Objectives of ProWood is:
- To give an activity anchored and expounding vocational training.
- To fully take advantage of the competence and the experience that exists in the partner enterprise’s activity and let the students benefit from it.
- To give the students the prerequisites necessary to deepen their understanding of the activity’s local conditions.
- To give students the opportunity to acquire an insight into the partner enterprise’s activities.
- To relate subject fields within the education to the activity placed education to achieve a whole and accomplish reciprocal action between practical experiences and theoretical knowledge.
- To increase competence and experience exchange between the partners.
- To contribute to improvement of the conditions necessary for the receiving enterprises’ personnel and its management to influence the modelling of the workplace placed education.
The students will during their activity placed education collect, develop and deepen knowledge from the goals specified by the course. Parallel to this the students will during guidance actively participate in the supervisor’s/work team’s all work assignments and practice their skills to use different work forms and work methods in their activity. The activity placed elements and the theoretical studies both contribute to reaching the course’s goals. It is important that the students’ workplace practical training is characterized by reflection, analysis and a constructive stance toward the partner enterprise.