ERASMUS + EUROPEAN PROJECTS

SKILLS FOR FUTURE WORKING LIFE IN EUROPE

Our project aims at improving the ICT skills and digital competence of students and teachers and at increasing
the students' capability to access the labour market at local, national and international level and their
knowledge of job and education opportunities.
Our idea is that students need to improve their digital skills and their entrepreneurship in order to improve
their possibility of success in the labour market.

Upper secondary students are at a point in life when they need to make decisions as to which carrier path
to choose and in this project, they will research the options they have as regards to further education and
career options. By working with partners from different European countries, the students will learn about
education and work opportunities in theirs and in other European countries and therefore increase their
possibilities to find a career which corresponds to their dreams and passions. By travelling to partner
countries, the students will learn to communicate with people from foreign cultures and realize how
effortless and at times also challenging the communication with people from different countries can be. They will gain confidence in international communication for future working life.

The first objective of this project is to enhance students' digital skills. This will be carried out by using some of the most modern digital tools available and some varied apps, programs and social media. The project will be carried out so that specific apps and social media platforms (including eTwinning) will be used to carry out research and project work, which, in turn, will deal with the topic of work and professions.

The students will look into the world of work by visiting local companies and businesses (which could potentially be their future employers), and by building their own resume blog (including Europass), which is becoming more and more a valuable asset when applying for work both in national and international scale. This blog will be a concrete outcome for each of the students participating in the project with which they will be able to apply for work. Through specific Career counselling activities, they will also gain a better understanding of what really matters for them personally as regards their future jobs and how they can plan their future careers.

Meanwhile, the teachers will be granted more confidence and competence in the use of information technology, strengthening the profile of their profession. Teachers will also benefit from the Transnational meetings, learning about other European educational systems, sharing their skills and knowledge, different methods of teaching, and curriculum structures.

 

The project involves five partners from Italy, Finland, Greece, the Czech Republic and Spain. The partners were chosen because all of the schools have some experience in the world of partnerships, and all have specific competences in the field of ICT and entrepreneurship. Besides, since the project's main topic is about job opportunities, it was also decided to have countries belonging to very different economic areas (Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe), so that it will be easier to compare these very different situations and learn from each other.

 

The project includes six transnational meetings, attended by some teachers and few selected pupils; five of them will also include L/T/T activities which will enhance their ICT skills and entrepreneurship, improving at the same time self-knowledge, team skills, communication skills and knowledge on different aspects of working life. The students will visit local employers and companies abroad to see at first-hand what kind of work opportunities each country can offer and also by visiting local educational facilities they will learn about the opportunities they have as regards to further educating themselves, both nationally and internationally. The students will also have the opportunity to communicate in English and to learn intercultural skills (which are required more and more by employers nowadays).

 

The results will include a project website, containing all the activities and outputs of the project, individual resume blogs and Europass CVs, a "dissemination kit", in which the project final results are presented, available for promotion, an infographic of the local services that the companies in each area offer and a general survey of the potential further education and job opportunities in the local areas.

Teachers will also acquire new digital skills, which will be essential in order to take advantage of modern technology in teaching as effectively as possible.

The potential longer-term benefits are connected to our students' possibilities of success in the labour market, which will be improved during the project by giving them some important instruments like new digital skills, entrepreneurship and knowledge of some of the mechanisms which work in the European labour market.

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