A few weeks ago the German IDA students left Italy and IMY, and we have interviewed Birgit Sielmon, that prepared the students before their arrival in Italy, and that are following up the work experiences now that they are back home.

"The group of youngsters are participating in different employment projects of their hometown Bernburg that aims at finding work or training for young people", she explains. "They are all socially disadvantaged and unemployed, and the objectives of this work experience training with IMY were many: to give the youngsters new impulses and motivate them to actively search their professional direction, to gain insight about the working life and conditions in Italy and break down prejudices, and of course to live an experience in another country."

The role of Birgit was to prepare the participants for the internships in Italy, organizing and outlining all practical aspects with CSCS and the preparation of the group that included Geography of Italy and Tuscany, the Italian way of life, the way to behave and some basic Italian words. 

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The slogan of italymobility is " Your development - Our goal" is  its objective is that young people enjoy their stay in Italy and feel enriched not only from the personal perspective but also from the professional point of view. During their stay, the students have the possibility to learn more about the Italian language participating in an Italian language course.

The IMY Italian course uses a communicative language teaching method that is especially thought for mobility experiences. The students coming in Italy have, of course, various profiles; some of them consider learning Italian as very interesting and important, others do not feel the need of having a good grammar and appreciate less the idea of studying during their work placement. We therefore tried to propose classes focused on “doing” instead of “explaining".

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The arrival in September of 4 students from Austria,  is the first realization of the new collaboration between IMY and IFA that will see austrian student and young workers coming to Italy for IMY work placements.

This collaboration is the result of the visit to Vienna, and the IFA headquarter,  of  Giovanni Crisona in late march 2012; IFA (Internationaler Fachkräfteaustausch, International Young Workers Exchange)is the leader organisation in Austria for international work experiences working with more than 2,000 young people and around 150 companies, schools and VET providers and now an official partner of Italymobility.

The first group of IFA students, 3 young women and 1 man,  arriving in September to Pistoia will be doing internships as restaurant specialists in the Tuscan territory, and the IMY staff is currently working on the preparation of their arrival.

Italymobility is looking forward to recieve the first group of IFA students this autumn,  to ufficially launch this important collaboration.

A group of German students, from the St. Johannis foundation , recently went to Pisa to meet with coetaneous Italian apprentices. The aim of this meeting, as with other cultural IMY  initiatives,  is to create cultural bridges and a mutual understanding facilitating the initial phase of the workplacement and the knowledge about the hosting country. And at the same time offer a incultural experience to the Italian students.

Visita alla sede di CSCS, la loro struttura ricettiva ed alcune aziende del territorio 

In vista dell’arrivo a metà giugno di un gruppo di studenti tedeschi della fondazione formativa St. Johannis per degli stage formativi, una delegazione di insegnanti della stessa fondazione ha fatto visita al “Centro Studi Cultura e Sviluppo” per delineare gli aspetti pratici e per conoscere il centro studi e le varie aziende in cui i ragazzi effettueranno il training professionale.

Between the 23rd and the 28th of April 2012, a group of Swedish students with two tutors from the Flen Municipality, came to Pistoia for a studyvisit organized by Italymobility. The aim of the visit was to understand how young people in Italy live, and to get to know the Italian culture.

The Swedish students that partecipated in the studyvisit are attending a project of the Municipality of Flen, for guidance and  support. This breif experience abroad was organized with the aim to give the Swedish youngsters understanding about Italy, and young Italians, and to enhance their self confidence, social competences and abilities.