Erasmus Policy Statement

Our private Horticultural  and Rural  School "Lycée du Haut Nivernais" provides training from Junior secondary classes (Classe de 4ième) to the Higher Education Course BTSA. This is a private  establishment  under contract of the Ministry of Agriculture, which is located in a rural area and has a regional or supra-regional recruitment . Proposed training courses are Services To  People and  Territories, Landscape-gardening and Sales of Pet market animal and supplies. The first two are proposed up to the baccalaureat professionnel and the third to the BTSA Technico-commercial (Technical Sales of companion and farm animals).

Our school has a tradition of education mobility through its international activities (study tours and exchanges in Guyana, Italy, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Portugal). ERASMUS + programs represent a new stage of our international development. Based on geographic proximity criteria, market representativeness and supplier-distributor relationships we have established through our commercial and educational pet-shop unit, partnering with  pet market supplying businesses that bring us:

- Opportunities for students' practice and training

- A logistical and technical support as part of our training,

- An open international network through their foreign subsidiaries

We rely on our network of partners to foster the placement of our students abroad. We contract with training partner institutions in these countries on the basis of study level criteria (+2) and similar training content related to the market of companion and farm animals.

The choice of our international open space is vast because it corresponds to the sites of our partner companies markets.

We have opportunities in Europe, thanks to our partner companies, particularly in the leading countries on the market of companion and farm animals (United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Finland, Poland ...)

Moreover, we can also, in the longer term, based on our development and our partners, seize the opportunity,  offered by some emerging countries on the  markets of the professional sector of companion and farm animals, in North America (USA, Canada), South America (Brazil, Argentina) and Asia (China, Japan).

In order to strengthen the European identity and, beyond the EU, the openness of our students and staff, our priorities are:

- To provide our students with opportunities of work experiences abroad, to promote their linguistic, cultural and socio-professional openness, through exchanges with other institutions and, reciprocally, allow incoming mobilities of  students from partner institutions, either for a business internship or a study enrolment in our course,

- To allow our staff, in connection with our training plan, to improve their skills in their professional fields, to interact with colleagues from other countries about their professional practices, to open culturally and linguistically to other educational systems.

This strategy comes in respect of one of the institutional missions of agricultural establishments, that is to say, the development of international cooperation and it fits naturally into the project of our establishment.

It is supported by the National Bureau of International Cooperation of our Federation. This strategy is also in line with our regional administrative authority which brings us full support and assistance to enable the pooling of international cooperation means between the different agricultural institutions in the Burgundy region.