Being in Continuous Innovation and Growing Erasmus Project

Project Title

Being in Continuous Innovation and Growing

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

The BECOMING project expects innovative solutions aimed at reducing the exit-risk from the labour market for SMEs workers employed at lower levels. The project aims at increasing their long-lasting employability and at promoting their ability to make transitions of career management by developing a positive attitude towards lifelong learning.
A survey carried out by partners showed that SMEs workers are not aware of the urgent need to update their skills and to open themselves up to lifelong learning in order to make their employability permanent. They do not know which skills they need to develop (up-skilling) in order to remain employable, and many of them do not implement any guidance activities. Moreover, the survey also revealed that VET trainers and career guidance development operators are specialised in supporting unemployed people, but they do not have ad-hoc approaches for SMEs workers.
Based on these considerations, the general objective of the project is to decrease the exit-risk from the labour market of SMEs workers employed at lower levels.
In particular, the project pursues the following specific objectives:
– VET trainers and career guidance development (CGD) operators get trained on ad-hoc processes and tools to support SMEs workers’ professional guidance;
– SMEs workers become aware of the exit-risk from the labour market; they are determined to develop C-VET paths consistent with skills needs;
– SMEs workers are provided with a clear direction of personal development, available to implement a “personal career development plan”;
– SMEs managers become aware of the need for competences related with 4.0 transformations

The project will pursue these objectives through the development of two intellectual outputs:
IO1 is a new services package on Career Guidance and Development (CGD) provided for CGD operators and VET trainers. The services will be “ad-hoc” designed, and address low skilled workers of European SMEs. It will contain a services design handbook, professional operators tools, guidelines and methodology as well as a training program for VET trainers and CGD operators.
IO2 is an experiential toolkit aimed at fostering the European key competence called “personal, social and learning to learn” in low skilled workers. It contains OERs and tools that workers can use autonomously.
IOs are complementary: on the one hand, IO1 services are provided by the CGD operators and VET trainers; on the other hand resources and the tools included in the IO2 can be used by workers themselves autonomously. These two intellectual outputs will be tested in each country, and their effectiveness will be assessed.

The project will provide positive impacts first and foremost for the participants.
CGD operators and VET trainers: they will increase their ability to provide proper training and career guidance assistance to SMEs workers and in general to support SMEs in implementing 4.0 processes according to the digital and green transformation of SMEs.
SMEs workers: they will increase their level of employability, and their professional opportunities will be expanded.
SMEs managers: they will increase their knowledge of future competence needs aligned with the 4.0 transformation of SMEs.
Moreover, the project will also have positive impacts on participating organisations and other relevant stakeholders at local/regional, national and international level. Project results will be adequately disseminated through several actions and channels in order to reach the different types of targets groups. Results will be sustainable thanks to the flexibility and adaptability of the methodological approach and intellectual outputs and thanks to the continuation and the further implementation of some actions by the partners themselves.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 332311 Eur

Project Coordinator

RegioVision GmbH Schwerin & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ilmiolavoro srl
• confederazione nazionale dell’artigianato e della piccola e media impresa Abruzzo
• Roscioli Development srl
• INSTITUT INPRO, a.s.
• Unternehmerverband Norddeutschland Mecklenburg-Schwerin e.V.
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