Seeing the Future, Shape Your Career Erasmus Project

Project Title

Seeing the Future, Shape Your Career

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

In parallel with rapid developments in the latest revolution of Industry 4.0 taking place for almost a decade now, we have been observing the world change at an unprecedented pace. Forced to revise their political, economic, sociological and educational dynamics radically and on a global basis, the countries have been struggling hard so as to keep pace with the revolution undergoing. Of all the questions of top priority, what one is to do to get ready for the future and shape his career is therefore bound to take place in the countries’ future vision. It is already foreseen with articles, OECD and WEF reports that most of the jobs existing today will no longer exist in the near future. Instead, new jobs will replace them and some more will emerge by no stretch of the imagination. This situation will inevitably shape the choice of profession in the near future, which has driven the partners of this project titled “Seeing The Future, Shape Your Career” to come together.

The consortium formed to carry out the project consists of six partners from Bulgaria, France, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom and Turkey, each team of which involves two teachers and five students. The criteria set earlier required the partners to be enthusiastic to take part in a European Union project, to choose their target student groups among those aged 15-19, to lack any studies on ‘future jobs’ ever carried out at their schools, to take charge in such tasks as creating a multilingual website and YouTube channel, graphic design, video editing since the implementation phase will inevitably require the active use of technology, to have experience in a previous strategic partnership except for one inexperienced partner.

Within the scope of the project; we aim to raise awareness about today’s job alternatives, tomorrow’s job opportunities and the skills required to acquire those professions. This is surely to be achieved by studying a new understanding of education called ‘Education 4.0’, developed to meet the needs of the industry while providing the requirements of new occupations. In the “Seeing the Future” section of our project, we have an objective to have teachers, students and their parents broaden their vision for the future through the activities of Industry 4.0, Education 4.0, and 21st century skills. On the other hand; in the “Shape Your Career” section, we aim to contribute to shaping their careers through different kinds of work in relation with future jobs and necessary skills, which will be carried out in cooperation with teachers, students and parents. Among several other objectives, reaching out to masses via the website, YouTube channel and TwinSpace is yet another primary one.

In the implementation phase, there are numerous activities we are planning to carry out through the mobilities and on local basis so as to meet the needs of teachers, students and their parents in different aspects. In-service trainings and seminars will be conducted for project teams by experts in their fields. Workshops and Erasmus+ corners will be organised to keep teachers, students and parents updated; such printed materials as brochures and magazines will be some other useful tools to serve this purpose. We will pay educational visits to relevant institutions so as to make on-site observations on good examples. The content developed meanwhile by teachers and students will continuously be uploaded to the website, YouTube channel and TwinSpace. Last but not least; during the final local activities, job fairs will be organised to promote career planning.

The abovementioned activities having been carried out, the participants will have broadened their vision on their career development while adapting to the dynamics of the new world revolving around Industry 4.0. Turning the spotlights on the updated roles of learners and teachers in Education 4.0, we will also have got the parents acquainted with the term ‘Parenting 4.0’ and involved in contributing to their pupils’ adolescence and career planning consciously. What’s more, the students will have been able to get in peer-to-peer interaction with students from other countries, improving their understanding of EU and developing awareness of the rights granted by European citizenship meanwhile.

In an attempt to utilise these contributions in the long-term, we will share the results of the project on digital platforms. Directorates of national education, public education centers and local institutions will be contacted to encourage them to make on-site observations and benefit from the achieved results. They will be asked to get involved in the dissemination activities as well and help us share the relevant results with as many students and parents as possible. Public education centers will also be asked to consider any possibility to integrate the results into their curricula. All these will hopefully serve as a resource for those who want to gain more insight into the subject.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 146775 Eur

Project Coordinator

GUMUSYAKA ANADOLU LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ITCG Ferruccio Niccolini
• 134 SU “Dimcho Debeljanov”
• LXXV LO im. Jana III Sobieskiego w Warszawie
• Lycée professionnel Pierre Mendès france
• Thomas Becket Catholic School