compared the different career orientation programmes and tried to improve them.
I really liked the project a lot. I collected new impressions, learned about other cultures, found new friends and did something useful for the international cooperation of pupils.
Complete report in German by Tim Stiefel (PDF, 1 MB)
