Journey to Employment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Journey to 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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Objectives of Project were as follows:
To create high-quality Employability training programmes in each partner country; to deliver pilot training to at least 90 learners across partner countries; to disseminate project content and methodology at local, national and international level.

Context/Background
Although some countries show improved performance in employment figures – both youth and general – there is still a need to improve these through improved employability skills and methodologies for delivering these. The GET THERE project will use two extant programmes to help deliver these outcomes, taking the ASDAN Employability Curriculum from existing qualification units and teaching these through Europeace Youth’s innovative Mentoring methodology. This was carried out in line with research results in each country which established which skills are most in demand in each country and, accordingly, which modules to include in the GET THERE training programme.

Methodology
The methodology for GET THERE is based around two innovative programmes: ASDAN’s Employability curriculum and EPY’s Youth Mentor Training Course.
• 2 innovative methodologies and tools, Employability Activities and Mentoring programme, focused on developing real skills for work and business and empowerment competencies development, will be transferred by ASDAN and Europeace Youth. While Employability activities bring an innovative curriculum on employability skills, Europeace Youth brings a Mentoring model;
• target groups that will be fit: (i) first the GET THERE project will equip (transfer workshop – learning activity) VET providers with methodologies, tools and competences in order to be the future employability educators and thus speed up employability skills learning among unemployed, in particular those less qualified; (ii) second, end users (the ones to address in the national pilots) will be unemployed people – young or less young – and employed people.
• 1 Competences Matrix for GET THERE training course – which infuse ASDAN’s curriculum with EPY’s peer mentoring methodology – developed in a learning outcomes approach to clearly define knowledge, skills and competences a trainee should achieve by undertaking the training. This will allow a greater transparency about the qualification and is aligned with ECVET, emphasizing the importance in building mutual understanding and trust between partners and thus improving the quality of mobilites at an European level.

The overall aim of the GET THERE project is to support the development of employability skills which will equip people for the modern workplace and address EU key competence in the end users defined above, equipping VET providers with methodologies, tools and competences in order to be the future employability educators (i.e., VET teachers/trainers/professional) and thus speed up employability learning among people of a working age in all partners’ countries.

Some of the main activities were: Initial meeting and research objectives; a common transfer workshop – learning activities; national pilot training of about 3; partners meetings; final conference.
Intellectual Outputs
01 – Survey and Assessment of Employability needs – from 2 different perspectives – in each partner country
02 – GET THERE handbook with background, rationale, partner information, project content
03 – Competencies Matrix – Production of matrix detailing learning outcomes with regard to knowledge, skills and competences, to facilitate criteria, assessment, recognition of learner outcomes
04 – Guideline to successfully implement Get There project results in other organisations.
Participant Profile
The GET THERE project consortium includes 6 partners that work in training and/or VET, ISQ (PT), IEKEP (EL) and ASDAN (UK), INFODEF (ES), CARDET (CY) and EPY (UK), all of whom have worked on European projects. Each partner organisation looks to deliver training to unemployed people or people that have a job but want to improve their skills – those who are need of employability training but also those in danger of becoming unemployed or already in this category.
Results & Impact
Besides the 90 pilot training participants, the project had 240 people participating in the initial survey and 90 in the multiplier event.
Benefits
Each partner country has access to high quality on-line curriculum material and an effective learning methodology which can be accessed freely by other national organisations and delivered to large numbers of people looking to develop real employability skills. Our choice of innovative learning materials ensures that the programme is engaging and informative for future learners and will allow them to access training which will aid their journey into employment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219493,98 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASDAN & Country: UK

Project Partners

• EUROPEACE YOUTH
• CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD-CARDET
• Instituto para el fomento del desarrollo y la formación S.L
• INSTITOUTO EKPAIDEFTIKOU KAI EPAGGELMATIKOU PROSANATOLISMOU
• INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE