Project ERASMUS PLUS Mobility for Vet Learners

Project: (LOGISTICS - PROSPECTIVE JOB (LOGISTYK- ZAWÓD Z PRZYSZŁOŚCIĄ)  

Number of contract: 2015-1-PL01-KA102-015574

Grant: 23376 euros

Duration : 1.06.2015- 1.06.2016

Participants : Class III Logistics

Description and Goals

     The participants will learn how to plan and develop logistic projects. At first they, they will get to know the different business processes that take place in logistics including task, goals and areas: Furthermore, the participants will take an outlook into the future of logistics with its trends and technologies. The participants will work in groups to implement their own logistics project, which they will present to an audience at the end of their mobility period.

Learning outcomes

Unit 1: Business processes in logistics

- What are the main tasks of logistics

- What are the main goals of logistics

- Delivery readiness

 - Cost minimization

- Low capital demand

- Different areas of logistics

- Transport infrastructure

 - International logistics and custom registration

 - Introduction to enterprise-resource-planning systems

Unit 2: The future of logistics

- Trends and new technologies in logistics

 - Outsourcing or not? – How to deal with changes on the market

Unit 3: Planning of a logistics project

- Defining the task

 - Setting up a financial projection

- Planning the logistical process from beginning to the end

Unit 4: Developing project and presentational skills

- Preparing a presentation about the project work in MS Powerpoint

- Defining the issues of the project work and its solution

 - Presenting the project work and its results in English

- Using adequate terminology

Unit 5: Acquiring and improving personal and social skills

 - Working in a team confidently and self-responsibly

 - Setting work priorities and applying effective time management

- Acquiring of intercultural competences while living in a foreign country

Methods

     The students will get in touch with different teaching methods. The teacher will start with a lecture, but in the following days the students will have to work in pairs or groups to finish certain tasks which the teacher will assign to them. Finally, the students will have to give a presentation about a logistics project on the last day of their class. This will be done in groups, so that the students will not only improve their presentational skills but their social skills as well.

With more than 600 employees WBS TRAINING AG operates more than 100 branch offices all over Germany. WBS provides vocational education and training for adults promoted by public national authorities, but also business training for companies and European training projects. The range of topics is very wide: from ICT trainings (e.g. SAP, AutoCAD) to management trainings, from automation and renewable energies to health and social care. Therefore, WBS TRAINNIG AG is one of the most important independent vocational training and service providers in Germany.

WBS has a wide and active network – it cooperates with about 1400 freelance trainers and works together with many companies, which are important partners for the organisation of the WBS’ learners’ internships.

Since 2011, WBS also uses the possibilities of web-based learning for a wide range of courses. The WBS branch office Dresden-North, for example, offers about 50 different trainings in various professions.

Since 2004, WBS is active as a hosting institution in the scope of the Lifelong Learning Programme – Leonardo da Vinci mobilities (IVT, VETPRO, PLM). Over the years the WBS has completed more than 100 of these mobility projects. The main topics of these projects were technical, such as: web design, ICT-networking, AutoCAD, PLC programming (Siemens Logo!) and renewable energies. Other training project topics were concerned with the German educational and vocational system, Business Start-up, advertisement and first Aid. Thanks to its wide network of freelance trainers, WBS can offer various trainings in the German or English language.

Furthermore, WBS organizes internship placements in the fields of engineering, tourism/gastronomy, health care, logistics and agriculture.

Most of the mobility projects were hosted by the WBS branch office Dresden-North. Since 2014 the team at the WBS Dresden is the WBS “Competence center for mobility projects” (CCM). The European project team in Dresden has acquired a high level of expertise in implementation of mobility projects. It has good contacts to suppliers of accommodation and catering as well as to cultural institutions in the region. This will ensure smooth and high quality implementation of all future mobility projects. The CCM will also organize projects at other selected WBS branch offices.

WBS has many years of experience in business study courses for various target groups and offers a broad portfolio of trainings. Topics include accounting, marketing, office management, logistics, human resources management, business software applications (e.g. SAP, Microsoft office) and many more.

Within the frame of Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus+ mobility projects, WBS already has successfully completed more than 15 for business related topics.