Jobs 4 Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Jobs 4 Future

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: Creativity and culture; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The ”Ion Barbu” Theoretical High School educates students in mathematics-computer science, natural sciences, social sciences and philology, some of them having intensive teaching of the English language. Over 90% from high school students pass the baccalaureate exam and over 90% of them are admitted to a form of higher education. Many choose a specialization being influenced by parents or the environment in which they live. Many people do not know how to inform themselves correctly, right from school, about career choice. In Romania there are now many companies with foreign capital that need a workforce prepared and, for employment, it becomes mandatory to know at least one language of international movement .The drafting of this project appeared after applying a common Needs Questionnaire addressed to the students from whom a result their need to learn a foreign language in order to use it for integration both labor market, as well as for admission to a university in Europe. The questionnaire was elaborated by all partners and each team drew conclusions that were discussed on the What’sapp group. The questionnaire can be found as an attachment in the Annexes section. In a dynamic labor market, many students want to study at colleges in Europe or even to integrate into the labor market. The school syllabus and the number of hours allocated to foreign languages ensure a base on the conversational and cultural level, but there is a need for language training focused on developing specific skills for professional communication. In the Romanian education system there is no special program or discipline to integrate content regarding the development of such skills. Students learn to write a CV or a letter of intent at counseling and orientation hours, learn a foreign language, but do not know how to correlate these elements to be prepared and confident in the choice made. In our school there are also students belonging to ethnic minorities (Korean, Japanese, etc.) who have integration difficulties. Therefore, it is required to promote the elements of the European dimension, the change perspectives on boundaries and integration, increasing language skills communication in a language of international circulation, promotion of national identity tolerance, multiculturalism, but also the cultural diversity of all the countries involved in the project. The Lisbon Treaty and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights consolidated the rights, opportunities and safeguards of EU citizenship. We are all European citizens who have the freedom to travel, work and study in other EU countries, to participate in European political life and to be protected from discrimination on the basis of nationality. Since EU citizenship was first enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty twenty-five years ago, significant progress has been made to ensure the effectiveness of EU citizens’ rights in practice. Today, two-thirds of Europeans feel they are citizens of the EU, and even more among the younger generations. Taking all this into account, the transnational character of the project adds significant value to our project. The objectives of the project are: development of professional communication skills, improvement the civic attitude of adolescents by raising awareness of current problems in society and in the world, by interpreting them and practicing decision-making techniques; skills development and communication skills needed for public speaking; development of competences regarding active, conscious listening; development of students’ personal skills through activities increasing self-esteem; professional development of teachers following exchanges experience within the project; introduction of a curriculum to the integrated school decision to target developing professional skills; the introduction in the schooling plan of the high school, of some classes with intensive teaching in a foreign language (other than existing ones). In order to communicate effectively in our career, we are called not only to be good, empathetic listeners, but also to be open-minded, provide feedback, build self-confidence and improve the non-verbal communication skills. The community will also be actively involved in the development of the project – the community of parents gave their success story examples – the Romanian team of students and teachers have already had a special week at school in which the parents hosted the students for one day to simply know what their job was like. In order to convincingly disseminate our work within the community, we will issue our quiz results on future job choice questionnaires and we will write and publish articles on examples of good practice in the international collaboration we exercised during the project. The community will be, in time, be rewarded by having the properly trained professionals in the future. Our project will be fully sustainable from the point of view of the constant communication among generations

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 187442 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceul Teoretic Ion Barbu & Country: RO

Project Partners

• 1o Imerisio Geniko Lykeio Karditsas
• Sirri Yircali Anadolu Lisesi
• Tevfik Serdar Anadolu Lisesi
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vilela
• IES Tegueste