Next Collaborative Steps into Employment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Next Collaborative Steps into Employment

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Disabilities – special needs; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The project NEXTSTEP was a follow-up project to the successful CSTEPS project. Partner countries and regions of this project were sharing the same challenges faced by VET. This includes the early student drop out, employment challenges of the students with fewer opportunities, and rapidly changing demands of the working sector. The aim of the NEXSTEP project was to collaborate, explore, and share ideas how to solve these problems.
The project aimed at strengthening partnership with working life, aligning working life based thinking to the curricula and to everyday school/college life.
Project partners invited companies as an efficient tool to promote closer cooperation with working life:
in the U.K. students experienced in companies Alconbury Weald, ABB and Luminus
in Finland students visited company Mediapolis which is a huge recording centre for film and video production
in Italy students experienced with culture of eating and food production in a Rice Mill which is traditional for this part of the country
In Czech Republic student had chance to learn more about winfow production with company PKS. .
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There was also an objective to improve the special needs students apprenticeship process. By learning from the other countries practices each partner gained new tools and cultural perspectives to their development process. New approach to employment and apprenticeship was an opening for all involved institutions to review their approaches to national changes and for staff to develop new perspectives and methods to support student achievement and success.
Also the idea was to have a clear process for the practical training and apprenticeship, as well as new methods of guidance and coaching during the practical training.
Partners prepared 4 training events for staff and 4 blended mobilities for pupils.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stredni skola stavebni Jihlava & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Vysocina Education
• TAMPEREEN KAUPUNKI
• ASSOCIAZIONE CNOS-FAP REGIONE PIEMONTE
• Cambridge Regional College
• TAMPEREEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY