World Skills of World Youth for better employability Erasmus Project

Project Title

World Skills of World Youth for better employability

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The ”World Skills of World Youth for better employability” project partners from Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Turkey and Chile joined to develop a toolkit with learning scenarios that bridge the gaps between young peoples’ skills and the world of work via non-formal education methods. The learning scenarios will allow youngsters to experience real life situations, engaged in role-plays, action based or case based learning in safe environment, led by youth workers. The toolkit is complemented by a training course, which increases the youth workers’ capacity to provide non-formal trainings that foster youngsters’ skills for employability, which school and university education often fail to provide, due to highly fragmented knowledge, separated in subjects.

The aim of the partners was to put together variety of learning scenarios on five priority topics identified as useful for social and professional realisation in life:
– Informational and communication technologies / ICT (skill for confident and critical use of ICT; virtual collaboration: ability to work productively and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team; data and personal security issues in internet, social networking, etc.)
– Media literacy (critical assessment and development of content, ability to categorise and filter information for importance)
– Communication skills (connecting with others; ability to use various channels for persuasive communication; context appropriate communication; interpersonal and intercultural awareness; tolerance)
– Sense of self & community (personal development; self-esteem; confidence; self-efficacy; civic engagement; strengthened bonds to community; partnership work);
– Entrepreneurship (planning and decision-making skills, novel thinking, problem solving, finding solutions and responses into unexpected circumstances; ability to plan and to work productively).

Youth workers and experts from the project partner organisations collaborated on developing the content of the tool-kit (cross-assessing, discussing, modifying, adapting the “learning scenarios”), as well as the agenda and methodology of the capacity-building course. Youth workers had the opportunity to take part in 2 international collaborative workshops: in Santiago, Chile (March 2016) and in Istanbul, Turkey (June 2016) and in international capacity-building course for youth workers in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (September 2016) during which they collaborated, tested and refineed the project outcomes.

The project applied cascading approach through which youth workers and young people work together to transfer knowledge, skills and attitudes between countries, sectors and generations, passing on and multiplying in this way the expertise they have gained. This approach allows for grass-root effect due to the fact that project participants provide individual support to other young people in an informal environment and contribute to closing the gap between the competences acquired by young people and the needs of the labour market.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149999 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTAR ZA TVORCHESKO OBUCHENIE & Country: BG

Project Partners