Future Career Guidance-guidEU Erasmus Project

Project Title

Future Career Guidance-guidEU

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

CONTEXT
The guidEU project responds to the Europe 2020 priorities in the area of education and training, youth and early school leaving in the context of globalization, free cross-border movement of workers and labour market integration. Project’s main aim is to prevent dropping out of school and disengagement from the labour market through provision of personalised, high-quality career guidance system and tools supporting pupils with career explorations and overcoming shortages of highly trained councellors.The project sets up to build strong links between schools, training institutions, employers and parents across countries to best link curricula to international employment opportunities, reduce mismatches in skills and career choices. The project consortium is a complex partnership engaging public schools coming from 5 European countries – RO,TR,PL,IT,LV.

OBJECTIVES
1) reduce early school dropout through professionalized career guidance
2) overcome shortages of counsellors at schools
3) enrich scare offer of free-of-charge and barrier free tools (including the ICT-based ones), for the recognition of students’ career predispositions and interest to be used on their own
4) enrich scarce offer of career-oriented materials and free-of-charge tools for guidance counsellors, devoid of technological barriers to the computer use
5) improve career guidance services through engaging tools, methods, linking school curricula to international job opportunities
6) foster youth provision, equity on the labour market
7)To explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment of students achievements

PARTICIPANTS
The target groups of the project who will benefit from the project products and take part in the projects’ activities are as follows:
1) Direct target groups (primary target group):
– secondary and upper-secondary school students, educational establishments students
– teachers involved in the aspects of educational and vocational counselling
– secondary and/or upper-secondary school teachers
– secondary and/or upper-secondary school experts – school psychologist, educators
2) Indirect target groups (secondary target group)
– educational institutions which offer services related to educational and vocational guidance
– guidance and counselling centers
– jobcenters
3) Other relevant stakholders
-decision makers
-local aouthorities
– recruiters, HR managers
– parents
– Euroguidance network
– KeyCoNet network

ACTIVITIES
The target group of the project will take part in Learning/Teaching/Trainig Activities:
1.Short-term joint staff training event (C1) in LV (2 councelor/teacher from each school)
2.Short-term exchanges of group of pupils (C2) in TR(7 students,2 teachers)
3.Short-term exchanges of group of pupils (C3) in RO (7 students,2 teachers)
4.Short-term exchanges of group of pupils (C4) in PL (7 students,2 teachers)
5.Short-term joint staff training event (C5) in IT (2 councelor/teacher from each school)

Local Activities,
-Semınars
-Meeting with decision makers
-Local Trainings
-Dissemination
-conferances
-Panels
-Workshops

METHODOLOGY
Project management,Design and implementation of methodologies to be applied – Inquiry-based learning-Data collecting,observing, reporting; Financial management, Risk management and control; Evaluation.

RESULT
The complex career guidance system will be a stable support to the academic rigour,appropriately resourced, building strong connections with institutions involved in career guidance and counselling, as well as collaborative school networks.Indirectly,the project will harness the potential of future human resources.Professionalized career guidance is to help young people to develop their full personality and career potential,employability skills underpinning success in further employment.Face-to-face advice and guidance and updated version of the career guidebook.

IMPACT
Involvement in a school strategic partnership with schools will highlight the global and long-term importance of guidance services.The project envisions building on the personal and social development of learners,contributing on a long-term basis to the ‘establishment’ of ethical,rightful and respectful citizens.Reduce unemployment rate of active population by building up new curricula,critical thinkers)

LONGER TERM BENEFITS
The project will promote cooperation between schools and nations, an exchange of ideas and pedagogical approaches leading to the creation of a trans-national network and increasing the schools’ European dimension and prestige. The institutions involved will manage to create an inclusive environment which will help all learners achieve their full potential.Include the skills acquired such as critical thinking and ICT skills will make them more employable in related areas in the future.Innovative teaching resources created during the project will be available online after the project.It will also promote the idea of European citizenship and the extended local community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135159 Eur

Project Coordinator

LICEUL VOIEVODUL MIRCEA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Rigas 34 vidusskola
• duraliler ortaokulu
• Istituto Comprensivo “Francesco Crispi”
• ZESPOL SZOL W JANKOWIE PIERWSZYM