STUDENTS at a Didim school helped to host a lunch for expats from the community as part of an EU project.
The students from the Zeynep Mehmet Donmez Tourism and Hotel Management Vocational High School hosted the event as part of the school’s EU projects at that have been running since 2010.
Its first EU project was accepted by the Turkish National Agency in 2010 and it successfully implemented a Leonardo Da Vinci IVT Mobility project with Lewisham College in London, allowing 15 students and 2 accompanying teachers to travel London and experience the international dimension of the mobility.
In the 2012 Proposal Term, the school’s application for Comenius Bilateral School Exchange project was approved and the project “Comparison of Cultural Approach to Tourism and Hospitality Services between England and Turkey” was granted.
Within the scope of this project, 10 students and 2 accompanying teachers took part in the implementation and dissemination phases, working as the project team and introducing this new project not only within our school but also in the district.
During the first phase of the mobility, its partner school, LeSoCo College, arrived in Didim with their students and teachers, implementing the project terms. They worked alongside with the students, learning tourism and hospitality services in our country, making comparisons with the cultural approach to them and etc.
Students and teachers have fulfilled their mobility part in November 2013, continuing the studies they have initiated with the partner school students in May 2013 and after two weeks of extraordinary experience for everyone in the group, they arrived back to Didim to work on what they have learned, observed and experienced with regards to project aims.
Its activities continued after their return and on 10/04/2014, it was scheduled members of the British community living in Didim as part of these activities in terms of practicing cultural similarities and differences in tourism and hospitality, as well as getting an opportunity in presenting what they have learned during their trip.
The London mobility did not only include school studies alone. Students and teachers had a chance to see the sights and visit many historical and cultural places in London, making memories via pictures and videos they took.
The school is also a partner in the LDV Workplacement Project for summer 2014 and 10 of the students will be accompanied by 2 teachers, joining in the bigger part coordinated by the Kusadasi Tourism High School, gathering 70 students and 10 teachers from different schools in the region to give the students a chance to experience and practice hospitality services in 6 different countries in Europe.