Enhancing Employability of Unemployed Persons through New Forms of Employment and Sharing Economy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhancing Employability of Unemployed Persons through New Forms of Employment and Sharing Economy

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT:
Collaborative/Sharing Economy (SHE) and New Forms of Employment (NFE) could facilitate the achievement of increasing job creation through Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship.
Sharing Economy, characterized by peer-to-peer based sharing of access to goods and services, has emerged in the business world. Emergence of community dynamics and the use of ICTs are main agents of transformation guiding the Sharing Economy. It´s accompanied by a conceptual transformation that sees the collaborative work or participatory consumption as an important potential source of employment in the coming years, giving access to the labour market for those who have failed in finding a job through conventional ways.
New Forms of Employment have also emerged characterized by unconventional work patterns and places of work or by the irregular provision of work that have transformed the traditional one-to-one relationship between employer and employee
OBJECTIVES
The project has achieved the most of the objectives initially pursued
Main objective of the project was to increase the competences of Long Term Unemployed Persons and Young Work Seekers, and Human Resources (HR) Directors or Technicians, about how to exploit the Sharing Economy and New Forms of Employment to increase Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship opportunities. Only some parts of the training program were finally applicable to Human Resources (HR) experts, because Sharing Economy Platforms are not so applicable to their activity.
Main specific objectives were:
• Provide the trainees with the necessary awareness and knowledge about Sharing Economy and New Forms of Employment dynamics, including the functioning of related ICT tools and platforms.
• Facilitate to the trainees the development of their own Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Plans using Sharing Economy and New Forms of Employment concepts and ICT Platforms.
• Facilitate to the trainees the acquisition and improvement of competences to boost their EPS and SE Plans (creativity and innovation, digital skills, management of social networks and personal branding).
• Facilitate to the trainees the acquisition and improvement of knowledge to deal with specific topics like: access to funding, regulatory environments and access to markets.
• Connect both sides of the labor market, employers and work seekers in the same training environment.
• Provide the trainees real and collaborative work approaches where they can apply the trained skills and increase their employability immediately during the training course
NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:
A total of 6 partners from 5 countries have participated in the project, covering all the needed competences:
• 4 Entities addressed to Long Term and Young Unemployed (CHAMBER COMMERCE VALENCIA, ARKADIA, RCCI and CPU)
• 1 Knowledge Partner (FORBA) working in the field of research and innovation in the labour market including application of Sharing Economy (SHE) and New Forms of Employment (NFE
• 1 Knowledge and Training Partner (COORDINA) specialized in developing innovative training programs and contents trough practical and collaborative methodologies, addressed to unemployed persons and students.
Description of undertaken main activities:
DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN MAIN ACTIVITIES:
• Development of a Co-Created Methodological Guide (I.O.1)
• Development of Training Materials (I.O.2)
• Development of Designed Experiential Training Activities (I.O.3)
• Development of co-LABOURative LAB e-Training Platform (I.O.4), including the implementation of Validation of all the Intelectual Outputs developed through Pilot Actions involving around 160 trainees
Project Activities has been completed with Management and Implementation Actions including:
• Technical and Administrative & Financial Management
• Quality Assurance
• Dissemination & Exploitation
RESULTS AND IMPACT ATTAINED
The achievement of objectives is divided between objectives in terms of results and impact:
Results:
The project has developed and validated all the foreseen Intellectual Outputs:
– I.O.1 Co-Created Methodological Guide
– I.O.2 Training Materials
– I.O.3 Experiential Training Activities
– I.O.4 e-Training Platform
– 4 CO-LABOURATIVE LAB Units
The project has developed 4 Multiplier Events in Spain, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Greece
Impact:
The project has created a direct impact in the target group through the implementation of Co-Creation Sessions and Pilot Actions, according to the objectives estimated in the Application Form involving 154 unemployed and HHRR experts
The project has created an indirect impact in the target group through the implementation of Dissemination Actions, , according to the objectives estimated in the Application Form
Longer-term benefits; Through the sustainability plan defined, 750 persons in Europe will improve their professional position yearly

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 253634 Eur

Project Coordinator

CAMARA OFICIAL DE COMERCIO INDUSTRIA, SERVICIOS Y NAVEGACION DE VALENCIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CHAMBER OF ARKADIA
• GOSPODARSKA ZBORNICA SLOVENIJE CENTER ZA POSLOVNO USPOSABLJANJE
• COORDINA ORGANIZACIÓN DE EMPRESAS Y RECURSOS HUMANOS, S.L.
• Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt
• RUSENSKA TARGOVSKO INDUSTRIALNA KAMARA